Friend of Friends Friday: Ranaway: CATE / SINAH (1784)

Virginia Journal
28 October 1784

FIVE POUNDS REWARD

RAN away from the Subscriber in Prince William County, two likely Mulatto Slaves, viz. CATE, a light Mulatto, about 22 years of age, about 5 feet high, full faced, expressive eyes, of a pleasant countenance, an high forehead, fine teeth, bushy long hair, is well fet, and broadshouldered. She took with her two striped waistcoats and petticoats, the one blue and white and the other red and white, a white linen shirt and apron, a straw hat, covered and lined with black silk and trimmed with black gauze; and her common wearing apparel was a white waistcoat, and an osnaburg petticoat. -- I suppose she will endeavor for Fredericksburg or Alexandria, as she made an attempt to get off about 18 months ago, was taken up on the road to Alexandria, and said she intended for Philadelphia. -- She is very handy, spins well, and has ben used to both house and plantation work.

SINAH, about 20 years of age, rather of a darker complexion than cate, has a sunken bumpy face, a very unbidding look, has a decay and holes in two of her upper foreteeth, a sulky illnatured countenance, well shaped, of the middle size, low forehead, and very bushy long hair; She took with her a pair of silk cuffs, some pieces of gauze, a white linen petticoat, a fine white shirt, white linen enough for a shift and waistcoat, a black Virginia cloth petticoat, striped with white, a straw hat, covered and lined with black silk and trimmed with black gauze; had on a black striped Virginia cloth jacket, an osnaburg petticoat, and a black Virginia cloth ditto, which she wore under the other. -- She has been brought up in the house, is a good seamstress, and spins well.

Whoever will deliver them to me at my house, or secure them in any goal so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward, or Fifty Shillings for either, paid by

HENRY LEE
October 15, 1784

Friend of Friends Friday: NOTICE: Committed to Jail (Sancho) (1804)

Alexandria Expositor for the County
9 July 1804

NOTICE.

WAS committed to the jail of Alexandria county, district of Columbia, a Negro Boy named SANCHO -- he is about four feet six inches high, about fifteen years of age, of yellowish complexion, and impediment in his speech -- his clothing are ordinary -- he says that he belongs to colonel Thomas Lee, of Prince William county, state of Virginia, and at present is hired to Thomas Newman, of Fairfax county -- the owner of said slave is hereby required to come and prove his property, pay charges and take him away, otherwise he will be disposed of as the law directs.

JAMES CAMPBELL, Jailor.

June 7

Friend of Friends Friday: Ranaway (Toby)

Alexandria Gazette (Va.)
07 September 1821

FORTY DOLLARS REWARD,

RANAWAY from Buckland, in Prince William, late the seat of Mr. John Love, now occupied by me the subscriber,) negro TOBY, A very black, round faced, stout young man, supposed to be about twenty four years of age; the white of his eyes are uncommonly large, and shew in a remarkable manner when spoken to, he has rather a down look; he has been accustomed to the usual business of a farm, and is a tolerable hand. -- This fellow was placed among others, in my care, for safe keeping, to await the event of suit now pending in the District Chancery Court of Fredericksburg, between Mr. William Stuart and Ludwell Lee, executor to Thomas Lee, and has now absconded without any cause, far as is known or believed. His clothes are of the usual kind, some Virginia mannufacture, and some imported, but not particularly recollected -- On the night of his absconding, a chestnut sorrel mare belonging to the overseer was also taken off, supposed by him. A reward of 15 dollars will be given for the fellow if taken within 25 miles and brought home, and if taken up more than thirty miles from home and brought to me, or secured in any jail so that I get him again, forty dollars. All persons are forbid at their peril, harboring or secreting said fellow.

GRIFFIN STITH,

Abbey Ville, Prince William County

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Will: William Lee Sr. (1820)

Will of William Lee Senior
Prince William County Will Book L, pg. 343

I William Lee Senr. do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say:

1st. I desire that all my estate or property after my decease, my just debts & funeral expences being paid, shall remain in the hands of my beloved wife Mary Lee & her to be in full possession & enjoyment of the same during her natural life.

2nd. To my son Wm. Lee I give & bequeath a cow & calf at the death of my wife to come into his possession.

3rd. To my Daughter Nancy I give in like manner one heifer to be hers at my wifes decease.

4th. To my son Henry I give & bequeath a bed which now goes by the name of his to fall to him in like manner at my wifes decease. 

5. To my two Daughters Elizabeth & Wilhelmina I give & bequeath all the remaining property over which I now have controul after my just debts & funeral expenses are paid and the above Items are fulfilld after my wifes decease.

And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my friends Col. Gerard Alexander Sr. & Major Charles Ewell senr. executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 24th day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand and eight hundred & twenty.

Wm. Lee Senr. [X his mark] {seal}

Signed sealed published & declard as & for the last will & testament of the above namd. Wm. Lee Senr. in presence of us.

Wm. P. Dunnington
John W. Petty

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions Contd. and held for Prince Wm. County Augt. 9th 1820. This last will and testament of Wm. Lee Senr. decd. was presented to the Court and being proved by the oaths of Wm. P. Dunnington & Jno. W. Petty is ordered to be recorded.

Teste, Phil D. Dawe   Ct. Cur. 

PWCo Items: 14 September 1899

Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
14 September 1899

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY Notes.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]

HAYMARKET, VA., Sept. 13. -- The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Paul's Church, this place, under the management of Mrs. M. M. Magaw, of Gainsville, Va., gave a few nights' past, a well-acted play, entitled "Down By the Sea."

Mr. Thomas J. Chew, with his two daughters and sister, yesterday returned to his home, "Cloverland," Thoroughfare, Va. Mr. Chew spent the summer in Europe. He says his intention is to remain at his country home until Christmas.

Othneal Hutchison, son of ex-Treasurer Hutchison, Manassas, Va., sends word to his relatives that he is well and in China on his way home from the Philippines. Nothing having been heard from young Hutchison, they had supposed him dead. He belonged to a Western regiment of volunteers.

R. H. Jordan has gone to Lima, Inc. to take a professorship in a military school.

Mr. Frank M. Lee, of Buckland, this county, will marry in October Miss Catharine Tabb of Oakland Mills, Howard county, Md.

Sunday's Obituary: Capt. Robert H. Tyler

Daily Dispatch (Virginia)
28 January 1902

Esteemed Resident of Prince William

LEESBURG, VA., January 27 --(Special)--Captain Robert H. Tyler, of Haymarket, Prince William county, died on Friday night, and his funeral took place yesterday.

Captain Tyler was one of the most gallant soldiers of the Confederacy, serving during the war in the Eighth Virginia Infantry, in Hunton's Brigade.

While a prisoner of war he was at one time with General W. H. F. ("Rooney") Lee put into solitary confinement, to be executed in case certain prisoners held by the Confederate authorities were put to death. But as this did not occur, they were eventually exchanged.

Captain Tyler served at one time in the Virginia House of Delegates, and had all his life been prominent in the affairs of his part of the State. He leaves a widow and a large family of children, all of whom are grown. He was about 63 years of age, and was a son of the late Bailey Tyler, farmer and lawyer, and was born in Leesburg, the family removing about fifty years to to "The Shelter," their beautiful farm in Prince William county.

Friend of Friends Friday: Jabez Fryer Inventory

Jabez Fryer's Inventory 
Prince William Co. Will Book I
Pg. 57

In Pursuance of an order of Prince William County Court bearing date the 3d day of December 1804 we whose names are hereunto annexed after being first sworn have inventoried and apprais'd the Estate of Jabez Fryer as shewn us by Tapley Fryar admr this 17--- of January 1805

   One Negro Man nam'd Lewis ................ $300


Francis Montgomery
David Lee
William Wheeler


At a Court held for Prince Wm. County July 1st 1805.

This Inventory & appraisement of the Estate of Jabez Fryar dec'd was returned to the Court and ordered to be recorded.

Teste.
J. Williams  Cl. Cur.

Friend of Friends Friday: Runaway: Tom Salter

Virginia Gazette
23 March 1769

TEN POUNDS Reward

RUN away from the subscriber's plantation, in Loudoun county, from JAMES WHALEY, overseer, on last Easter Monday, TOM, a Negro Man slave, by some called TOM SALTER, of a middle size, and well made for strength, about 38 years old, he has bad teeth, and many small pimples about his beard; he can read, and play on the fiddle, and had a variety of cloaths; but his common working dress, was died brown cotton; he managed several years as an overseer for me, under Capt. ROBERT DOWNMAN, at a plantation of mine on Marattico creek, in Richmond county, where he always lived until lately, he is a dissembling artful fellow, and generally smiles when he speaks.  I suspect he is lurking about a plantation belonging to CHARLES CARTER, Esq.; in Hanover county, at or near South Wales, there he has a wife named SEBRA, and perhaps at times about his old haunts at Morattico.  Whoever will deliver him to me, in Prince William county, shall receive the above reward; or if they will secure him in any of his Majesty's goals, so that I may get him again, Five Pounds; and if he is taken out of the colony, and brought home to me, Twenty Pounds current money reward, paid by

HENRY LEE.

Newspaper Tidbit: First Complete County History in Manassas by W.P.A.

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
25 March 1941

FIRST COMPLETE COUNTY HISTORY WRITTEN IN MANASSAS BY W.P.A.

Scattered Data Took Two Years to Assemble

Compiled as a Virginia Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration, a book claimed to be the first complete history of Prince William County (Va.) was published today, under the sponsorship of the Bethlehem Good Housekeeping Club of Manassas.

Edited by Mrs. Eudora Ramsey Richardson, supervisor of Virginia Writers' Projects, the book is called "Prince William, the Story of Its People and Its Places."  It gives a detailed account of the county's history and it is expected to prove valuable as a source of reference.

Research workers delved into old records, archives and rare documents to produce the book, which contains such things as a complete list of more than 700 taxpayers in the county for the year 1783, and the roster of about 600 Prince William troops in the Confederate Army.

The object of the project is to make available in one volume the valuable scattered data on the formation and development of this county. Over 2,000 names connected with the past and present history of Prince William are mentioned in the book.

The county was formed from King George and Stafford Counties in 1731, the book states. The name was given in honor of a 10-year-old son of King George II, then monarch of England.

The narrative discloses that Prince William citizens repeatedly figured in the conflicts that marked the early history of the country. Troops from the county participated in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Gen. Braddock's army passed through the section en route to his final encounter. In Prince William the first company of minutemen in Virginia was formed. Later the county "was proud to give to the Continental Army one of its most brilliant officers -- Gen. Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee," father of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The book recounts the well known history of the area around Manassas, county seat of Prince William, during the War Between the States.

It notes that in the 20th century the county still includes the important Marine base and training camp at Quantico.

The newly compiled history and guide book of Prince William offers information on leading educational institutes throughout the county and lists suggested tours, including trips to remote corners and back-country sections.t

Mrs. Richardson says she had a staff of eight persons at work two years to complete the book.

H. R. Eubank and Frank A. Browning, supervisors of the project, directed the research, while John S. Widdicombe, assistant State supervisor, plotted the tours and wrote all architectural descriptions. The story of education was compiled by Margaret Meagher and Everett Anderson, and tradition collected from tombstones and records by Mrs. Susan R. Morton of Haymarket, Va.

Mrs. Richardson served on the State Board of Public Welfare for 10 years prior to 1938. She is a former national field representative of the Federation of Business and Professional Women and organizing president of the Virginia branch of the American Association of University Women.

["Prince William, the Story of Its People and Its Places" remains one of the best research books on the county.  Research copies can be found at RELIC and other Virginia libraries.  ~cgl]

Will: Robert Graham (1821)

ROBERT GRAHAM Will

Prince William County Will Book L, pg 360

12 Feb 1816; proved 04 Jun 1821

I give and bequeath to my wife MARTHA PEYTON GRAHAM the land on which I live containing three hundred & forty acres more or less and also the tract of land on which RICHARD LEE lived and where his widow now lives containing one hundred & forty acres more or less to her in absolute fee simple for ever.  This is my last will and testament in my own hand writing the twelfth day of February eighteen hundred & sixteen.

ROBERT GRAHAM  {seal}

last will and testament JOHN LINTON, JOHN TYLER LINTON

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Prince William County 4^th of June 1821.  This last will and testament of ROBERT GRAHAM decd. was presented to the Court and being proved by the oaths of JOHN LINTON and JOHN T. LINTON is ordered to be recorded.

Teste, PHIL. D. DAWE

Military Monday: Testimony at Trial of Gen. Fitz John Porter

New Orleans Item (New Orleans, LA)
July 17, 1878

SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS

During the trial of Gen. Fitz John Porter at West Point, Thursday, Mr. John S. Leachman, of Groveton, Prince William county, was recalled and closely examined as to the supposed route of Capt. Pope bearing the 4:30 order from Gen. Pope to Gen. Porter, commanding the latter to move against the enemy.  It was charged in the proceedings of the court martial that the order reached Porter at five o'clock p.m.  The latter stoutly avers that it did not get into his hands till between six and seven p.m.

The testimony of Mr. Leachman, who had been a resident in the locality for fifty years, shows that it was a physical impossibility for Capt. Pope to go over the rout.e  Witness supposed he did go in less than an hour and a half, which would make his arrival at Porter's headquarters not before 6 p. m. providing the order was handed to him at the precise time it was dated, and he rode at the utmost speed.

Col. Charles Marshall, a lawyer of Baltimore, and who was an aide-de-camp for Gen. Lee, of the Confederate army, in 1862, was sworn.  He said that twelve Confederate brigades marched through Thoroughfare Gap on the 28th, and one on the morning of the 29th.  About half-past nine the advance was near Groveton.  Then witness located the position of the Confederate troops, and said that as late as two p. m. Gen. Stewart reported that Gen. Jones' right was being threatened, and Gen. Wilcox was ordered to go to his supper.  Later in the afternoon, Hood was attached, and Wilcox was sent back.  The troops threatening Jones appeared to be coming along the Manassas and Gainesville road, and six brigades had to be kept there to watch them.

This was considered important evidence for Porter, as it was his command that threatened the Confederates, and thus it is claimed he acted discreetly, and held the Confederates in check, preventing them from carrying out an intended general attack that day.

Witness stated that he had in his hand Lee's original report of the second Bull Run battle.  He said Gen. Lee did not make an attach on the 29th for the reason that Longstreet advised against it.  This witness also denied previously that there was a general battle on the 29th, as indicated in Pope's dispatch.  There was some artillery firing, and Hood had a severe fight, but it did not become general.

Newspaper Tidbit: PWCo Court (1875)

Alexandria Gazette
September 11, 1875

At the September term of the County Court, J. Engle Smith was appointed and qualified by entering into bonds in $500 as overseer of the poor in Brentsville township.

Geo. W. Tansill and C. A. Cannon qualified as deputies of the county treasurer, W. W. Kincheloe.

The grand jury presented an indictment against William D. Lee for felony, charging him with burning the stackyard of Wm. L. B. Wheeler.

Manassas Russell was exempted from State and county capitation tax on account of old age.

Com. vs. Samuel Smith, charged with putting an obstruction on the Midland railroad.  The prisoner, a small negro boy, was prosecuted by the Commonwealth's attorney, assisted by Gen. Eppa Hunton, employed by the railroad company, and defended by Messrs. C. E. Sinclair and E. E. Meredith.  The jury took the case about sundown, but failing to agree, were kept until twelve o'clock Tuesday, when they were discharged, and a new trial ordered at the next term of the court.  It is said the first vote by the jury resulted in eleven for acquittal and one for conviction, and that one, Mr. Perry, held out to the last.

Com. vs. Wm. D. Lee; prisoner arraigned and pleaded not guilty, and one of his counsel, Judge Sinclair, appeared and demurred generally to the indictment, and on his motion the case was continued until next court.

Will: John Dye, Jr. (1798)

JOHN DYE Junr. Will

Prince William County Will Bk. H, pg. 260

18 Mar 1798; proved 7 May 1798

In the name of God amen I JOHN DYE JUNR. Of the County of Prince William & State of Virginia having my proper reason & memory do constitute this my last will and testament disallowing all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made.  And first I recommend my soul to God who gave it, and as to my worldly property I do give and dispose of in the following manner.

Item I give unto my daughter SARAH LEE thirty pounds which she has already in her possession.

Item I give unto my daughter LYDIA PRIDMORE thirty pounds which she has already in her possession.

Item  I give unto my three sons namely JAMES, JOHN & DANIEL thirty pounds each, to be paid unto them as they come of age.

Item I give unto my beloved wife all the remainder of my estate both real and personal during her natural life, and after her death to be equally divided between my five children, or their heirs namely SARAH, DYDDA, JAMES, JOHN & DANIEL.  And I do hereby othorize and appoint my beloved wife MARY my Executrix & my friend RUTT JOHNSTON my Executor to this my last will and testament.  Signed sealed & pronounced this eighteenth day of March Anno Domi one thousand seven hundred & ninety eight.

JOHN DYE JUNR.  {seal}

JOHN KINCHELOE

WILLIAM HIXSON

WILLIAM DYE

At a Court held for Prince Wm. County the 7^th Day of May 1798

This last will and testament of JOHN DYE JR. deceased was presented to the Court by MARY DYE and RUTT JOHNSTON the Executrix and Executor therein named who made oath thereto according to law and the said will being proved by the oaths of WILLIAM HIXON and WILLIAM DYE was ordered to be recorded and the said Executrix & Executor having performed what is usual cases certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.

Teste

JOHN WILLIAMS  Cl Cur.

Sunday's Obituary: John Rollins

Manassas Journal
January 21, 1921

GALLANT CONFEDERATE SOLDIER PASSES AWAY

Member of Body Guard of Gen. Lee Dies of Old Age at Home Near Wellington

Mr. John Rollins died at his home between Wellington and Gainesville, Wednesday morning, of a complication of disease attendant upon old age, in his eighty-seventh year.

Mr. Rollins was a gallant soldier in the Confederate army, having served in the command of Col. Richardson, in the Headquarters Division, acting as Gen. Lee's body guard, and after the conflict was over, turned his attention to farming in which calling he has been very successful.

The deceased was an honorable upright man and made many friends both in the army and in the Wellington neighborhood in the years that followed the war.

Mr. Rollins is survived by one brother, Mr. James Rollins, of Wellington, three sons, Messrs. Wesley and Frederick, of Prince William, and Mr. Edward Rollins, of Fairfax; and two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Mock, of Fairfax, and Mrs. Alice Botts, who has lived at the home of her father.

The funeral services will be conducted from the home on Saturday.

Will: James Dalton (1812)

JAMES DALTON Will

Prince William County Will Book K, pg. 144

21 July 1811; proved 3 Feb 1812

I give and bequeath to my grand daughter KATHY CASH (the oldest child of my daughter ELIZABETH LEE) my negro man BEN and all the money that may now or hereafter may be due me by bond note or otherwise but if the said KATY CASH dies before she arrives at the age of twenty one or marries then and in that case I desire that my property of every kind may be divided equally between my four daughters RACHEL DUNSFORD, CHARITY MARTIN, ANNA DUNNINGTON and ELIZABETH LEE – I appoint my friend REDWOOD EVANS Executor of this my last & testament.  In Witness whereof I do hereunto set my hand & affix my seal this twenty first day of July eighteen hundred and eleven.

The words may be interlined before signing.

JAMES DALTON  {seal}

Signed sealed & acknowledged in the presence of us

ROB. GRAHAM

CHARITY BOHANNON

ANN REEDS

At a Court held for Prince William County February 3^rd 1812.

This last will and testament of JAMES DALTON decd. was presented to the Court by REDWOOD EVANS the Executor therein named who made oath to the same according to law and the said will being proved by the oaths of CHARITY BOHANNON and ANN REEDS is ordered to be recorded and the said REDWOOD EVANS having taken the oath of an Executor and performed what is usual in such cases certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.

Teste,  J. WILLIAMS

Newspaper Tidbit: PWCo Items (22 June 1857)

Alexandria Gazette
June 22, 1857

Prince William County, Va.

REVOLUTIONARY REMINISCENCES. -- When the good people of Virginia, in convention assembled on the 25th day of June, 1776, declared that the Government of this Country as before exercised under the crown of Great Britain was totally dissolved by misrule of the King, and ordained and established a form of government for Virginia, Prince William County had her sages in convention, aiding with their counsel, and when the "tug of war" came, and the sword had to be drawn to repel the enemies of freedom, her braves took the field and battled for the cause.

A gentleman, who is well acquainted with the records and history of the county, has furnished us with a copy of the proceedings of a council of militia officers held at Dumfries.

"At a Council of field officers, and other officers of the militia, for the county of Prince William, held at the house of Augustine Seaton, in the town of Dumfries, on Friday, the 19th day of July, 1776.

Present,--Henry Lee, County Lieutenant; Thomas Blackburn, Colonel; William Alexander, Lieut. Colonel; John Hooe, Major.

Captains.--Thomas Atwell, James Ewell, Valentine Peyton, Richard Graham, Jesse Ewell and William Brent.

A Resolve of the Committee of this County being laid before the Board, by the County Lieutenant, recommending to him to order on duty a sufficient number of militia to protect the inhabitants on the river against the inroads of Lord Dunmore and his fleet, now lying in the river Potomac, and the County Lieutenant praying their advice and directions how to conduct himself; The Board taking the same into consideration, are of the opinion that all the boats and other small vessels ought to be secured to prevent the servants and slaves from joining his Lordship, and further that the first draft of Militia be immediately called upon to rendezvous at Dumfries; as it is uncertain what route the enemy may take, to be in readiness to protect the river inhabitants if need require."

SUNDAY SCHOOL.--It may not be generally known that we have a large and flourishing Sabbath School in the village.  We are gratified to find that it has some 70 scholars.  Next Sabbath will be the fourth since its commencement.  We hear that it is proposed to have a celebration and pic-nic on the 4th of July; a gentleman of the legal profession has been invited to deliver an oration; we did not learn whether he has accepted or not.

OLD TIMES.--The following amusing extract of a will, executed in the County, in 1766, will cause some merriment, we think:

"I leave the direction of my funeral to the discretion of my executors, I only desire that it may be private, in presence of the few such as I had regard for when living, which are not many.

And as I ever held Priests, Juglars, and devirsors of every kind from the Grand Lama or the Pope, to the Indian conjuror, in the utmost contempt, I expressly forbid any preaching or other Pawwawing at my funeral.  Wrote with my own hand, this 23d day of September, 1766. ~ James Douglass.

--Brentsville Jour.

Sunday's Obituary - Doctor Cyrus C. Marsteller

Alexandria Gazette - February 24, 1871

Departed this life, on the 8th instant, at his residence, near Gainesville, Doctor Cyrus C. Marsteller, in the 73d year of his age.  He was a native of Alexandria and reared therein.  He studied medicine with Doctor Elisha Dick, and graduated in the Maryland Medical University in the spring of 1818.  He soon left the pleasures of his happy home and early associates and located in the town of Buckland, in Prince William county, Va.  From there in a few months he removed to Haymarket and won the favor and approbation of his fellow-citizens by a scrupulous attention to all cases committed to his care.  He had a good knowledge of diseases prevalent in this section of the country, and was a close student up to the time of his death.

He practiced his profession upwards of half a century, and with great success.  Blessed with a good constitution, no weather, however inclement, prevented his immediate and constant attention to his patients, until at last he could scarcely put one foot before the other, nor did he cease to go when called on to within a few weeks of his demise.  Thus has fallen in our midst the man, who of all others, unprejudiced opinion, will say could be least spared.  He was a true and constant friend.  He had not united with any denomination of Christians, but the word of God was his companion during his leisure hours in his office.  He read it to know the will of the Great I am, and to find himself to be a sinner.

When spoken to on the subject of death, he said the subject had engaged his attention for a long time.  He was willing to cast aside self altogether, and embrace the Gospel plan of salvation, through faith in the righteousness of Christ Jesus and his ability to save to the uttermost all who come to God through Him.

He has left a wife and five children to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate husband and father.  May God, in his mercy, be with the bereaved household, and bless to their souls this visitation of his providence, and teach them that not a sparrow falls without His knowledge.

Senex.
Prince William County, Va., Feb. 21.

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Alexandria Gazette - October 27, 1855

Valuable Land in Prince William for Rent.  The subscriber offers for rent his land near Haymarket, known as "Pageland" and "The Poplar Field" Tracts, comprising 1300 acres of the most valuable land in the county for farming and grazing, divided into 12 fields, including 150 acres of meadow.  The fields not in cultivation, are set in grass.  There are good buildings of every description, and a Country Mill on the farm.  The situation is one of the most healthy, and near the Gainesville Station of the Manassas Gap Railroad.  Early application is requested.  The privilege of fallowing immediately.

Cyrus C. Marsteller
Haymarket, je 16-eo3t&wtf

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Alexandria Gazette - May 13, 1850

At a Rules held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery of Alexandria County, on the 1st day of April, 1850; Cyrus C. Marsteller vs. Charlotte M. Mitchell, late Charlotte M. Marsteller, Elizabeth A. Marsteller, Philip F. Marsteller, Richard H. Marsteller, Louisa W. Marsteller, and Leslie K. Marsteller, the two last named infant heirs of Ferdinand P. Marsteller, and Samuel A. Marsteller:  The defendants Richard H. Marsteller, Louisa W. Marsteller and Leslie K. Marsteller, infants as aforesaid, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing by satisfactory evidence that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, It is ordered, that the said defendants appear here at the rules to be  held in the Clerk's office of said court for the month of June next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the town of Alexandria, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Court house of this County.

C.F.Lee, C. C.
Neale, P.Q. ap 2--2m

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Alexandria Gazette - June 26, 1841

NOTICE.  The Partnerships heretofore existing under the firm of R. H. Marsteller & Co. and C. C. and R. H. Marsteller are hereby dissolved.

Cyrus C. Marsteller
Haymarket, Prince Wm., Va., June 4--eo10t

Will: William Lee, Sr.

WILLIAM LEE SR. Will

Prince William County Will Book L, pg. 343

24 Jun 1820; proved 09 Aug 1820

I WILLIAM LEE SENR. Do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say: 1^st I desire that all my estate or property after my decease my just debts & funeral expenses being paid shall remain in the hands of my beloved wife MARY LEE & her to be in full possession & enjoyment of the same during her natural life.  2^nd To my son WM. LEE I give & bequeath a cow & calf at the death of my wife to come into his possession. 3^rd To my daughter NANCY I give in like manner one heifer be hers at my wife’s decease. 4^th To my son HENRY I give & bequeath a bed which now goes by the name of his to fall to him in like manner at my wifes decease. 5. To my two daughters ELIZABETH & WILHELMINA I give & bequeath all the remaining property over which I now have controul after my just debts & funeral expences are paid and the above items are fulfild after my wifes decease. And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my friends Col. GERARD ALEXANDER Sr. & Major CHARLES EWELL SENR. Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me heretofore made.  In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 24^th day of June in the year of our Lords one thousand eight hundred & twenty.

WM. LEE SENR.  {seal}

Signed sealed published & declared as & for the last will and testament of the above named WM. LEE SENR. In presence of us

WM. P. DUNNINGTON, JOHN W. PETTY

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Prince William County Aug 9^th 1820 This last will and testament of WM. LEE SENR. Decd was presented to the Court and being proved by the oaths of WM. P. DUNNINGTON and JNO. W. PETTY is ordered to be recorded.

Teste, PHIL. D. DAWE