. Reminiscences of the Knox and Soutter families of Virginia. meof them dating from the time of our English ances-tors. My mothers grandparents on her fathers sidewere William Knox and Susanna Stuart Knox, the father of William, was from Ren-frew, Renfrewshire, in Scotland; his wife was Janet,or Jessie, Somerville of Jedburgh, and her ancestorswere ennobled in the fifteenth century. Their sonWilliam, also a native of Renfrew, came out to Amer-ica with sufficient means to purchase an estate, orplantation, in Culpeper County, to which he gave thename of Windsor. His wife, Susann
. Reminiscences of the Knox and Soutter families of Virginia. meof them dating from the time of our English ances-tors. My mothers grandparents on her fathers sidewere William Knox and Susanna Stuart Knox, the father of William, was from Ren-frew, Renfrewshire, in Scotland; his wife was Janet,or Jessie, Somerville of Jedburgh, and her ancestorswere ennobled in the fifteenth century. Their sonWilliam, also a native of Renfrew, came out to Amer-ica with sufficient means to purchase an estate, orplantation, in Culpeper County, to which he gave thename of Windsor. His wife, Susanna Stuart Fitz-hugh, was the daughter of an Englishman who hadalso settled in Virginia, where he lived upon hisestate of Boscobel. She was one of the mostlearned women of her time; she had been educatedwith her brother by an English tutor, for whom herfather had sent to England, and with him she pursuedwhat would be called in this day a collegiate proved of such value to her that she afterwardsuperintended the education of her own children, and 6. iz zG lint iy Willia-T. 5 ;_ amtmg iy He e seli-oa, prepared them to enter the High School of Edin-burgh. She and her husband were devoted membersof the Church of England. After the death of , his widow retired to her estate of Belmonton the banks of the Rappahannock, where she couldbe near her children; they were settled in the neigh-borhood of Fredericksburg, and there she lived anactive life until her death, which occurred at the ageof seventy-five. She must have been a remarkablewoman, for my mother tells me that much of herown education was derived from her, and that shewas referred to for her wide learning and her tradi-tionary knowledge of the people and customs of herown State. With her my mother, then a mere child,read Miltons Paradise Lost, the Spectator, andmany fables and allegories, and the afternoons spentat Belmont, seated at the stately old ladys feet, werealways her greatest delight. I shall here tra
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