Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-24

than Norfolk truckers aud this gives
them great advantage. The shipping
advantages here both for truck and fish
are excellent aud fully as good as on the
Atlantic Coast Line.
Resides the above the peanut is great
crop here and S15.0 or $50 900 worth
of Bishop Lyman's sleep producers al e
shipped annually. The cotton shipment
is between two and three thousand bales.
1t will thus be seen that this is not all
cotton country, but that the industries
are diversified. The future of the place
is bright. Fish. lumber and trucking
will make it grow more prosperous
every year.
do not know that I ever spent more
interesting hour than on Wednesday
morning when we-(that is the editor.
his wife and Mrs. w. B. Shepard, of
Edenton )-called upon Miss Betsy Bond
one of the oldest inhabitants Of Edenton.
She is over seventy years old, and when
we told her that we had called to see
some of her old curiosities and hear her
talk of old times in Edenton, she said
IT know nothing of the present. All I
know is of the past. And she enter
tanned us, first, with an account of the
building of the house in which she lives.
It was built in 1853 and has a romance
connected with it. L. that year Francis
Corbin came to Edenton as Lord Gran
ville's land agent. He brought all the
carving and bricks and other parts of
the house with him from England.
The house was builded for his betrothed d
and the next year he sailed to bring her
to the new and beautiful home he had
made for her. Upon his arrival in En-
gland he found that she was dead. The
young lady had beautiful name, Jean
Junds. He never lived in the house, but
died year afterwards. It was in this
house that the General Assembly held
| it's sessions. It was not occupied as a
residence until 1777 when it was bought
by Samuel Dickinson, the grandfather
of Miss Bond.
She then told of the great Edenton tea
party of which she heard much when a
child from her mother whose great aunt
Mrs. Barker, presided at that tea party
when the ladies of Edenton resolved to
drink no more tea. She also showed us
| dress worn an that occasion which is
in perfect condition. An interesting
document is letter in the handwriting Z
of BENJAMIN Franklin addressed to an
ancestor of Miss Bond. Old China
brought from England two-hundred
years ago all have history which is in
terestirg, as indeed has everything upon
which Miss Bond discourses.
There are four portraits in the parlor,
| formerly the dining-room. of the house,
one representing Mr.. Barker, of Lon
don, who at one time during the Revo-
| lutionary War was held prisoner, but
by the interposition of Benjamin Frank
lin, then in London, was released; the
second portrait is his wife, who was
| President of the Ladies AntiTea Drink
| ing Society. During the war some Brit
ish officers went to the stables and
brought out her carriage horses, when
she came out with sword and cutting
the brides set the animals free: seeing
her determination they made no attempt
| to capture them; the third picture is
that of the son, young lawyer, who
died in his 21st year. This room is an
tique in everything but modern carpet
| the furniture is from so to IS years old
all in good state of preservation; the
walls are covered with richly carved
and paneled wood as high as the ceiling
the old-fashioned mautlepiece is about
six feet high, with a canopy of carved
wood above, looking something like the
top Of gable end of a gothic house.
Among the curiosities of the China Of
the house is cake plate two feet in
diameter, in good order and elegantly
painted. There are many other old relics
and curiosities still preserved by the in
mates. The two chimneys Of this build
ing contain about brick enough to build
an ordinarv-size house. The outside
wall surrounds beautiful flower gar
den, and is high enough to entirely ex
clude the gaze of the outside world.
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