of a very great Regard for you & the family butt as I dont ship tobacco the Captains never call on me soe that I Never Know when tha come or when tha goe. I believe you have got a very good overseer at this quarter now Capt. Newton has taken a Large peace of ground from you which I dear say if you had been hear your Self it had not been Don Mr. Daniel & his wife and family is well Cozen Hannah has been married and lost her husband. She had one child a boy pray give my Love to Sister Ball & Mr. Downman and his Lady & am Dear Brother your Loving Sister.

MARY WASHINGTON.

"To Mr. Joseph Ball Esqur at Statford by Bow Nigh London."

(His Mag. X., 102,177)

Addressed similarly, and endorsed: "Docketed by the receiver July 2, 1760. from Mrs. Washington."

For the copy of these two letters I am indebted to "Virginia Genealogies," by Horace E. Hayden, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, page 81.

WILLIAM T. HEARNE, son of Cannon and Sally, had his picture taken 1863, when twenty-eight years of age, in a suit of homespun brown jeans, in the midst of the Civil War, and it is inserted here partly because of my first wife's picture taken at the same time, but more because of the resemblance I am told it bears to my father, Cannon Hearne, as we have no picture of him at all. Soon after it was taken, Uncle Burton Hearne was at my house, in company with a neighbor of mine, and who was also my father's neighbor; when I showed them the picture and asked them if they recognized it, Uncle Burton at once said, "It is your father's," and would scarcely believe otherwise when I told him it was my own. The neighbor answered him and said, "Burton, William not only resembles his father in features, but is a worthy successor of him in all respects, as a neighbor, citizen," etc. I was deeply moved by these expressions, and felt I had never had so high a compliment passed upon me, for I had been brought up to believe that my father was in all respects a model man and citizen. It was said of him that he was the recognized peacemaker in the neighborhood and the arbiter of all the differences between the neighbors, as well as guardian of all the orphan children for miles around, and always

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