Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-26
LETTERS 10 THE EDITOR.
Axoxe THE ARCHIVES.
o>ssss wasGlssssa Not the rira Rebel By
Tkst Name.

Thst Name.
NoRwoop Posi- OFFICE, /
NELSON Co., VA, April, 1885. J
Tot Editor Of the DispafcA:
Our George Washington was not the
first Of the name who was rebel to a
King Of Great Britain. At the Ber-
muda Assizcs, held November ll-22,
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!" The Jury Of our Sovcraigne Lord,
Che Hinge, doe present George Wash
ineton, Of Hamblcton Tribe, Taylor, as
. Mlse Trayior against our most grs-
tious and dread Soveraigne and his
Ledge Lord. the Hinge, &C., hsveinge
not the feare Of God in his hearte, but
seduced by the lnssigation OF the devil
maiiciously and trsytorously, on the
25th day Of December, in the yeare oil
our Lord lG4s. at the house Of Roger
Axon fAstorgl in the said Tribe, did
then and there advisedly and directly
speak and say in the hearing of the said
Roger Axon these words--viz,., The
King has sould his subjects TO Popery;
and farther, the said George Washing
ton did then and there maliciously
and dangerously say the Hinge was a
Rogue and deserved 10 bee hanged 7
years ago. The said George Washing
ton having uttered all these traytorous
and malicious words to the takinge
away Of his Majesty's whole power, and
that he was nor is sorry therefore, to
the great scandal and derogation Of the
person and Royalty Of our said Sover-
eigne Lord the Hinge, 10 the subversion
of the State to the Rcalme Of England,
and the government of this place and
contrary to a form Of Statute In that
case made and provided, and alsoc
against the peace Of our Sovereigne
Lord the Hinge his crowne and dignity.
"To which Indictment, being by the
Grand Inquest found true bill, hee
pleaded not guilty, and for his further
tryal did put himselfe upon God and
the Country, which beinge a Jury OF
II sworne men. did find him guilty,
whereupon he prayed his appeale for
England, which was granted him."
IIt was known in the Bermudas July
s, 1G49, that Charles |. was beheaded;
but the Government there acknowledged
allegiance to Charles III
believe the above George Washing
ton to be Of the same family as our
George Washington. When the Vir-
ginia Company of London sold the
Bermudas to the Somer Islands Com
pany the quantity of land there was
oyerestimated. and the Virginia Com
pany afterwards agreed to make up for
this deficiency in Virginia. In 1879
the Somer Islands Company petition
"The Right lIon'ble the Lords Comis-
sioners for Forraigne Plantacons.
80 And whereas y0r petit
TORS doe find an Agreement made be-
tweene the Company of Virginia and
yor said petitions when yor petitions
purchased the said Islands from the
said Company Of Virginia, That yor
petitions should receayc large pro-
porcon Of Land in Virginia. To be and
continew unto yor petitio'ers forever,
in consideration of the great defect of
the quantity Of Land found in the said
Somer Islands.
"And whereas there is in Virginia
reasonable proportion of land. scituate
and being betwiXt the two Rivers of
Rapahanock and Patowmeck, w'ch by
good Information yo'r petitions fnde
to be both healthfull and otherwise con-
venient, not yet Inhabited by any of his
Ma',ies Subjects, nor any grant thereof
yet passed to any
"Yourpetitio'rs' humble desire, there
fore, is That yo'r Loops WILDE pleased
to be a meanes unto his Mate to Grant
unto yo'r petitions the said proporcon
of Land betweene the Two Rivers of
Rapahanock and Patowmeck aforesaid,
w'cb will much conduce to the benefit
and comfort Of his Ma'tie's Subjects
rho are TO yssue out Of the said Islands
and the strengthning of his Ma'tie's
Colony in Virginia.
"And yo'r petitions shall ever pray,
&C."
IEpdorsedl. AT Whitehall the 28th
of July, 1859.
"Theyr Lips doe pray and require the
sub comittee for foraigne Plantations to
consider Of this Petition, and TO make
Report of theyr opinion touching the
same, to the Boord.
WILL: BECHEB."
And so, without pursuing the SUBJ
ject farther, as it grows too long, not
only the Washingtons, but many other
settlers in the present counties of Lam
caster, Northumberland, Richmond,
Westmoreland, &C., came from England
ria the Bermudas, or from the Bermu-
das direct. ALEXANDER Brown.
The islands were beginning to be over
populated.