. Historic Virginia homes and churches . en his captors. After riding for a mile or so, he stopped,pretending to arrange a stirrup leather, while the sheriffs 300 MRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES went ahead toi- a few yards; when wheehng his horseal)()ut, the caj)taiii raised his hat and with a pohte Gentle-men, I have the honor to wish yon a very good (hiy, gal-loped off at a speed whieii the sheriffs knew they could notequal, and so escaped. An old gentleman declares that he has often heard hisfather say that he had seen the wide hall of North Gardencovered with blood and feathers, the result of a
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . en his captors. After riding for a mile or so, he stopped,pretending to arrange a stirrup leather, while the sheriffs 300 MRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES went ahead toi- a few yards; when wheehng his horseal)()ut, the caj)taiii raised his hat and with a pohte Gentle-men, I have the honor to wish yon a very good (hiy, gal-loped off at a speed whieii the sheriffs knew they could notequal, and so escaped. An old gentleman declares that he has often heard hisfather say that he had seen the wide hall of North Gardencovered with blood and feathers, the result of a cock fight—-a kind of sport then in favor with men of the highest socialstanding. Captain Thornton, who soon after his escapade removedto Kentucky, married Aiuie, daughter of John Fitzhugh,of Belair, Stafford County, and left several children, one ofwhom was the mother of the late Judge E. H. Fitzhugh,of Richmond. North Garden was afterward bought by INIr. ThomasCatlett, after the death of whose son Edward Catlett theestate was MARYE HOUSE, FREDERICKSIUHG OLD HOUSES IN FREDERICKSBURG Fredericksburg contains many interesting old houses,among them the frame cottage in which JVIary, the motherof Washington, spent so many j^ears of her life, and where
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