Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families, Band 2

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Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1911

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Seite 246 - I do order, give and dispose the same in Manner and Form following; (that is to say) First, I will that all those Debts and...
Seite 107 - Here I arrived about three o'clock, and found only Mrs. Spotswood at home, who received her old acquaintance with many a gracious smile. I was carried into a room elegantly set off with pier glasses, the largest of which came soon after to an odd misfortune.
Seite 269 - He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States; and in 1789, was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of the Republic, as associate justice.
Seite 246 - Ordain and declare this My last will and Testament in Manner and form following, revoking and annulling by these presents all and every Testament and Testaments Will and wills heretofore by me made and Declared either by word or writing and this...
Seite 108 - We all kept snug in our several apartments till nine, except Miss Theky, who was the housewife of the family. At that hour we met over a pot of coffee, which was not quite strong enough to give us the palsy.
Seite 107 - Amongst other favorite animals that cheered this lady's solitude, a brace of tame deer ran familiarly about the house, and one of them came to stare at me as a stranger. But unluckily spying his own figure in the glass, he made a spring over the tea-table that stood under it, and shattered the glass to pieces, and falling back upon the teatable made a terrible fracas among the china.
Seite 517 - Yielding and Paying therefore yearly unto us and our heirs at our receipt at the City of St.
Seite 108 - But it was worth all the damage to show the moderation and good humor with which she bore this disaster. In the evening the noble Colonel came home from his mines, who saluted me very civilly, and Mrs. Spotswood's sister, Miss Theky, who had been to meet him en cavalier, was so kind too as to bid me welcome. We...
Seite 517 - Heirs or such officer or officers as shall be appointed by us and our Heirs from time to time to collect and receive the same Shall accept in discharge thereof at the choice of us and our Heirs...
Seite 108 - I came to be instructed by so great a master in the mystery of making of iron, wherein he had led the way, and was the Tubal Cain of Virginia. He corrected me a little there, by assuring me he was not only the first in this country, but the first in North America, who had erected a regular furnace.

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