A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ver. Benja-min Franklin, then a printers apprentice in Boston, wrotea ballad about the battle between Lieutenant Maynardand Blackbeard, which he sold on the streets of thatold town. Colonel William Byrds Visit to Germanna. —For manyof the details relating to the life of Governor Spotswoodwe are indebted to his friend. Colonel William Byrd, ofWestover, on James River. He paid a visitjto the gov-ernor at his beautiful home at Ger-manna Ford, on the Rapidan River,where he lived most happily withhis wife and children, to whom hewas tenderly
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ver. Benja-min Franklin, then a printers apprentice in Boston, wrotea ballad about the battle between Lieutenant Maynardand Blackbeard, which he sold on the streets of thatold town. Colonel William Byrds Visit to Germanna. —For manyof the details relating to the life of Governor Spotswoodwe are indebted to his friend. Colonel William Byrd, ofWestover, on James River. He paid a visitjto the gov-ernor at his beautiful home at Ger-manna Ford, on the Rapidan River,where he lived most happily withhis wife and children, to whom hewas tenderly devoted, and whereLady Spotswood welcomed ColonelByrd with much hospitality. Oneday while they were conversing inthe drawing-room, a tame deer wan-dered in through the open door, andcatching a glimpse of his own re-flection in a large mirror, dashed atit, shivering the glass, and in hisfright overturning a table loaded with valuable china aswell. We are told that Lady Spotswood bore the loss withgood temper and patience as a gentlewoman should. Colo-. COLONEL WILLIAM BTRD,THE FOUNDER OF RICHMOND. 92 History of Virginia and Virginians. nel Byrd gives us many another picture of the happy home^life at Germ anna. Sketch of Byrd.—Byrd was himself a man of greatwealth and liberal education. He owned the land uponwhich Richmond now stands, and himself surveyed andlaid out the city. He was appointed by the king one ofthe commissioners to survey and mark the boundary linebetween Virginia and North Carolina, and his report ofhis services there is most entertainingly written. The Huguenots.—By this time the Huguenots had cometo Virginia, and had made their principal settlement atManakin Town, on the upper James, though others werescattered through the colony. These were French Pro-testants who were forced to fly from their native land toescape the persecutions of the King of France because oftheir religion. Their Character.—In their ranks were some of the no-blest Frenchmen of tha
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