. Book of the Royal blue . daughterof John Stuart, sixth Earl of Tra<|uar. Shewas the wife of Hon. Cyrus Gritiin, andwas a niece of Charles II and a great-nieceof Mary, Queen of Scots. The College of William and Mary is theoldest in America, save one, the exceptionbeing Harvard. It is the only one nowin existence which boasts of a royal charter,except Kings, now Columbia. Rev. JamesBlair was the first president of this collegeand for a period of fifty years after itsorganization. The college has passedthrough many changes and vicissitudes andits main building has been used as a hos-pital an
. Book of the Royal blue . daughterof John Stuart, sixth Earl of Tra<|uar. Shewas the wife of Hon. Cyrus Gritiin, andwas a niece of Charles II and a great-nieceof Mary, Queen of Scots. The College of William and Mary is theoldest in America, save one, the exceptionbeing Harvard. It is the only one nowin existence which boasts of a royal charter,except Kings, now Columbia. Rev. JamesBlair was the first president of this collegeand for a period of fifty years after itsorganization. The college has passedthrough many changes and vicissitudes andits main building has been used as a hos-pital and barracks during two wars. Corn-wallis occupied one of the buildings as hisheadquarters during the Revolution, andthe French allies were quartered thereafter the surrender at Yorktown. Duringthis time one of the main buildings wasdestroyed by fire, and Louis XVI of Francehad the structure rebuilt at his own privateexiiense. The remains of Lord Rotecourtrepose beneath the college chapel. Bote- ^H 9 vKm . B ^- ^^^S^^ «|^_. •POWDER HORN. WILLIAMSBHRG. ^■^ a Official Photo OF JOHN BLAIR. court was one of the royal go\ the Civil War the tablet or coffinplate was abstracted from the Botecourttomb by Federal soldiers, but was regainedafter the war and may now be seen in thecollege library, which, by the way, containsseveral thousand of the most valuable his-torical volumes in the world. Lyon , the present president of the Collegeof William and Marv, is a son of JohnTyler, a former president of the UnitedStates. Another curious relic of old Williamsburgis the Powder Horn, an octagonal buildingof brick, erected in 171-1. by GovernorSpottswood, and used as a storehouse forpowder. It is related that on the night ofApril •iO, 5, the day after the battles ofConcord and Lexington, Lord Dunmore,the last of the royal governors of Virginia,seized the powder stored in this magazineand loaded it on a war vessel lying inthe James River about three
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