The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

cents butter and 30.cents-a pound.
turkey-cra," but farming IL moro
profitable and not as dangerous n CALI
ing AS gencalDgy. But we don't know
exactly about cradles--cxocpt babies
Graders. However, We Will go to one
source. and inquire. We have done
this, and we arc wrong! Our source
saw sevcnty-hve Graders In tho Moss
Neck field and 800 hands. all told.
Prccayi.
But a candid confession--a frank
cIsnowledgment--''I have said those
things which should not have said
makes us feel awfully virtuous.
The Newpost OF the dinner party, az
well as Nottingham, both near Fred
ericksburg. were occupied by Generai
Alexander Spotswood. The name spots
wood Immediately brings to mind the
dashing career or tho first Alexander.
| Governor of Virginia, and pioneer OF
the trackless ridge OF blue. which I'M
folded great possibilities for the New
World.
TO have followed Marlborough and
! to have been wounded in the breast
at Elenhcim were the rare distinctions
which Spotswood brought with him.
/ and as proof OF these glorious expert
cnces no was wont to show to his
guests at Germanna four pound can
/ helm field. This first and compelling
Alexander arrived within the capes OF
/ Virginia on June 90. ITO: landed at
Hampton Town. then called Keduotan
thence rode in the bedford galley TO
T. Jamestown, and spent the night at
Green Spring. Sir William Berkeley,
OF course, had been gathered to his
fathers, but Green Spring still retained
the flavor OF his pompous control The
Ludwells, step descendants of the ia
nous old Governor then lived here.
and no doubt received "sr Alexander"
with cordially and profuse hospitality.
! 1t was a good time to visit this
lovely spot when the Juno roses were
blowing and when perhaps one might
| have a draft from that Spring at My
Lady Berkeley's. called Green Spring.
whereof have been told the water Is
so very cold that tits dangerous drink
ing thereof In summertime. 1t having
proved of fatal consequence to sew
eral." This fascinating Governor and
guest of Green Spring was the first to
live in the palace at Williamsburg,
and his home was Germanna. In Spot
syIyaIlia county. The house at Ger
mama WIS palace" too. with ter
raced gardens and IAN underground
passage, with fort rho courts Of
SpotsylYania once met at Germania,
the county seat. village touching Ger
mania. the fine spotswood residence.
In August. 1732. "these courts were
only held at Fredericksburg. owing to
the want OF accommodation" at Ger
mama for the lawyers and their horses.
Germanna, the palace p gone but
delicious traditions. Here William
Byrd stopped in 1882. The road was
rocky and had, the county. then as now.
miserably poor. but Byrd called Ger
mama house the enchanted castle. and
~ ,arfrr- II win y, IN
fbles and china, as well as the Govern
or's sweet ways with his wife and chill
dren. There were pictures at Ger
mama and plenty of silver. and tho
place was left to Mrs. spotswood.
with all 1t contained-furniture.
plate etc. At the death OF Lady Spots
wood 1t went to the oldest son. John
ta). His SON, Robert t2). died early.
To his daughters. Mrs. Moore and Mrs.
cambridge. an annuity was to be paid
by his executors.
Governor spotswood was an arch
promoter but his schemes In :. meas
uro miscarried. and his executors
found it hard to pay these annuities.
His son. Robert (2), died early. Per-
time at Germanna, but the place was
poor and unpro fitable, and John f2).
the ancestor of all Virginians by ths
name of Spotswood. removed to Not
tinghanl, on the Rappahannock. TO !
| this place he removed, no doubt. the
plate and furniture, which after ths
death of his mother. was to go to him.
Indeed. 1t Is related by those livins
that very old lady who died many
gears ago remembered the many por-
traits at Nottingham, which, when shA
was little child. would terrify her by
following her wherever she sat with
their solemn, restless eyes. Amons;
them are mentioned Governor Spots
wood and his wife. and General Elliot,
These portraits are now at the Virginia
State Library. They went to William
Spotswood. son of Alexander (s) Spots
wood, and hung at sedley Lodge. In
Orange county. He presented them to
the State Library as has been proved
by letters now extinct.
John (2) Spotswood married Mary
cambridge and had two sons. Alexan-
der ts) and join t3). Alexander ts)
inherited Newpost and Nottingham. He
married Elizabeth. daughter of William
Augustine Washington and niece OF
George washington. and had many
children who were reared at these two
places. Wc have not been able to find
out which was the later residence OF
the Spotswoods. John (2), tho only
son Of the Governor to leave issue,
seems to have been simply country
Is
ing the Request OF his father. and en-
deavoring to patch up the decaying
estate.
Germania was a most expensive pros
position, and he preferred to live by
the river at Newpost and Nottingham
The latter place certainly was former
~ adorned by the Spotswoods' portraits.
silver and furniture. 1t would be In
teresting to know where these house,
hold goods are now, and how many
OF them survive.
Catherine Spotswood. who married
Bernard Moore, OF Chelsea, apparently
Inherited a portrait of her father, It
hung at Chelsea until the Robinsons
descendants OF this LADY,, sold thu
place soon after the war. It Is now
owned by Mrs. 7. N. Jones, whose
mother was a Robinson of Chelsea, and
a great great grand daughter Of.
Catherine Spotswood. This portrait
now hangs with others Of Mrs. Jones's
portraits at the Woman's Club in Rich
mond.
TAN. q