Potomac landings . !^S J. POTOMAC LANDINGS 261 from the Exchange, the Parliament, the Court, and theLondon taverns, all that was newest in politics andscandal and every variety of small talk. A dinner*on board usually featured the stay of a ship at thelanding and sometimes the skipper would come ashorefor a party. One such social soul was Captain Griggout of London. On one occasion he ventured to aball at Stratford Hall, but Miss Prissey Carter, withwhom he stepped a minuet, said that he wobbled mostdolefully, & that the whole Assembly laughed. MissPrissey was confirmed in this some nine years

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Potomac landings . !^S J. POTOMAC LANDINGS 261 from the Exchange, the Parliament, the Court, and theLondon taverns, all that was newest in politics andscandal and every variety of small talk. A dinner*on board usually featured the stay of a ship at thelanding and sometimes the skipper would come ashorefor a party. One such social soul was Captain Griggout of London. On one occasion he ventured to aball at Stratford Hall, but Miss Prissey Carter, withwhom he stepped a minuet, said that he wobbled mostdolefully, & that the whole Assembly laughed. MissPrissey was confirmed in this some nine years later whenCaptain Grigg, still sailing into the Potomac and stillfancying himself a dancer, drew this from one of theLee girls visiting the Turbervilles at Pecatone at thetime: We had the addition of two more gentlemento-night. A Dr. Harrington — a handsome man, Ithink—and an elderly Gentleman, Captain Grigg; themost laughable creature I ever saw. They tell me Ishall be highly diverted at the minuet he dances; an

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