The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . y families,north and south, had ties of blood in England binding themtogether. Mrs. Philip A. Bruce writes: Fifty years ago, these Moseley portraits were one of the sightsto be seen in Norfolk, Virginia; they all hung in the home ofMr. Burwell Basset Moseley, a lineal descendant of William Mose-ley, the emigrant. After the war, during our lean years, all of them I think, exceptArthur and William, Jr., were sol
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . y families,north and south, had ties of blood in England binding themtogether. Mrs. Philip A. Bruce writes: Fifty years ago, these Moseley portraits were one of the sightsto be seen in Norfolk, Virginia; they all hung in the home ofMr. Burwell Basset Moseley, a lineal descendant of William Mose-ley, the emigrant. After the war, during our lean years, all of them I think, exceptArthur and William, Jr., were sold to Mrs. Bloomfield Moore,of Philadelphia. I have seen a letter from Mrs. Moore to Miss Kate MasonRowland, in which she stated that she had visited Sir Oswald Mose- ley, of Rolleston, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, andfound there the full lengths of the portraits she had bought, hersbeing half lengths. She said the Charles I portraits of the Moseleyswere by Janssens, perhaps replicas. Arthur Moseleys portrait is so dark and daring that Itused to be referred to humorously as Colonel Blood, theadventurer. Essex Institute Historical Collections, April, 1913, page 181. 176. ARTHUR MOSELEYBorn before 1638 (177) THE ^EW YORKPi] BUG UBRARYl TILDE N FOUN»AT»N« Mrs. Susanna Moseley, the wife of William Moseley,of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, was a member of awealthy English or Dutch family living In had an excellent education, facility with her pen, andstrong personal traits and dignity. From her marriage toMr. Moseley, two sons were born. She died In Virginia,8 February, 1656. In July, 1650, Captain Francis Yardley, of LynnhavenParish, son of the governor, sent a servant to Mr. Moseleyto borrow his wifes beautiful jewels for Moseley was downe ye river, and his wife wrote aletter In which she says: Sir, in regards you cannot miss out of your stocke no more thenfower younge cowes and one elder and fower oxen, I will not pressyou beyond what
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