The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-12

but We have found a good,y Number
vho can Join II they choose ="
Again:
In our paper las: Sunday We CON
.Idtntly announced thai the descend
ems Of John Rolfc and pocahontas
wcr" + L. VS., NJ. .. We. ourselves,
nigo the greatest Virginia. psychologists
hal come to tina, conclusihn We were
pretty sure. Ia; as ". remarked In our
asst letter. We are dpng this thing
carefully. scientific ally. and we are
Obliged TO reveal things OF which ne
had not dreamed"
Truly. l think 1t can be said that the
Order of the First Families Of Vlr-
ginia mas not entirely failed it's pur-
pose when Il has been the means or
starting professional gcnealogists to
doing their work carefully and scien-
tilCaiiy." and revealing TO themselves
and the greatest Virginia genealogists
things OF which they had not
dreamed" And. in teaching at least
one professional gcnealogist that
"goodly number" of good people to-
day, may trace their Virginia ancestry
back of 1921. instead of less than a
corporars guard rs the genealogical
editor had thought
had thought 1t strange enough to
find this sort of impression among
ScnealoGists Of other States. One OF
these | met in Washington last spring
"a Mrs McCarty, or some such name.
OF New York-whom YOU may have
met, as she says she has been to Vir-
GINA and exhausted everything there
on Nirgina's earliest history. therefore
knew that there was not a man in
Virginia before 1920. who had a wife
except these who bought with tobacco.
the women sent over for sale as wives.
This WAS in the presence of a number
"f people AT Hotel Willard. [ think
scored. however. when suggested
that Il she would find out where TO lool:
for early Virginia documents and rec
oTdS and examine them she could learn
better, and she acknowledged that she
did not know that there We're any right
there in the Library of Congress-
In one of your letters you say: This
new +. +. V. does not bother about
Hurgesses, councillors. Governors. or
such"
No 1t seems no more reason to sup
nose that otficinldom meant the sum
total of good society then. than that
Office holders and Office seekers CON
stitutc our only society worth while
to-day If the order confined Itself to
Office holding ancestry, II would be
be adding work and expense to what
the Colonial DANES are already so ably
DONG. what we aim At Is Il correct
understanding Of the general charac-
ter of Nirginia politically and socially
during those first years 1t would
have been II sorry thing for Virginia.
had she had no good families except
the f"w office holding ones. That this
was The case is all too generally be-
liavcd.
AT the last Mayfower banquet. az
which was guest of honor because
OF my being at the head of tho T.. r
v. the orator of the evening. implied
that such was the case. when, in ex.
tollinE the sterling qualities OF the
iliErims, and their colony, he said to
he sure that n few titled personages
came to other colonies for a time, but
with few exceptions did not remain
ana almost without exception, left no
descendants in this country. and that
but Few OF the other carly settlers I'm
these early colonies were of the same
high type rs the Pilgrims / did not
take trouble to correct him, as oti-
Gae'tc denied me the right to do 1t
openly.
Even did not these false impress
sions exist, in and out Of Virginia. is
IL not worth while to put on record all
''e can of those founders OF American
at least, the Observation-Disclosures of
ABOUT DO you realize that had n Her
, aidS' College been transplantcd to Vjr
GINA along with the church and titlcd
disti ibuted to the hardy pioneers of
GOOD blood who founded Virginia os
generally as they were to the intrepid
supporters OF the Stuarts, that Virginia
"onld nave to-day a peerage that I'm
point OF antiquity OF creation. and Of
biood itself. would stand comparison
Win That of Great Britain today
ny way OF ILLUSTRATION, let us look nt
inc list OF dukes, as there are the few
est number in that degree OF peers.
what Is true of them Is true I'm great
measure OF each rank of nobility nv
England '
give the list in the order OF their
precedence. with the dates Of the pres
ent creation:
Norfolk. 1883; Somerset, 1917: Rich
r"!o' 100; Grafton. 167a: Beaufort.
-; 81 Albans, 1854; Leeds, 1894.
iiedford, 1884; Devenshirc. 1894: Mari,
borough, 1902 Rutland. 1903: Hamilton
'acptchi, lGiS: Buccleuch (Sco,cbI
ino": Argyll tScotch). 1901: Atholi
scotch. 1908; Montrose (ScotchI
90 KoNburghc tScotch, 1907; Port
.,H". lIi'; Manchester. 1919: New Cas-
'i'' l'oN: Northumberland. 1866; Lein
ster 'irish, 1866; Wellington. 1917,
sutherland. 1899: Abercorn IrishI
ISIS; Westminster. 1874; Fife. 1889.
IhuS, YOU sec, in England's whole
lot OF duitedoms. but two antcdate the
period of the L. l.. V. 10 be sure
NAM oil the titles had been given TO
tIriler creations that had died on
WIN the respective families. or were
ioS' though attainder. and. OF COURSE
INC lain!Ics OF the present creations
are more ancient thnm their titles. Hut
50 IRE many OF the Virginia families
"i "ov Years establishment. as we'll MS
those OF later Immigration. and inter
hi'rfl.d with those OF later iinmiero-
non. Indeed. have not looked ;n,o
NY 'iiSuneuishcd line Yet. but WHAT
MSS iniermarried with those tho oarii,
~ fciio". or who was not descended
, ,i, mo- nnckins the colony at that
titIr' The pigSes is au illis,ratjnn
p' po'h cases speak OF that line
because member Of the order is now
LYME 10 prove her Digges line TO add
,A"'t rs = supplepent, through Sir
p"dieS or the Virginia COMPANY
every DigEcs Of Virginia descended
from Sir Dudley is eligible so far .
nne@se goes In quality of lineage,
me founder" or T.. T.. V families com,
pare taNOrahly with EnuIi.L No.