The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-27
virgIuia. historical society,

GEORGE MASON. or "GUkgT0y,u UPON
WHICH HE WROTE Tbs BILL or RIGBTs, RE-
CRIyGn, AND THAT uPox WHICH cornwall
LIS SIGNED THR ARTICLES OF cAPITULATI0E
AT yorktown NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
/ OF TUE DISCOVERY IN ENGLAND OF yALUA-
BILE ORIGINAL DATA RELATING TO THE BU.
GuEH0T EHIGRASTs TO VIRGINIA ~ 100.
| A meeting OF the Executive Committee
OF the Virginia Historical Society was
held yesterday. Present: Messrs. OFT,
chairman; Barney, Valentine, Palmer, Ca
bell, Curry. Brsek, end BarksdaIe, record
ing secretsFy.
A number OF valuable gifts OF books.
ETC., were reported. Letters we're read
by the Corresponding Secretary from the fol-
lowing gentlemen, accepting membership
in the Society
Hon. John Wickbam, St. Louis, Mo. /;
James M. Love, Esq, Fairfax Courthouse,
Vs.; William Knabe, ESQ.,, Baltimore,
Md; Hon. w. J. Robertson, CbarIottes-
vile, Va. Hon. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Wash
ington, ID. c.; Rev. Joshua Peterkin, ID.
d., and Messrs. b. Q. Wberry, Jr., VIII
/ liam Bryan Isaacs, C.. +. Wingo, and
Gideon A. Davenport, RicbmoUd. Va;
also, from Hon. John Goode, Washington.
d. c., expressing the deepest interest in the
welfare OF the Society. and promising TO
use bis influence 10 secure the deposit with
1t after the Centennial al Yorktown Of In
teresting historic objects sent tbifher for
exhibilioD; from Bishop J. j. Keane, Lake
George, New York, with assurances Of his
sympathy; from Holmes Conrad, Esq,
Winchester, Va; from Hon. w. J. Ro-
beYtson, Charlottesville. Va; from n.
Glennsn, Norfolk Va; from Hon. John
s. Barbour, Alexandra, Va; and from
other prominent gentlemen.
! Mr.. Brock reported that the antique oaken
TABLE OF GEORGE MASON, OF GUEsToE,
upon which be wrote the Virginia Bill OF
Rghts. had been received from George
Msseu. Esq, Of Alexandria. Va. and that
be hoped 10 secure for the Society another
highly interesting historic rehs-the table
upon which Lord CornwaIlis signed the
momsntous Articles OF Capituation-now
In the possession OF Dudley Pendleton,
Eco, shepherdstown, w. Va, to whom he
had written requesting It's bestowal on the
Society.
BE slso read an interesting letter from
g. ID. SculI, ESQ.,. Rugby Lodge, Norhsm
Road, Oxford, England, announcing the
discovery OF valuable historical material, as
follows:
al have come seross lot OF documents
relating to the arrival OF two ship-loads OF
French Protestant refugees In Virginia IN
| 100, and their removal up TO Hsnikin
Town, James river. One OF the ship-loods.
numbering 100 people, was beaded by their
pastor, Monsieur De Joux, and the other.
coming in the ship Nassau, was beaded by
Mr.. LatsinS, with some 1o1 people more.
The ship OF De Joux was the Anthony
and Paul. and among these emigrants, l
notice, was a single man named Noise
Broe,' and again written rs 'Moyce Brock!
He went upto .,.
MAHIKIN r0wg,
snd was there a year or more. There were
three ship-losds altogether, but there are
three leaves missing from the list OF the
| first sbip-Ioad, In which came the Marquis
| De La Mace and the Sisur DE Sally, who
had charge Of the company. Although
| these three leaves are cone, there are other
documents which refer by name to many
OF the emigrsnls in the first sbip-load.
There are in all some forty.fye foolscap
pages OF the manuscript and plan OF
hRnikin Town besides-the original, IL
seems TO be-"
The discovery Of this data is a happy
event, aud the multitude among US Of Hu.
guenot extraction, embracing some Of the
Worthiest and best OF our people, will be
gratined at the intention expressed by Mr..
| Ssull 10 make this Ms. the basis Of q his
torissl paper for publication in the Hdgd-
cine Of American History, New York city.
John Austin Stevens, Eq.. editor. II will
Importantly supplement he HdniciH 1own
Register, privately printed in 1860 by the
late Thomss H. Wynne; Foote's HuRue-
nots in Amerisa," and the work oil
| - Smiles"
The late Seaton Gales, ESQ Of Raleigh,
n. c.. having heard OF the movement TO
place the Yirgisia Historical Society on a
footing OF usefulness worthy OF Virginia,
wrote the following to the NepS OF that
city, which The Executive Commiuee
CounzYD TO rnR cOYCxRE OF OUR OWN Pno-
PLs:
awe cannot too highly commend the
admirable spirit which prompts the move
ment, and with which it Is being prose-
euted. What more virtuous or patriotic
| labor can claim the services and zeal OF q
great State, and especially one Of 'the old
| thirteen than that OF preserving the re-
cords OF her renowp, not only from consid-
erations OF pious and nIial yeneraton, but
as a legacy to posterity? What Is so calcu-
sted 10 excite The glow OF State pride, and
| to kindle in the minds alike Of the present
generation and their descendants the 1re OF
q lofty emulation. as the story and study OF
the deeds and fame OF an ilus,rious ances-
try"f
The Corresponding Secretary was directed
10 address special communication TO the
lsdies OF Virginia, presenting the claims OF
the Society TO their considerate regard, and
urging their good offices in the collection
and transmission TO the Society OF the his
lorical material so plentiful in our old man.
slons throughout the State.
! The following gentlemen we're elected TO
MEMBERSHIP IN TIE SOCIETY.
Lfs.-John Bennett Lawes, Esq, LII. d.,
F. X. S. ROthamstead. Harris, England.
Members. Taylor Berry, Esq Amherst
Courthouse, Va; Hon. Leigh K. Watts,
Portsmouth,, Va; Mis-. Lucy Lsndon Mi
nor, Wells House, Adirondack post-office,
Warren county, N. Y; Mercer Slaughter,
ESQ, and Hon. John s. Barbour, Alexan-
dris, Va; Colonel John Il. Lowell. Front
ROYAL, Va; Rev. James X. Hubbard, ID.
D., and Holmes Conrad, Esq, Winchester,
Va; Hon. X. A. Coghill, New Glasgow,
Amherst county, Va; Hon. j. Randolph
Tucker, Lexington, Va. !; Hon. John Goode,
Norfolk, Vs.; Rice M. Payne, Esq, War
renton, Va. Thomas N. Clemsn, Esq. $40
south Twenty-6rst street, Philadelphia, Pa;
Fl. L. Melvin, M. D., Halifax Courthouse.
Va; Colonel Henry q. Parsons, Natural
Bridge, Va; Captain TsZewell Elicit, Ma
for Robert Stiles. Asior w. J. johnson,
Colonel G. J. Anderson, DR.. George Ben.
Johnston. Rev. Charles Hiunigerode, ID. D.,
aud Messrs. John +. Mayer, George Gibson,
Jr., j. Pitfeld George, aud j. Lane Stern.
Riebmend, Va; Richard Epps, NJ. d., City
Point, Va; Major X. q. ii. Kean, Lynch
burg, Va; william Alexander Stuart,