Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1925, Page 71

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL. 19, 1925—PART 5. 150th Anniversary of Historic Ride Queries About Early Washington Of Paul Revere Is Observed Today Lead Rambler to New Subjects Famous Revolutionary Hero Was Maker of First Currency of State of Massachusetts, | Out-of-Town Correspondents Also Add to Volume of Recorded Facts About Some of the Old Families and Estates in This Vicinity. Worker in Gold and Silver and Produced Gunpowder. BY LUCRETIA E. HEMINGTON. Boston, and many of the leading citi- HE Rambler finds in his mail | | where my own kith are resting, t XACTLY one hundred and fifty zens went to live in the nearby letters from men and_women | ing my father about their nigh years ago today Paul Revere o508 towns in order to escape the close who write better than he. One| watchman catching’ some men with a completed his famous mid- , E presence of the British troops. Thus d of hypoerisy is to pre- 2 § | wagon one night backing up to the night ride, reaching Lexing: | 4 it was that the Pfovincial Congress tend belief in your own in- G, M fence on Lincoln avenue. The terror ton on the. 19th of April | 3 214 4 met in Concord, apd that Samuel|feriority, and a sneaking but success- 2 of the ‘night doctors’-was used by in 1775. That event is familtar to | \ 3 B Adams and John Hancock, upon(ful way of sc iz another man's ¢ mothers of colored children as late as every school child through his reading § ¢ whose heads the crown had set a|back is to say, “Mr.’ McMaster, you o 4 |my time to scare them into virtuoud of the ballad fn which Eorgtellow has | 3 price, were in Concord by day and|have very much greater ability than | 4 3 | conduct. immortalized this fearless patriot. | 2 in Lexington by night, staying in the |I" Of course, you don't believe it, % 4 “In those rambles of some three o Strange as it may seem to the un- home of the Rev. Jonas Clurke. There [and you are apt to accompany the . 1 % SOnE v e Rxo LA Tk yon initiated, the poet paid but slight at- remained in Boston a group of hawk- | statement with a dependent’s bow . . treated lovingly and with ea tention {o the facts in the case, pre- | o eyed patriots, of whom Dr. Joseph|and smile meant to carry the impres- y % pleasure, to at least one reader, of the ferring the wider fields of the imagi- | 3 Warren seems to have been the |sion that you are a diplomat, courtjer | 2 ¥ B i i honis WhLh o kG e nation, as poets are wont to do. We leader and director, working through |or something of that kind, and that 3 j 2 loved, froni the Mary Washington to have. however, the rider's own ac s the Sons of Liberty so effectively that | heneath the mask of humility you are| K8 ; % Zak the Arrowsmith and Ma vou count of this particular page in his SHE no slightest move of the British mili- | really a roaring lion. ' 7 promiised ns 4 treatisp ori the arbored v i and we SEAIE A TRRRL th e oF ¢ tary escaped notice, and that the| But about these letters: The Ram- o swamps in the Washington regior is narrative, 1 MitEevere apealt 4 X Provinelal Congress in Concord was|bler thinks them exceedingly good, 3 : : TG trontine han Toves Noen orinted e HEmERTE (h opaRrARAL o e T 3 kept in the closest touch with all|first, because they are worth reading, or, if it v ed it. Since rec and the glory shared with s £ : events taking place in Boston. Dr.land, second, because they have the FAREL S R ot Washinigion T William Dawes, his friend and asso- . Warren selected for his right-hand|sound of one human being speaking have been a r lar subscriber to The < 3 5 \ i E man in this service Paul Revere,|to another. So many—too many— Siiiday Star - And have Tist macentl we were sprung full] 2 A ? b whose efliciency as an express had{men write as though they are over- Sl (bl ensnalitnasi i e Nt from the head of Zeus. Our| been tested to the full satisfaction of | strained by the importance of the job subscription for #nother vear, and history mneed not be obscured | | the patriots. and that millions of busy people are vou are skeptical, I inclose las ste of Tabntant trasidoril | ¥ holding thelr breath and reaching out veek's nence I do hope the consequence, if we will but let | QN the evening of April 15, 1775, | their ears to catch the words of the > g ¢ D Sty e e scientific historian have his way g % g 3 | the vigilants observed that a new jvracle. Iew care a peanut shell or a < p | | Your art » with the original .documents that order had been issued to the British | Canad dime w another man % Sy S 4 7 of space. ck’ is the the actual details of our co- | camp, for the grenadiers and light | Says. e Taie wl leEicace ) ; that our ger history. To any one familiax infaniry were off duty and all the|avold the word that might be con| days. Gran the situation at present, how ats belonging to the transports|strued as profane. DL er et al. uses of. E 18 Inoracsing v s ohione Htal 3 $ ¥ 1 ¢ t were launched. It could, by way of| When 1 read some articles and o } 2 - saddlen: Ol G posing forces ave at work in this f 9 o . deduction, mean but one thing, that |hear some speeches I can't keep the| ik matter. While exzci historians 3 : — . the redcoats were preparing to march 1se one, and the last picture a certain doctor out of mind There was a woodcut that{. newspapers used to print as an ad-| vertisement. It was the picture of a i little man in a senatorial frockcoat, | il with pompadour hair. an uplifted | 2 ? ey THE foliowing is an extract Dr. | hand and a finger pointing to Heaven. & : : 2 St b R s ‘| Many patients of the doctor went 2 e e e e e that way or the other, and I believe' &% 7 ; S e s seeing was used I e striving to place in the school 1 to Lexington and Concord to capture use then oms text books free fron te- : > 3 nuel Adams and John Hancock, ents conceived in the spirit of chau g u whom they would hang as traitors, vinism. some persons are insisting . 4 nd to destroy the military supplies upon the retention of su represen . 3 gathered fn those places. tations in thé name Americanizatior Lo b With the utmost dispatch, It would be impossibie to under-| 3 . £ 4 Warren sent a message by Paul Re. siand the whole story of Paul Re ¢ e vere to Lexington to Hancock andi;.; jixe many other doctors, he died > S ol Rambler: How 1 should have enjoye Vere withont aicloar conteption of the Adams. warning them of what was | that. 1 o il T Rede silee , et e ot mbbch situation that existed in Massachu 3 % $ ‘ M | about to take place. The importance 'f”r’: A B s ot : : 4 .;fimf l:; Scip;toiBel Air L ;)n setts pri to the outbreak of the : of this ride has been almost com.|° < etaie el 9 = i ‘ ¥ * o A e B b A e AL ,:,\”,,}m" T War. | 1 bas long hesn pletely overlooked, for the committee _Thevni % ure :i‘;?:;:-d n.;.::\f;" mui g 4 o % 2% paternal a ‘..?mwr St MT that : imaintained that all frritations of that of safety and supplies, under the di-| (00 0" (o]l it to the world that “T : 2 e s e e s oy disturbed period issued from the rection of the two leaders, set prompt- | Seemed 1 tell ft 10 THE Bor o e e K s o (et mother ‘country. but the facis com: Iy to work to apportion the supplies | % S Sen ey e - Recently, on" 1 ay | 3 . & | thing, but it looked a great deal. The Miami, my father's sister vel the admission that the colonies of war to some elght towns, and to} o e struck vou with its wisdom srlitc Gt a% T naseoh hvote] were subject to trade iaws exercised ake precautions to conceal by burial | FT R U TP 0 mous physi- e e B o by all home governments over distant nd other means what equipment they | Yiet T believe that CAEL TErIuR DRSS Colwinne, [Enl [askea nen o7 piskse nossessions for the realization of the 2 iy 7 had been able to get together. More- | CAT, COUIC PO IO Ak e A bl o am purpose of their establishment, whick o L § r, they must have aroused the|l$TStVIe than tae WO St UE 000 | E 3 LA I My cousin sai = and ever will be the securing o ‘ o, R e £ minutemen to an understanding | “* i i o Ribife ot | E ©Oh, Lofs. you are like the Chinese ing 5 “ 3 % 4 v : i = ik | eil, there is much public writing | you worship your ancestors. You profit by the colonizing nation 2 - 8 T of the imminence of the British move- 1, "o 1€ 8 (0T Hakes me | 7L orAning S cduces s hose trade restric seemed to s s ment, for the large number of em- |yt PUITS, PRECRE Bl o he doe ROAD NEAR BROAD RUN. VIRGINIA. WHICH 1S A PART OF THE Soie e the colonials unjust, and their rec. 3 s 5 ‘ i battled farmers’ that met the redcoats |y .25 1'yo"gecture. OLD BRADDOCK ROAD Mount Verr 45 interesting. ords show. in the c the Bay - d € in Lexington and in Concord, and who # : 2 = 0¥ DDOC GADIE s _|soing to obain a copy of The State. that those same laws were T s 5 harassed them so mercilessly on their e = ~|of March as 1 Par skillfully evaded by means of smug CHRIST CHURCH, BOSTON, KNOWN AS “THE OLD NORTH | return to Boston, eould not have been| T HAVE at home an old tomcat. He |Ohio: “This is intended as a delayed | of the G. A encampment in 1893 | Weems was a e zling. often to the extent of 90 per CHURCH.” FROM THE STEEPLE OF WHICH THE LANTE | warned by Revere in his midnight | came out of the alley wlien a kit- | expression of pleasure at vour arti-|or 1894, but I have never seer sum- | I am solug o, the cent of all zoods brought into Massa WERE HUN ride of the 15th of April. Moreover. | ten Gold me a hard-luck story, and, of | cles in The Sunday Star by one whose | up of then . They must have |read what you chusetts. This was not an unknown | — E — the safeguarding of the supplies offcoyrse, I could not-turn him ‘down.fearllest reading that memory records | largely disppeared by now, except|concerning Gen. E f to the home government: it was et s e of Foil e ARt o e, - Z war was of inestimable value. He adopted me and insisted that the | Was the lost and found ads in The|those in Rock Creek Parl | will say, Tdo worship m handled leniently or severely, depend: | ‘Ao worhe. frionm . Bovers, ot | Hevmee o et e therat Paul| "It is supposed that, n this instance. | title to the home be made out in his | Star something over 40 years ago, one| “Another subject: The i but perhaps I c ng upon the caliber of the min sits vou. No mun of his rank und | famed in Somg was to Portsmouth, | Paul Revere jogged along in a most|name. He soon forgot his alley days | I recall describing a dog lost on the|Rock ~Creek and .gther ns— | interest in quotin celebrat thit ‘directedl that Eoverimer: jesltss Sau o gl aud I L, . 1o | leisurely and object-deceptive manner. | me portly and pompous. He | Woodley Lane road, a road that has|Lyons’ Mill, Adams, Pierce, Blag-|sician who, v ed_when opportunities in life feservesibetter|N. H. ifo wam the iprovincials| oo iy, ot Sionesie roud apim o B D i | Tclf Ghmoat passed tato memdry: "At|dens. and Jones’ on Rock Creelc anil | ediication o & ‘Chil id Vegi WL . of the community. ~Steady, vigorous, | there that e s e Plan | which British soldiers would be met:|an when I hand him a can of salmon, | that interesting time my “folks’ lived | Murdock Mill off in a lonely region | plied Three h 1 vears befi GINCE Boston lived largely by mari- | sensible and persevering Ting to Strengthen Fort William and! thus the ride, marked by no dramatic | he will not fake it until he has read | Within sight of Fort Stanton (recalled southwest from the Tenlevtown road, | is_born ime trade he showed greatest| Or s particular occasion, Revere | Mary by rein n[lr‘In‘).PH!\ ‘.,( NF\‘I“I"](E o s ignored by both his-|the label, to be sure it's his favorite | il one of your first rambles since re-)which was standing in 1899, 1 think ] You remen irse vou do OPpesition | Lo il Avigation . and | left Boston on April 14, 1774, reached| {t3 “)‘~l':”’1(" & d“f. ""‘r'" ther .| torians and poets. How vastly dif-{brand. He takes a stroll in the alley | Sumption),” with its magazine, which | think you once wrote that you re- |that a number r dealt witk trade laws, and in consequence she| New York a few. davs-later and ar-| British had forbldden any further im-} orant was to be. the ride begun on mewhat unseemly hours and I|the boys used to say was full of| Wais mfoeled, out for pantaniaent Iy in Philadeiphits 0th, | portation of gunpowder and military | {LETL Was 19 be s o T | anias | supplies on the part of the colonist: ne B H 1 - 2 once heard him addressing an a T ot coutd 5t soiiatine iche 1 the provineials | The British were at last ready to|bly of alley cats. He said: “I pity | 3 at som i all too scantily supplied with | MoVe their men against the rebels. | yvou, my poor brethren, but, of course, | US & rambie on the Van Ness house. I those essentials If war was to be re-| [N€ Somerset man-of-war had been || cannot share my salmon with you, [ Femember you treated at length of the R s s | swung mid-stream in the . Charles| nor set you up to catnip cocktails. My | Van Ness mausoleum in Ouk Hill |~ This ride to Portsmouth was in im- | River to prevent any one leavinz Bos- Eition Throlls thatil go. fur=1) Come oy, Dot very long ago. 1 Te | portance certainly not less than was| ©7 Without permission from the | ther than to offer my patronizing at- [member the place as it was about 183 | the ride to Lexington. if the resnlts | armed forces. and as a possible pro-|titude to alley cats. One of my an- | before the ouse was torn down to | are carefully weighed; for the alarmed | (°CHON to the transports that were to | cestors was a long-haired Persian and | bake 3 om for the athletic field of | citizens raided the fort, put the cap- | CATTY the soldiers aeross the river to!chief mouse catcher to the Shah olumbian University. and the house tain and men under confinement, | Lharlestown or Cambridge in order| When this old cat has had two help- | €OUld not then be seen from Sever hroke open the gunpowder magazing | ¢ Save them the long march by way | ings of cream and salmon in the (eenth street, | surrounded ith and carried off about 100 barrels of | f;Boston Neck. The Sons of Liberty | kitchen, he comes to the dining room, |& dismal and ghostly junle of stink gunpowder, but discharged the cap- | ¢’ not asleep; they reported allfsits by my chair and reaches up for ;’;UI\ alignthy seems to haunt hand nen from their confinement | {hese lastminute’preparations to Dr. | more.~ Il has an expression of be. | (he vicinity of ol ses in the Dis s men feom Joseph Warren. who sent in hot haste | nignity and deep wisdom. Note that | (rict _of Tolumbiu and " thereabout It was this powder that was hidden | [oF, Paul Revere. rqu:} 1 80 o further than saying “an ex- | ORTER, ST e , Heas under the pulpit of Durham meeting | Before Revere reported to Dr. War:| pression of deep wisdom.” I have |intarticle on Washington in Harper's hotide o later by six months, fur-| ffL 80 urgent was the need for an|had many proofs that he has very | 1871, wrote that S R nished to the brave defenders at| undelayed warning being transmitted | little sense. Because of the solemnity | ! Hpcties i s “)‘ pach Bunker il to save their efforts from | (¢ Adams and Hancock. that Warren | of his face and his expression of learn. | Wi vwned by a millionaire who was Comits Qlscarer dispatched a William Dawes upon the | ing I named him Judge. He is also a [ {0} 1o build a railroad depot t i | It was certainly an act of military | Same errand, glving him a fair start | very dumb cat. rallroad was going to run into. the | aggression on the part of the provin. | 0¢r, the second rider. There was| My reasons for handing vou these | falroad was goinc S e | cials when they removed the military | Uch wisdom in the employment of | letters is not only that I believe thetn | 1eP0¢ 1 am.cu 3 o sehushidy | Stores from Kort William and. Mary, | L¥e, men {n the same errand, for the | ood, but I know they will save me | There wasonce T Know. a concern | vet subsequent events seemed to jus.| [04d5 were under British patrol. as|about two columns of work. The |y Gl (e ‘vashington Bavge and) s j events proved, and one or the other | matter of appropriately illustrating | D0CK (0 €T somet e St | "5 Whs New IZngland thrift and fore. | Of (e expresses was liuble to capture. | them is a_problem, and the easiest | iich DU GES on Chater istieat | | SiEht Ehat Seotres f-oit the T tish | [ndeed, both were captured, but es-|way to eolve that problem fs not to do | By OWI. 80 W OIS S R W what the law forbade them to buy in more T | Lathrop’s article connected with some | caped in ti c r s 3 iss! B - caped in time to deliver the message|it. With permission of the Sunday | %7 00P° SIUCIE conarcted Wwith some A PORTRAIT OF PAUL REVERE, SHOWING HIM WITH ONE OF THE F*\.\Ilbl;f?ll.\ ER TEAPOTS. the open market. Whether the col | onlsts had determined at this e: | date to resort to war to settle thei quarrel with the mother country | one will ever be able to say. for while defying her laws openly, they main- | tained that they wished to remain | under the crown of England. Their | acts constantly belied their words, | until Thomas Paine in January, 1776, | through his “Common Sense.” cr ent were protestations of loyalty minister moved from one colony of the opinion that one-third of ernment in England. and that and after the war, about 80,000 lo; lition to other repressive measures, her splendid port was closed and British forces were quartered in the city. But the citizens were in secret assemblies making adequate prepara tions to defend their rights. Their resistance was inspired and directed by Samuel Adams and John Hancock. | A committee of public safety began to | collect powder and military stores which were concealed in Concord and s environs. All of which could be transiated to mean that a state of rebellion existed in Massachusetts, since no declaration of war had been | made, and such a condition calls for fmmediate action on the part of the svernment in control, if it is to re in its power over the resisting forces While the redc under Ger Gage were stationed in Boston more than one secret society exercised sur veillance over their movements, not the least of which was the organiza- nics who styled themselves of Liberty." These patriots, in groups of two, took turns in patrolling the streets of Bos- ton all night, and they reported to the committee of public safety any- 1hing seen or heard that smacked of danger to the colonists. Paul Revere, one of the most ac tive of the “Sons of Liberty,” was the son of a goldsmith of French ex traction who had settled in B After a little schooling, it was thay he was as Cap: of drawing | and designing patterns for tankards, pitchers, ewers, spoons and mugs as he was of making them, and he be- | came, like his father, a smith in gold | and sflver. { After the completion of an order, | it was the custom of Paul Revere to| place the silver articles in his suddle»l bags and to deliver to the customer at his hands had so skillfully fashioned. ~Through this practice he became familiar with the toads lead- ing out of Boston and at the same time learned the art of being lons in the saddle with the least fatigue.( Tt was but natural, therefore, that| When the committee of public safety needed a trusted man and a skilled express for carrying messages to colonists outside of Boston, they should call upon Paul Revere to do their bidding. That his services were cause for favorable commendation appears in the following letter written by Dr. Whomas Young, a prominent Sen of, ge he carried, resolutions were | cently indifferent to the struggle. adopted at once for the calling of a| However, men like Paul Revere general congress whose ultimate pur-|were not in that number. He, with pose would he adequate preparation | many others, was vigilant at a united stand against what ap- | times in the service ‘of the country, peared to them the tyrannical meas-|in spite of the fact that he was Jater | ures of their mother country. It be-|charged with cowardice and court- comes evident from this that if Bos-| martialed, apparently unjustly, for he ton was the ringleader in opposition, | was finally exonerated of all blame. had the support and the sympathy | The winter of 1774-1775 proved a of the other colonists most trying time for the people of REVERE BELL, CAST BY A SON OF PAUL REVERE, IN 1821, NOW USED .IN ALL SOULS’ UNITARIAN CHURCH, WASHINGTON. WHEN CAST, THE TONE OF THE BELL WAS GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR. BUT IT HAS BEEN IN USE FOR 105 YEARS, 1TS TONE STILL BEING EXCELL | tallized the thinking of the colonists | by revealing to them how inconsist- the face of aggressions against the law and the property of the crown. Bishop Asbury, who as an itinerant another during this troubled time, was the provincials wanted separation from | the mother country, another third wished to remain loyal to the gov- the other third was indifferent. Events tended to prove him right, for, during sts migrated into Canada and never | returned to the States, and during proving, from the standpoint of time. | the hostilities many who d value to the distressed city of | places remote from the activities of Boston. As a direct result of the!the scenes of the war were compla- with which they had been intrusted, fortunately for the leaders of the re- bellion. Perhaps it is best to let Paul Revere tell his own story at this point, a story which we shall inter- rupt more than once: “About 10 o'clock, Dr. Warren sent in great haste for me, and begged that 1 would imediately set off for | Lexington, where Messrs. Hancock and Adams were, and acquaint them of the movement, and that it was | thought they were the objects. When | 1 got to Dr. Warren's house, I found he had sent an express by land to Lexington—a Mr. Willlam Daw. he Sunday before, by desire of Dr. Warren. 1 had been to Lexington, to Messrs. Hancock and Adams, who were at the Rev. Mr. Clark's. I re- turned at night through Charlestowr there I agreed with a Colonel Conant & some other gentlemen that if the British went out by water, we would shew two Lanthorns in the North Church steeple: and if by land, one, as a signal; for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River, or git over Boston Neck. [ left Dr. Warren, called upon a friend, and desired him to make the signals. 1 then went home, took my boots and surtout, went to the north part of the town, where I had kept a boat; two friends rowed me across Charles River, .a little to the east- ward where the Somerset man-of-war lay. It was then young flood, the ship was winding, & the moon was rising. They landed me on the Charlestown side. “When I got into Town, T met Col- onel Conant, & several others; they said they had .seen our signals. T told them what was acting, & went to git me a horse. I got a horse of Deacon Larkin. While the horse was preparing, Richard Devens, Esq., who | one of the Committee of Safety, |came to me, & told mé that he came |down the road from Lexington, after | sundown, that evening: that he met 10 British officers, all well mounted, & armed, going up the Road.” * K % % EE how evident it is that Paul {22 Revere wasted no time looking for or waiting for any signals from the church tower. Indeed, it would appear that he never looked back to see whether the lanterns were there ar not. Why should he, knowing as he did the full particulars of the plans of the British? Moreover, his words indicate that the lanterns were shown from the steeple, and not hung there, their showing being made so that mem- bers of the Committee of Safety would know the definite plans of the enemy, even though Paul Revere did not suc- ceed in getting across the river. Let a comparison be now made with the stirring, fanciful picture of the events described above: Meanwhiie, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heav] ride On _the opposite shore walked ;‘Iul Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now he gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the eartl And turned and tightened his saddle-girth; But mostly he watched with eager search ‘The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and epectral and sombre and sill, ‘/And Jo! as he looks. on the belfry’s height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But fingers and gazes. till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns And reading these lines, we can but wish that Longfellow had read- Re- vere's own account, for there was dramatic incident enough in it to suit the wishes of any poet. To return to the original: “I set off upon a very good Horse; editor, If he happens to be in good hu mor today, I will introduce among these letters some old-road plctures taken at different times within the past 30 years. It has often been said of the Rambler’s wrifing that his pho- tographs are very good. * x o * 'OLLOWING are extracts from a letter by A. P. Wiggin, an old | f#C 0F b+ The second pof ketch that Washington boy _living at Lakewood, it was then about 11 o'clock, & ver: | Pleasant. After I had passed Charles. town Neck, & got nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains, 1|Walks c saw two men on Horse back, under a tree. When I got near them, I dis- covered they were British officers. One tryed to git a head of me, & the other to take me. I turned my Horse very quick, & galloped towards Charlestown Neck, and then pushed for the Medford Road. The one, who chased me, endeavoring to cut me off, sot into a clay pond, riear where the new tavern is built. I got clear of him, and went through Medford, over the Bridge, and up to Menotomy. Tn Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minutemen and after that I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington. IEEE ¢] FOUND Messrs. Hancock and Adams at the Rev. Mr. Clark’s; I told them my errand, and inquired for Mr. Daws; they said he had hot been there; I related the story of the two officers, and supposed that he must have been stopped, as he ought to have been there before me. After T had been there about half an Hour, Mr. Daws came; we refreshed our- selves and set off for Concord. We were overtaken by a young Dr. Pres- cot whom we found to be a high Son I told them of the ten officers that Mr. Devens mett & that it was probable that we might be stoped before we got to Concord! for I supposed that after night, they divided themselves, & that two of them had fixed themselves in such passages as were most likely to stop any inteligence going to Concord. 1 likewise mentioned that we had bet- ter alarm all the inhabitants till we got to Concord; the young Doetor ! much approved of it, & said he would stop with either of us, for the people between that and Concord knew him, & would give the more credit to what we said. “We had got nearly half way. Mr. Daws and the Doctor stoped to allarm the people of a House: I was about one hundred Rods ahead, when I saw two men, in nearly the same situa- tion, as those officers were, near Charlestown. I called for the Doctor and Daws to come up. (William Dawes, according to his family’s tradition, was pursued by two_of the mounted redcoats, but with great presence of mind galloped up to a deserted farmhouse off the road, slapped his leather breeches, and shouted “Halloo, my boys! I've got two of 'em!” His pursuers, thinking they had been led into ambush, turned and fled, and Dawes made good his escape.) “In an instant T was surrounded by four;—they had placed themselves in a Straight’ Road, that inclined each way; they had taken down a pair of bars on the north side of the road, and two of them were under a tree in the pasture. The Doctor being fore- (Continued on Sixth Page.) Creek for trac terminal on he remains of the old canal were still | time and were, T n indignant who wrote on Washington’ in the early 90s, as a ‘stagnant, dis- | | ease-breeding call, referred t respondent of The Sta made that hington so unhealthy that st deserted. T am curious about i that one of the plans of the I conspirators the President on one of his his concealment | the Van Ness house, drives and |in the cellar of then owned “By way of fixing the writer's chro he desires to as a schoolmate of Charlie Columbus, who was of the committee that ROAD TO BELL'S MILL. comed Capt. John landing at fith on his first | porteq the Elsie Kreglo murder which few months ago. ] WELL s to whom you made grace- | the District also the articles of George Simmons. | remember along th: in Harmony Cemetery on the Brent old fortifications Washington These were covered in a comprehen- The Star at the time MacKarichar, the history of farms along the Marl borough road, later called Bowen road and now ' Alabama avenue. One of those places was the Rezin Arnold farm, which was bought by Stephen M. Golden The Rambler will show you parts of a letter from Mrs. Ade lalde Bury Brown of Atlantic City “Dear Rambler: Rezin Arnold's wife was my grandmother. As for Rezin | Arnold T know very little except that | his parents came from England. Elea nor Wilson was born Mary Eleanor Talburtt, and she married my grand father, John Aquilla Wilson. They had two sons, Thomas Overton Wil sorl, who lived in Prince Georges | County, and John Aquilla Wilsen, ir., | who lived on the Eastern Branch, in | the District, and this son was my | father. Thomas Overton Wilson had seven child some of avhom are living. and John Aquilla Wilson had five children, all living but one—two | in Washington, one in Pittsburghi, and | myself in Atlantic City. Sleanor Wilson was considered | one of the richest women in slives and land in Prince Georges County, and Rezin Arnold was overseer of her farm —that farm which Mr. Golden bought lat the death of my grandfather. My ' grandmother (Eleanor Wilson) mar- | ried Rezin Arnold, and_they had two children, Rachel and Martha. Mar. ‘tha Arnold married Peyton Page of { Washington, and they had three chil- | dren—Arnold Page, who died in the { West; Elizabeth Page, who married | Thomas Shepherd of Washington, and the mame of the third I don't recall but my sister in Washington no doubt | remembers it ““I. have been ‘anxious to get into | communication with you, as you seem to be such a good Rambler, and I am lin hopes that some day you will ram- ble into Bailey's Purchase and For- | tune Enlarged. John A. Smith had a land grant to this, and my father, John Aquilla_ Wilson, bought it of him, and it has been in dispute in Washington. 1 would like to meet you, but I guess that it is impossible as I've had a stroke and am house bound. I enjoy your rambles very much.” You -nay not care for this. but my mother, Adelaide Berkeley Bury of Washington, was a direct de scendant of the Berkeleys of England who had a land grant of 3,000 acres from King €eorge the Third, and it extended from Bladensburg to Oxon Run. I hope this information will | be of some service to you. “MRS. A. B. BROWN, “112 So. North Carolina- Ave., “Atlantic Cig™