. Book of the Royal blue . > . 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 presiden
. Book of the Royal blue . > . 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 this marble lyes ye Honble DanielParke, of ye County of , Es(|., who. was one of His .Majesties Counsellors andsometime Secretary of the Collony of dyed ye (ith of March, Anno 167!). Hisother felicityes ware crowned by his happyraarridg with Rebbecke, the daughter ofGeorge Kvelyn of the County of Surrey. dyed the 3d of January, Anno Hi?,, atLong Ditton in ye County of Surrey and leftbehind her a most hopefull Progeny. Within the chancel rail of the churchstands the heavy baptismal font broughtover from England by Capt. John Smith,ind from which, while it reposed in thechurch at Jamestown, the Indian Princess,Pocahontas, received baptism. After thedecay of Jamestown it was brought to theBruton church where it is now in times have the pews of the churchbeen removed to allow the use of the
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