The Washington herald., 1921-03-27

tions Wednesday levening, April Q.
while the Twenty Year Club, of
woodward and Lothrop, will giveIa
dinner In the sun parlor of the hotel
at,? o'clock Saturday. April 8.
One OF the interesting features of
the colonial ball to be given at the
New Willard Thursday. March 81,
is the fact that in addition to the
younger set that a number of soci-
ETY. women of a generation ago are
treading the minuet to the stately
music Of colonial days. Mrs. Charles
ODonnell Lee Is leading the dance
with Maj. George Oakley Totten.
who will represent his first ancestor
in America, Sir James johnson, who
came to New York In: 1850. Mr..
and Mrs Raymond Gorges are
dancing together. Mr.. Gorges repre-
senting Sir Ferdinando Gorges,
English colonial pioneer in. America
and, founder of the State Of Maine.
After an active naval and military
career. In the course Of which he
was a prisoner in Spain and fought
for Henry ~ of France. Sir Ferdi-
nando became actively interested in
the New World and was a member
of the Plymouth Company in 1906.
Thirty-three years later he received
the royal charter of Maine. Mrs.
Gorges will impersonate her great
great grandmother. Judith Har-
wood Vernon, wife of William YER
non. Of Newport. Rhode Island. who
was president Of the Continental
Navy Board, 1777. until It ceased
to exist. William Eaches Fendall,
who is dancing with Miss Helen
Mason. will represent his colonial
forbear under the crown. Gov. Jo-
siah Fendall, of Maryland. Capt.
and Mrs. +. T. Steele complete the
Colonial Danes set. Mrs. John c.
Fremont is dancing with Capt. Roy
Smith. and she will wear the dress
Of her fourth great grandmother,
Katharine Van Cortlandt, wife OF
Olaf Van Cortlandt, on the occasion
of the patrons ball in Albany, N Y,
given in 1851. Miss Gouverneur
will wear a dress of an ancestress
belonging to the Louis Seize period,
sky blue silk embroidered in straw.
She Is dancing with Maurice
Darling. Mrs. Charles Campbell's
partner is Bowie Clark. Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee are dane
ing together. The former is repre-
senting his great-great grandfather
Thomas Sim Lee, who was a dele
gate from Maryland to the Conti-
mental Congress. first United States
Senator. and later second governor
of this same State. Mrs. Lee Is i'm
personating he. own ancestress.
Abigail Harvey. wife of Capt.
Thomas Harvey, who was second in
command to Gen. Ethan Allen at
the siege of Ticonderoga- Miss vir-
ginia Hunt. who is a direct descend
ant of Margaret Beekman. wife >of
Robert r. Livingston. who was
judge of the Supreme Court of New
York in 1865. and also a delegate
to the Stamp Act Congress. is dane
ing with David Edward Finley.
Miss Mary Sanger, who is dancing
with Lynch Luquer, is a lineal de-
scendant of John Haynes. who was
colonial governor OF Massachu
setts, and a few years later became
the first governor OF Connecticut
which office he held twenty-five
years. Gov Haynes wife. Mabel
darlackender, was an English
woman. and in impersonating her
Miss Sanger will wear an orchid
brocaded satin opening over a pet
ticoat of rare old family lace. Miss
Helen Louise Sargent and Comdr
Pigman are dancing together. and
Miss Sargent will appear as her
three times great grandmother. Mrs
Nathan Sargent. (Mary Denny). OF
Leicester, Mass, who during the
Revolution melted the weights OF
her clock into bullets to supply the
Minute Men, among whom her sor
was enrolled. Miss Gertrude Jew
EFT. of New York, will tread the
stately cotillion with Douglas