Mrs. Ward (wife of Col. Ben Ward) was captured just above Burkeville in her carriage, endeavoring to escape to relatives in Charlotte with her fine equipage and personal effects. She was pillaged by some dragoons. Captain Fowlkes's brother witnessed the act from a tree top near by.

On leaving the Ordinary, after deploying toward what is now Jetersville, they flushed Colonel William Craddock (my great-great-great grandfather maternally). He lived near, if not upon, Dr. George Scott's place. The British pursued him from his home in hot haste until he was forced to take shelter, with his horse, in a barn on the road to Jetersville. Here the troops passed him, but he was fearful lest his horse should neigh to those passing and so reveal his presence. He escaped.

The British encountered Peter Francisco at "West Creek."58 They burned Daniel Jones's mill at "Mount Airy" on West Creek and old Amelia Courthouse, together with part or all the records, I think.59 They also burned a granary on the Richmond road near Mannboro. Charred wheat from it is still preserved, and some, I understand, was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. The British followed the Namozine road toward Petersburg and Chesterfield Courthouse. house.

My grandmother thinks Tarleton behaved, in the main, generously towards the inhabitants during the raid. He visited Captain Jo Fowlkes's mother, a widow, who lived in Prince Edward a few miles above old Burkeville, and turned a chair down for a pillow and lay on the floor to rest. He set guards to watch and did not allow anything to be molested. He would always rebuke his men for depredations and in many instances showed a kind spirit.

Journal of the Virginia House of Delegates.

1793, p. 36, names petition of James Dupuy, Jr., asking compensation for loss of horse, etc., stating that during the invasion of Cornwallis he had commanded a volunteer company of horse and been taken prisoner, etc.

Idem., 1797, page 30:

Petition of Thos. Griffin Peachy of Amelia for relief for house (dwelling and store) at Rocky Run in Amelia, destroyed by Tarleton, July 12th, 1781. 600 or 700 bushels of wheat destroyed-public property.

Petition of Daniel Jones for building of mill and granary destroyed by Tarleton, 1781.

WAR OF 1812.

In the War of 1812, many men of Amelia were attached to the First Regiment.

58 The home of Benjamin Ward.

59 No evidence has been found of any such destruction at the court

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The Richmond Enquirer of Oct. 20, 1814, printed Judge Peter Randolph's charge to the grand jury of Powhatan (Thomas Miller, foreman) in which he made an appeal for the prosecution of the War.

An editorial in the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 3, 1814, states that the army around Richmond for the defence of the capital was assuming excellent organization. 1st and 4th brigades were present. Maj. Maurice, of Norfolk, was Adj. Genl.; C. W. Gooch, Deputy Adj. Genl.; Maj. C. Fenton Mercer, Inspector Genl.; Dr. James Jones, Hospital Surgeon Genl.; Lt. Col. Cargill, Q. Master Genl. Gov's Staff Aids: B. W. Leigh, Phil. N. Nicholas, and Hugh Nelson. Col. T. M. Randolph was also organizing an independent élite corps.

Washington had fallen, it seems, already.. Volunteers from all over the Commonwealth rushed to defend the city. A fine corps of horse under Capt. Carr, of Albemarle, Capt. Archer, of Powhatan, Lieut. H. Watkins, from Prince Edward, and Capts. Jeter and Tanner (Towns), 60 from Amelia.

Mr. Madison in view of the condition of the country called Congress to meet Sept. 19, 1814. Peterson Goodwin was then a member from the Dinwiddie district.

CIVIL WAR.61

HISTORIC HOMES AND PLACES.

AMELIA COUNTY.

"Dykeland" on Flat Creek, the home of Lewis E. Harvie; "Farm Hill," home of Dr. Richard F. Taylor; "Wigwam," Governor Giles's home.

"Clay Hill." John Randolph used to be an intimate visitor at this mansion. He always stopped there on his way to the capital, also stopping with Judge Farrar's grandfather near Deatonville. Mrs. Farrar, he declared, cooked the best biscuit on the continent. He would come there from "Bizarre" and go to "Clay Hill" the next night.

Mrs. Farrar (Judge Farrar's mother) kept a female school for many years at his present residence.

William J. Barksdale lived at "Clay Hill," where he died shortly prior to the war, about 1860. A writer in the Richmond Enquirer of that date says that he was more distinguished looking than any man he had ever seen except Henry Clay. On the boulevards of Paris he always attracted attention.

60 The Richmond Enquirer of this date has it "Towns." 61Judge Watson's notes contain a roll of Company (Troop) E, Third Va. Cavalry, in Civil War, showing names of men from Nottoway Co. This information, with additional data, is available in Confederate records in Virginia State Library and is not reproduced here.

Paineville or Painesville, Amelia County.

Paineville is the site of old Union Church. That was one of the finest congregations in Virginia in its hey-day. Old Dr. Phil Southall said Paineville was named for a man who lived at Paineville years since.

Alexander Campbell and Dr. Thomas (founder of the Thomasites) 62 had a great and protracted debate here on the virtue of their respective creeds. Campbell had first inducted Thomas into his faith and liked his intelligence; but subsequently Thomas split off, and it was on this that Campbell came back to argue at Paineville. Campbell is said to have completely crushed Thomas.

Thomas published his denominational paper at Paineville, so Dr. Joseph Southall says.

In Grandpa Horner's boyhood days, the tavern at Paineville was kept by a Mr. Jeter. A race-track was here. It was a muster point also for the militia and one of the two voting places in Amelia, the courthouse being the other. Card tables were kept upstairs in the hotel. Brookin Enroughty shot Hardaway, his brother-in-law, at Rodophil near here. Another man had been killed at Rodophil years before.

The old house (presumably the Paine Club House) was very old, but standing in Grandpa Horner's recollection. It was a good frame, two-story, long house and was called, he thought, the old Masons' Hall. No Masons, though, had ever met there in his day, he said.

Paineville was once a great place for Fourth of July celebrations. Grandpa Horner relates that two men were wounded here once by the discharge of a cannon, and one died subsequently from the effects.

The speakings on such occasions would be held in Union Church.

Paine Club: Dr. Pryor says it was organized by an Irish refugee named Burke; that Governor Giles was a member, but never heard that Dr. Jones was, nor heard him speak of it.

Fergussonville.

Clerk

The old people called Fergussonville "Fargussez." Epes told me when he was a boy the people sometimes spoke of it as "Robert Jennings's Store." This man [Robert Jennings] went South.

Jetersville, Amelia County.

Grandma Eliza63 says in her childhood she was in the habit of visiting this place, which then had no such name. Colonel

62 John Thomas, founder of the sect of Christadelphians or Thomasites. 63 Great-grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Robertson.

Jeter lived there and probably kept a tavern. Grandma stayed with her Uncle Abram Jackson, who was a store-keeper. Old Tom Perkinson (father of Capt. John E. Perkinson) also kept store here. Perhaps place was then called Perkinson's. According to tradition Jetersville was named for "Black Jack" Jeter, John Jeter, son of Rodophil Jeter.

Dr. William J. Holcombe (M.D.), father of James P. Holcombe, lived and died near Jetersville and was buried near Dr. Joseph Bass Anderson's.

Old Dr. Meigs,64 of Philadelphia, Mrs. Royall says, was born here, too. Dr. William Thomas Warriner says so too.

Richmond Enquirer, July 17, 1816: Advertisement of Tilman E. Jeter for boarders at "Mill Grove" very convenient to the mineral Springs in Amelia.

Richmond Enquirer, May 12, 1848: Amelia Springs will be opened 1st July for visitors and can accommodate 75 or 100 persons. Terms-Board: Single meal 50c; $1.25 per day; $6.00 per week; $20.00 per month. Children and servants half price. Horses 50 cents per day.-Thomas C. Willson.

LUNENBURG COUNTY.
Hungary Town.

In old times, some Hungarians settled on the site of Hungary Town and that is how the name originated.65

Old Bob Scott, father of Ned, built the house there. Ned Scott married

Chambers.

David J. Williams went security for Bob Scott, a brother Methodist, who pleaded usury on him, and David afterwards used to say that he was as good a Methodist as ever cracked a whip until Bob Scott cheated him out of $1,000. (As given me by R. W. Oliver, July 23, 1915.)

NOTTOWAY COUNTY.

Barebones.66

"Your letter was most welcome and more especially that it called me back to the Namozine Road and put me off at Ellett's. Before the woods were cut, this place, "Barebones," on the south side at the falls of the creek, was one of the most sequestered and picturesque spots in our county. There was a short time back, and may be still, if the "d- saw mills" have had any heart left, a beech tree on the north bank bearing in plain letters an

64 Possibly Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs or Dr. J. A. Meigs both at one time professors in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

65 Spelled also as Hungrytown in early post office directories.

66 From a letter written by Mr. Watson, August 6, 1916, to Mr. Thornton Jeffress, Rochester, N. Y.

inscription cut by my step-grandfather, Horner, in 1853. The isolation of Barebones and the silence of its woods attracted me in early life and the place always seemed to me to have a mystic meaning, which I could not unravel. I have but few sentimental associations with it. It is true I have raised many a fox from its cover,-now and then-not often-I have collected about 2-1/2 barrels of nubbins from its soil,-the annual rent of "free niggers." But I can't let Barebones go without telling you a curious speculation I drifted into respecting this place. Some time back I saw in a Richmond bookstore a little book styled "The True Nancy Hanks,' as well as I remember by Caroline Hitchcock of New York. She was a lady of means connected with the Hanks family and sorely grieved at the damage tradition had done the reputation of the mother of Lincoln; and resolved to clear up the record of this lady of the wilderness. Turning its pages I came across the statement that Nancy Hanks was born in Amelia County and emigrated with her father to Kentucky in 1785. The next time I went to Amelia Court House, I got the old deed books and looked up her father's moderate realty holdings. I had not the time to make an exhaustive examination, but the only land owned by him seemed to be immediately on Barebone Creek (then Amelia now Nottoway) and, as far as I could see without retracing the line, in the vicinity of Ham's and Ellett's. If personal association may invest material things with spiritual life, why may it not be that the memory of Nancy Hanks-the vicissitudes of fortune which came to her after life and to that of her son-is the spirit which still broods over the wild waste of Barebones?"67

"Glenmore" in Nottoway County owned (1906) by Landon P. Jones; it was sold to him from the estate of my father (Meredith Watson) by court in suit, Leath and others vs. Watson, adm. It was the old seat of the Watsons in. Nottoway. Since 1860 there have lived at "Glenmore" Captain Giles A. Miller, James Asa Eggleston, Dr. William H. Robertson and John Thursfield (an Englishman).

"Mountain Hall" is near the line of Amelia, eight or ten miles from Paineville.

Jones's Mill, Nottoway County: Crawley Fitzgerald says Jones's Mill, southeast of Blackstone, was in old times Lallard's Mill.

67 Mr. Watson had preserved a newspaper clipping, dated Nottoway Court House, Feb. 10, 1891, showing Abram Hanks as one whose deposition was to be taken in a case between Letty Jenkins and Pryor Jenkins. Presumably he was interested in the survival of the name Hanks in Nottoway.