Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-11-12
iRiStorEcat FirEAriIans.

akistoTEcat VirGiEiIans.
What tn, ratTotic iorctathcrs did, an hun.
dTed years aso, 6omo!!n&s drives Us into the
| old libraries, where nc lit down and imagiuc,
as We pore over the dissca pages, wo could
| aud would DO tho same ching under Ike cir
! eumstaacls. We must 10: suppose, however.
| that Cur graud parents were wholly aad solely
elVca up to fighting for country and couticen.
tai gGin, for they, lka ourselves, aerc made for
other il net better purposes, uud have madn
an effort, and with some SUCCESS. to ascertain
that they we're Eunan as we'll SIS horoic My
purpose vas not, nor can be, to dctract from
their dearly bought rcnoWu by q recital of hui.
| man fraiy as exhibited IN preserrcI records,
but only to give tho reader 10 know that wo,
| having the samo faillngS that they had, may
not dtsiair of doing as nohy as did they. il oe-
oasion shall Der test US.
From records 10 my possOssion an told that
10 the year l1T6-'77. a Mr.. JancJ SOuthal
kept az inn in the city Of Williamsburg, James
City county, Va. Tbs WAS subsequent to the
flight Of Lord Duuiuorc, in October, l77G, and
about tho beginning OF that first struggle with
Great Britain which ended ct Nc1kS6Hn, l1Sl.
Mr.. Sou,hali waa II cTrtct man, If VIC may
Judge from the careful rarper ia which b.
kept his accounts Even the n1 OF the Vir.
glnia veterans to the ancient caritsi seems not
to have liid the effect ni dIa5:Eaa;Z!cg the sys.
.s'i r. n'' 'Tph A'V;'IH' s''s'9nSi MS n"Hse
"@' h'uHtn,'g '''"jec van cn!'n'ir ana ms
@ losE s'.u G'i'''"T' - ID ''cn'''h ''"'efS OF
| w NJ scnh
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lhav, kcrn I;ry I tont ..,,ro,, ,w;no ,"n,"
!ard hittcrs, ran his aseauot M .c2, ISs, Gi,
land rc,,,ronJ I, h;s c,,,,r ~ tho ers,l h,mso
Bill DOT rcce;ptcd.
| Cart Dcwait dr,rI- IL, n,;rc Z t;,o.,or,
hcer pr} "arrsck nuuch" cant S;orIeto,
broke his fssf aad wnrr;ad Down two punchep,
ll;ant. Tom Davis tooI; y;rn ~ h;a roou, VIII,
b;ttcrs. Lnt s,ourn,ly visited u,n ..rnh
Irhinl, in wne fam K ljnrf; rnupiy V;reio;,
Mr S.nn,nl Gohh ,nst hsW, hon, y Al
hn J-o,i- c,rru.i, no,.,as ~, ana tsa,a. %
Ioo and rs;d h;s h;II aInuf six '','
I;en{, = Chamhs r;inr rourI np,y nm, H.,
cd u;,h ,irn s'cIrh :, 'N'
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nno nf ,;s ,..o,t ,,,.st ,,r,,J ,ons now
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