The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-16
WASHINGTON A HOT wooER.
Both the Father of His Country and
Jefferson Were Tilted often.

jefferson We're Tilted Often.
Civilian Z. Curtis in Chicago Record
Herald.)
It was in Williamsburg. Va. that
George Washington and Thomas Jsf
1erson found their wives. ard borb
married widows named Martha. These
eminent statesmen and patriots were
not ioNerS- That seems to have been
a characteristic of Virginians then as
now. Both were in love several times
ana proposed to more than one dam
sci Both were Tilted. Several proud
Inatrons IN after years were able TO
boast that they had refused the hands
OF these two most famous men in all
the country Washington was thrown
down very hard" on at least two OcCa-
siOns, and Jefferson's heart was broken
and his pride wounded by a girl named
Belinda. He was 'aWfulIy" in love
with her, and her name appears on
almost every page written by him
when he was a student at William and
Mary college and had the privilege of
dining at the table of Governor Far
QUAR-, the Chesterfield of the colonial
magistrates. jefferson was a gay
young spark. Washington was more
sedate, serene and sentimental, but his
directions, like those of Jefferson, had
great Tecuperadve powers. and both
Of them were no sooner off with an
old love than they were on with a new.
When Jefferson was playful he used
to spell his sweetheart's name Bee
lin-day;" sometimes he wrote it back
ward-''Adnileb;" sometimes he in
scribed it in Greek characters. and Of
ten used a com binatiOn of French
+ words meaning Bell-in-Day. Not long
after Belinda threw him over he took
UP with another young woman named
Rebecca, and we know she was Sensi-
BILE by the way she treated an extra
ordinary proposition from her lover.
Jefferson was a very cOnceited young
man. He was inclined 20 think him
self of great importance because the
: governor and the other colonial Of
ficials, the faculty of William and
Mary college and other people around
/ the place, made much of him. He
/ told Rebecca that he loved her and
/ offered her his heart and hand with q
string to them. He explained that 1t
would not be advisable for them to
enter into a formal engagement at that
moment, because he was expecting to
make a visit TO Europe and 1t might
/ interfere with his social prospects over
there. When he returned, if he still
! felt the same, he would formally ask
her to marry him and announce the
/ fact to their friends. Rebecca scorned
/ this practical proposal and sent the
/ vain young student about his bust
ness He was building boat at that
time on the James river, and the next
thing he did was to paint the name
! Rebecca off the stern. He afterwards
4 married the daughter Of a prosperous
planter named Wayles, who had
handsome place called The Forest, a
mile and q half from the center OF
/ Williamsburg. She was the widow of
John Shelton and one of the greatest
/ heiresses in Virginia, bringing her
/ husband over 10000 acres Of land and
! several hundred slaves
] Of
! williamsburg, called The Six CHM
ney House" was one of the finest man.
sions in the city. The state insane
asylum now occupies its site, for II
I was burned several years ago All
there is left of it is a cook house, where
we can imagine pOrtly ''oid nanny,
with bright plaid tuTbans of scarlet
and yellow and purple, frying chicken
and making pOne" for dinner when
/ Major George Washington came down
/ to court the widow Her nrSt husband,
/ Daniel Park GUSTS, had a fine planta-
ton in the neighbOrhood of the city
| and when he died at the age of %, she
buried him in the dOOryard- John
I cambridge, her father, lived up in New
Kent county and cultivated a vast es-
tate Of tobacco with several hundred
slaves. Both father and husband were
Z rich and Widow Gusts was without
a peer for beauty and graces and &C
complishments in all the colony.
When Washington returped from the
( Braddock campaign he went to Viii
liamsburg in military dress, attended
by an orderly. While crossing VIII
liam's ferry on the Pamunkey river, a
branch of the York, he was accOsted
by a venerable gentleman named
Chamberlayne, who, learning his iden-
! tity. invited him to rest for a while
from his journey at his house in the
neighborhOOd. Washington declined
because his business was urgent, but
finally consented 10 stop for dinner and
feed his horse. At the hospitaible man
Z sion he was introduced to the family
and TO a beautiful widow Of %, who
was a guest Instead Of departing inn
mediately after dinner, Washington re-
manned through the afternoon and over
night, and in the morning proceeded tC