The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-08
virginia Historical GocIefy.

INTERESTING AND VALUABLE GIFTS REPORT
ED-Hse., AUTOGRAPH LETTERS-PORTRAITs
OF BENJAMIN RUSH, GENERAL THOMAS
NELSON, JR., AND PATRICK nENRY-REMI-
NIsCENCEs OF THE REVOLUTION.
A meeting of the Virginia Historical
Society was held yesterday. Present: /:
Cabell, Anderson, Kelley, Wexford, Nalen-
tine, Brock, and Barksdale corresponding
secretary.
a number Of gifts OF books, manuscripts,
portraits, relics, etc., were reported, in
cluding the following: "The Historic Of
the Council OF Trent" folio, London,
MDCXXIX., from Charles b. Hatch, Esq,
New York city; the account-book Of Ma
iOr William Massie. an extensive merchant
residing in st. Peters parish, New Kent
county, Va, for the years 1747-S; an in
tcrcsting and characteristic letter OF Lewis
Littlepage (whose checkered career was as
romantic as il was remarkably, dated Ma
dIid, November %, 1880 0f handwriting
and epistOlatOIy style be indicative, rs is
strongly claimed, OF mental traits, then this
letter is curious in its tracings); an auto
graph letter OF John Randolph (the father
# the erratic orator "Of Roanoke in
characters many OF which are strikingly
similar TO those Of the brilliant son), dated
" ' irginia, June II, 1711," and mentioning
"the late
GREAT FRESH
James river" and the cmbarrassments
jn which the writer was subjected by the
destruction OF his crops incident thereon,
together with other curious documents (old
Wis and accounts OF the last century,
from Mrs. Virginia Ligon nee Aiassie,
Ma~-ic's Mills, Nelson county, Va; nm en-
g.uycd picture in profile Of DR.. Benjamin
Hu-h ("the Signer presented by him to
Hiss sally, daughter OF Colonel Bowler
Cooke, Of Bremo," IIenrico county, Va,
Oh the occasion OF her marriage with MaiOr
Thomas Massie, November, 177S;
AUTOGRAPHS
oi william II. Cabell, President John
Blair, OF the Council, aud Robert Brooke,
Governors Of Virginia; wills Of Bowler
Cooke, dated February II, III; OF Thomas
Adams, member Of the Federal COnvcn-
ton Of 1887, and OF Major William Massie,
OF It. Peters parish, New Kent county.
Va, dated October -, 1749, very curious
in their details; and number Of neigh
horly letters from ladies OF the Page, Mas
-ic, Nelson, and Burwell families, OF Fred
crick county, Va, written near the close OF
the last century to Mrs. Sally, wife OF Ma
iOr Thomas NaSsie; through Mrs. Maria
G.. MasSie, widow Of the late William Mas
sic, ESD, Of "PharSalia," Nelson county,
Va, portrait on panel of
GENERAL THOMAS NELSON, JR..
taken not long before his death,
stout and flOrid gentleman
OF some fifty years OF age, from his grand
son, Philip Nelson, Esq; photograph,
folio size, OF the portrait by Thomas Sully
Of the orator Patrick Henry from his grand
son, William Writ Henry, Esq, Richmond, /
Va. A memorial Of the ReyOlutiOn-"a I
small package Of charrcd wheat from
DR.. Il. +. Taylor, Marlborough, Amelia
county, Va, thirty miles southwest OF
through his EXcelency +. w. /
NJ. Holiday, Governor OF Virginia, and OF /
which the following account is given ;"Sep- .
ember 10, 1881. When Just a century ago .
rarleton passed through this county [Ame- .
ial he burnt the granary of Colonel Peachy, /
hen usedas place OF deposition provisions
or the Continental army. Forty-SiX years
lgo, when l came to the neighbOrhoOd,
THE CHARkLD WHEAT
cft by this conflagration could have been
collected in quantities; now, however,
t is difficult 10 find a grain. 1t was
bout fifteen miles above this point
hat Peter Francisco had his memorable
with the nine British dragons.
after penetrating the country for
ONE disiancc, returned to Yorktown,
where he surrendered with Lord Corn
wallis" The form OF the wheat i perfectly
preserved.
Letters were read from the following I
Gentlemen, accepting membership in the
ociety: Douglas ii. Gordon, ESD. BIlti-
lore, Nd. John Bennet Lawes, LII. d., ;
=. Il. =, Rothamsted, st. Albans, Hert-
England Thomas Seldom, Esq,
Jew York city; Hon. Benjamin I. Gun
Pr, Accomac Courthouse, Va; John VI.
Z. Lee, Esq, Baltimore, Nd: William A.
;drnett, ESD, StauntOn, Va. Professor ,
.. VI. BlackfOrd, Alexandra, Va.
The following gentlemen were ID
ELECTED TO MEMBERSHIP
& the Society:
Corresponding: John ID. Champlin, Jr., I.
Sd, assistant editor Of AppletOn'S En- !
New York city.
Members: DR.. Bennett W. Green, Nor
,lE; Robert Withers Massie, Esq, Bland
Ias,ie, Esq, and Mrs. Maria C. Massie,
.assic's Mills, Nelson county; Captain
eth Robinson, Washington, ID. c.; {
roiessor Charles +. Fawter, supelintend- a
lt Miller Manual Labor School, Bates a
ille; S. c. Neale, Esq, Alexandria; John :
T. Garrett, Esq, president Of the Balti- I
ore and Ohio railroad, and L. Harrison :
arrett, ESQ.,, OF Baltimore; Rev. Patrick |
+. Robert, st. Louis; Hon. John +. Miller, i
nited States senator, Monterey, CAL; {
ovelnor William L. Hamilton, Hagers- a
wn, Nd; Colonel John B. Cary, Rich a
ond; Pascal Davis, Esq, Petersburg; 9
ear Admiral Henry Wake, United States Il
IVY "a native OF yirginia), Brooklyn, y. y. q
Adjourned to meet on Friday next, Oc- .
Der IA, 1881, at O'Clock p. n. "