The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-16
WILLIAMSBURG IS
HISTORIC PLACE
QUAINT OLD TOWN IN VIRGINIA
WHERE PAST AND PRESENT
ARE SUsTLY BLENDED.
WREN DESIGNED COURTHOUSE
Interesting Memorial Tablets in 5ru,
ton church-Wythe House, the
"Powder Horn" and the College Of
William and Mary
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK


WushingtOn,--A majority of the
presidents of the United States have
received degrees from the Old college
Of William and Mary, a Virginia In
stitution founded in the early days at
Williamsburg. Williamsburg is not far
from Washington, so far as time and
distance are concerned. Members of
congress and other government Off
cials occasionally 90 there, lured by
the historic associations Of the old
place, by the sights to be seen and by
the general restfulness of its surround
ings.
1t Is only three miles across coun-
try from jamestown island, where the
first settlement in virginia was made
to williamsburg jamestown is large
ly memory while Williamsburg Is both
memory and reality. The past and the
present are met in its streets and
there is subtle blending of the two in
to a mld-time atmosphere. Happily
the Yirginians have held TO the love Of
the old things. 1t is worth something
to know that the main street still is
known as Duke of Gloucester street.
II is a fine thoroughfare and on 1t
stands a courthouse designed by Sir
Christopher Wren, the architect OF
Saint Paul's cathedral in London, Eng
land, and many Of that clty's churches.
Bruton church, in which is the font
used at the baptism Of PocahOntas at
jamestown, also stands facing Duke
Of Gloucester street. II Is an appeal
ing structure. The building is clad
with the ivy Of England, which grows
and thrlves ia this latitude. A church.
yard as quiet as that Of the "Elegy,'
lies without its walls, 1t Is supposed
that the church was named by one Of
the early secretaries Of the colony
who was born in Bruton, England.
Some Bruton Church Tablets.
In the churchyard Is tomb with
this inscription:
Under this marble lieth the body
Of Thomas Ludwen, Esqr, Secretary
Of Virginia, who was born at Bruton,
in the County of Somerset, in the
Kingdom Of England and departed
this life in the year 1878"
Close to the north door Of the
church are the graves Of two children
of Mrs. Martha Gusts, who, when
widowed, became the wife of George
Washington. It is not the intention to
make a neurology Of this writing, but
it is barely possible that two inscrip-
tons which appear on tablets inside
the Bruton church, eXtolllng the yir-
tues Of the dead, may have a living in
tcrcst. Here is one Of them:
Near this marble lyes We Honble.
Danel Packe, Of We County of Essex,
Esqr.. who was one Of his masters
Counsellers and sometime Secretary of
the COLONY of Virga. lie dyed We 9th
of March, Ammo 1879 His other felecl-
tyes were crowned by his happy mar
rldg with Rebecka, the daughter Of
George Evelyn. Of the County Of Sur
ry, Esp. She died We End Of Janu-
ary, Ammo 1872, at Long Dltton, In We
county Of Surry and left behind her a
most hopeful progeny"
The other tablet bears this:
"MDCCLU. Inscribed to the memory
Of Doctor William Cooke, an English
physician, born Of reputable parents
MDCLNNI, mt Sudbury in Suffolk, and
educated at Queens College, Cambridge.
lie was learned ana polite, Of undis-
puted skin in his profession and un-
bounded generosity in his practice,
which multtudes yet alive can testify,
lie was many years Of the Council,
and Secretary Of State for the Colony,
in the reign Of Queen Anne, and of
King George, he died suddenly, sitting
u Judge upon the bench of the General
Court, i'm the capitol, MDCCNN. His
Hon. friend AleXr, Spottswood Esqr,
then Gown, with the principal gentle
men of the country attended his flu
neral, and weeping, saw the corpse in
TERED 40 the west side Of the alter in
this church"
Wythe House and "Powder Horn"
Almost within the shadow Of Bruton
church stands the Wythc house, for
some time the headquarters of George
Washington during the Siege of York
town, which, with It's historic mem
orjcs, lies only q few miles away. The
seeds of history were sown thick here
abouls.
,u.r,..,.r .trnof gtopds ,lo old opow.
l.r Harm 50 l,uiIt .hv. G,vrrpor Srotts.