The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-09-06

THE FIRST TRUE STORY or HAR
MAN BLENNERHAssETT

Reason Of His Plotting With Burr
"The True Story Of Hartman Blen-
nerhassett." and romantic story It
Is, is related for the first time, I'm the
Century by Mrs. Blennerhassett-
Adams:
Hartman Blennerhnssett, born I'm
Hampshire, England, In 1865, was n
direct descendant of King Edward
H. of England through Constance Of
Langley, wife Of the Earl Of Glouces-
ter and daughter of Edward Duke Of
York and Isabel of CASTLE. The Blen-
nerhassetts are English I'm origin, none
of them having been known in Ireland
before the reign Of Elizabeth; but pre-
vious to that time, as far back as 1857,
the familly-originally of Blenner-
hassett q small town In Cumberland,
afterward Of Carlisle, subsequently of
Flimby Hall, Cumberland-many times
represented Carlisle in PARLIAMENT
They have been continuously in Par
Lament for more than five hundred
years; on one occasion a father and
two sons represented their county and
county town at the same time.
The old manor-house of Flimby Hall
is now owned by the Earl of Ions
dale, whose ancestors bought the Blen-
nerhassett estates. over three Of the
doorways Of Flimby Hall the Blenner-
hassett crest is cut in stone; the walls
are ten feet thick, and the great oak
beams look as IL they would last for
ever.
When Hartman Blennerhassett broke
the entail and sold the estate to Thorn
as Mullin, afterward Lord Ventry, he
received S1G0,O0O in money. Outside
of this was an income not invested in
the 100000, and besides a small in
come Of $4,000, which belonged to the
entailed property as a separate portion,
and could not be transferred, the use
of which he had until he died. His
wife also came of a family with mon
ey; but, as will be seen, she was disin-
herited when she married Hartman
Blennerhassett. Her sisters, however,
laid aside money for her benefit, and
sent it to her regularly.
Early in 1906 Hartman Blennerhas-
sett, then thirty-one years old, mar
ried in England, Miss Margaret Ag-
new, daughter of Captain Robert Ag-
new, Of Howlish, County Durham,
| young lady of eighteen. Her father
was acknowledgement Of the Isle of
Man, and a son of General James Ag-
new, of Revolutionary fame. Soon
after their marriage, the young couple
embarked for America, landing Au-
| gust 1, 1896. After extensive travels,
through the eastern part of the coun-
try, a portion of the island in the
Ohio which bears their name was
purchased, and preparations for build
ing were begun. The house and
grounds when completed represented
an investment Of sixty thousand dol
lars. After the island house was no
longer an abode, Blennerhassett and
his family removed to a plantation of
one thousand acres on the Mississippi
River six miles above Port Gibson.
This home they called "La Cache" and
here they lived for twelve years, when
they sold the property for $4,000, and
after stopping in New York to pay
visit to the family Of Mr. Emmett, pro-
ceeded to Montreal. In 1921, Blenner-
hassett, after q residence in America
of twenty-five years, left Canada for
England, where he hoped to be bene-
fitted through an influence he no long
er possessed. Ten years of heart
ache and buffeting passed, and then
came failing health, which ended in
his death at Port Pierre, on the Island
Of Guernsey, February 2, 1881, in the
sixty-sixth year of his age.
We now come to the secret Of the
Blennerhassets, which was carefully
kept from their children Catharine,
one of the sisters of Hartman Blenner-
hassett, married an Agnew 1t was
her daughter Margaret who married
Hartman Blennerhassett, her mothers
brother, and it was for this cause that
she was disinherited. The young lady
was absent at school; her uncle was
sent to take her home; instead of do
ing so, he married her. But he recll-
oned without his host, or perhaps he
did not reckon at all. When he re-
turned with his bride, the family af-
lection that he thought would greet
them, the family influence that he
thought would protect them, were
wanting. The couple were met only
! with reproaches; because of his thir
ty-one years he was held responsible
because of her eighteen years she was
, pitied, but not the less blamed. Since