The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-13

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\ position such a family held In thu
4 etg hteenth and nineteenth, centuricss
II Take this ru1e and iisn IL: Judge 4 M
Il FAMILY by It's misunderstanding great
families internarricd. No matter Ii ii II
I man was BURGESS O. dozen tinies III q
he and hig forefathers never married
the class. For this reason any Golonial SIS
Dame who has one prominent ancestor
Should very easily procure d dozen. Ii s
i she can't, look out! liS
~ most interesting paper might ia 4
written on Virginia portraiturc. The
great collections now In tho family
are ar. the Brandon portraits, tho shir- VI
icy portraits, hanging in pride on his
toric walls; the Boiling collection.
owned by Richard Boiling and hang.
Ing In tho Virginia Historical Society;
tho randolph and Mayo collections.
owned by Edward G. Mayo, ESD, of e
Richmond; the spotswood and Moore a
ptctures5 which once hung at Chelsea, a
now owned by Mrs. 4. N. Jones. and 4
hanging at the Won.ss, Club In Rich
Carter Willfred. Esq. and hanging III
Sabine Hall; tho Tnyloe collection,
perhaps the very finest group OF orfki.
nal portraits In tho United states,
owned by the Tayloes and still hang
4 ING at MT. Airy; the Lewis, Fauntleroy *
and Taylor portraits, owned by Field- 3
ing Lewis Taylor and removed by him
from his ancestral homc-Belle Farm
TO his present home. Roosevelt, II,
j Gloucester county, Virginia. a nartf
OF the Nelson collection, which onca
huns IN the old house at York, ii #
now owned by Mr.. Corbin Mercer. OF
Richmond The original portrait Of
G e,,' Nelson Is owned by Or.
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| n the Virginia Historical Society.
Many OF the Lee portraits are owned
by Mrs. Cazenovc Lee, OF washington. s
DUE the collection Is broken ana scat
tered among the descendants. CHE
collection OF the M2scleys. OF Norfolk,
was very fine, but It has been scat
tered, too. and many Of the pictures Il Fs
T am told persisted from dampness. Tha
rage collection was bought by Dr.
Claiming Page, OF Now York. and be-
queathed by him to William and
Mary College. Tho Fitzhugh portrait,
are dtvld cd--rany OF them are owned 8
by Douglas Thomas. of Baltimore. and s8
some by Dr. Charles Fitzhugh. OF
Pittsburg Tho Lightfoot portraits
were purchased by Mrs. Rennolds. OF
Baltimore, herself Llghtfoot Tho
Grynes portraits are scattered fither
and yonder. One OF them, perhaps an
interesting as any group In Virginia,
hangs IN the Virginia Historical So
.ciety. The group consists OF tho chill
dren OF Philip Grymes, Of Brandon, in
M Ni whose daughter, Lucy. mar
rled Thomas Nelson, OF York.
Edward Baird, ESQ, OF Eppinr For
est. In Essex county, owns some yery \
interesting family portraits. There
We're many portraits OF the ia bbs "
which once hung at Toddsbury, in
Gloucester but they many years aga
We're divided among tho family Of the
late Mrs. w. w. Crump, of Richmond,
and Mrs. John Spotswood Wexford
owned several. the children Of the late
pr. Prosser Tnbt, Of White Marsh. IN
Gloucester, owned some OF them. and
perhaps others are In the possession
Of the Tabs at Newstead, the Dabneys,
OF the Exchange, and Mrs John N.
Tabb and Mrs. David Saunders. OF 8
county, but Of this we arc
not sure. ~
The cruel grip OF poverty has IN
many cases conquered prid and many
many Virginian portraits have been
sold to rich members OF tho family.
This list is merely tentative. We have
all sorts Of aims and ambitions for
this column. We wish to save things
before It Is too late, and II all the old
families Of Virginia who know about
their portraits would send to this
G04uAAA 5f3huOWleQSc ~ ilGyt uaEe,.A4
what an invaluable cata1ngue of ivir-
ginia's portraiture we should have
This is fascinating subject and any
concerning It would be
of a world value. Who was able and
willing to have colonial portraits and
what artist limned them? Thore are
some old Catlett pictures at Port
Royal. and Mrs. Thurston Williams, OF
Fauquier county has wonderful COLI
lection OF Wormeley portraits.
The traditions OF the Rappahannock
and tho old tales OF the people ars
'ery fascinating. On tho Potomac
'horc, In King George, a most produc-
I've source Of real wealth was found III
lerrins fisheries. and the waters tenn
q with choicest game. The wild ducks
we're most tempting to the appetite
ING filed the ockets Of many profess
ional pot hunters. one Of the true
ales OF this abundance was the cX-
'erienco OF Mr.. John Berrey, who
Mounted swivel at the mouth OF ono
{ tho creeks. and gathered at sim
lie shot about 200 OF tho pretticst and
lost steful wild ducks.
This Berrey family was--n stock of
igh-bred gentlemen and gentlewomen
me OF them was Lawrence r. Berrcy.
leading member Of the Fredericks-
urg bar. Another was Henry Berrey,
carcely lass distinguished in the
ower Valley OF Virginia, the father
{ tho late Taylor Berrey,Eof Amherst
ounty, and OF the Rev. Robert Tay-g
IF Berrey, an eminent Presbyterian s
ivine. One of the daughters married
ebert j. Taylor, OF Alexandr ria, a ana Ss5
mother. Alexander A1orson,, OF Holly
God. In the near neighborhood was
noted hostelry. ut the terminus Of a &
,rrys across tn snarrowest5 point Of the
otomac, even there about four miles
width. Tales OF q fearful winter DUR
lg the Revolutionary War arc yetgtold
hon the whole country was snow and BIZ
Ono OF the Incidents Of the
form was related OF q gon driving Ri
pin the early dawn to Hooes Tavern,fs5
nd the first question OF the driver
as. "Who owns the immense field
trough which have driven? % His
stonishment was graphically de-
cribed when no was informed that hea
ad driven from his Maryland homo