E-text prepared by Susan Skinner, Julia Miller,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
()
from digital material generously made available by
Internet Archive/American Libraries
(http://www.archive.org/details/americana)
| Note: | Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/journalyounglady00orrlrich |
Journal
OF A
Young Lady of Virginia
1782.
Printed and Published
For the Benefit of the Lee Memorial Association of Richmond,
By John Murphy and Company,
No. 182 Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE.
1871.[Pg 4]
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
EMILY V. MASON,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
The following pages contain a fragment of the Journal of a young lady ofVirginia of the last century.
It seems to have been written by her while on a visit to her relatives,the Lees, Washingtons, and other families of Lower Virginia, mentionedin her Journal.
The friend for whom it was intended was Miss Polly Brent, also ofVirginia.
The manuscript was found torn, and discolored by age, in an old desk atthe country place in Maryland, to which Polly Brent carried it, upon hermarriage into one of the old families of that State.
The Lees, of whom so much mention is made in the Journal—"Nancy,""Molly," "Hannah," and "Harriet"—were the daughters of Richard HenryLee, of Chantilly. Molly married W. A. Washington, and Hannah was—atthe time of the Journal—the wife of Corbin Washington. Their grandson,John A. Washington, was the last occupant of Mount Vernon.
Harriet married the son of Mrs. Turberville, the "old lady" spoken of inthe manuscript.
Ludwell Lee, a son of Richard Henry Lee, married the "Flora" of thischronicle. She was a daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee, of Stratford, and[Pg 6]sister of Matilda Lee, the first wife of "Colonel Henry Lee;" whoselittle boy is mentioned as so "fine" a "child." Colonel Henry Lee wasnone ot