Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 77

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 17, 1925—PART 5. Treachery of Dbn Luis of Axacan |[Mystery in Death of Tobias Lear Changed Course of Virginia History Unsolved by Rambler’s Research Help Came Too Late to Save Victims in First Recorded-Adventure on or Near the Potomac Harly Records of United States, as Preserved in Newspapers, Often Omitted Details of River—Question of Discovery Still Unanswered. Such Affairs—Further Facts About Wellington. T'Y DONALD ALEXANDER CRAIG | actually explored will probably always | actors in this drama of the wilderness | tive, and when they arrived at Seville | J N last Sunday's story of Welling- | You see, conversation English ON LUIS’ dark eyes g®stened | remain a mystery. But it may be ac- | had passed away. they worked industriously to spread ton you were told that George| [P niftier and flippier than article I with satisfaction as the cara- |cepted as a proved fact that they| If it had not been for the treach-|discouraging reports about the whole Washington leased thix tract to| 5 lish vel changed her course and |knew and explored Chesapeake Bay |ery—but that may be too harsh a|North American coast, which they in- Tobias Lear and bequeathed J¢ to o the A. L. brings me Decatus headed in toward the low-ly- | Several times and investifated at least | word and we must let the story speak | sisted was absolutely unfit for settie- him. Washington's will contains | 3 what follows, from the Encyclc ing land on the West. All day | the lower stretches of its important | for itself. In any event Don Luis and | ment. this_provision: { b Americana, will set you straight she had been running before a fiifal | rivers. his co-conspirators could not have| Ay for Don Luls, he found himself| “To Tobias Lear I give the use of | & . the time 'of our trouble iwith wind blowing from the Southwest, the| As the caravel bearing Don Luis | known that they were perhaps deeld- |, "{he’ court of King Philip under |the farm which he now holds in virtue | v North African_ pirates B pilot on her high poop eagerly scruti-|and the Jesuits passed between the |iN€ a great question of world his-|p,et auspicious circumstances. His Of a lease from me to him and his| . At the outbreak of the Tripol nizing the shoreline, seamen in her | points of land which we know today | tory—whether a civilization of Span- | j;elligence and good address won him | deceased wife (for and during their | War, in command of the schooner Iroad bow taking frequent soundings | ns Cape Henry and Cape Charles, a | \Sh or English origin should develo | the good will of that monarch, who | natural lives). free from rent during : terprise, he_ (Decatur) captured with the lead, and her tattered lanteen | boy, perhaps vears of age, who [IN later years on the shores of theyept him as his guest at royal ex.|his life, at the expiration of which it % boml ketch Mastico, 23 Dec., 1503 salls on their four stout masts shining | had been standing near the group |Lotomac—and were opening the way |, onge yntil at length it was decided | {8 to be disposed of as is hereinafter | b 5 this ketch, renamed the Intrepid in the August sunlight. of men on the poop, lost in contem. | for @ controversy over ‘,*‘fi_d“f‘""'-" to send him back to Havana with some | directed. | destroved the frigate Phi phia It was the first sight of the sun | plation of the new scene unfolding | °f that river which ls allve In this| pominicans, who were going. to at-| The bequest to Lear was of life| ALY T ¥ the harbor of Tripoli by a singular after several days of beating about in | before him, at last touched the cop. |Year of Our Lord 1625 tempt the conversion of the Florida |estate in the tract. After his d hi L e A 3 bold stroke. On Aug. 3, 1804, Deca wind and rain on great seas rolling to- | per-hued savage Don Luis on the el T Indians. But this Dominican plan |it Was to go to George Fayette Wash-| H 4 e 3 commanded the _‘\m icin gunboats ward a treacherous and almost un-|bow. He was Alfonso, son of a Span- APTIVE or willing passenger, the |likewise fell through, and at length |ington and Lawrence ugustine | k 2 : 2 SEA thelpuaticle anth known coast. All the forenoon the |ish settler at St. Elena, whom the brother of the Indian chiettain |Don Luis joined the Jesuits. who un-|Washington and their heirs, with) A : %4 He captured two g 2 zleaming white beaches, visible to|Jesuits had trained as an altar bo; s carried away to Mexico, where |dertook in earnest to settle in Axacan |other adjoining land. And here fol % Sk 3 4 i desperate hand-to-hand fight vort and backed by a dark blue line| “And is this your country we are |the Spanish conquerors had already [ with the backing of King Phillip, of | Iows the directions as to the disposi Z. L q the burning of the Philadelphi of trees, had seemed to stretch end-|nearing?” asked Alfonso of the In-|become firmly established. Then be- | Francis Borgia, general of the Jesuit |tion of the land 5 o i ; ’ : commissioned a1 capt and a lessly to the northward. | djan. | gan.for him a career that might eas- | Order, and of Pope Pius V. “In_consideration of the consan , z i | |age of 25 was placed in command of guinity between them and my wif ; % 1 g the fri Constitution. At the being as nearly related to her as to| G @ K 5 of the war he returned home myself, as on account of the affection | ; ‘ 4 divided honors with Commodor I had for and the obligation 1 was| e 28 A : ; : ble. After the close of the War under to their father when living, who ; 3 IR He s DAz e 1nt conifa idhof from his vouth had attached himself 5 Stuadion and® sent o the Bavbar to my person and followed my for p g States to exact reparation for injuries = tunes through the vicissitudes of the : iR 2 - and to enforce treaties of peace late Revolution, afterward devoting | . rig ; by A squadron captured the Algerian f his time to the superintendence of my 7 4 E 3 Mashouda and the brig bste private concerns for many year i % » 30 June, 1515, he whilst my public_employments ren | - 2 - A & and peace fre dered it impracticable for me to do it : 2 b - L i on 26 Jul myself, thereby affording me essentfal k- # i ¢ A 7 Bey f Tun services and always performing them » 1 % SR p same vea in a manner the most filial and re- K : 2 ¢ Tripoli spectful: for these reasons, I say, | 4 President Madis give and bequeath to George Fayette RSl S 25 E S e B L hington and L: rence Augustine Gik Phas 8 4 ment In The hingzton and their heirs my est i e & years ago is this east of Little Hunting Creek, lying 5 S, , # On the morning of on the Potomac River, including the | s . % 3 i v Lear was found dead i R 3 S o farm of 366 acres leased to Tobias . > i - i » 7 his home., t west s : Lear, as noticed before, and contain ¢ : . . f Rion s Office. ing in the -whole by deed 2,027 acres, 7 ¥ ‘ T never be it more or less. v PSP Ramb] Twenty vears ago, telling of a trip s . e E R i of it to Wellington, not then the fine es S S I have no doubt tate it is. the Rambler gave a short e T : 3 used w ketch of Tobi: Lear He was born 7 Gt i sonable ind v in 1762 in Portsmouth. N. H. He wax ¢ count of Lear's de: Ir a son of Capt. Tobias Lear and M 3 s make this ramble passable Stillson) Lear and a grandson of vorkmanship 1 _h one th »t. Tobias Lear and Elizabeth g the file of the Natio: ntelliger all) Lear. He was graduated by » . w & ‘u! October, 1816, The or mer Harvard College in 1783, took up the | : of his death is in a paid death not THE BEACH AT AXACAN, WHICH IS THE SPANISH NAME FOR THE POTOMAC RIVER AND CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNTRY. VIEW AT [profession of teaching, and —wis e o I ) o the atte on of asl F's THE L B, arday, October 12, 1816 ~ SOUTHERN-EXTREMITY OF ST. GEORGES ISLAND, IN THE POTOMAC e e e M : IHEROAD: 10 (WELLINGEON: I e e s ety " T g 2 wanted a young man who could be # | | oo Eire's book, “Letters and Rec den Tobias Lear, accountant of Now a faint smile on the swarthy,| *“My home—and my people,” replied | ily have turned the head of an ex-| This was the true story that Don|tutor of the (ustis children— Nellic| - Bt boalinacay S the Departn Indian features of Don Luls betrayed | the tall savage, with visible pride. \pmrmm European, let alone a sim-| Luis might have related to the boy | Custis and George Washington Parke ,',“'\‘fj"’\ 0L coLge YRas L kivas| Domingo, in 1804 was appointed s exempl: his intense interest as the Spanish| The boy noticed the swelling of the | ple savage of the forest. But this|Alonso as the caravel passed inward | Custis, grandchildren of Mrs. Wash. | Sioon (000 1 Hoves | consul to Al s. In 1805 he was one | various public pilot directed ahead the gaze of the|naked chest as Don Luis sucked in |savage seems to have been rather a | between the Capes of Axacan, on that | ington and adopted children of Georze | il M= little group of passengers gathered on | the breeze that smelled of the land, |superior person of his kind. August day 355 years ago Washington, and who could serve also the poop. They could at last see a and allowed his eyes to rest with The first thing that happened was| So long had the caravel been on|as his private secretary break in the ribbon of white sand and | far-away look upon the line of trees | that the Spanish viceroy of Mexico. her way from St. Elena and so much 5 ‘ : a wide stretch of water betweeh two |whose tops were scarcely to be seen | Don Luis de Velasco, had him duly |trouble had been experienced in find et o S e ornia release of 200 Americans held pris-| Lear's death. T £ remar tree-covered capes. above the watery, shimmering horizan. * baptized in the Catholic faith with his'ing her way In the bad weather, that DC O Weans =ew (LI T Mr: ved for a long | oners by the Dey 8 treaty was|able. From the new point « Two Jesuit fathers stood nearest the | Then, in response to the eager ques- jown name—a signal honor. There-|her provisions had run short. They believe), Louisa Lear Eyre ' Bureau of Education, and | condemned by the war party in the |yview of that time this can Consul 1o sive administr reputation. F nder which | eq by his family of Andover. Mass., and Washington. |of the commi which made a treaty widow of Gen. CI Ho with: the Dey of . few years before r Geath in Cali-| the United State: 30,000 for the | There was 1o pilot, straining their eyes landward. | tiqning of the boy, as the two leaned |after he is known to all the Spanish | entered a river flowing into the bay | daughter of Benjumin Lincoln Lear of the mother Richurd Hovey. | United States, and some of you have|a public matter “The Bay of Santa Maria, perhaps,” | over the ship’s side and watched the | chroniclers as Don Luls. He was still lon the west side and made a landing | \Washington and granddaughter of wuthor of the stein song, “When Good | read of our troubles with the Barbary quietly remarked Father Juan Bap- | blue-green water rush by and the land | in Mexico in 1565: for the famous on September 11. bias Lear and his first wife, M Fellows Ge ether With a Stein on | pirates or corsairs, and all that. tiste Segura of Toledo, Spain, repre. | rise higher above the water, Don Luis | Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who | IHere more misfortunes were en . . : TTHE Lear b sentative in the province of Florida of | told him again, in the broken Span- | is remembered in history principally | countered. There had been little rain i 1 Pope Tlus V and of Francis Borgia. ish he had learned, the story of his | as the leader of the Spanish expedi- | for six years. Crops had been poor seneral of the Soclety of Jesus. departure from the Jand of his birth | tion that massacred the French in|and the Indians were short of food sional Cen seriptions taken *an it be true? Santa Maria of | with those first Spaniards who en- |Florida, mentioned him as living in| Don Luis was warmly welcomed by 3 1 3 e s tthe e Axacan at last!” exclaimed his. com- | tered the bay a decade before. | Mexico, In a letter written in that | his relatives as one who had “come ; s lisathe n panion, Father Luis de Quiros, also of Sy L year to King Philip IT of Spain. from heaven.” The good Jesuits at : ] - ; i iE- ey eoret the Jesuit order. o e 1€ there was anything that rivaled once began to minister to the Indians / end of the it Both turned toward the pilot. | ey 0 se.| the religious zeal of the Spaniards o. | The 3-year-old son of the chief. who Melena oL the “Yonder is Axacan,” observed that |, A Was not Don Luis then—had| joge days, it was their zeal for gold | was brother to Don Luis, lay dving S T individual, betraylhg ever so slightly | Ived in his native village on the bank | ;g gilver. They had found these |Several of the Jesuit brothers travele e by his tone and the expression of his|°f @ sreat river which had its source| peials in Mexico, Central America, | seven or eight leagues from their place S it e countenance the feeling of superiority |10 the mountains many days’ journey | pery and elsewhere in the New World. [of landing to baptize him and gave S e i S T which the true navigator never fails [0 the West—no on€ knew how far.|and they hoped to find still more in|him medicine. : ls Traoan 1o hold for the landsman, even though | His brother was a grout chief. and the | the regions of the .North Atlantic| After 24 hours the ship that had \is Monument tc the e the landsman be a priest. | people who spoke I.is language, ul |coast of Terra Firma, which is the|brought them made ready to sail e A e e “And,” added the pilot, “if God|though divided iniu many different | name they applied to the whole main- faway. It was so short of food that it P n e e e e sends us friendly winds we will ar.|tribes and villages, extended their|jund of Afnerica. They alsc had & |iwas not deemed wiss to remaln long e R S rive at our jourmey's end in a few | SWay all along the western shore of | notion that the North American con-|er. Fathers Segura and Quiros hur ’ { i £ " s e short days.” the great bay as far north as lha‘nnem was much narrower than it is, | riedly wrote letters to be carried back i “Trere Het . ¢ Aas Several Jesuit brothers gathered Potomac and up that river to theland they hoped, by sending an expe-| by the pilot of the caravel Lo and bor e T around Fathers Sezura and Quiros, head of tidewater, and even over part | dition to the recently discovered Bay | et e st r. He &nd all eagerly plied the pilot with |Of the eastern shore of the bay and|of Santa Maria and making a perma- el o Derengeino ooty auestions about the great bay they |On the peninsula between the Poto-|nent settiement there, to kill several | JT is upon vague references in the Hearts of Her Frien 3 % \Were entering and the mysterious land | mac River and the bay. These tribes | birds with one stone—namely, to find | L letters of Fathers Quiros and Segura 4 i - Next to the tomb of Axacan along its shores. were sometimes at war among them-|more precious metal; to discover a|that the opinion of Shea and some 3 A3 that of his so August was far spent. Since the selves, but they all had @ common | passage for ships to the Pacific Ocean, | other historians rests that the Poto. e L 3 6th day of the month the caravel had | €nemy in the tribes of the North and'to establish the claim of the Spanish |mac was the river up which they first i 4 g ; een slowly making her way, in the | West beyond the tidal waters crown to more territory and to con- |sailed and the Rappahannock was the tace of bad weather, from the Spanish | One day the men, women and chil- | vert more natives to the Catholic |river on which they established their settlement of St. Elena, in the prov- | dren of Don Luis' village were thrown | religion. | mission. ince of Ilorida, located on the island | into a panic by the approach of There is not much doubt that the| If we were to accept this view we where today is the town of Pori Royal, | great- canoe with white wings, which | Spaniards who had explored the Bay |would come naturally to the conchn. Sl e 5.« had come, they sknew not whence, to of Santa Maria had visited the Po-|sion that the place of landing wis # : Office.” " That was the best the Ram thelr inland sea and up_their peaceful tomac, or at least seen its mouth. | either at the mouth of Mattox Creek 28 . ¢ " Bler could ao at th ey JAtae river. Some thought the great canoe | Dr. John D. G. Shea, historian of the |or, Potomac Creek. : ) : QI |oiex could do at thac ume. A dasc 3 4 5 with wingg had come down from the early Catholic missions among the| Left alone on s o 4 _ A A 5 o L0 e et Columbus had discovered the New| siy; others that it had issued from | American Indians, is convinced_from |when the ship Dailel(;"aw;o\?el(‘he e g S [eat STl o sl e World. Ten or eleven years before|¢he'deep. They were more startled |the evidence at hand that they knew 'band of Jesuits was entirely at the e el e e the setents, Telatet in iy o1y the [ when the strange vessel anchored be- | the Potomac, and he has identified it | mercy of the Indians. Don Luis had . < 9 e o U D pilot of this caravel had been on/fore their village and white men.|with the Espiritu Sante, a river re-|professed great religious zeal &md ‘ . oo s SR S ST 3 Bl | found a deed to Tobias Lear fror another Spanish vessel from the West | gome with black beards and all| corded by the early explorers. It is|promised to help them. They believed . Skl A 5 . e as Lear from Indies, which had been exploring the | dressed in shining metal and bright | not improbable that, as they viewed him loyal to them. The Indians car sl : 3 5 g 3 Coast fof Blogida ~for Athe fbr'.:s""_m colors, came ashore in smaller canoes |its broad estuary, they thought the|ried their baggage to the second river 3 X e it mamerotn the hope of | Lyl lssued from the sides of the great | Potomac might be the long-sousht|six miles away. They embarked on ; itiees : ) e % R o y F and G streeis northwest. Lot No. I- . age for ships westward | "1, | B EEE HORELE Bap Ac this stream in canoes and paddled is at the southeast corner of tha finding a passage for ships westward| Don Luis was vague on the subject | Aviles, who was then at Havana.|up until they came to an India . 3 o Slateihe o . tha to the Pacifi of what happened during the visit of | thought he saw an instrument suited | village, near which they opoan THE SHERMAN CHILDREN. WHO LIVED AT WELLINGTON TWENTY YEARS AGO. SUie lox & | ererthwert cocnero That expedition came at lengih as | the Spaniards to his village. There [to his design in Don Luls. He de-|themselves, erecting a log hut. in T ] o S D BFIE estiic Gl ot far north as the 37th degree of lati- | may have been a controversy over termined with his aid to establish|which to live and a log chapel where | Long of Portsmouth, N. H., published | the Table.” and several volumes o ending-to The Star's library for a |7 Tor 15 ROHGTEN G ion b ao) tude, where it discovered this greal|corn. Once the great canoe belched | Spain on Chesapeake Bay. He fitted | they celebrated mass. the letters of Washington to Tobias | other poems, Many of the older peo-| history of Algeria. I hand you this: |and faces IIEhteentl stimet . port bay. with a deep. wide entrance. as | forth thunder and lightning from its out a ship and started it off with a | po G HREe Mass. ot ple of Washington knew Mrs. Hovey.| “The Barbary corsairs became the | that the Rambler astumed (1 vas v it inviting all the navies of the world | sides, and some of the Indlans became | captain and 30 soldiers, two Domin- | pon T4 rother was head of the | “mhase letters belong to Tobias | There is little tters of Washing- | terror of the Christian nations, Who | his home when he shor hinselr Fr to take refuge on its magnificent | frightened and submissive, while oth and Don Luis to act as | vilage: Don Luls himself remained |y enr's son. Benjamin Lincoln Lear.|ton to Tobias Lear useful in a story | 14 times besieged Algiers in vain, and | the nesesement o e Loeel. From iosom, stretching some two hundred |ers ran into the deep woods gnd hid | interpreter and guide in this new land ‘,““id{‘i““ interpreter and preacher. | \{ho turned them over to Jarec Wellington and Lear’s residence |some of whom were finally reduced to|ime it 1s fair to sscume that ihere niles to the north behind the shelter | themselves. But when the Spanish | which they had named Axacan. i they expected the relief | gnarks, whose “Writings of George!and death in Washington paying tribute to protect their com- oL THeDe of a great, fertile, forestclad venin | vessel salled away Don Luis was 4| The name is supposed to be of In-|ShID. but it did not come. Washington, with a Life of the Au it S ey pa e e passenger, whether willingly or as a | dian origin, and some historians have isaster and tragedy came quickly | thor, Notes and Illustrations.” com- santa Maria, and the smilin; captive was left doubtful in Alfonso's | fancied they saw a resemblance o it |after that. First Don Luls grew tired | iou Notes 47 [MSIatons. cony its east and west shores they e e b, i | OF them tandt tHElri Preahing nd 10tk | Ereg e oty e ot the i Axacan. They found magnifice Since this is a true story in every | of a creew and town om the Potomac |2lthough he pretended he was merely | Matn®], the Standard work of the ind rivers entering the bay rom the west |important detail #nd bused on Spanish | River a few miles below Washington. | 0INs to make ready for thelr recep- | yorthington Chauncey Ford's compi every few miles, and one of the |jecords, with only the conversations | ¢ o |tion at another village. After that greatest of these. \«I\u.w] mouth nlhev | and non-essential circumstances im- | Eads h P f:f‘}‘:ffi,’rzoflfih"l"f“fi"" C:as;d and | [redired in the yvears 1889-1893. The ¢ o e hullt fon thebcoin ¢ t e Foi i R - S 3 571 |Of which there are something more | who resort to the house, and will b late, for I recalled that there he 3 ; A glance at & modern map estab- | tory, it is proper to expliin here that | himself on @ vessel ‘bound for his na- | _Father Segura. on February 2, 1571, | 71 N300 were given by Jared SPATKS | 1vieton o oers oaoeyond ool be Jate, for 1 recalled that there are, | then. His name is entered on the lishes beyond doubt that the bay.| no record has vet been found totive land. But he was destined to be |Sent Father Quiros and Brothers Solis | o Mise Louisa Lear in o aioney (DID COURLSSR OTINCISAE BIoa Ay s: yandlnoiiieca | sehoment M1ats of 185t jand| 18610 whose entrance wus 37 degrees north |identify surely the river upon which | grievously disappointed on this trip.|and Mendez to find Don Luis and | S s bara e e e e D LD S s hepWWasington iclty ditec the Equator, is none other than the | Don Luis lived. But from what hap- | The two monks were not the sort to |persuade him to come back. Receiv | gplienr’s salary scems to have been|1504. With this doubt. 1 called to our | tories of those vears do not contain Chesapeake Bay of our day, and it | pened later, it has been shrewdly con- | relish the hardships of a first settle- |Ing the two Jesuits with apparent|ing in the night, was a band of|$00 @ vear when he entered Wash el L E O 3 the name. Who S. Sprigg was is fo <uggests strongly that the Espiritu | jectured by some students that he be- | ment in a region so wild and unknown | kindness, he promised to return the | Indians. who fell upon them \without | inEton’s employ, and whether it w iet me Steve Decatur! T want to|the Rambler to find. Chief Justice s the Poromac RiIver. A ron lBanga o e s ites b R T B Over T ali | T h A el increased during his 16 years' service |end this ramble quick and beat 1| Fuller's house was probably the . " er. ged to one of r tribes | as « ¥ . G , : St B with Washington I do not know have a date and she won't wait. Tush-| Sprigg house enlarged. We will Axacan, it was the land later called |of Indians known to have occupied | fea the soldiers, and finally | - It was dark as Brothers Solis and e Wasnin| ap 1c e won'| ish- | Sprige arg Virginia by the English and compris- [ the northern neck of Virginin be- | eve v on board, including the|Mendez and Father Quiros started (O 2 frosty morning on the eighth| ter Washington's death L f such luck! It's my wife. i antiines: Sia ing today Virginka, Maryland and: at | tween the Potomac and Rappahan- | pilot, agreed to sail for Spain and |back through the Winter woods to o nes L it northwestern limit, the District of [hock Rivers. He may even have heen | blame the weather. They all signed a | their log chapel alone. Unexpectedly | pi aining comy s saw s \omll Columbia. How much of this wide | the brother of the King of the Pata- | paper saying that it was impossible, [ Don Luis met them. He approached | puo et INRE COmnan Bs SE S0E I gion, embraced by the general name | womekes, from whom the former river (on account of adverse winds and cur- | with a gesture of friendliness. But | me 80 FPPIELETRE ISR 08 TRERE: Axacan, the Spanish navigators | took its name many years after the lrents, for them to reach their objec- |it was a betrayal. Behind him, lurk- [ JHSre Wt MOURS @f0INE (0 GRED borrow the few ves and hatchets in the possession of the missionarie: | the unsuspecting Jesuits allowed themselves to be duped by a trans parent story about wanting them to cut wood Weaponless, the missionaries feil easy victims to treachery. Too late came the promised help. "ather Rogel, another Jesuit mi ary, safled in the Spring of 1571 fq Chesapeake Bay, accompanied by Brother Juan de Salcedo, in a shib commanded by Vincente Gonzales Arriving, probably in April. or pe haps in March, they followed the written instructions from Fathers Segura and Quiros, but when they got to the river there was no answer- | ing signal to their column of smoke. Suddenly appeared on the shore several savages dressed in some the garments of the slain Jesuits. The foolish Indians tried grotesquely to impersonate their victims The hearts of those on the &h sank. Sadly Father Rogel gave the word and the ship sailed awa That Summer, in the year 1571. Aviles himself left Hayana to discover | what had become of his ill-fated mission to the Chesapeake. Father Rogel and two Jesuit brothers went along. ~ Seeing no Indians when they arrived on the river in Axacan, he landed a company of soldiers, who | struck into the woods, and succeeded | in capturing eight natives and the boy Alonso. Alonso told ther: the sad story He said the wptives had taken part !:v o re, so Aviles promptly an front the E Bl e & AT 3 e caeT So ‘it having| TOMBSTO LINGTON HOUSFE. IN MEMORY OF MATILDA ARMSTRONG, WHO DEPARTEN oA _ LOUBING SOVIEWARL ity JHL ESTUALL Q4 IUE ZSPAUTT 54040, T LAME S : i Eathel fugt bt siem, TS L 5 L 15, 1840, PHOIOGRAPH MADE LN 1904, 1HE STONE HAS DISAPPEARED whose name, of course ar, who was bor and died of chol at. Washir October 11, 1832 You see in the old story that the morning of October 11, 1816, was found dead in the garde T was the vear 1570, 18 vears after getown to lots., 1, 2 and 1 142 hat squares is bounded by Eighteenth, Nineteenth, was a frame house on the corner. The In Spark’s collection of Washing- | merce. A check to the depredations|jarge old brick house there now, N ton's letiers is one referring to the | Of th was administered by a | 1801 street. was the home for matter of Lear’s emplovment. It is: | United States squadron under Decatur|long time of the late Melville Weston “Mr. Lear or any other man who |in 1815, but they did not finally cease | puller, Chief Justice of the United may come into my . family in the|until the conquest of Algerla by the|States, After Iooking at tax rocog blended character of preceptor to the French, begun in 1830, to avenge an|(he Rambler believes that a brick Jation of the writings of Washington, | children and clerk private secre.|insult to the French consul.” Fidusey wasi bmllion: the coraer lof tar to me will sit at my table, will i