Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-14
ESTATE.
\ FAMOUS AND HISTORIC SEAT ON
THE POTOMAC.
The Home of thc nuckncrs, the
Woshingtons, the BcrIeIcys. aud
Othcrs-old Fnmiiy Tombstone
frequent Change Of Ownership.
lwfltton for The Dispatch.)

INn itol OF "a steamer, aAltI rounding
th. stone brcakwator which the govern
mont has erected at the mouth Of
Namui river. sees directly ahead OF him
whom entering that narrow inlet. plain
brick building a few hundred yards dis
SAINT. situated pleasantly amidst q cluster
ar trees near the lower shore OF the
stream. The house here marks the place
O., 900 early settlement IN Wcstmoreland.
whom the whoop Of the Indian and the
r.rk ot the wolf were common sounds.
f.eaknR the silence OF the primeval
forests that covered the land. The place.
am the time OF its earliest English oc-
.rau0u. perhaps. has been known as
BUSHFIELD.
us situation IS at the end Of
peninsula formed 10y Nomini and
mclncrs creeks. The numerous fields
a. thc plantation lie on either side of a
lane reaching for more than a mile from
.. house 20 the outer gate and are
bounded ON their farther side by the
irregular shores of the above-named
streams The land IS less a monotonous
plane chan is true OF most river farms,
I.t 10 points slopes down TO pretty coves
..U ulets. and here and there rises mo
...I mounds of considerable elevation.
IlUu the rear of the house the prospect
n winter IS bleak and chill as the waters
o. Clruoman bay and the Potomac
spread out towards the west and north,
ar. Che winds sweep over them with no
.r- 90 abate their force. In summer.
Hver this view is pleasing and beautl-
ha Of
.tol hy the long, green foliage OF
White Point, and Cedar Island on the
no and Snake Island on the right.
which nature has placed like emerald
settings across the swift tides of the
TWO creeks. The situation and appear
here seem 10 have attracted the
t.t explorers who entered the Potomac.
one of Captain John Smiths com
n.1ns. IN his open sailbOat, in June.
, tells us: I'VE were conducted boy
$3.50 savages up little bayed creek to-
wards Onawmanient where all the
woods were layed with ambuscadoes to
t-. number of three or four hundred
wages, but so strangely painted. grim
Cd and disguised shouting. yelling. and
crying, az We rather supposed them so
many devils They made many bravo
does. but 10 appease their fury. our cap
tain prepared. with as seeming willing
ress as they 10 encounter them. but the
-rlzng Of the bullets upon the river
with the echo of the woods so amazed
hem as down went their bows and ar
Iows.'
1T was hither too, that Captain
samuel Argal came in the spring of 1913
lH quest Of corn for the suffering colo
-is az jamestown, and here occurred
ta3t pathetic incident I'm the life OF the
'aWny princess, PoCahontas. when she
was betrayed into the English CAPTAINS
hands for copper Kettle and "a few TOYS.
.i then carried by him I'm his sloop as
a hostage 10 jamestown. She was "a visi-
,0r al the time 20 King Japazaw's. who,
With the artful assistance of his wife
ieWarded the girls friendly visit with
la- above act Of treachery.
by a patent dated April 10. 1865, and
mother OF the year following.
I"o brothers Richard and Thomas
HIshrod acquired this and other lands
I tho vicinity. Two sons of Richard
Eushrod. named. respectively. Richard
nd John. reached manhood about 1853,
and settled. one in Northumberland and
ths other in Westmoreland. Bushheld be-
came the home OF the latter. who is
known as
COLONEL JOHN BUSHROD.
lie married Hannah Keene. one Of the
brothers. in Cherry Point. NOrthumbcr-
land. where his well-prese. we'd tomb
shows that be- died February 81 1854. leav-
ing "a widow and six children. About the
only memorials that remain % throw
light ON the married life of this first cou-
pie OF Bushfeld are Of a saddening char
acter. They are three broken grave
stones. commemorative Of two infant
children that died, and OF a son, who
had nearly reached manhood, Of whom
The record reads:
Here lies the body of
THOMAS BUSHROD. Gent.
son of John Bushrod and Hannah.
his wife. He was born in Cople
Nar ism, Westmoreland county,
ye 2Sth OF May 1902. and died We
ye 18th Of February 49, in We
18th year of his age.
a daughter OF his deceased brother
Richard was left TO the guardian care
oi Colonel Bushrod. and her presence at
times giaddoned his home Her name was
Ann and on her marriage, at l6, she went
t9 dwell with her husband. Griffin Faunt-
leroy. on the fine estate in NOrthumber-
land which had been given him by Colo
uel Samuel Griffin. and which has ever
since been known as "FauntleTOys." Here
t.r over half ii century she presided as
mistress and mother. and reared a large
and interesting family Of sons and daUgh-
tlrs.
The only daughter of Colonel Bushrod
nj whom i have knowledge, was named
..r her Gloucester grandmother Apphia,
and she found an admirer in a brother of
him who had won her cousin. On her
marriage 20 William Fauntleroy she went
O.. grace his opulent home, on the Rap
U4haunOck, i'm Richmond county Her
drst-born child having died in infancy
Wds buried among it's kindred at Bush
u.ld. whore a tomb, now fractured, re-
mains TO its memory. Through other
children. hen name-Apphia Bushrod-has
been worn and graced by numerous fair
oescendants in Virginia and other States.
Colonel Bushrod died on, or near, the day
on which his son Thomas died, and pro-
badly had with him common funeral
and his home a double sorrow. Beside the
front yard. beneath great honey-locust
tree. his tomb. fallen from its supports
lies beside that of his son. IL u.s. IKE us.
companion. Of thick English gray stone,
and has the following inscription:
Here lies We Body OF
JOHN BUSHROD,
Son of Richard Bushrod, Gent. by
Apphia his wife. lie was born III
Gloucester county, in virginia we
90 Of Jan'ry. 1868. lie took TO wie
Hannah. the daughter OF william
Kecne. OF Northumberland county
Gent. q Elizabeth, his wife, ana by
her left two sons and four daugh-
tiers q died the 26th Feb'ry, l'l9 In
the seth year Of his Age.
OF one of the sons and the two younger
~ tina douesbfarq refc rred 10 on his tomb