The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-17

There were commodious houses SGT In
gardens, and the citizens were plant
ers, with large farms lying near ths
town. Thcy hated innovations, and lived
stately life of books, social inters
course and church. Mails In the winter
woro very irregular, and the hewspa-
pers often did not come for threa
weeks but naught cared they.
In 1859 there were only two terriea
across tho Rappahannock. One be-
tween Port Royal and port Conway
and the other between Essex and Rich
mond county. The spacious homes.
with their gardens, employed the tlms
OF tho mistress, and the farms we're
work enough for the masters Perhaps
the streets were not "a green swarth.
as they arc to-day, for the feet ot
many moro children scampercd over
them. Around tho town like caparfson-
| cd vidottes stood the Turner homes. al
| ready mentioned. Camden. Canning,
biIlbanlS. C;aymont and ITaze1woou.
| The woll-fed negroes worked the land
| IN apparent JOY. and their oiH leg
cabins had givon way to brick and
| frame quarters
a brisk trade wils carried on between
i Port Royal and Baltimore and Phila-
dclphla. Tho ladies' of tho town had
their trociss mado by the celebrated
| Miss McComas, of Baltimore. Mr.. Geo.
Fitzhush. writing in De Bows Review
for 1869. apologies for the retinue of
servants which each Port Royal home
maintained, "but," he writes, the
wsshcrwoman Will not cook. tho cook
will not clean. the chanbermaids Will
not wait upon tho table. the dining
room servants will not work in the
gardens and the gardeners will not
drive the carriages. and what are We
to do?''
This does not look as II tho negro
was burdened with too much serving.
. Mr.. Fitzhugh adds: "Come to Fort
( Royal late in April. May or Jone.
/. Crops are growing. flowers blooming.
I birds singing and the placid lake-itke
, river just rippllng into smiles. You,
shall dream yourself in Geneva. witii
/ her lakes and villas before you. DUE
! without her now-capped Mont Blanc
+, to chill you with Its blasts; or In Ma
pies, with no mcndicant lazzarond and
no yesuvius: or in Cashmere with all
: her beauty, all her flowers, all her
0 song. but with none of her supersi-
: tio.,.'
1 This was written in 1859. in ths
8 fhcyday OF Port Royal. In 1909 there
4 we're flowers and buds and glorious
a trees. and wide. grass grown streets
o there We're Gravatts. In their hne Ole
d house. Thorntons, Catletts ana a IeS
0 wrinlslcd and feeble. VIII 1t die. OF
a will modern enterprise pour new bloot
d into it's very heart and make new
d and unromantic city uSon the eve
its name from the Roy family, which
n has not been Strengthened out w
" wish very much that members OF thi
:. family would send us what they hav
le of Bible records. AIungo Roy, Dor,
~ iT4e. too young to have becn one o
Id the incorporators of Port Royal. live
d" at Locust Hill, in Caroline. He mar
IN ried Catherine Micou. who lived a
Port Micou, below Port Royal. Johl
"a, Baylor. of New Market, married Maria
e. the daughters OF this couple. Their
W W were besides sons, Mungo (2). Will
9 liam (2). John (2), and Jane
he Henry (2): another John (2). ant
he Walker (2), and daughters Beatrice (2)
he Jean (2). and Judith (2).
ge John (2) and Maria Baylor We're thu
snI parents OF DR.. John Roy Baylor. o
re- New Market, who was born AT earl,
= candle light on the evening OF Tues
al day. May 90, 1921. at Locust Hill, TIT
'at home OF his grandmother Roy.
nd Catherine (2l married David Bulloc:
ah OF Richmond; James Henry married tn
Ie. beautiful Anne Seldom. and was tn
is father OF the late Mr.. Thomas III. Car
-. ter and Mrs. John Coles RUTHERFORD
ms and grandfather of Mrs. Robert !
as Lee, Mrs. Roster Dulaney. Mr.. Ihorna
It'll Nelson Carter. MIR. Spencer Carte
err Mrs. George Ben Johnston. Mrs Brat
es: ley Johnston and John Rutherfor'
'ff, Esq. of Richmond.
The Anv Roy data we will gladly publis
'ah and cordially ask the members OF u
,u- family to supply 1t.