Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
place Built John Fahngh 1850 Noe0 the Country Estate of
Mellon Hazen7emnit, old Stone Mansion Fauquien
County, Near Where John Brent, ancestor Of First Mayor Here,
Once Oeoned 80 900 Anes-Incidents of Ci0H Mr.

belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy. A
evidence of this, there are still to be found In
this region arfowheads, stone implements and
utensils Of various kinds, principally in the Inn
mediate vicinity Of q famous spring known as
Silver Springs"
John Brent, who settled at Aqua Greek, and
who became one of the leading citizens Of tho
State, seems to have been the first white man
to have owned property in this part Of Virginia.
His grant, 1t Is said, consisted of 10000 acres,
known Brent Town, which included Mount
Wesley, and which lay between Cedar Run, ON
the southwest and Broad Run, on the north
west and extending to the mountains to the
west.
In this connection we are told that Brent
took three partners with him to explore the
gromd-Foote, Bristow and Haywood. This
enterprise failed, so the story goes and the
grant was divided into four parts, Brent taking
the part along Cedar Run, Of which the Hazen
farm Is . part. Bristow, it seems, was Loyal
ist during the Revolutionary War, and his part
Of the grant was confscated and, in conSe.
quence, the deeds of some 5000 acres are from
the State. Brentsyille, one of the old county
seats of Prince william County, procured tts
title from the State.
In 1850 the Hazen farm came into the pos.
= session Of Rev. Levi Hazen, who had emf
grated to virginia, and from him it descended
to his SON, Charles Wesley Hazen, and 1t Is now
owned, as stated before, by the latters son,
Melvin G. Haven Of washington and Virginia.
In 1897 DR. James Dudley Morgan, later .
president Of the Columbia Historical Society.
In speaking Of Robert Brent the first Mayor
Of Washington, who served 10 terms or from
1902 to 1911, said:
Robert Brent, the first Mayor of Washing
ton City in the District of Columbia, was born
1854, at woodstock estate, in the town or
Acquia In Stafford County, Virginia, and was
the second son Of Robert Brent and Anne Car
TY&e 10Th AvHrao f1no Nf
Daniel Carroll Of Montgomery County, Mary.
land, and sister of Archbishop John Carroll,
and after her husbands DEATH in Stafford
County, Virginia, IN $780, she removed to the
residence Of her only daughter, Mrs. George
Digges, at Green Hill. Prince Georges County.
Maryland, where she departed this life, 1904.
George Brent the great-great-grandfat
of Robert Brent, the mayor, was the first Nf
the Woodstock or Acquia branch Of the Brent
family who came to America, and was man
Of much influence and ability"
AS viii be seen, this statement does not &C
count for the John Brent previously mentioned
and, after ALL this may be an error handed
down to us, and DR.. Morgan may be right in
giving US the pioneers name as George instead
of john It win be recalled that it was the
quarries at Aqua, owned by George and Robert
Brent, that furnished the stone for the Capitol,
White House and other public buildings IN
Washington, and Q great amount as well for the
bridges and buildings of Philadelphia from
about 1870 and 1900.
ONE cannot travel far m nearby virginia be-
before he comes across one Of the many
battlefelds Of the Civil War. and, Of course, In
order to get to Nokesville and the HAGEN farm
we had 10 60 through Centerville and Manassas
places that figured prominently in what tho
Union records have seen at to cali the Battle
of Bun Run, after little stream that flows not
far north Of Manassas, and which empties into
OccoQuan River. OF course, we had to pass over
DrxknA
writer eonfesses that he thoroughly sympathiDedi
with those poor fellows who, hadat0 hikeibac1E
to Washington On sthea Aauhas-Qliek 1EsUo-as%a
yOu-please after the hrst engagement neaG
Manassas On Sunday, July n, 1861.
This wAs the frst major engagement Of NJ