PWCo Item: Brentsville: April 26, 1869

Alexandria Gazette
28 April 1869

LETTER FROM PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY
[Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette]

Brentsville, Prince William County, Va., April 26, 1869

A colored man named Wm Tuell, living near the town of Dumfries in this county attempted, yesterday, to kill his father. It seems there had been some dispute between William Tuell, jr., and another black man, in which the father of the former, also named William Tuel, interfered, and his son took a double barreled gun and shot him in the top of the shoulder near the collar bone. They were sitting at the supper table when the difficulty occurred and the shot fired, and the load is still in him. His recovery is generally despaired of, as his wound is a very severe one and at last accounts was bleeding profusely.

The criminal was arrested by Marshall Davis, esq., Deputy Sheriff, on a warrant issued by Wm. Frazier, esq., and was this evening brought to this place by Mr. Davis and lodged in jail. I understand a pistol and a very long knife were also found on Tuell's person.

This case will come before the grand jury at our Circuit Court, the second Monday in next month.

I am informed this is not the first offence of Tuell, but that he stabbed a white man some time since, and shot at a colored man but a short time before he attempted to kill his father.

TYRONE.

Deed: Lowe to Leary (with graveyard)

Deed:  Lowe to Leary
Prince William County Deed Book 57, pg. 4

THIS DEED made this 28th day of August, in the year 1907, between S. R. Lowe, Jr., and Ida M., his wife, of the one part and Henry G. Leary of the other part, WITNESSETH; That the said Lowe and wife for and in consideration of the sum of Three Thousand dollars, in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged have granted, bargained and sold and do by these presents grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Leary with General Warranty all those two certain tracts or parcles of land lying and being situate in Coles District in Prince William County, as follows: 

1st Tract, containing by estimation 202 acres and is the same land of which Basil King, died seized and possessed and which was conveyed to Samuel R. Lowe Sr. by John S. Mosby, Comr. by deed recorded in Liber 26 page 474. 

2nd Tract, Beginning at a stone pile on the east side of Blandsford Road, thence S.12-1/4 E.49 poles to P. a small white oak marked with a knife, a corner of S. R. Lowe, Jr., thence with said Lowe's line S. 19 1/4 W.175 poles to the Blandsford Road, thence with the road to the beginning, containing 24 acres, be the same more or less and which last tract of land was conveyed to the said S. R. Lowe Sr. by J. B. T. Thornton, Corm. by deed recorded in Liber 42 page 308, and the said two tracts being the same which were conveyed by the said Sam'l R. Lowe Sr. to the said Sam'l R. Lowe J. and Willis E. Lowe, by deed recorded in Liber 50 page 439 and the said Willis E. Lowe conveyed his undivided interest in the said two tracts of land to the said S. R. Lowe Jr. by deed recorded in Liber 56 page 313.

But the said Samuel R. Lowe, Jr. reserves and excepts from this conveyance the grave yard situated on the first mentioned tract, containing one-half acre and the right of ingress and egress to and from the said grave yard. And the said Lowe and wife covenant that they have the right to convey the said two tracts of land unto the grantee, that they have done no act to encumber the same, that the said grantee shall have quiet possession of the said two tracts of land, with the exception of the one half acre herein reserved and that the said Lowe and wife will execute such further assurances as may be requisite.

Witness the following signatures and seals.

S. R. Lowe, Jr. (Seal)
Ida M. Lowe (Seal)

Prince William County, to-wit:

I, J. M. Ellicott, a Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, in the State of Virginia, do certify that S. R. Lowe, Jr. and Ida M. Lowe, his wife, whose names are signed to the writing above, bearing date on the 28th day of August, 1907, have acknowledged the same before me in  my county aforesaid. Given under my hand this 28th day of August, 1907.

J. M. Ellicott, J.P.

In Clerk's Office Circuit Court of Prince William County, October 28, 1907.

This DEED from Lowe to Leary was received with certificate annexed and admitted to record.

Teste:  E. Nelson, Clerk

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 Item: Letter from Brentsville (19 May 1875)

 Alexandria Gazette
19 May 1875

Letter from Brentsville
[Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette]

BRENTSVILLE, May 17, 1875 -- The people of our county, for the last two or three weeks, have been considerably agitated over the claims of the many individuals who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of serving the county for the next three or four years, but the agony is over and once more local excitement is subdued and everybody is now busy planting corn and praying for rain. A primary election was held for the benefit of the several aspirants, and in all respects was satisfactory in eliciting an expression of the will of the people. Prince William has about one thousand Conservatives, but at the election, held on the second Saturday in this month, only about nine hundred and fifty votes were cast, and as far as your correspondent can learn, all the candidates, both victors and vanquished, were satisfied, with the exception of one of the nominees who has raised the black flag and decries all who voted for his opponents, and proclaims them as enemies to himself and the public.

Our Circuit Court convened on the 10th. There were no criminals to be tried. The grand jury found a true bill against R. G. Troth, colored, for an attempt to burn the barn of Wm. H. Dogan. The court certified the case to the County Court for trial, the law providing that misdemeanors shall be tried in the County Court. On the chancery side of the court a large number of decrees were entered and some cases disposed of finally. On the common law side more issues were decided than at any previous term of the court for several years past. The bar was well represented, Alexandria and Fauquier putting in a very creditable appearance.

An old lady, named Mrs. Davis, died near Independent Hill this morning at the advanced age of eighty-four.

Sunday's Obituary: Mary Cleary

 Alexandria Gazette (Va)
6 May 1845

In Washington, on Saturday morning, the 3d instant, at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Mary Ann Spalding, in the 68th year of her age, Mrs. MARY CLEARY, relict of the late Michael Cleary, Esq., of Occoquan, Virginia.

Newspaper Tidbit: Letter of Appreciation

 Manassas Journal (Va)
14 April 1932

LETTER OF APPRECIATION

Editor, Manassas Journal,
Manassas, Virginia.

Dear Sir:

I wish by this method to express the appreciation of myself individually, and on behalf of Virginia Forest Fire Service, for the very valuable assistance extended this department by the Aviation Corp., at Quantico, by reason of reporting its observance of fires which could not be discovered where proper officers could give prompt relief.

Too often we criticize the various department of the National and State Government and fail to appreciate and give credit for the service they render our community; and I adopt this means of expressing publicly the appreciation of the department and of the undersigned.

J. M. RUSSELL
Chief Fire Warden,
Prince William Co.

Sunday's Obituary: Virginia Cole Leary

 Richmond Times Dispatch (VA)
7 July 1909

Mrs. Virginia Leary
[Special to the Times-Dispatch]

FREDERICKSBURG, VA., July 6 -- Mrs. Virginia Leary, widow of Dr. W. B. Leary, of Quantico, died suddenly at her home Sunday.  She was a sister of Colonel E. D. Cole and Mrs. W. N. Tansill, of this city.

[Mary Virginia Cole, daughter of Horace Cole and Martha A. Taylor, was born in Prince William County 23 October 1841.  She married Dr. William Barry Leary and is buried with him in the Leary Family Cemetery in PWCo. ~ cgl]