Deed to Trustees of Quantico Primitive Baptist Church (1879)

Deed:  Trustees of Quantico Primitive Baptist Church

PWCo. Deed Book 32, pg. 68

This deed made this 8th day of February 1879 between Lawrence Cole and Jane his wife of the one part and John W. Chapman, Ezekiel Lynn and James M Barbee Trustees of Quantico Primitive Baptist Church and their successors in office all of Prince William County, State of Virginia. Witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of five dollars, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have given granted bargained and sold & conveyed, and do by these presents give grant bargain sell and convey unto the said parties of the second part and their successors in office the following described property, to wit: a tract of land lying and being situate near Coles store in the said County of Prince William and bounded as follows, Beginning at the forks of the road near the Union Church, thence running west with the Warranton road 210 feet, thence north 105 feet, thence east 210 feet to the Brentsville road, thence down said road south to the beginning containing one half acre more or less. To have and to hold the above described property unto the said parties of the second part and their legal successors in office forever. But the said land is conveyed with the distinct understanding that a House of Public Worship shall be built thereon by the said parties of the second part to be used and applied for purposes of worship by the congregation of Quantico Primitive Baptist Church and for no other purposes. 

Witness the following seals

Lawrence Cole {seal}

Jane Cole {seal}

State of Va. Prince William County, to Wit:

I James J. Davis a Commissioner in Chancery for the Circuit Court of Prince William County do certify that Lawrence Cole whose name is signed to the foregoing writing bearing dat the 8th day of February 1879 acknowledged the same before me in my County aforesaid, and I further certify that Jane Cole the wife of Lawrence Cole whose names are signed to the foregoing writing bearing date the 8th day of February 1879 personally appeared before me in my County aforesaid and being by me examined privately and apart from her said husband and having the writing aforesaid fully explained to her, she the said Jane Cole acknowledged the said writing to be her act, and declared that she had willingly executed the same, and does not wish to retract it, Given under my hand this 8th day of February 1879.

J. J. Davis  Court us Cl

In the Clerks Office of Prince William County Court, May 26, 1879

This deed from Cole & wife to Chapman & Trustees with a certificate annexed was received and admitted to record.

Teste.  Lucien A. Davis  Clerk

Newspaper Tidbit: Land Sales

Alexandria Gazette (Va)
10 December 1887

LAND SALES.

Mr. J. F. Milstead has purchased at public sale, in the chancery suit of Milstead against Milstead, a tract of land near Minneville, Prince William county, containing 199 acres, for $2 per acre.

The Hutchinson tract, near Hickory Grove, in the same county, containing 186 acres has been sold to Mr. Henry Lynn for $8 per acre. 

Friend of Friends Friday: Ranaway: Jacob

Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
1 June 1820

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD

RAN AWAY from Parkgate, in Prince William county, on Tuesday, March 28th, where Francis Manuel is overseer, negro JACOB, a small man, about 45 years of age; black with rather a yellow tinge, smartly marked in the face with the small pox; he is a timid negro, ahs a down look, and rather a whining voice. His clothing, as far as recollected, was a mixed blue kersey roundabout jacket and twilled cotton and yarn pantaloons, he may have (and it is probable he has) other clothing, as he took off all he had. I will give for him, if taken up within 20 miles and brought home, TEN DOLLARS; if over 20 miles and under 30, THIRTY DOLLARS; but if over 30 miles, and brought home or secured in jail so that I get him again, FIFTY DOLLARS. All persons are forbid at their peril harboring or entertaining said fellow.

WM. STUART
April 3
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Newspaper Tidbit: Difficulty between Grigsby and Marsteller (1870)

Alexandria Gazette (Va.)
25 January 1870

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE:

Dear Sir: I notice in the Prince William Advocate an extract taken from your paper, in which it is alleged upon the authority of persons living in the neighborhood of Nokesville, "that the late difficulty between Mr. Bunn Grigsby and the Messrs. Marsteller has been settled. The former was compelled to sign a paper and to submit to a severe castigation, but the latter afterwards gave up the paper and expressed regrets for acting so hastily."

We respectfully request that we may be permitted through the medium of your paper to say that no such settlement as above stated, nor has any settlement whatever of the said difficulty been effected. 

Very respectfully,

L. A. Marsteller & Bro.

Nokesville, Pr. Wm. co., Jan. 24.

Sunday's Obituary: Marinda Alice Yeatman (1916)

Manassas Journal
22 December 1916

DEATH OF MISS YEATMAN

Former Resident of Prince William Dies After Illness of Several Months

The death of Miss Marinda Alice Yeatman, of Washington on Thursday, December 14, comes as a shock to her many friends in Virginia, as well as in the National Capital.

Miss Yeatman had been in ill health for more than a year but it was not until last June she was called to lay down her daily duties and was confined to the house and verandas. For more than two months she was confined to her room and a great portion of that time to her bed.

Miss Yeatman was the third daughter of the late John H. and Sarah J. Yeatman, who for a number of yers made their home at the old family home, "Foster Hall," in upper Prince William County.

MIss Yeatman leaves two sisters, Miss Emma B. Yeatman and Mrs. S. E. Lynn, widow of the late R. L. Lynn, and one niece, whom s[h]e partially raised, Miss Sadie Yeatman Lynn, all of Washington.

The funeral was held on Tuesday, December 19, from the First Baptist Church, of which the deceased was an active member. Interment, which was private, was in the Yeatman family lot at Congressional Cemetery.

Friend of Friends Friday: Ranaway: Harry and Davey / Solomon / Caesar

Virginia Gazette and Alexandria Advisor
23 June 1791

TEN POUNDS REWARD,

RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Prince William County, about 5 miles aboe the Red-House, the following Slaves, viz. -- HARRY, about 40 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, who has remarkable scars over one of his eyes. -- This Negro left me in Dumfries last October, has since been taken up above Winchester, put in that gaol, and eloped from the person coming home with him. -- DAVEY, a dark Mulatto, full 6 feet high, slender made, went off th 2d inst. It is needless to describe the dress of either the first having changed his clothes, and the other in all probability will, when he gets to Dumfries, where he has a wife. -- DAVEY was formerly the property of Joseph Combes, of Loudoun County, and may go in that neighbourhood where he has some relations. I will give the above reward for those two Negroes being delivered to me, and Forty Shillings for either, exclusive of what the law allows.

ELIZABETH GRAHAM
June 15, 1791.
99-3w.

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Alexandria Daily Advertiser
10 June 1807

THREE DOLLARS REWARD.

RAN AWAY about the 21st of May last, a negro boy slave, named SOLOMON, the property of Miss Nancy Morton, living in Prince William county, and hired of her until the end of this year: he is about 14 years old, of a black complexion, with a very wide mouth, his clothes are unknown; The above reward will be given to any person who will apprehend and deliver him to Miss Nancy Morton, or to the subscriber, living in Prince William county.

John M. Wilkinson
June 10

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National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 
25 October 1809

RAN AWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBER LIVING in Brenton, Prince William County, Virg. on the 11th Aug. 1809, a Mulatto man named CAESAR, 21 or 2 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, calls himself Keys; is much sun-burned, has a full suit of hair--took with him a pair of nankeep pantaloons, a Bennet Cord waistcoat having yellow and red collars; a short dark summer coat, besides several other articles. It is apprehended he has gone northward, having been traced into Washington City with a crowd of negroes returning from the camp meeting held in Fairfax county. He is not skilled in any handy craft, but has been entirely accustomed to the business of a plantation. Whoever shall apprehend the said negro, and secure him in any jail, shall receive twenty dollars reward--if brought home all reasonable charges shall be paid by the subscriber. Masters of vessels are cautioned against receiving on board their vessels the said Slave.

GERARD ALEXANDER, Sen.
Sept. 32-2awtf

Newspaper Tidbit: Hazel Plain (1872)

New England Farmer (Boston, MA)
13 January 1872

The farm called Hazel Plain, in Prince William County, Va. (better known as the Chinn farm), was sold recently for eight dollars per acre, to Mrs. Mary A. Downman, executrix. This farm is a portion of the plateau upon which were fought the first and second battles of Manassas. When the war commenced it was under a high stat of improvement, and the dwelling house upon it was one of the finest in this section of the State, but that scourge devastated it, and the open fields and young pines and shattered mansion all now bear evidence to the desolating conflicts of which it was the scene.

Sunday's Obituary: Rev. Dr. Henry Caleb Cushing (1908)

Baltimore Sun
September 3, 1908

REV. DR. CUSHING DEAD. 
Well-Known Minister Passes Away at Manassas, Va. 

[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]

Westminster, Md., Sept. 2 – Rev. Dr. Henry Caleb Cushing, professor of sysematic theology in Westminster Theological Seminary and an eminent minister of the Methodist Protestant Church, died at 10.40 o'clock this morning on his farm near Manassas, Va., where he was spending his summer vacation.  His death was caused by paralysis.  Dr. Cushing was nearly 80 years old.

Dr. Cushing grew to manhood on his father's farm in Prince William county, Va.  In 1852 he entered the ministry and began itinerant work among the people of Prince William county.  In 1853 he joined the Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.  In 1875 and 1876, while pastor of the church in this place, he also occupied the chair of belles letters in Western Maryland College, and at the conclusion of his pastorate in 1877 he became vice president of that institution.  Six years ago he was appointed professor of systematic theology in Westminster Seminary, which he held until his death, making his home in this city.

Dr. Cushing was twice married, his first wife having been Miss Dulcie B. McCormick, daughter of Stephen McCormick, inventor of the McCormick plow.  His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Clara Newson.

Dr. Cushing's surviving children are Mrs. Stanley Still, of Steelton, Pa.; Dr. Wilson Cushing, of Dublin, Va., and A. Berry Cushing, of the Virginia bar.  He also leaves several grandchildren and one great grand child.  His body will be brought to this place and buried in Westminster Cemetery.