Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-14

haps, Of Georgia. The queen said that the
popularity Of Fritz, her son, almost made
her vomit
The king spent $500 In brides to defeat his
son receiving an appropriation Of $4,000 a
year which he could not intercept on the
way to his son.
Prince George.
Four years before the marriage Of Prince
Frederick child was born near the mouth
Of the Potomac whose name was to be given
when he would be forty-four years old
George Washington, prince Of the world.
Prince Frederick died in I751, i've years
before Virginia heard of Washington. Au-
gusta died in 1772. two years before the
Continental Congress. Prince Frederick
was buried in Henry VII Chapel In West
minister Abbey.
Augusta county, Va. perhaps Augusta,
Ca, were named for Frederick's Wife
The princes mother and sister publicly
and almost daily hoped that God would
strike Frederick dead with apoplexy. Says
Dr. Doran: The parents hated the son, the
son the parents, the parents deceived one
another, the husband betrayed the wife.
the wife deiuded the husband. the children
were at mutual antagonisms, and truth
was stranger to ALL"
Augusta had $4,000 settled upon her as a
dowry.
As Augustus accouchement was suddenly
coming on at Hampton Court the Prince Of
wales compelled his wife to drive ten miles
TO St. James palace in the care Of his
mistress that his parents might be disap-
pointed and his child born in the royal
apartments. As there were no sheets ready
for the little princess she was born In table
clothes. The confusion affected the poor
childs wits and this child became the
mother In time of the adulterous queen Of
George the Fourth. Caroline Of Brunswick.
The king and queen had been left at
Hampton Court and arrived In London af-
ter the child was born. They soon expelled
Frederick
the newborn princess took the name of
Augusta
The queen mother and Frederick, her ED
est son, never met again from nine days
after Augustus birth
Lord Baltimore was the principal parti-
san OF Prince Frederick, gentleman of his
bedchamber. partisan Of his politics. Fred
erfck. Lord Baltimore, the last Of the line
wrote poetry also. absconded from England
and left Henry Hartford, illegitimate SON.
This Henry Hartford was the son Of Hester
Wheland. an Irish girl, whom Baltimore
married to Peter Provost. and married her
daughter at the age Of thirteen to one
Robert Morris
November 20. 1877. George the Seconds
queen died, calling Prince Frederick and his
wife ravens nearly to the last. Her dis
eases were rupture and govt.
IN l742 Prince Frederick overthrow the
great minister. Walpole. and Lord Whining
ton succeeded Hence the various Whining
ton towns, &C.. in the older American
states
George the Third, son Of Prince Fred
erick. was born the day before George the
Second arrived home from the campaign
of Dettingen.
About George the Third.
George the Third was carried In Fred
erick's Chis fatner) arms to his widowed
grandfather's closet, who conferred on the
child the Order Of the Garter, 1749. In I751
Frederick died Of consumption. leaving
eight children. and his wife to bear a ninth
She burned at once all Of his private papers.
Frederick was forty-lve years old. He
had been courted by Pitt, Chesterfield Swift,
Pope. Thomson and Bolingbroke and by
Lady Huntington. the Methodist. He gave
the Poet Glover $500. and said of Lady Hun
tington: II shall be happy to seize her
skirt when I die to lift me into heaven"
Frederick's married life with the Gotha
princess refined him and leading the op-
position made him wary.
Another son Of Frederick. Edward. voted
against the American stamp act
Scandal said that Frederick's widow was
the mistress Of Lord Butte. Her son. how
ever, adored her. George the Fourth was
said to resemble his grandfather Frederick
The Brunswick son-in-law Of Prince Fred
ertck was that one who was killed at the
battle of Jene. His son was killed at Qua
tire Bras, just before Waterloo. The former
raised the French people by his invasion
and proclamation to become the thrashers
Of Europe.
Gossip said that George the Third had
been privately married to Hannah Light
foot, a Quakeress. in 1859, and to have paid
man named AFFORD to marry her OF his
hands.
George was attracted to Sophia Charlotte,
younger daughter OF the second son Of the
Duke Of Mecklenburg Strelitz, by the liter
the Great IN behalf Of her native state She
was Of Sclavonic blood. Augusta, Georges
sister, was one to receive her In st. James
Palace. Parliament on her marriage gave
ha- - -
should become widow and $4,000 a year
as a wife. George III paid Benjamin West
$4,000 in all for paintings.
Augusta. Prince Frederick's daughter,
married the Prince Of Brunswick. and Fred
erick's posthumous daughter. Caroline Ma
tilda, married the Crown Prince Of Dem
mark and lived to see her paramour exc
cuted for adultery with her Her own life
was saved by a British feet taking her of
to Hanover.
A son of Frederick married the Widow
Waldegrave secretly. Another son married
a widow and seduced a wife and had to pay
10000 damage to her husband.
Va, was long called Neck
lenburg for the parent state Of the wife Of
George the Third There the first emigrants
Of the Valley of Virginia, who were Penn
sylvanians crossed the Potomac to avoid
Elk Ridge mountain. the true Blue Ridge.
Named for Frederick and His Wife.
Frederick and Augusta counties, Va, were
set of at the same time. 173s named for
Frederick and his wife, and were to divide
all Western Virginia between them. Au-
gusta contained four subsequent states and
forty Virginia counties, provided Virginia
legally owned anything Of the west
The ancestors of the Georges were named
Gulph or Wolf, German barbarian fighters,
and came into possession Of Brunswick in
the year 1900. One branch Of them became
Electors of Hanover, another Dukes Of
Brunswick, states near together.
In 1853 a bully of the family married the
granddaughter of James the First Of Eng
land. Sophia of Heidelberg. and the eldest
child, George Louis. became George the
First This bully's wife was a daughter OF
French Huguenot refugees daughter, who
married GeorgeWilliam Of Brunswick Lune-
burg. George the First married at Zell,
1852.
Fredericksburg" Va, was founded by
law in 1727 and named from Prince Freder-
lex, father Of George the Third. A few
years after the birth Of Washington his
father, Augustine Washington, removed to
his farm opposite Fredericksburg. where he
resided till his death, 1742. He left shares
in iron works situated in Maryland and
Virginia, which were productive.
His wife, Mary Ball, survived him forty
SIX years or till the year Of the Constitu-
ton and government, 1859.
As shareholder in iron works this young
dying man OF only forty-nine left the pub
lie and organic spirit to Washington, who
forged a sword and heat ont No ton