Friend of Friends Friday: Certificate of Slaves Imported (Evans)

Certificate of Slaves Imported
Evans from Smith Certificate
PWCo Deed Book Z, pg. 150

Prince Wm. County &ct.

Came before me Jas. Smith one of the Justices of the peace for said County Jesse Evans late of Charles County, Maryland and made oath agreeable to law, that he has moved himself and family from Maryland with an intention to settle and become a citizen of Virginia, and that he has brought with him his negroes not with a design to sell and dispose of them, or in any respect to evade the laws of this State made to prevent the importation of Slaves.  

That his Negroes are, viz.,

Four Men. Wary, Dick, Charles & Lucus

Three Women. Monimia, Fanny, & Charity

Three Children. Boy. Adam, Boy. Lawrence, Girl. Melia.

Also five slaves the property of John Lomax, an Infant for whom the said Evans is Guardian, and who has also removed with him from Maryland to Virginia, viz.

One Wench. Kett, and four Children. Henry, George, Nace & Cloe.

Given under my hand this twenty third day of December 1794.

James Smith

At a Court cont. & held for Prince Wm. County the 8th day of Aug. 1797.

This certificate of slaves imported by Jesse Evans was presented to the Court & ordered to be recorded.

Teste,  John Williams  Cl. Cur.

PWCo Items: Manassas is still pushing ahead... (1871)

Alexandria Gazette (Va.)
12 June 1871

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA. -- Correspondence of the Fairfax News.

Manassas, May 27. -- Manassas is still pushing ahead and is about three times the place it was in 1869. A new Baptist Church is now going up and is nearly completed, in the grove belonging to Mrs. E. E. Johnson. The Presbyterians and Episcopalians intend to build churches during the coming summer. The Episcopalians and Baptists, at present, worship in the new Methodist Episcopal Church.

Several new buildings have gone up during the Spring and Winter, and among them a fine brick freight depot, and we are promised a brick passenger depot during the Summer.

Our public school system is in full blast. We have a Graded school under able teachers, and it is the intention of the Trustees to have a school where any Academical branches can be taught.

At the election Thursday last, this Township voted a 4 1/2 mill tax, and a poll tax, of 50 cts for public schools; every Township in the county carried the tax, except Coles, where it was lost by one vote. In Manassas, where the Trustees asked for the heaviest tax, the tax received the heaviest vote. Anson Bangs, of New York city, who is probably the largest owner of real estate in the county, happened to be in Dumfries at the time of the election, and not only favored the school tax, but offered $100 extra from his private purse.

The somewhat famous "Lewis Robinson suit," brought by a colored man against four of the late officers of the county, appointed under military authority, were tried at the May Circuit Court, and resulted in the discomfiture of Lewis. The suits were nine in number, and were brought for damages to the amount of $17,000, against Messrs. Baldwin and Ketchum, late magistrates, Mr. Herrick, a deputed constable, and Mr. Round, late Commonwealth's Attorney. His Honor Judge Keith instructed the jury that it would be a violation of their oaths to give the slightest weight to political or sectional prejudice, and if he thought any juror would be influenced by such motives, he would send him to jail. These trials have been an expense to the county, and have done nothing for the county but retard immigration and keep out capital.

The crops in this section are looking the finest I have seen for years.

M. J. 

 

Wedding Wednesday: Cecil / Bruch (1917)

Richmond Times Dispatch (Va)
19 April 1917

SOCIETY

A wedding of much interest to society here was that of Miss Marion Russelle Cecil, daughter of Colonel G. R. Cecil, U.S.A., and Mrs. Cecil, to Alfred E. Bruch, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bruch, of Cleveland. The ceremony took place yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents in Washington, with the Rev. C. Ernest Smith, of the St. Thomas's Church, officiating. The wedding was celebrated in the sun-parlor which was decorated in white lilacs, roses and lilies, against a background of palms and Southern smilax, and the bridal party passed to the altar through arches of smilax and white blossoms. A stringed orchestra played the wedding music.

The bride entered with her father, who gave her away. Her wedding dress was of white satin trimmed in chiffon and rose point lace worn by her mother at her wedding, and the skirt was finished with side panels of pearls and iridescent beads. Her long court train was lined with cloth of silver and embroidered in pearls, and her veil of illusion was of tulle edged with rosepoint lace. She carried a shower bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley. The bride's only ornament was a brooch of diamonds, the groom's gift.

Miss Nancy Leary Patton, of Richmond, who was the bride's maid of honor and only attendant, wore a French dress of chartreuse Georgette crepe over gold, embroidered in blue and gold beads, with a picture hat to match. Her flowers were Ophelia roses. Edward Bruch, of Cleveland, was best man.

An informal reception followed the ceremony, after which Mr. and Mrs. Bruch left for a honeymoon trip to New York and the West. They will later motor back to their country estate "Ben Lomond," near Manassas.

Sunday's Obituary: Col. Daniel Kincheloe

Alexandria Gazette (Va.)
5 November 1855

Col. Daniel Kincheloe died in Clarksburg, Va., last week, in the 72d year of his age. He was a native of Prince William county. In the war of 1812, he was a captain in the recruiting service, and in after years served nine sessions in the legislature of the State.

Newspaper Tidbit: G. C. Round's "Interesting Two Relics" (1911)

Richmond-Times Dispatch (Va.)
17 December 1911

George C. Round, of Prince William county, has in his possession two interesting relics of the early days of that county. One is the keystone of the first financial institution founded in Prince William county, the Bank of Dumfries, located at old Dumfries, near Quantico. The slab bears the inscription, "William Waite Fecit. 1775." The other relic is a slab from the first courthouse in Prince William county, which was built in 1731 at Dumfries, which was then the county seat.

Friend of Friends Friday: Jim or James Graham (1846)

Alexandria Gazette (Va.)
20 July 1846

$50 REWARD! -- Ran off, on the night of the 16th instant, from the subscriber, living near Buckland, Prince William County, Va., negro man JIM, or JAMES GRAHAM, as he calls himself. Jim is about twenty-one or two years of age, below the middle height, round full face, and stout, inclined to corpulency -- features somewhat contracted, nose inclining upwards. If taken in this County, and secured in jail so that I get him, I will pay twenty-five dollars -- if in other parts of the State, thirty dollars; and out of the State, fifty dollars.

T. M. WASHINGTON

Near Buckland, Prince William County, Va.
jy 20-eotf

Wedding Wednesday: Cochran / Robertson (1916)

Richmond Times Dispatch (Va)
8 June 1916

Wedding at The Plains

Grace Church, The Plains, was the scene of a pretty wedding yesterday evening at 8 o'clock, when Miss Charlotte Newton Cochran, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Cochran, became the bride of Rolfe Robinson [sic; Robertson], of "Carter's Green," Prince William County. The church was decorated with pink roses and smilax and hundreds of candles. Immediately before the ceremony, Mrs. Joel Cochran sang "The Perfect Day."

The bride entered with her father, who gave her away. She wore a white tulle dress over satin, with lace veil caught with orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley. There were eight bridesmaids, who wore charming frocks of pink tulle, and carried bouquets of pink roses.

Miss Catherine Cochran was her sister's maid of honor. She wore a nile-green tulle dress, and carried pale-pink roses. Four little ribbon girls, Elizabeth Skinker, Isabel Cochran, Jeanette Cochran and Cora Lee Cochran, wore white tulle dresses with pink sashes, and carried pink baskets of roses.

Miss Virginia Cochran was flower girl. She wore white organdie and pink sash, and carried old-fashioned pink rosebuds.

The bridesmaids were Misses Wynyard Barker, of Warrenton; Rita Robertson, Delaplane; Mary Foster, Clarissa Fleming and Julia Cochran, The Plains; Mary Stuart Robertson, Staunton; Martha Strother, Markham; and Alise Ruge, of Apalachicola, Fla.

The ushers were James Foster, Baltimore; Harry Lee, The Plaines; Lynne Robertson, Prince William County; Henry Latham, Prince William County; Rodgers Friel, Middleburg; Jack McCarty, Delaplane; Tom Cochran, The Plains, and Leslie Keith, Fairfax County. Holmes Robertson was his brother's best man.

After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Cochran gave a beautiful reception at their handsome home on "The Hill," followed by a dance at the Town Hall. Five hundred guests were entertained during the evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Robertson motored to Washington, en route to Atlantic City and the Thousand Islands. They will be at home in Prince William County after July 1.