Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-19

pike, Surrattsville being on the road
which leads from the Navy Yard
and Redds Corner to T. b.. a road
which many Washington people travel
on Sunday in going to Chapel Point,
La Plata, Leonardtown or Benedict.
were named THE woodward" MY
Lordships Kindness and Girls Por-
ton Col. Henry Darnall had two
wives, of course. in succession. The
first was Mary. and 1t is believed now
that she was that Mistress Margaret
Brent who was celebrated in numerous
ways in Maryland history. His second
wife was the widow of Thomas Brooke
who was a son of Thomas Brooke and
Eleanor Hatton The widow of Thomas
Brooke. and whom Col. Henry Darnal
took as his second wife, was born Bar
bara Dent.
When Henry Darnall. descendant
of the first Col. Henry DarnaIl, mar
ried Anne Talbot the couple received an
estate which they named Poplar Hill.
and the Rambler believes that this was
surveyed out of The woodward" or it
might have been portioned out of MY
Lordships Kindness"
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Then, when Henry Sewall, son of
Nicholas Sewall and Susannah Burgess,
married the daughter Of Henry Darnall
and Anne Talbot the estate of Poplar
Hill descended to their son. Robert
Darnall Seward. which brings Poplar
Hill very close to that Robert Sewall
who in 1893 bought. original lots num-
bered /, and 80 in the square bound
ed by LIST, I'd. and c streets north
east. numbered I25, and in 1900 erect
ed the large house at the northwest
corner of I'd and b streets from which
the shot was fred at Gen. Ross, and
tpfn Cd hx- hot
which stands there today. generally
known as the Barbour hause," from the
fact, that Senator John Strobe Barbour Of
Virginia lived there for a good many
years and died in the house in 1892.
Senator Barbour married Susan Sewall
Daingerf1eld. a daughter Of Henry
Daingerfield of Alexandria, who mar
ried one Of the daughters Of Robert
Sewall of Poplar Hill and Washing
ton, the original purchaser of the land
at the corner of I'd and streets.
In the National Intelligencer of Au-
gust 81. 1914. in which the Rambler
found the account of the destruction
by the British of the home of Robert
Sewall because of the firing on Gen.
Ross by some one concealed there. is
also the statement that Robert Sew
airs house had previously been rented
to Albert Gallatin. That distinguished
the Treasury in the cabinet of Presi-
dent Jefferson. Mr.. Gallatin was liv-
ing there when President Jefferson. in
pursuance of an act entitled: An act
supplemental to an act entitled for an
amicable settlement of limits with the
state of Georgia and authorizing the
establishment of government in the
Mississippi territory" appointed James
Madison. Secretary of State: Albert
Gallatin. Secretary of the Treasury,
and Levi Lincoln. Attorney General. as
commissioners to settle by compromise
with the commissioners appointed by
the state of Georgia the claims and
cession to which the said act has re-
lation." That was in April, 1902
Senator Barbour. who made the old
homo at I'd and B streets one of the
best liked and best known houses of
Washington, was born in Culpeper
county, Virginia. December 90, 1920.
He was educated at the University of
Virginia and embraced the profession
of law. He became prominent in Vir-
ginia politics and was elected to the
House of Representatives in $780, serv-