Those Places Thursday: Belleview Female Seminary

Alexandria Gazette
15 December 1835

BELLEVIEW FEMALE SEMINARY,
Prince William County, Virginia,

Is situated near a good turnpike road, 30 miles from Alexandria, 45 from Fredericksburg, and 4 north of Haymarket, and between farms of Stuart G. Thornton, Esq. and Dr. Charles B. Stuart. The situation is one of the healthiest in Virginia.

MRS. MAXWELL, grateful for the encouragement she has received since opening the above, begs leave to inform her friends and the public, that she has made arrangements for the reception of an additional number of young ladies as boarders. Every attention shall be paid to their manners, morals and general improvement. Mrs. Maxwell has had several years experience as a teacher, and her system has been approved in Europe and N. America, as being eminently calculated for the attainment of a solid, useful, and polite education. 

References: Stuart G. Thornton, Esq., Dr. Charles B. Stuart, Snow-Hill, Prince William County; Hon. John Taliaferro, King George County; Mathew Carey, Esq. and Rev. Alexander McCoskry, Philadelphia.

Terms: Board and tuition in Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammer, Geography, with use of maps and globe, History Ancient and Modern, Mythology, Natural Philosophy, Needle Work, muslin, lace, rice, bead, rug, cloth and filagree work, per annum, payable quarterly in advance, $100. Bed and bedding $7. French $16. Music, with use of piano, $24. Day pupils in all the English branches, with works, $16. -- Junior class $12. Embroidery per quarter $8. Shell and Wax work each do. $6. Oriental, Mezotinto, Velvet and Satin Painting, each do. $6. Drawing do. $6.

Belleview, near Haymarket, Dec. 15, 1835.

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Ran Away: Alfred and Ariadne/Ann Taylor (enslaved persons)

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC)

26 December 1836

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. -- Ran off on the 26th of November last, negroes ALFRED, belonging to Mr. Henry Heslip, of Prince William county, and his wife ARIADNE, who calls herself ANN TAYLOR, belonging to Mrs. Georgana L. Bailor, of Prince William county, and hired to Mrs. Maxwell, near Haymarket, in the same county.

Alfred is a blacksmith, a dark mulatto, between 30 and 36 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, spare, with a long thin face, high cheek bones, wide mouth, and pale and sickly complexion.  Ariadne, or Ann Taylor, who lived for several years in Washington city, where she has a general acquaintance, and was employed by Mrs. Maxwell as a cook, is a dark mulatto, about 33 years of age, about 5 feet high, very fleshy and thick, with a large and long face, gray eyes, and thick lips, and is very sprightly.

If taken either in Prince William or Fauquier county, a reward of ten dollars; if taken elsewhere in Virginia, a reward of twenty dollars; or if taken out of Virginia, the above reward of fifty dollars will be given for apprehending and securing eithe rof the above mentioned negroes, so that he or she be recovered by the owner.

LUCIAN DADE

Near Brentsville, Prince William county, Virginia

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