. Book of the Royal blue . George Washington, while a member ofthe House of Burgesses and while seekingthe heart and hand of the beautiful widow,Martha Custis. The church was erected by order of theRoyal Government, the architect beingSir Christopher Wren, one of the mostfamous in his day and age. For over twohundred years it has stood and the old bellhas tolled the death of the old year andrung in the new for the generations asthey have come and gone. Through itsancient tower entrance passed the courtprocessions of Colonial days, the governorswith emblazoned emblems, betokening theauthority a
. Book of the Royal blue . George Washington, while a member ofthe House of Burgesses and while seekingthe heart and hand of the beautiful widow,Martha Custis. The church was erected by order of theRoyal Government, the architect beingSir Christopher Wren, one of the mostfamous in his day and age. For over twohundred years it has stood and the old bellhas tolled the death of the old year andrung in the new for the generations asthey have come and gone. Through itsancient tower entrance passed the courtprocessions of Colonial days, the governorswith emblazoned emblems, betokening theauthority and majesty of old Englandskings and queens. The first time I attended services in OldBruton I received some ((ueer I entered the door I walked over grave-stones lying Hat and forming a part of thefloor of the aisle and marking the restingplaces of the aristocratic dead of the was the custom in those days the morehighly favored dead were given places of WILLIAMSBURG, THE COLONIAL CAPITAL OF Copyright, I9li I VJSl 11. I ~l Willi II M I > . WHERE LAF^M I M s i ih HCI It-- U I M .)! M II I I l> interment beneath the church floors. Onthis first day, just beside me in the aisle,was a tomb of one Orlando Jones, thegrandfather of Martha Washington, and Idivided my attention between the preacherand a contemplation of the numerous tombsand inscriptions about me. Old Brutonchurch has been aptly called the West-minster Abbey of the New World. Inaddition to the gravestones in and underthe Hoor, memorial tablets crown the of these, the one in memory of DanielParke, is pronounced by the president ofHarvard to be the most uni(iue in was an aide on the stafl of the Dukeof Marlborough at the Battle of Blenheimand carried the news of the victory ofthat battle to Queen Anne. One of hisdaughters married John Custis, and theirson, Daniel Parke Custis, was the firsthusband of Martha Washington. TheParke tablet reads as follows ; Near thi
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