The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-20
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\ Cat airy ohPptI IicIe Lux Tie IUOSC part.
My school hours IS from to s in tho
morning. in the forenoon from p-12,
and from as in tho afternoon"
There was no church nearer than
fredericksburg. and Narrower did not
go, but remained at home and wrote
verses. The opening stanza runs:
In Virginia now / am, at Belvedera
settled,
But may they ever mercy find who had
the cause
That am from my sweet vito sepe-
rated
And Oblidjed to leave my infant chill.
dren fatherless."
/ From which and the diary we con-
clude that he was not speller. gram
marian nor yet poet.
In this sweet spring weather fifty
| white ewes and lambs fed upon the
sloping lawn. The colonel had 400
acres of land in wheat and as much in
/ Indian corn. He exported about $500 |
bushels of each annually. Colonel |
paingeriield gave his tutor his bed, |
board, washing and all kinds OF clothes,
/ and from all scholars which could be
Irawn from the neighboring homes
narrower himself received the tuition |
Breakfast at Belvedera consisted of
i coffce and chocolate, hot loaf bread and
y not batter bread; for dinner there was
nam, a standing dish. whether hot or
cold: when warm there are green's
/. with IT. when cold we have Sparrow
grass. We have, too, warm roast pigg
= lamb. Ducks or chickens. green pcase
/, OF ahythinS else they fancy. AS for J
= tea, there is none drunk in this family
SINCE lst June last Gthis was June
- lft4J Our family consists of the Col
onei, ms Lady and four children, a
~ ! housekeeper, an overseer and myseIf-5
all white-but how many blacks. young
!" and old the Lord only knows. There
y, arc ABOUT the house, gardner livery
l. men and pages. cooks. washer and
r dresser. sewster and waiting girl.
Ut nave very fine feather bed
%, under me, anu pair OF sheets. a thin
IL fold of q blanket and cotton bed
I'd, spread On the ed of August, 1774
"a Colonel Daingerfied finished a new
IN machine for beating out wheat. which
- narrower infinitely describes. 1t wa.
RS. drawn by four horses. and cheats gu
IN 100 bushels of wheat per day"
of The master of "Belvedera" and hi.
-, neighhors never failed to attend tn,
a famous Fredericksburg races. which
I'D, lasted from the 4th to the stl
he of October. '"The first days race (ir
r. the year 1T7i), Jockey Club plate 10,
bel guinsas. open to members only. wa.
he won by VIM. FitEhugh's Regulus. beat
ID ing Alexander Spotswood's Eclipse
ho Mann Pages Damon, William Brent:
tn. Figure. William Fitzhugh's Master
m Stephen. and Norris Fauntleroy'.
III: Faithful shepherdess. On the SECOND
IS day purse of ESQ. four-mile heats
nd was won by John Tayloes Single
IL pepper. On the third day the Tow
-. PURSE four-mile heats, was won b.
er- William Fitzhugh's Kitty Fisher. Or
IN the fourth day the "Town and coun
BILE try Purse" four-mile heats. was woI
Sc nv william Fitzhugh's Volunteer.
err Thus ended these popular races TIL
ted cloud of the Revolution hung low. an,
LED the pastimes of peace were suspcnde,
I'll forever.
ere When narrower was schoolmaste
at oBelvedera" Martin Heely wa
as schoolmaster at ''Newpost" for til
spotswood children. Miss Lucy Gaine
/, was housekeeper at the former place
ar and Miss Molly White at the latter
I these formed a little coterie, and wer
inc classed together They had their Iii
~ tie jokes. their recreations and thei
70 auarrels. The teachers were not the
eu- on an entirely equal footing with tn
RI family.
- On October IL. 1774. General Wasi
on ingtons lady dined at "Belvedera
ara, with her son, John Parke Custis. ar
ne .,, his wife. Eleanor Calvert. 9TH
. lne guests were Mrs. Spotswood, OF ''Ney
shs most" General Washlngton's nice
aim M M ,.,s.,a ~, af+erwards MARI
sa az Campbell: Miss Washington and MI
!, am am. cambridge, Narrower remarking wi
VIZ VIZ confidence that they being all OF t
highest rank and fortunes OF any
:. " the Colony"
g % Mrs. washington.s sister. Mrs. 81
, his set., , rvs nat,rorfialS who
mother was q Eassett.
"Elthem," the Bassett home In
!, and hens ~ 49,, nno ~ tire Oldest d
Was most interesting places In VirglI
! l,ia a. DOUBTLESS Mrs washington in her y
siih hood and first widowhood Was . 7.
az, 7fui nuent visitor to her sisters nome.
iar ' remember an evening at Eltha
OF ssr3 nhan the Lacys lived there The hol
g was strong, severe and QUAINT.
= I4ss stone steps bore Tunes tndeil
finger prints, ana the ions "tnoo
ff@ss,a. we're cut into many tiny little pan
lua The gentle courtesy OF the A'acys
chool osI IN March 6, l7T6, Narrower writ
the .srhis morning Bathurst Daingerf
snip got don reading through the Bible
, IN ny. the Newtestament and began 10 WI
stcr's 10 ulto.t ~ ~ ~, .ilowed n horse
was ~ 49,, - ,,,ha,nvar IA needed
two pot.1e - - 8. %, h,msa,f ana n
hurst iAiu ~ 49, s,,nr,,,. tha rna ar i
! and pflV'lsse VI -, go
]. tho ,ust as ne -. snIo,ors hesides
S let narioW1is ,,a,.s SaI,, Invans y
ghter pall's eino w, patt,a Ph,,,n and \,
,ction othea edge. John Edge. a dumb
kfast, ThoHas brooks wy ,,1a 80 MIS-
+ and u carpehlerl, MSS ss ,has, Mt,
. coll ~ Battalle. Eaen W '' t'~'''
louss- shill!ngs q 8qu ,al ~; ,ona, 49,,
+. tho SOMETIMES ~, ne So rrasst.,
where boys Went hsnlns un "a
ained guests would come down In q 81