Evening star., 1925-05-31
Tobias Lear Stunned "AdulatiOn'
In Contact With Americas Great
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b Rambler in Family History.

HIS rambIe VIII start WltHoot
an introduction. Writers OF
much conservatism and no
i originality will be stunned,
but here goes: Looking for
the account of Tobias Lear's death In
the National Intelligencer of October
1916, the Rambler read advertise
ments which may interest you. one
told of the first annual meeting OF
the Orphan Asylum Society of Wash
ington, held at Rev. Mr.. Lauries
Church October 10. The directors
chosen were Mrs. Madison, Mrs. Van
Ness, Mrs. MCGOWAN and Mrs. Sea
ton. The trustees chosen We're Mrs.
Chalmers, Mrs. Blake. Mrs. Mechhn,
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. }.
Meigs, Mrs Weightman, Mrs. Lear
and Mrs Rodgers.
There was the advertisement of It
chancery sale of a thousand acres
with brick dwelling, called Manor
Land, belonging to DIR. Thomas
Bourne, near the mouth of the Pa
tuXent, III Calvert County, Md.
Daniel Jenifer advertised to sell his
farm of 800 or 900 acres on Mary
land Point, Charles County, and
added: The subscriber can be seen
at Port Tobacco or Aliens Fresh.
Francis Lightfoot Lee offered for sale
his farm, Sully, an ancient Lee tract
of $50 acres. lying on the Little
River turnpike, in Fairfax County,
Va. % miles from Georgetown:
Samuel Lewis Of Westmoreland
County offered for sale his farm
Bushfield 500 acres. on the lower
side of Nomany, and advised that
letters could be addressed To him
or Mr.. John Campbell at Westmore-
land Court House.
Augustine Fitzhugh OF Alexandria
gave notice that he wanted to sell his
tract of 500 acres. lying on both
sides of the Little River turnpike,
miles from Alexandria and 8 miles
from Washington and Georgetown.
The Intelligencer advertised that on
October members of the Columbia
Institute met at McKeoWin's Hotel,
proceeded to the organization OF
society and elected DIR. Edward Cut
bush president; Rev. DIR. Andrew
Hunter. DR.. j. T. Shaaff, Thomas Law
and Joseph Anderson, vice presidents
Overtor Carr, treasurer: Nathaniel
Cutting, secretary; E. b. Caldwell
John Law, Roger c. Weightman and
Robert Brent, curators, and the fol
lowing as a general committee: Sam
uel Harrison Smith, DIR. McWilliams,
Benjamin H. Latrobe, DR.. j. A. Brere-
ton. Walter Jones, DIR. Henry Hunt,
DR.. William Thornton. George Wat
terson. Benjamin Homans, Edmund
Law. William w. Seaton. Col. Will
liam Tatem, DR. j. n. Blake and Jo-
seph Mechlin.
These were important men OF Wash
ington. Here and there sprig OF
Washington nobility will tell that one
of them was her ancestor or that one
of them had a third cousin who es-
poused a great grandaunt on my step
mothers side
- hi n
tonians who have ancestors thought
it a dignity to bow te them and might
have proudly said at the supper table:
When I was bringing home the COW
from the pasture at G. and Fourteenth
| encountered Mr.. Law, who addressed
good even to me, right cordial"
After supper the family told the neigh
bors of it. Yet only YOU who know
your city's history have seen the
names of these men. Prominence is
short lived, and when A man gets the
itch for it no salve will cure him.
7 HAND you a few notices 1 copied
from the Lntelligencer file, One
is: For sale, the steamboat called the
Camden of Georgetown. She runs
from Alexandria to Georgetown and
returns daily. Inquirers should see
John Gird OF Alexandria or Robert
Muuroe of Georgetown Another
John Weightman has received. in ad-
dition to his former assortment, the
following articles-carpeting super.
fine cloths and cassimeres, beaver and
buckskin gloves. fiannels and a va
riety of other seasonable goods.
Edward Pye, secretary of the Port
Tobacco Jockey Club. advertises races
'tof miles and repeat, free for any
horse. mare or gelding, over the Port
Tobacco race course"
The Intelligencer tells that Tucker
and Thompson. merchant tailors, have
their shop on Bridge street, a few doors
above Union Tavern: that Alexander
Rutherford gives 'genteel boarding
few doors west of Union Tavern on
the south side of Bridge street; that
Richard Slade and Co. sell hardware
and ironmongery at King and Henry
streets. Alexandria, and that ~. Wood.
portrait painter, has taken a room at
the Union Tavern, Georgetown, and
will remain one month" There is a
belief. and the Rambler holds it, that
J. Wood and other strolling painters
who found portraiture er-paying