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American Clan Gregor Society

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH

ANNUAL GATHERING AND ROLL OF

MEMBERS, 1916.

EGBERT WATSON MAGRUDER

EDITOR.

Members are Requested to Send Notice op Change op Address

TO THE SCREBE, DR. JESSE EWELL, RUCKERSVILLE, VA., AND TO

THE Treasurer, Mr. John E. Muncaster, Rockville, Md.

RICHMOND. VA.:

APPEALS PRESS. JNC.

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Copyrighted 1916

BY

EGBERT V/ATSON MAGRUDER,

Editor.

OFFICERS.

HEREDITARY CHIEF,

Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, Bart.,

Edinchip, Balquhidder, Scotland.

OFFICERS— ELECTED 1916.

I Dr. Edward May Magruder Chieftain

' Caleb Clarke Magruder Ranking Deputy Chieftain

Dr. Jesse Ewell Scribe

J Mrs. Roberta Julia (Magruder) Bukey Registrar

Mrs. Jennie (Morton) Cunningham Historian

John Edwin Muncaster Treasurer

Egbert Watson Magruder Editor

Rev. James Mitchell Magruder Chaplain

Dr. Steuart Brown Muncaster Surgeon

Alexander Muncaster Chancellor

' John Bowie Ferneyhough Deputy Scribe

COUNCILMEN— APPOINTED 1916.

William Newman Dorsett.
Miss Helen Woods MacGregor Gantt.
Mrs. Laura Cook Higgins.
Prop. Henry Barnett McDonnell.
J Calvert Magruder.

Horatio Erskine Magruder.
Miss M.ary Blanche Magruder.
Oliver Barron Magruder.
Mrs. Caroline Hill Marshall.
Clement William Sheriff.

DEPUTY CHIEFTAINS— APPOINTED 1916.

Maj. Edward Magruder Tutwiler Alabavm

William Howard Magruder Arkansas

Albert Sidney Hill California

Mrs. Matilda (Beall) Lewis Colorado

Donald Fitz-Randolph MacGregor District of Columbia

Miss Cornelia Frances Magruder Florida

Egbert Lee Magruder, Jr Georgia

Benton Magruder Bukey Illinois

Mrs. Elizabeth (Dysart) Lee Indiana

Mrs. Mamie (Button) Frisbee Iowa

Miss Frances Virginia Magruder Kansas

Mrs. Florence Magruder Opfutt Stout Kentucky

Mrs. Henrietta Kingsley Hutton Black Louisiana

Arthur Llewellyn Griffiths Maine

Miss Eliza Nicholson Magruder Maryland

Miss Nannie Hughes Magruder Mississippi

Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Christian Missouri

Mrs. Sarah Gilmer (Magruder) McMurdo Montana

Miss Clifton Ethel Mayne Nebraska

Mrs. Dorothy Edmonstone Allen New Mexico

William Magruder Coleman New York

Vesalius Seamour Magruder Ohio

George Corbin Washington Magruder Oklahoma

Dr. George Mason Magruder Oregon

Lilburn Duerson Magruder Pennsylvania

Capt. Thomas Pickett Magruder Rhode Island

Mrs. Margaret Roberts McFerrin Tennessee

Miss Mary Harelson Magruder Texas

Mrs. Mary (Gregory) Powell Virginia

Mrs. Elizabeth Hapjiison Snively Washington

Harlan Page MacGregor West Virginia

COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP.

Dr. Jesse Ewell, Scribe Ruckersville, Va.

Dr. Edward May Magruder, Chieftain Charlottesville, Va.

Mrs Jennie (Morton) Cunningham, Historian Shelbyville, Ky.

Mrs. Roberta Julia (Magruder) Bukey, Registrar Vienna, Va.

SPECIAL COMMITTEES FOR THE GATHERING OF 1917.

I. Committee at Large.
Dr. William Edward Magruder, Jr.

II. Committee on Program.
Rev. James Mitchell Magruder, D. D., Chairman; Alexander
Muncaster, Mrs. Ann Wade (Wood) Sheriff.

III. Committee on Pine.
Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr.

IV. Committee on Music.

Miss Helen Woods MacGregor Gantt, Chairman; Robert Bryan
GriiRn, John Francis MacGregor Bowie, Mrs. John Francis Mac-
Gregor Bowie, Miss Jessie Waring Gantt, William Newman Dorsett,
Miss Susie Mitchell Dorsett, Mrs. Rose Virginia Golladay, Miss
Dorothy Katherine Golladay, Mrs. A. W. W. Sheriff.

V. Committee on Hotel Arrangements.
Clement William Sheriff, Chairman; Henry Hall Olmsted.

VI. Committee on Decoration op Hall.

Miss Mary Therese Hill, Chairman; Mrs. Julia (Magruder) Ma«-
Donnell, Mrs. Agnes Woods (MacGregor) Bowie.

VII. Committee on Registration.
Oliver Barron Magruder.

VIII. Committee on Reception and Refreshments.
Mrs. Philip Sheriff.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN CLAN GREGOR

SOCIETY FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL

GATHERING— 1916.

The Muster Place,
The New Ebbitt Hotel, Washington, D, C.

The Time,
October 26th and 27th, 1916.

PROCEEDINGS.
Thursday, October 26th.

8 to 5:80 P. M.— Song, "Hail to the Chief," by the Choir.

Society called to order by Chieftain, Dr. Edward
May Magruder.

Prayer by Chaplain, Rev. James Mitchell Magru-
der, D. D.

Song, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds," by the Choir.

Reports of Special Committees.

Report of Scribe, Dr. Jesse Ewell.
tL Report of Treasurer, John Edwin Muncaster.

Song, "Loch Lomond." by the Choir.

Report of Registrar, Mrs. Roberta Julia (Mag^ru-
der) Bukey.

Report of Editor, Egbert Watson Magruder.

Report of Historian, Mrs. Jennie (Morton) Cun-
ningham.

Volunteer Papers.

Song, "The Sands O'Dee," by the Choir.
8 P. M. — Song, "Farewell to Thee," by Miss Dorothy Gol-
laday.

Address of Chieftain, Dr. Edward May Magruder.

Song, "MacGregors' Gathering," by John Francis
MacGregor Bowie.

Paper, "The First-Born," by Dr. Jesse Ewell, of
Virginia.

Paper, "Nathaniel Magruder of Dunblane," by
Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr., of Maryland.

Music and Sword Dance, by Miss Janeero Brooks.

Recitation, "My Flag," by T. S.

Song, "When Our Caravan Left," by Mr. and Mr*.
John Francis MacGregor Bowie.

Refreshments.

Song, "Star-Spangled Banner," by the Choir.

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Friday, October 27th.

11 A. M.— Memorial Sketches. Members are requested to
bring their lines of genealogical descent to this
meeting or send same to the Chieftain, care of
The New Ebbitt Hotel, Washington, D. C.
S to 5:30 P. M. — Song, "Within a Mile of Edinborough Town," by
Jean Campbell.

Song, "O'er the Hills and Far Awa'," by the Choir.

Paper, "The MacAlpine Kings," by Miss Alice
Maude Ewell, of Virginia.

Song, by Miss Agnes MacDonald and Miss Bessie
Sanford.

Paper, "Life on an Old Magruder Farm," by Wil-
liam E. Muncaster.

Volunteer Papers.

Song, "Laddie Boy," by the Choir.

Election of Officers.

Appointment of Non-elective Officers and Special
Committees.

New Business.

Song, "Oh! Whistle and I'll Come to You," by the
Choir.
8 P. M. — Original Poem, "Macregor of Glenstrae," by Don-
ald Fitz-Randoiph MacGregor, of The District.

Song, "Somebody," by the Choir.

Paper, "John Read Magruder, of Annapolis," by
Calvert Magruder.

Song, "Maryland, My Maryland," by the Choir.

Song, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," by the Choir.

Original Poem, "The March," by Miss Alice Maud«
Ewell, of Virginia.

Paper, "Mary Elizabeth (Strange) Chewning," by
Major Edward Magruder Tutwiler, of Alabama.

Social Gathering and Refreshments.

Song, "Auld Lang Sjme," by the Choir.

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RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS.

The Eighth Annual Gathering of the American Clan Gregor
Society convened at the New Ebbitt Hotel, Washington, D. C, at
3 P. M., October 26, 1916. The program was carried out essentially
as given on the preceding pages. The Gathering was one of the
most interesting yet held, and an unusual amount of enthusiasm was
exhibited by the members.

The election of officers was held on the afternoon of October
27th, and the officers whose names are given on page 3 were
unanimously elected by the Society. Later the Chieftain appointed
the Councilmen, Deputy Chieftains, and Special Committees as given
on pages 3, 4, and 5. The Scribe and Chaplain were appointed a
committee of two to visit the Caledonian Club at its invitation, which
Club was then in session. This committee was most heartily wel-
comed and given the floor, when a short history of the Clan Gregor
Society was given, and an invitation extended to the Club to attend
our Gatherings.

A vote of thanks was extended to the committees and officers
on their efficient work, also to the management of the New Ebbitt
Hotel for its courtesies, and the Scribe was instructed to report the
same to the management.

The "Official Sprig of Pine," worn at the 1916 Gathering, was
cut from "Grampian Hills," Prince George's county, Maryland, the
former home of Captain John Smith Magruder, and was the gift of
Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr.

NUMBER OF MEMBERS PRESENT AND STATES
REPRESENTED AT THIS GATHERING OF 1916.

Colorado 2

District of Columbia 67

Georgia 4

Kentucky 2

Maryland 29

Oregon 1

Texas 1

Virginia 19

Total 125

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REPORT OF TREASURER-JOHN E. MUNCASTER.

The Society has done about the same as usual in a financial way.
Numbers of members are still on the delinquent list, but while the
delinquents used to fare as well as the rest of us, they will do so
no longer, for when the Editor was preparing to send out the Year
Books, he sent the directed envelopes of all of those members who
are behind in dues to the Treasurer, and when the dollars come in
the books will go out, and not before.

The financial statement is as follows:

Receipts.

Balance on hand October 28, 1915 $ 5 85

Received from sale of Year Books 12 00

Received from dues 1913 $ 6 00

Received from dues 1914 24 00

Received from dues 1915 289 00

Received from dues 1916 23 00

342 00

$359 Si
Expenditures.

Relief of wounded MacGregors $ 25 00

Expense of Gathering of 1915 35 00

Printing, stationery, etc 33 85

Engraving Year Book 1915 43 81

Postage, Scribe, 1915 35 78

Postage, Treasurer, 1916 15 54

Postage, Editor, 1915 2 46

Making badges and banner 4 76

Printing Year Book 106 32

$302 50
Balance on hand 57 35

$359 85

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ANNUAL ADDRESS OF DR. EDWARD MAY MA-
GRUDER, CHIEFTAIN, OCTOBER 26, 1916.

My Clansmen:

The Fiery Cross, symbol of loyal devotion, has assembled us
together for the eighth time to pay tribute to the memories of the
past and to stimulate to future achievement commensurate vsrith
the ideals of our bygone clansmen. While many of a practical turn
may sneer at the homage thus paid to what has gone by, we should
bear in mind that he, who neglects the memory of his forefathers, is
apt to be careless of his own reputation and will likely be the victim
of mercenary narrowness and an ambition purely selfish and per-
sonal.

I am, however, rejoiced to be able to say that the members of
the American Clan Gregor Society have, in founding and maintain-
ing tins organization, shown themselves free from this taint and
are actuated by motives of pride in the past, a broad humanitarian-
ism for the present, and praiseworthy ambition for the future.

/\i tee k;st Gathering our esteemed clansman, Mr. William Ed-
ward Muncaster, entertained us with the manner in which his grand-
mother was wont to demonstrate to him, in old fashioned and vigorous
style, the path he should tread, and I crave pardon if, following her
example, I point out to you certain lines along which we fall far
short of perfection, and, as our clansman's noble grandmother would
say, "I am doing this for your own good" and the good of the
Society.

In the first place let me again admonish you of a seeming care-
lessness affecting most of us in promoting or rather not promoting
the membership of this Society. It is high time that we should pass
the five hundredth mile post in membership: up to the present we
have admitted 447 members and since we last gathered together we
have received into our ranks about thirty-three new members.

After the five hundredth name has been added to the roll the
annual dues of male members will be reduced from two dollars to
one dollar. Let us endeavor to show at the next Gathering five hun-
dred clansmen loyal and true.

The Chairman of the Committee on Program reports a peculiar
"sleeping sickness" it may perhaps be called, that has sorely smitten
the Muses of our Society. This is strange when we consider the
v/ealth of material that exists to occupy our pens. Let me repeat
that every worthy departed relative of MacGregor blood is a suitable
subject for a paper and every member, though uninvited, has a right
to contribute to the program of entertainment and it is the duty of
him or her to do so.

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The Treasurer complain? of a certpan lark of zeal and enthusi-
asm in the payment oi du;s and reports a .ong list of delinquents.
Nov . w'rHo t' " r.rpiir,! di^e? r-r i>iemb-r are of little burden to the
individual, their prompt payment is of vital importance in the main-
tainance cf the Society. Without money we cannot accomplish those
aims that brought us together and are the very foundation upon
which this organization rests. As literary material is needful for
the program, so, iiktwise, are ianc- r-Ciy ■ , .. ii.aiing

form our literary efforts. We owe this both to our ancestors and to
our posterity.

In token of remembrance and loyalty to the American Clan Gregor
Society, the "Official Pine" v.orn by the officers of our Society at the
last Gathering was sent by Mrs. Maryel Alpina (MacGregor)
Magruder, sister of the Chief, from Scotland, where she now makes
her home and where, though a native of that country, she clings to
her American citizenship obtained by right of marriage to a dis-
tinguished American citizen and hcroreu nr:-n;b' r of this l^ociety,
and is bringing up her little boy, who was born in Maryland, as an
American bred and born. And this act of remembrance highly ap-
preciated as it is and the more prizsd as it was prrformcd amid
occasions and surroundings made so tragic by the storm clouds hov-
ering over her native land, furnishes another instance of that loyalty
and devotion so peculiar to the v/omen of Clan Gregor as well as
tho men.

I will have to report that the matter of affiliation between the
Clan Gregor Society and the American Clan Gregor Society, that
has been occupying our minds for several years, has not yet reached
the stage of finality and is still pending. It would, however, have
probably been satisfactorily completed but for the failure of my
last letter to reach the Clan Gregor Society in time to be considered
at its annual meeting last January.

Soon after our last Gathering a circular was received by the
Chieftain from the President of the Clan Gregor Society, Alasdair
R. MacGregor, Esquire, younger brother of the Chief, and from the
Treasurer of that Society, Mr. John MacGregor, containing a record
of the military achievements of the MacGregors in the first year of
the Great War now raging in Europe and an appeal for aid for the
MacGregor wounded and prisoners. In the circular appeared the
following which should be of great interest to us:

"In the course of the present war upward of sixty MacGregors
have given their lives for king and country and the name 'Mac-
Gregor' has figured more than one hundred and seventy-three times
in the list of wounded and missing; three have been recommended
for the Distinguished Conduct Medal, one has been recommended for

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the Companionship of the Distinguished Service Order, and one has
been mentioned for gallant and distinguished service in the field. It
is impossible to say how many are serving either in the Army or
Navy. At least six MacGregors figure in the lists of prisoners of
war in Germany. Although their regiments are doing what they can
for them, the lot of a prisoner in the hands of such an enemy as
Germany has proved herself to be is not a happy one. Will you do
something to ameliorate the lot of these Clansmen?"

With the approval of the Council a circular somewhat similar was
sent by me to the individual members of this Society, which you re-
ceived, containing the above mentioned facts and requesting aid for
wounded and imprisoned MacGregors, stating that if each member
would contribute "even one dollar" a respectable sum would be real-
ized.

The response, in proportion to the size of this organization, was
liberal and contributions in sums ranging from fifty cents to fifty
dollars soon began to come in. Seventy-fouj members contributed
the handsome sum of two hundred and thirty two dollars and the
Society itself, through the Council at the last meeting in October,
1915, appropriated twenty-five dollars for the purpose.

The following is an itemized statement of the transaction:

Amount contributed by the American Clan Gregor Society .... $ 25 00
Amount contributed by individual members 232 00

Total amount contributed $257 00

Cost of stationery, stamps, printing, etc 9 34

Net balance contributed $247 66

Amount sent by draft to Scotland 245 66

Balance in hand $ 2 00

A draft for $245.66 was mailed to Scotland to the care of Alas-
dair R. MacGregor, Esquire, President of the Clan Gregor Society,
and in due time the following reply was received:

"Rothesay, Isle op Bute, Scotland,

"8 April, 1916.
"Dr. E. M. Magruder:

"I have just received your two letters dated March '17 and 20,'
the former containing check for £51:10:8 for the benefit of Mac-
Gregor prisoners of war and wounded or needy MacGregor soldiers
and sailors.

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"I must take this opportunity of thanking you and all those who
have subscribed to the fund, for this generous donation.

"I am forwarding the amount to the Treasurer who will send
you a formal receipt in due course, but I vs-rite at once to acknowledge
the safe arrival of the draft.

"The Chief is stiU in France where he has been since the begin-
ning of the war, only having been home twice for a few days, and
as far as one can see he will probably have to remain there until the
war ends, which I am sorry to say does not appear to be likely for a
long time yet.

"Alasdair R. MacGregor,
"(President Clan Gregor Society)."

Likewise the following:

"Edinborough, 20 June, 1916.
"Dr. E. M. Magruder:

"The President of the Clan Gregor Society has sent me your
letter to him of 17th March with check for £51:10:8 in payment of
funds subscribed by the American Clan Gregor Society and collec-
tions from the individual members towards assisting the wounded or
needy MacGregor soldiers and sailors or prisoners of war of that
name.

"This is a very handsome donation and I beg to thank you sin-
cerely for the same. I enclose official receipt herein.

"John MacGregor,
"(Hon. Treasurer, Clan Gregor Society.)"

The MacGregors of Scotland have been engaged in the same
benevolence and with success in their collections.

I here insert a copy of a newspaper clipping, sent me by a friend
and headed,

"Sib Malcolm MacGregor.

"Captain Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, Bt., R. N., of
Lanrick and Balquidder, has been mentioned twice in Sir John
French's dispatches for distinguished and important services. Sir
Malcolm MacGregor is the Chief of Clan Gregor and a deputy lieu-
tenant of the county of Perth." (Scotland.)

It will thus be seen that our Chief has been promoted from Com-
mander to Captain in the Royal British Navy since we have knovm
him.

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The foregoing has reference only to the first year of the war.
Since then the roll of honor has grown. On August 4, 1916, I wrote
to the President of the Clan Gregor Society requesting a Memoran-
dum to date containing the number of MacGregors serving in the
British army, the number killed, wounded, and prisoners, and also
the honors and laurels won. In reply the following letter and Memo-
randum were received on October 11, 1916:

"Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland,

"27 September, 1916.
"Dr. E. M. Magruder:

"My dear Sir, — I duly received your letter of the 4th August
asking for particulars of what members of the Clan are doing in the
Great War,

"I am afraid that it is not possible to give the number of Mac-
Gregors who are serving, but I wrote to the Treasurer, Mr. John
MacGregor, who is collecting all the information he can, in order to
compile a Roll of Honour sometime, and asked him for a note giving
such details as might be available so that I could send you some news
to present to the members of the A. C. G. Society, at your Annual
Gathering nexl; month,

"I enclose a copy of his Memorandum, herewith, which I trust
will serve the purpose in the meanwhile. I hope later on when the
War is over that it may be possible to make a fuller and more accu-
rate communication on the subject.

"With best wishes for a very successful Gathering next month,
"I remain, Yours faithfully,

"Alasdair R. MacGregor."

Memorandum Regarding The Clan Gregor Roll of Honour.

By John MacGregor, W. S., Edinborough, Scotland.

"From, the 41h ot Angu-t, 1911, to the 20th instant (September
20, 1916.) I havo rotcA the following casualties; but I may explain
that the numbers are only approximate. They are mainly taken from
The Scotsman, which latterly has only printed casualties of Scottish
soldierg and Scottish regiments, consequently I may not have got
casualties to colonial MacGregors or those of the name serving in
English regiments. Some casualties may be repeated — one man may
appear as 'wounded' and later as 'died of wounds,' or 'missing' and
later as 'a prisoner of war':

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MacGregors in the Army, killed or died of wounds 121

in the Navy, killed or died of wounds .......... 2

in the Army, missing ' \" gg

in the Navy, missing ■.

in til a Army, wounded 285

in the Navy, wounded " 3

Pi isonei s of war ^n

Gregors in tuc Aimy, killed ^

Gregors in the army, wounded 1

460

In addition among the non-combatants murdered in the destruc-
tion of the Lusitania were A. L. McGregor and Mrs, B.
McGregor 2

462

During the above period I have noted the following honours and
distinctions gained by MacGregors:

Mentioned in despatches, nine.

Our Chief, Sir Malcolm MacGregor, being twice mentioned.
(Since this was written he has been mentioned a third time.)

The Distinguished Conduct Medal has been gained by six Mac-
Gregors (one being J. V. F, Gregg-Macgregor, 1st Field Ambulance
Australian Imperial Force).

One was recommended for gallant and distinguished service in
the field.

One won the Military Cross.

One of those mentioned in despatches was appointed a Companion
of the Distinguished Service Order.

Major P. A. MacGregor, D. S. 0., Coldstream Guards, was pro-
moted for service, and

Colonel (temporary Major-General) Charles Eoderick Robert
McGregor, C. B., C. M. G., was promoted to be Major-General, and
an additional Member of the Third Glass, or Companions, of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.

The following are some of the gallant actions which gained the
above rewards:

Second Lieutenant J. R. MacGregor, 2nd Bat. Gordon Highlanders
(attached 20th Co. Machine Gun Corps) won the Military Cross for
conspicuous gallantry. When the enemy had taken in their wire and
made a gap to get through, he trained his guns on the gap and
mounted one gun in a commanding but exposed position. When the
enemy commenced a very heavy bombardment he went to this gun

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and finding all the team killed or wounded, worked the gun single-
handed under intense fire and held off the enemy.

Captain (temporary Major) W. W. MacGregor, Reserve of Offi-
cers, Gordon Highlanders, attached 9th (Pioneer) Bat. was appointed
a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gal-
lantry during the action at Loos on 26th September, 1915. He re-
ceived an order to retire, but after retiring to the German front line
trenches, he became doubtful of the authenticity of the order, and
although large numbers of men were retiring, he called on two com-
panies and led them back through Loos under heavy shell fire. He
reoccupied his defensive position and held on from 5 to 8 P. M., when
he received reinforcements which enabled him to remain in position
all night. His prompt action helped to prevent the Germans turning
our flank.

Private J. MacGregor (2186), 1st Bat. Royal Highlanders, re-
ceived the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry
and devotion to duty on 9th May, 1915, at Rue du Bois. While lying
on the German parapet firing, private MacGregor saw a bomb thrown
into a shell hole some distance behind him, and knowing that an officer
and two men were lying in this hole he ran back, picked up the bomb,
and hurled it away before it exploded, thereby undoubtedly saving
their lives.

Corporal R. MacGregor (1156), 3rd. Bat. Australian Imperial
Force, received the Distinguished Conduct Medal for great bravery
on the 27th April, 1915, subsequent to the landing at Gaba Tepe (Dar-
danelles). Ammunition in the firing trench having run short, and
efforts to obtain supplies having failed, owing to the ammunition
carriers having been killed, he volunteered to return to the support
trench in the rear and obtain further supplies. This he succeeded in
doing, although both in going and returning he was exposed to a
very heavy shell fire.

Private C. MacGregor (6677), lst/5th Bat. Scottish Rifles, won
the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry. Acting
as a stretcher-bearer private MacGregor went over the parapet under
a heavy rifle and shell fire to help the wounded, dressing their wounds,
making them cover, and giving them water, when unable to carry
them in owing to the severity of the fire.

Private J. V, F. Gregg-Macgregor (611), 1st Field Ambulance
Australian Imperial Force, won the Distinguished Conduct Medal for
conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the 25th April, 1915,
and subsequent days after the landing at Gaba Tepe (Dardanelles).
In company with another man, private Gregg-Macgregor showed the
greatest bravery and resource in attending to the wounded. Totally
regardless of danger, he was for three consecutive days under a con-

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tinuous and heavy shell and rifle fire, di'essing and collecting the
wounded from the most exposed positions. He allowed no personal
risk or fatigue to interfere with the performance of his duties, and
his gallant conduct and devotion offered a splendid example to all
ranks.

So far as I am aware no MacGregor has, during the present
war, won the highest military distinction, the Victoria Cross. The
only occasion on which, I believe, this Cross was won by a MacGregor
was in the Crimean War, when E. McGregor, a private in the 2nd
Bat. Rifle Brigade was decorated for his conspicuous bravery when
employed as a sharpshooter in July, 1855. Two Russians occupying
a rifle pit were most annoying by their continuous fire, and Mc-
Gregor crossed the open space \inder a hail of bullets, took shelter
under a rock and dislodged them, occupying the position himself.

I have been told on good authority that "the distinguished anti-
quarian, the late Dr. Joseph Anderson, states that it is a 'remark-
able fact that since the repeal of the penal laws against them, there
is no Clan name which has earned more honorable distinction than
that of MacGregor.' "

Heroism, like courage, is a characteristic of the human race:
it exists both among savage as well as among civilized peoples and,
like courage, is confined to no particular nation, race, profession, or
occupation. We are in the habit of associating Heroism with war-
like achievement; but war has no monopoly of Heroism. A Hero is
defined as "a person regarded as a model of noble qualities"; hence
there are Heroes of Peace as well as of War. Gustavus Adolphus,
George Washington, and General Joffre, are Heroes of War; but their
glory does not eclipse that of the Apostle Paul, Martin Luther, or
Thomas Jefferson, who were essentially men of Peace.

Misfortune and suffering are liable to make us selfish, incon-
siderate of others, impatient, and even cowardly, and to expose the
weak points (if there be any) of our natures more than anything
else; and he who sustains with courage, fortitude, patience, and un-
selfishness, calamity, especially that which deprives us of the full
enjo3mient of the things of life to which we are justly entitled, is as
much a Hero and sets as grand an example of Heroism as he who
storms a city, invents an engine of industry or destruction, attains
forensic fame, or leads his people to national independence. It is
example no less than achievement that makes the Hero, that makes
a man or woman "a model of noble qualities."

As an illustration in point it is my privilege and duty owed to
true merit, to point to that octogenarian Hero of Annapolis and
member of this Society, that example of patience and enduring cour-
age in misfortune, of patriotic spirit and fervor, of loyal friendship

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And paternal tenderness and devotion, in a word, that "model of
noble qualities," whose resignation, cheery disposition, and fortitude
under affliction, brightened all his surroundings and lightened the
labors of love by which he was attended — the late John Reed
Magruder, whose superlative qualities of heart, mind, and character,
will honor the State of his birth while the waves kiss the shores of
"Maryland, my Maryland," and while the spirit of true Americanism
remains the bulwark of our land.

It was my good fortune to know him ever since this Society
was founded, though I saw him only once; but our correspondence
was considerable and as one's writings portray the innermost soul,
it v/as chiefly through this medium that I felt that I knew him well.
His form was manly and of Herculean build, his face honest and
open with the impress of sincerity and truth, his bearing most hos-
pitable, cordial, and reassuring, and his fine mental qualities tinc-
tured with culture and refinement: with him there was no pretense
or subterfuge, and his life was an open book wherein all might read.
I deem it one of the brightest spots and most fortunate events in my
connection with this Society that I met him and could claim his friend-
ship, as I believe I could. From the first his interest in this organi-
zation was unbounded as though he attended all its Gatherings, which
he longed to do, and he never ceased, as Deputy Chieftain, to labor
and render valuable service in its behalf.

I shall never forget the im.pression made upon me w^hen I first
came into his presence and beheld his manly form, sitting as he was
in his rolling chair, to which he had been uncomplainingly confined
for years, his face beaming with human kindness and interest in
the affairs of life, that here was one of nature's nobleman, a Roman
of the Romans, a man of the old school, of heroic mold and propor-
tion, whose firm and rockribbed character could weather the tempta-
tions of life and to which might safely be entrusted what we hold
most dear, even though it were human liberty itself, a Hero in all
the "noble qualities," and whose birthright was "The grand old name
of Gentleman."

"THE FIRST BORN."

By Dr. Jesse Ewell.

"Our race is royal" is the proud boast of American Clan Gregor;
and not it alone, but of every child of Gregor in whatever clime his
lot has been cast. Countless generations have lived and died, and re-
joiced in this claim: for there is nothing older than the hills, the
rivera and Clan Alpine.

The man who feels that he has royal blood in his veins will hold
hiB head a little higher, and lead a cleaner life through that influence.

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Every one has some influence and his life is reflected upon those who
come in contact with him. That the world is to-day a better world
because of this royal inheritance of ours, is to me a self evident fact.

We of American Clan Gregor Society are peculiarly blessed. Is
there one of us who has attended our Annual Gatherings without
feeling elated to find himself so closely related by ties of blood and
clansship to so many of the best that this country affords? Surely
none of us can afford to be a black sheep in such a fold.

Personally it is very gratifying to me to know that it was I
who first suggested the formation of this organization.

Recognizing the high mentality and great executive ability of
my friend, Dr. Edward May Magruder, I laid the matter before
him ; and it is his master hand that has moulded our American Clan
Gregor Society, and made it what it is.

Why did the idea of forming a MacGregor organization occur
to me? It must have been because I am in a line of first-borns.
Whether Capt. Jack Magruder was a first-born or not I do not know,
but it was he, and he alone who thought that his decendants should
bear the name of MacGregor. By act of Maryland Legislature in
1820 the name of his daughter, his first-born, and of his four sons,
were changed to MacGregor. That daughter, Mrs. Ellen MacGregor
Ewell, was the most loyal woman I ever knew: loyal to the South,
to the State of Maryland, and the MacGregor blood. Of old Scotland
she would say,

"Land of my sires, what mortal hand,
Can ever untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand?"

Could she have lived to see American Clan Gregor to-day, it would
have filled her heart with a great joy.

Her first born, my father, John Smith Magruder Ewell, is, I
think, to-day the oldest member of our Cl?.n. I am his first born and
only child by his cousin Helen Woods MacGregor, who was the first
born of the eldest son of Capt. John Smith Magruder.

My first born, now Mrs. Mary Ewell Plundley, was one of the
five who attended our first meeting in the home of Dr. Edward May
Magruder, and sent out invitations to "All in America who have the
MacGregor blood in their veins to meet at the National Hotel in
Washington, D. C, to effect a permanent organization of MacGregor
descendants."

Her first born, named after her mother, Mary Ewell Hundley,
has the distinction of being to-day the youngest member of our
Society.

To our boast, "Our race is royal," I would add, "Our line is
loyal." May we ever be loyal to what is good and true.

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NATHANIEL MAGRUDER OF "DUNBLANE."
By Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr.

(Upon request of The Magruder Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution I made the historical address at the un-
veiling of a stone erected to the memory of Nathaniel Magruder, at
"Dunblane," on October 17, 1915. The interest in Nathaniel Ma-
gruder thereby aroused has led to the writing of the following
paper.)

While we are dependent upon tradition for much of what we know
of Alexander Magruder, Maryland immigrant, the records prove that
his son, Samuel Magruder, was an early vestryman for St. Paul's
Parish, Commissioner, Member of the House of Burgesses, Justice,
and Captain of Militia.

That John Magruder, son of Samuel, was a Justice, vestryman
for Queen Anne Parish, and for eighteen consecutive years a mem-
ber of the House of Burgesses.

On the distaff side, Sarah, wife of Captain Samuel Magruder,
was the reputed daughter of Colonel Ninian Beall, Scotsman, as dis-
tinguished a man in the arts of war and peace as there was in the
colony of Maryland in his day; while Susanna Smith, wife of John
Magruder, was a great-granddaughter of Philip Thomas, Welchman,
a Lieutenant of Provincial forces at the battle of the Severn, 1655,
and a member of the Commission governing Maryland during the
Cromwellian era.

Such were the American forbears of Nathaniel Magruder, prin-
cipal heir, and, according to the law of primogeniture, the first-born
son of his parents.

His birth occurred in the manor house of Dunblane about 1716 —
two hundred years ago — which house was erected by his father, John
Magruder, shortly before, when he carried there his bride, Susanna
Smith, whom he married, December 1, 1715.

For many generations the Magruders were almost exclusively
planters, and Nathaniel Magruder was not an exception; but if
tradition is to be relied upon, and in this particular instance I be-
lieve it to be correct, he was also a merchant.

You all know because of the lack of commercial centres and the
inconvenience of transporting supplies over indifferent roads that the
colonial planters were wont to have their own warehouses filled with
household and farming necessities, a custom followed by John Ma-
gruder, who on August 9, 1750, gave deed to Nathaniel Magruder, his
son, for the farm store and its contents, one-third of the profits to
be paid to the grantor's wife, Susanna, one-third to his five children,
with the remainder to the grantee.

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Traditionally John Magruder was a bon vivant and the property-
passed so that Nathaniel Magruder, the more prudent man, might
save what he could for the benefit of his mother, his sisters and
brothers; and further, tradition says, the task was fulfilled to the
satisfaction of all interested, and that Nathaniel subsequently ac-
quired the whole content and became a merchant as well as a
planter.

According to the provisions of John Magruder's will his widow
was devised Dunblane and Beallfast, which at her death were to de-
scend to their son, Nathaniel, who was devised Alexandria, Beall's
Benevolence, Greenwood, Beall's Purchase and Saplin Thickett.

In addition to these properties Nathaniel Magruder acquired by
purchase from John James, March 25, 1752, Chance, 25 acres; Wil-
liam Eaglin, May 7, 1752, The Vale of Benjamin, 60 acres; Nathaniel
Offutt, December 23, 1755, Caverton Edge and Addition to Caverton
Edge, 498 acres; Charles Davis, March 25, 1756, The Park, 136
acres; Michael Cotes, March 30, 1756, Chance, 100 acres; Benonie
Price, June 24, 1756, Covert, 104 acres; making 923 acres additional
to those devised him by his father.

All of these properties were owned by him at the time of his
death except those transferred by the following conveyances : William
Magruder, December 8, 1758, The Vale of Benjamin, 60 acres; John
Soper, December 23, 1771, New Park Enlarged, 17 acres; John Fendall
Beall, Stephen West, Edward Sprigg, Nathaniel Offutt, Trustees of
The Poor of Prince George's County, Maryland, December 23, 1771,
Black Oak Thickett, 90 acres; in all 167 acres.

Nathaniel Magruder's services during the period of the Eevolu-
tion were official rather than military which was to be expected, since
he was quite 59 years of age at the time of the Battle of Lexington,
too old, according to the then prevailing military requirements for
duty as a private soldier, and unprepared for command because of
no previous military training.

The blockading of Boston harbor was made common ground of
protest by the colonists, which protest was crystalized at the First
Continental Congi'ess held in Philadelphia; but the mere adoption of
resolutions would have proved of no avail had there not been brave
spirits to enforce them.

To insure their observance meetings were held in the counties of
the several colonies, and at such a meeting held in Upper Marlboro',
the county seat of Prince George's, in the spring of 1774, Nathaniel
Magruder was named as a member of a committee to cary into effect
the "Associations" agreed upon by the Continental Congress.

And later, when Statehood was determined upon by the colony
of Maryland, the Convention of July 3, 1776, passed the following
resolutions :

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"Resolved, That a nev/ Convention be elected for the express
purpose 01 forming a new Government by the authority of the peo-
ple only, and enacting and ordering all things for the preservation,
safety and general v.eal of this Colony.

''Resolved, That John Cowkes, William Beans and Nathaniel
Magruder, Esquires, or any two of them, be judges of and hold the
election of Prince George's County, Maryland."

In recognition of these patriotic services during the Revolution
members of The Magruder Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution assembled around Nathaniel Magruder's grave at
Dunblane on October 17, 1915, and with appropriate exercises dedi-
cated a memorial stone of granite, 17 by 14 inches in height, with
a polished surface of 6 inches, bearing the inscription:

NATHANIEL MAGRUDER

Died 1785

Erected by

The Magruder Chapter, D. A. R. 1915.

Nathaniel Magruder married Margaret Magruder, a first cousin,
daughter of James Magruder and Barbara Coombs, and made Dun-
blane their home, where their children were born, five in number,
according to his will made in 1776.

I say will in the sense of Vv'iitten evidence of his desires regard-
ing the disposition of his estate, but this paper writing v/as not
legally so considered by the Orphans' Court of Prince George's
County, Maryland, with which it was filed in 1785, for lacking in
witnesses it Avas not admitted to probate. It is probable, however,
that the devisees therein named became the beneficiaries as indicated.

By its terms his son Francis was devised "Dunblin, whereon my
father, John Magruder, deceased, lived 250 acres"; Turkey Cock, or
part of The Vale of Benjamin, 52 acres; Beall's Benevolence, 176
acres; Duvall's Range, 100 acres; and 120 acres called Eeallfast to
be conveyed by Ignatius Digges in consideration for which Francis
was to give deed to the said Digges for 42 acres known as Slipe.

His son, John Smith Magru.der, was devised Bbck Oal: Thickett
Enlarged, 183 acres; Davis's Improvement, 112% acres with the addi-
tion of 9Va acres; John's Lott, 45% acres; Caverton Edge, 49S
acres; Covert, 106 acres; and New Park Enlarged, 190 acres; the
said land to be rented and the rent applied to the education of the
devisee.

His daughters Sarah, Marc.-aret and Elizabeth v/ere bequeathed
a slave each.

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After the payment of his wife's dower the remainder of the
estate was to be equally divided between her and his five children.

October 10, 1785, Margaret Magruder, Francis Magruder, John
Read Magruder, and Mordecai Burgess gave bond in the sum of
£2000 for the first two mentioned as administrators.

February 5, 1786, was filed inventory of Nathaniel Magruder's
estate by Francis Magruder with John S. Magruder and Sarah Shan-
ley as nearest of kin. It showed a valuation of £1362-2-10 including
21 slaves valued at £799.

April 7, 1789, was filed account of Margaret Magruder, acting
administrator.

Accountant charged herself with amount of inventory

and with collections made £1640-4-9 Vi

Disbursements 60-5-0

Balance due estate £1579-19-91^

April 27, 1790, was filed additional account by Francis Magruder.

Accountant charged himself v/ith balance due estate and

collections £1638-6-01%

Disbursements 14-7-4

Balance due estate £1623-8-8 %

January 12, 1794, Francis Magruder filed final account,
charging himself with balance due estate and col-
lections £1642-4-5l^

Disbursements 20-9-10%

Balance due estate £1621-14-6%

This balance was distributed to his widow and children in accord-
ance with decedent's desires as evidenced by the paper writing not
admitted to probate.

Margaret Magruder, wife of Nathaniel, died intestate and there
was no administration on her estate. She is most probably interred
by the side of her husband at Dunblane.

Francis Magruder, Ensign, 14th Regiment, 1794, planter, older
son of Nathaniel Magruder and Margaret (Magruder) MagTuder, v/as
born in 1763, and licensed to marry Barbara Williams, December 23,
1786.

He lived at Dunblane, which by the terms of his father's will v.-as
to be the property of his mother for life and at her death to become
that of their son, Francis, in fee.

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His will was made May 9, 1820, and admitted to probate in Prince
George's County, Maryland, August 7, 1820.

His grandsons Richard W. Bowie and Francis M. Bowie were be-
queathed $1200 each at majority with the right of survivorship, the
same to pass to his three daughters, Louisa Magruder, Eleanor W.
Magruder and Elizabeth Magruder should said grandsons die before
arriving at 21 years of age. Said daughters were made residuary
legatees. His brother John Smith Magruder and daughter Louisa
were named as executors.

December 27, 1820, John Smith Magruder, Louisa Magruder,
Benjamin B. Jeffries and Enos D. Ferguson gave bond in the sum
of $20,000 for the first two mentioned as executors.

June 12, 1821, John Smith Magruder filed inventory (attested,
June 29, 1821, by Louisa Magruder, joint executor).

It included 33 slaves, valued at $7,490, with a total appraise-
ment of $10,586.37. On the first mentioned date John Smith Ma-
gruder also filed a list of debts due the estate, all sperate, amounting
to $1869.56, and an additional list of smaller debts amounting to
$425.45, September 18, 1821.

April 8, 1822, was passed the first and final administration ac-
count.
The executors charged themselves with the amount of

inventory $10,586.37

And with collections and cash left in his home by de-
cedent ($121) 2,896.72%

Estate to be accounted for $13,483.09%

Disbursements 2,592.84^

Balance due estate $10,890.25%

October 22, 1821, Louisa Magruder, Elizabeth Magruder and
Eleanor W. Magruder gave receipts to the executors for six slaves
each, and their respective one-third interest in three slaves, stock,
plantation utensils, grain, provisions, household and kitchen furni-
ture, earthenware and cash amounting to the appraised value, in the
aggregate, of $8,840.10.

Francis Magruder's grave at Dunblane is marked by a tomb-
stone reading:

In Memory of
FRANCIS MAGRUDER

Who departed this life

on the 9th of July, 1819

in the 56th year of his age,

Omnea codem cogitwr

Mark the perfect man & behold the upright, for the

end of that man is peace.

a
ID

o

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Barbara (Williams) Magruder, wife of Francis Magruder, died
intestate, and without administration upon her estate. Her tomb-
stone, by the side of that of her husband, at Dunblane, reads:

In

Memory op

MRS. BARBARA MAGRUDER

consort of

Francis Magruder who

Departed this life June

25th, 1812 aged 48.

It will be recalled that Francis Magruder bequeathed to hia
grandsons Richard W. Bowie and Francis M. Bowie but did not
mention their mother's name in the will.

October 31, 1809, Martha Magruder, daughter of Francis Ma-
gruder and Barbara (Williams) Magruder married William Mor-
decai Bowie, planter, subsequently a soldier in the War of 1812,

Martha (Magruder) Bowie, died intestate and without adminis-
tration on her estate, March 6, 1812; and on December 14, 1814,
William Mordecai Bowie married Mary Trueman Hilleary who sur-
vived him without issue.

Martha Magruder and William Mordecai Bowie left issue:

Richard William Bowio

Francis Magruder Bowie.

The will of William M, Bowie, was made March 12, 1861. He
died February 15, 1863, and his Avill was probated in Prince George's
County, Maryland, February 22, 1863.

His wife, Mary, was devised one-third of his realty and per-
sonalty. Grandsons William F, Bowie, Thomas Trueman Somervell
Bowie and Richard Bowie, and granddaughters Margaret Elizabetk
Bowie and Sarah Maria Suter Bowie, a slave each. Son Francis M.
Bowie, a slave and $2,000, Granddaughter Patsy (Martha) Ma-
gruder Tolson, $500. Grandson William F. Bowie, the dwelling plan-
tation (Thorpland), and two acres on the Western Branch, Grand-
sons Thomas T, S, Bowie and Richard Bowie, plantation of Brook-
field, with the right of survivorship. Grandsons William F., Thomas
T. S. and Richard Bowie, all personalty. Land purchased of Francis
M, Bowie (31 acres), and land in Long Old Fields, purchased of
Walter Brooke, to be sold and proceeds equally divided between his
grandchildren, William F,, Thomas T, S,, Richard, Margaret Eliza-
beth, Sarah M, S,, Amelia, Mary Trueman, and Agnes Louise Bowie,
William F., Thomas T, S., and Richard Bowie to relinquish all their
rights in their father's (Dr, Richard William Bowie) estate in favor
of their sisters or forfeit their rights under this will. Son William
F, Bowie, executor.

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February 24, 1863, William F. Bowie, Charles Bowie and William

B. Bowie gave bond in the sum of $50,000 for William F. Bowie as

executoi*.

March 14, 1864, was filed inventory showing 39 slaves, valued at

$10,080, and a total appraisement of $17,877.82.

March 24, 1864, was passed the first administration
account. Accountant charged himself v;ith the
amount of the inventory $17,877.82

From this was deducted the appraised value of 89
slaves set free by the Constitution of Maryland in
1864 10,080.00

$ 7,797.82
Chra-gcd himEeii vrita collections 6,853.87

Estate to be accounted for $14,651.69

Disbursements 5,776.90 2/3

Balance dv.e estate $ 8^874.78 1/3

The executor's letters of admiivistration having been revok»^d,
April 17, 1866, William A. Jarboe gave bond as administrator D. B.
N. C. T. A. in the sum of $16,000 v.'ith Rector Pumphrey and Sam-
uel B. Hanco on the bond.

January 28, 1870, the administrator passed his first and final
account showing a balance due the estate by the late executor of
$10,000.91, which amount v/as subsequently paid by him throiijh
Samuel B. Hance, trustee.

William Mordecai Bowie and his wives, Martha Magruder r.nd
Mary Trueman Hilleary, were buried at Thorpland.

An interesting heirloom is novi/ (1916) in possession of Mrs.
Agnes Woods (MacGregor) Bowie, widow of Thomas Trueman Somer-
vell Bowie, which came down to the latter from his grandmother
Martha (Mfgruder) Bov,ie, in the form of a map of the State of
Maryland whereon the county units and waterways are depicted on
canvas by worsted and needle. It was done during her school days,
more than one hundred years ago, and is underwritten, "Patsy Ma-
gruder," by v/hich name she was familiarly and affectionately known.

Richard William Bowie, son of Martha Magruder and William
Mordecai Bowie, born September 12, 1810, was grsduatcd M. D.,
from the University of Maryland in 1833.

May 24, 1836, he married Margaret Weems Somervei], born Feb-
ruary 12, 1818; died August 24, 1901.

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Dr. Bowie died January 1, 1859, both o:" them intostate, and the
formei- without administration on her estate.

May 27, iS59, Margaret W. Bowie, William M. Bowie and F.
M. Bowie gave bond in the sum of $30,000 for Margaret W. Bowie as
administratrix.

November 28, 1859, was filed inventory listing 24 slaves, valued
at $18,550, with a total appraiscm.ent of $22,874.

June 4, 1867, was reported partial sales amounting to $1,015.82.

February 25, 1868, was passed the first and final administration
account.

The accountant charged herself with amount of inventory. . $22,874.00

From this was deducted the appraised value of
24 slaves freed by the Maryland Constitu-
tion of 1864 $18,550.00

Also loss and consumption of stock 847.00

19,.397.00

Estate to be accounted for $ 3,477.00

A further reduction of the estate was made because of the non-
sale of furniture and a gold watch reducing the above balance to
$2,720.00. By sales and collections the estate was increased to a
value of $21,393.10, but reduced by disbursements to $199.66.

The issue of Dr. Richard Willirm Bowie and Margaret Weems
Somervell were:

Virginia Bowie, born April 7, 1837; died 1839.

William Francis Bowie, born April 7, 1839; died 1893, unmar-
ried.

Thomas Trueman Somervell Bowie, born June 12, 1842; died
Febri-ary 12, 1910; married Decem.ber 3, 1868, Agnes Woods Mac-
Gregor.

Margaret T. Bowie, born 1843; died young.

Margaret Elizabeth Bowie, born October 2, 1844; married Octo-
ber 16, 1866, Roderick Mortimer McGregor.

Sarah Maria Suter Bowie, born 1847, died young and unmar-
ried.

Richard Bowie, born October 13, 1843; died 1873, unmarried.

Amelia Hollyday Somervell Bowie, born June 10, 1850.

Mary Trueman Bowie, born 1853; married, 1880, John Wall.

Agnes Louise Bowie, born 1856; married, 1880, Alan P. Bowie.

Francis Magruder Bowie, planter, son of Martha Magruder
and William Mordecai Bowie, was born February 12, 1812, s.nd was
but a few weeks old when his mother died.

He was practically adopted by his aunts Louisa and Eleanor
W. Magruder with whom he lived at Dunblane; and was beneficiary

b

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under the will of both of them. Upon the death of the latter he
came into possession of a part of Dunblane.

October 17, 1833, he married Sarah Coates. Francis Magruder
Bowie died intestate in 1877, leaving a widow. There was no admin-
istration on his estate or that of his widow, Sarah (Coates) Bowie.

Their issue was:

Martha Magruder Bowie, born 1835; married December 18, 1860,
Benton Tolson; died, 1864. They rest side by side in Trinity Church-
yard, Upper Marlboro', Maryland.

Sarah Magruder, daughter of Nathaniel Magi'uder and Mar-
garet (Magruder) Magruder, was born 1765. She was licensed to
marry Bernard Shanley, February 3, 1785, following which the couple
resided in Washington, D. C, She died September, 1810, and lies
buried at Dunblane with a tombstone inscribed:

In Memory

OP

MRS. SARAH SHANLEY

who departed this life

in September 1810

aged 45 years.

I have found no will or administration on Sarah (Magruder)
Shanley's estate in Prince George's County, Maryland, or the District
of Columbia, and the same applies to her husband. They had issue:

Maria A. Shanley.

Elizabeth Shanley.

Maria A. Shanley, daughter of Sarah Magruder and Bernard
Shanley, married, October 26, 1811, George Watterston, born in New
York City, October 23, 1783, a son of David Watterston, a native of
Jedburgh, Scotland, and his wife Jane.

He was educated at Charlotte Hall Academy, St. Mary's County,
Maryland; studied law and practiced his profession in Hagerstown,
Maryland, and Washington, D. C.

In 1810 he published "The Wanderer in Jamaica," a poem, and
courtier like dedicated it to Dolly Madison. He was a private in the
Company of Captain Benjamin Burch in 1814, and assisted in the
defense of the National capital.

Prior to the destruction of the capitol the Clerk of the House of
Representatives was ex-officio Librarian of Congress. At the time
in question Patrick Magruder, a former member of Congress, was
Clerk of the House and Librarian. Upon his resignation the positions
were dissociated, and the dedication of "The Wanderer in Jamaica"
brought favor to George Watterston in his appointment as Librarian
of Congress by President Madison in 1815, a position held by him
until 1829.

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Rather than hinder the position apparently spurred on his liter-
ary activities, and numerous publications by him followed, includ-
ing: "The Child of Feeling," a comedy; "Gallery of American Por-
traits," "The Scenes of Youth," "Glencarn; or. The Disappointments
of Youth," "The Lawyer; or, Man as He Ought Not to Be," with
essays on "La Place, Hamlet, Book of Job and Piers Plowman's
Vision."

A pastime was the study of botany, and he lent his pen to
"A Memoir on the History, Culture, Manufacture, Uses, Etc., of the
Tobacco Plant," "Potatoes," "Night-blooming Cereus," "Silk Worm
and Mulberry Tree."

He was sometime editor of The National Reporter and Wash-
ington City Chronicle (Washington, D. C.).

He was trustee of public schools, 1820 and 1823, president of
the Board of Common Council, 1821, and vice-president of the Board
of Aldermen, 1829. Was largely acquainted among the political
giants of his day and a marked favorite of President Madison and
Henry Clay.

At a dinner given General Lafayette on the occasion of his visit
to Washington City, October 12, 1824, George Watterston responded
to the toast, "The gratitude of a free nation will always be extended
to him who serves well."

He died intestate in Washington, D. C, February 4, 1854. He
had been Secretary of the Washington Monument Commission from
its inception to the time of his death, and in this connection The
National Intelligeyicer (Washington, D. C.) said of him, February 6,
1854: "To his early and untiring labors pursued through all vicis-
situdes, may be mainly ascribed the success of the great enterprise
of erecting in this city the monument to the memory of the Father
of his Country by the contributions of the people; and with that
proud memorial of a Nation's gratitude his name is indissolubly
associated."

May 6, 1854, Maria A. Watterston, David A. Watterston and
Albert A. Holcombe gave bond in the sum of $15,000 for Maria A.
Watterston as administratrix, but no administration account was
passed,

Maria A. (Shanley) Watterston died intestate and without ad-
ministration upon her estate.

Their issue were:

Charles L. Watterston, born 1821; died 1832.

John Watterston, born 1825; died 1832.

George Wedderburn Watterston, married Rebecca Bookter.

Sarah Maria Watterston, married Lieut. Albert A. Holcombe,
U. S. N.

Eliza H. Watterston, died unmarried.

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David Adolphus Watterston, died unmarried.

George Wedderburn Watterston, son of Maria Shanley and
George Watterston, made his will in Livingston Parish, Louisiana,
May 1, 1857, where it was admitted to probate March 3, 1860, and
an authenticated copy recorded in Prince George's County, Maryland.

His brother David Adolphus Watterston was named as executor
of his will and guardian of his children, George, Charles, David and
Bernard; his sister, Sarah Maria Holcombe, to succeed to the trust
should said executor die before its execution. Cited he did not think
his debts exceeded two years' income, which amounted to $20,000,
and that he considered his property worth $100,000. Requested that
the remains of his wife Rebecca and his own be transported to the
burial place of his family. His wife was the daughter of Gottlieb
Bookter, a native of Holland, who settled in St. Helen's Parish,
Louisiana.

July 14, 1860, was filed bond of N. M. McGregor, William O.
Talburtt and Samuel B. Hance in the sum "of thousand dollars" for
the first named as administrator.

August 15, 1860, David A. Watterston renounced right to ad-
minister on the estate in Prince George's County Maryland, in favor
of Nathaniel M. McGregor.

September 4, 1860, Nathaniel M. McGregor filed inventory show-
ing an appraisement of $1539.55.

March 21, 1861, he filed list of sales amounting to $823.14.

September 5, 1864, accountant charged himself with amount

of inventory $1,539.55

And vvith collectioTis 209.58

Estate to be accounted for $1,749.13

Disbursements 1,749.13

Sarah Maria Watterston, daughter of Sarah Shanley and George
Watterston, was licensed to marry, June 6, 1841, Albert A. Holcombe,
midshipman U. S. N., April 1, 1828, past midshipman June 14, 1834,
Lieutenant, February 25, 1841, reserved list September 13, 1855; died
August 9, 1858.

Sarah Maria Watterston died April 13, 1886.

Her will was made February 27, 1878, and probated in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, September 14, 1886.

She devised all of her estate to her brother David Adolphus Wat-
terston to pass at his death to her son George Holcombe.

September 17, 1886, David A. Watterston, Thomas N. Hanson
and John H. Walker gave bond in the sum of $600 for David A.
Watterston as executor.

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May 3, 1903, said executor died without having settled up the
estate, and on October 9, 1907, Roderick J. Watterston petitioned the
probate court for the appointment of the American Security and
Trust Company as administrator D, B. N. C. T. A. The request was
granted the same day, and on March 5, 1908, was filed an inven-
tory showing- an estate in the form of stock valued at $875.00.

June 22, 1908, was passed the first and final administrative ac-
count showing that said stock had sold for $980.00, which with divi-
dends received thereon increased the value of the estate to. .$1,232.00
Disbursements 289,46

Estate to be accounted for $ 942.54

"Distributable in accordance with an agreement of all the next
of kin, all of whom are of full age, as follows:" One-fourth each to
David A. Watterston, 2nd., of New Orleans, nephew; Roderick J.
Watterston of New York City, grand nephew; Rebecca (Watterston)
Machauer of New Orleans, grand niece; and Charles J. Watterston,
New Orleans, grand nephew;

Sarah Maria V/atterston and Lieutenant Albert A. Holcombe
had issue:

Florence Holcombe.

George Holcombe.

Florence Holcombe was under age May 15, 1848. She died Feb-
ruary 8, 1878. Her will was made February 2, 1878, and probated
in the District of Columbia on February 19, 1878.

She devised the East half of lot 3 in reservation "B" Washington
City, to Florence Fendall and Lizzie McLain as tenants in common.
Her mother, Sarah M. Holcombe, was made residuary legatee with
the request that she dispose of certain personal property as thereto-
fore indicated. Reginald Fendall was named as executor. No admin-
istration.

George Holcombe died unmarried and intestate, November 25,
1902.

The will of Eliza H. Watterston, daughter of Maria Shanley and
George Watterston, was made September 15, 1857, and probated in
the District of Columbia May 7, 1858. Her brother David A. Wat-
terston was devised lot 7, square 762, Washington, D. C, but should
he die without natural heirs it was to pass to Florence Holcombe in
fee; also one-half of lot 3 square "B" Washington, D. C, jewelry and
books including "The old Family Prayer Book published in 1683."

Her sister, Sarah Holcombe, was devised lot 8, square 845, Wash-
ington, D. C, and personalty including "daguerreotype of John How-
ard Payne presented to me by himself," his autograph of "Sweet
Home," and the picture of Kean in his (Payne's) drama of Brutus.

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George Watterston, Sr., was bequeathed stock valued at $444,
china vases, and "my autograph letters of distinguished men written
to my father and myself are to be kept if possible by the family, so
that they will hereafter be of great interest,"

Her Carthagenian coins were given to the United States Patent
Office. J. T. Adams and Mary D. Beale were bequeathed personalty;
and a memento was to be given each of her servants. Virginia Clarke
and her son Jim received personalty, and finally "I wish to be buried
in a simple white dress and wrapped in the burnouse sent me from
Tunis by J. H. Payne." No administration.

Eliza Shanley, daughter of Sarah Magruder and Bernard Shan-
ley, was licensed to marry Charles B. Hamilton, November 15, 1815.
Charles Beale Hamilton, a native of Virginia, assistant surgeon U.
S. N., April 2, 1811; surgeon April 15, 1814. Resigned from the ser-
vice April 12, 1826, having served in the second war with Great
Britain.

Dr. Hamilton's will was made March 10, 1851, and probated May
3, 1851, in the District of Columbia. All of his property was devised
to his wife, "Confiding in her sense of justice to make such disposi-
tion of what may remain of it, at her own demise, among her relations
and mine as she may deem right and proper according to their sev-
eral deservings." His wife was named as executrix.

May 10, 1851, Eliza (Shanley) Hamilton qualified as executrix
under her husband's will in the sum of $10,000 with George Wat-
terston and N. M. McGregor on the bond.

Eliza (Shanley) Hamilton's will was made October 5, 1860, and
probated December 22, 1860, in the District of Columbia. By its pro-
visions all her realty was to be sold except lot 32 in square 732,
Washington City, improved by two small tenements, a house and
one-half a lot being devised to slaves Sam Gantt and George Gray,
and the remaining house and ground to the children of her slaves
Martha and Josephine.

One-third of the proceeds arising from the sale of the realty
and personalty, excepting furniture, carriage and horse, was to be
divided between her niece Sarah M. Holcombe and nephews G. W. and
D. A. Watterston. Of the remainder, $600 to slave Lewis Taylor;
$300 to Lewis's son Frederick; and $100 to slave Nannie, with residue
to Mary Carter, Lucy, Robert W., Richard and Edward, children of
Robert Hamilton.

Niece Sarah M. Holcombe was bequeathed her furniture. Sister
Maria Watterston, her horse and carriage; while a debt of $200 and
the interest due by Lieutenant Holcombe to her husband was be-
queathed to the debtor's children Florence and George Holcombe.
Nephew D. A, Watterston was made trustee for a fund of $3,000 for

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the use of slaves Sam Gantt, George and Bill Gray, Lewis Taylor and
the children of Martha and Josephine.

Slaves Lewis Taylor, Sam Gantt, George and Bill Gray, William
Woods, Frederick Taylor, Alexander, Martha and Josephine, and the
latter's children, to be free at testatrix's death.

Funds realized from the sale of a piece of woodland lying near
the Dunblane farm in Prince George's County, Maryland, to niece S.
M. Holcombe and nephew D, A. Watterston.

To Charles Watterston, $220, the amount due by his father, G.
W. Watterston, on that part of the Dunblane estate not included in
his bond to her husband.

The trustees of the M. E. Church at Ebenezer Station, the West-
ley Chapel, and the Capitol Hill Church on A Street North between
third and fourth Streets East, received $100 each for their Sunday
Schools. Betsy Beck was bequeathed the interest on testatrix's
Georgetown Corporation Stock for life with George and Bill Gray as
remaindermen. N. M. McGregor v/as bequeathed any of her r.ionies in
maindermen. N. M. McGregor was bequeathed any of her monies in
his hands at her death. D. A. Watterston and N. M. McGregor were
named as executors.

D. A. V/atterston declined to act as joint executor under the
above will, and on February 9, 1861, Nathaniel M. McGregor quali-
fied as such executor in the sum of $40,000, with Benedict Milburn,
Edward Hall and David A. Watterston on the bond.

February 6, 1861, Nathaniel M. McGregor filed an inventory of
Eliza (Shanley) Hamilton's personalty showing an appraised value
of $8,136.95 including 11 slaves appraised at $5,950.00.

The value of the individual slaves varied from nothing, Sam
Gantt's valuation, for whom his mistress showed so much solicitude
in her will because he was "about 70 and totally blind," to $1200, the
price placed opposite the name of Frederick Taylor aged 22 years.

January 18, 1862, the probate court ordered the executor to sell
"land warrant No. 19, 414 issued to Mrs. Eliza Hamilton as widow
of Charles B. Hamilton, surgeon's mate in the War of 1812."

April 23, 1855, Mrs. Eliza Hamilton, aged 63, widow of Dr.
Charles B. Hamilton, made application for a land warrant in right
of her husband's services as a surgeon's mate on the ship Peacock,
Commander Lewis Warrington, September 23, 1813 — January 7, 1816.

She further stated that Dr. Hamilton was aboard the sloop Pea-
cock when she captured the Epervier (after 42 minutes engagement) ;
that she was married to him on November 16, 1816, and that he died
April 24, 1851.

March 22, 1856, was issued Land Warrant No. 19,414 for 160
acres of land in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Mrs. Hamilton died before settling up his estate, and on July 11,
1876, the probate court was notified of the death of Nathaniel M.

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McGregor her executor, who had filed no final account, whereupon
William B. Webb was appointed by the court to administer upon both
estates. On the same day Webb qualified in the sum of $500 each
for the two estates with L. G. Hine and Enoch Totten on the bonds,
but no final account on either estate has ever been passed.

The wills of Eliza (Shanley) Hamilton and Dr. Charles B. Ham-
ilton reasonably conclusively show they died without issue surviving.

Dr. Hamilton was held in high esteem by his wife's relations.
John Smith Magruder devised all his property to him in trust for
the benefit of his wife and children. Eleanor W. Magruder be-
queathed him a number of slaves and named him executor of her will
without bond. She also bequeathed some special legacies, but before
their payment he, as executor, was charged to erect a brick wall on
a granite foundation around the family graveyard at Dunblane, which
direction, so far as all existing evidences show, he entirely ignored.
Possibly he felt absolved from the obligation because of the fact that
he overpaid Eleanor W. Magruder's estate $456.95, and yet the
erection of the brick wall was expressly made a condition precedent
to the payment of specific legacies and should have been given legal
precedence.

John Smith Magruder, sometime Chief Judge of the Orphans'
Court and Captain of Militia (14th Kegiment, 1794-'99), planter, son
of Nathaniel Magruder and Margaret (Magruder) Magruder, was
born in 1767, and named for his paternal grand parents John Ma-
gruder and Susanna Smith. He married Eleanor Clarke, born Hall.
Through legislative enactment (Laws of Maryland, 1820, Chapter
135, passed February 12, 1821), he had his children's name changed
from Magruder to the original patronymic of McGregor.

His will was made March 3, 1825, and probated in Prince George's
County, Maryland, April 20, 1825. All his estate was devised to Dr.
Charles B. Hamilton in trust for sale and division between his wife
and children, one-seventh to the former and the remainder equally
between, Margaret E., Nathaniel M., Roderick, Henry and Alerick
McGregor; in the event of death of any of whom before 21 years of
age the right of survivorship was to vest in those who were unmar-
ried.

Other children were,

Mortimer Magruder, born 1798; died 1800.

Francis Mortimer Magruder, born 1806; died 1808.

April 20, 1825, Charles B. Hamilton, Nathaniel M. McGregor
and Eleanor W. Magruder gave bond in the sum of $50,000 for
Charles B. Hamilton as executor.

July 5, 1826, the executor, as trustee under the will, gave deed
to Benjamin Young for 288 acres, known as Groome's Lot, the con-
isideration named being $8,000.

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November 19, 1828, he gave similar deed to Nathaniel M. Mc-
Gregor for John's Choice 200 acres, the consideration being $4,000.

This was the home plantation of John Smith Magruder, called by
him Grampian Hills, from which was cut the official pine for the
1916 Gathering.

November 21, 1826, was filed inventory including 21 slaves ap-
praised at $4,980.00, with a total valuation of $6,443.33. On the
same day was filed a list of sales amounting to $6,773.56. Also first,
and final administration account.

Accountant charged himself with the amount of inven-
tory $6,443.33

And with excess of sales over inventory ($830.23) and

collections 1,957.64

Estate to be accounted for $8,400.97

Disbursements 1,584.33 1/2

Balance due estate $6,816.63 1/2

Among the disbursements were, tuition for deceased's son Henry,
advances to his daughter "Miss Margaret Ellen Mcgregor," and to Dr.
William Beanes for professional services. Dr. Beanes was also in at-
tendance upon Francis, brother of John Smith Magruder, in his last
illness. He was a considerable historical character because of his asso-
ciation with Francis Scott Key at the moment of the composition of
The Star-Spangled Banner.

A native Prince Georgian, he served as a surgeon in the Revolu-
tionary War, was host to General Ross and Admiral Cockburn when
they entered the county seat of Prince George's August 23, 1814, and
was arrested after the Battle of Bladensburg, probably for some
fancied breach of faith, at the instance of Admiral Cockburn. It
was to secure his release that Francis Scott Key visited the British
fleet off Fort McHenry, Baltimore, and being detained during the
bombardment which followed was inspired to write the great patri-
otic anthem.

September 3, 1914, was a gala day at Upper Marlboro', the
occasion being exercises commemorating the restoration of Dr.
Beanes' tomb through the efforts of The Star-Spangled Banner So-
ciety of Prince George's County, of which society I had the honor to
be president.

Gold and bronze medals, designed by Hans Shuler, were struck
in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the writing of The
Star-Spangled Banner on which Francis Scott Key and Dr. Beanes
appear watching,

"The rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air."

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Dr. Beanes' sister, Millicent, married James Alexander Ma-
gruder who were the parents of Dr. William Beanes Magruder, a dis-
tinguished physician and Mayor of Washington City in 1857-'58.

Eleanor, widow of John Smith Magruder, died intestate and
without administration upon her estate. Both are buried at Dun-
blane with tombstones inscribed:

To THE Memory op

JOHN SMITH MAGRUDER

who departed this life

the 7th of April, 1825

aged 58 years.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

And

In Memory

of

ELEANOR MAGRUDER

who departed this life Aug. 1852.

in her 87th year.

Margaret Ellen McGregor, daughter of John Smith Magruder
and Eleanor Clarke, born Hall, was born March 24, 1800.

October 23, 1827 she married Dr. Jesse Ewell, who was born at
Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia, in March, 1802.

Having spent a year in the study of medicine at Jefferson Medi-
cal College, Philadelphia, Jesse Ewell was the first student to matricu-
late in the medical department of Columbian College, now George
Washington University. Although entitled to be graduated a year
later he was persuaded to waive the privilege, in consideration of
which the College gave him free tuition for the ensuing year and
graduated him M. D., with five others, in 1826, the first class gradu-
ating from the institution.

Dr. and Mrs. Ewell resided in Washington City for three years,
after which they moved to Dunblane, Prince William County, Vir-
ginia, where she died July 8, 1890, Dr. Ewell surviving until Janu-
ary 19, 1897.

Margaret Ellen (McGregor) Ewell was the mother of five chil-
dren who reached majority:

John Smith Magruder Ewell, born August 2, 1828, married, No-
vember 2, 1852, Helen Woods McGregor, a first cousin; and, Octo-
ber 23, 1856, Alice J. Tyler.

Issue, first wife. Dr. Jesse Ewell, the originator of this Society,
elected Scribe upon its organization, 1909, and still holds the office,
which up to 1912 embraced the duties of the present Treasurer.

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Issue, second wife:

Helen Woods, Mary Eleanor, Alice Maude, Charlotte Isabella,
Albert Mortimer, Fanny Edmonia, Eleanor Murdoch, John Smith,
Edward Tyler, James Louis, Mildred Bertrand.

Jesse Ewell, died unmarried, aged 22.

Eleanor Mildred Beale Ewell, born March 7, 1832; died 1915,
unmarried-
Albert Mortimer Ewell, Confederate States Army, killed at Wil-
liamsburg, Va., April 16, 1862, unmarried.

Charlotte Ewell, died young and unmarried.

Nathaniel Mortimer McGregor, planter and merchant, son of
John Smith Magruder and Eleanor Clarke, born Hall, was born Jan-
uary 20, 1803, and licensed to marry Susan Euphemia Mitchell, De-
cember 22, 1827.

His will was made January 9, 1869, and probated in Prince
George's County, Maryland, July 6, 1870. A life interest during
widowhood in all his property was devised to his wife, to be divided
at her death among his six children. The following legacies were to
be paid before apportionment, daughter Susan Euphemia, $600 out
of portion due daughter Mary Eliza so as to discharge testator's in-
debtedness to her on account of a legacy left by her uncle Roderick.
Also $400 out of said daughter's share to grandson Jesse Ewell, the
advances already made Mary Eliza equaling the amounts mentioned
to be transferred from her. Agnes Woods was to be paid $100 out
of son Roderick's share, and $100 to daughter Isabella out of John
Francis portion. Son Roderick M. McGregor was named as executor
without compensation.

July 9, 1870, Roderick M. McGregor, Mrs. Susan E. McGregor
and Susan E. McGregor gave bond in the sum of $3,000 for the first,
named as executor.

I have found no inventory of Nathaniel M. McGregor's per-
sonal estate, but on October 31, 1876, the executor filed his first and
final account.

Accountant charges himself with amount of inventory $ 666.25

And with collections made 2,636.80

Estate to be accounted for $3,303.05

Disbursements 3,522.57

Overpaid estate $ 219.52

Susan Euphemia (Mitchell) McGregor died intestate and with-
out administration on her estate in January, 1894.
The issue of the above couple were:

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Helen Woods, married, November 2, 1852, John Smith Magruder
Ewell.

Mary Eliza, married, John Ridout McGregor.

Agnes Mitchell, died young.

Catherine Melvell, died young.

Susan Euphemia died 1898, unmarried.

Rose, died young.

Isabella, married December 3, 1868, Thomas Somervell Dorsett.

Roderick, married, October, 1866, Margaret E. Bowie.

Agnes Woods, married, December 3, 1868, Thomas Trueman
Somervell Bowie.

Virginia, died young.

John Francis, married, June, 1875, Florence E. Wallace.

Roderick Mortimer McGregor, son of John Smith Magruder and
Eleanor Clarke, born Hall, was born July 27, 1804.

December 20, 1831, he was licensed to marry Mary Ann Eaton,
born Berry, a half sister of his brother Henry McGregor's wife, who
predeceased him intestate, and without administration upon her
estate.

Roderick M. McGregor's will was made May 5, 1856, and pro-
bated in Prince George's County, Maryland, September 4, 1857.
Ellen M. Ewell was bequeathed $1,000; Susan, Isabella, Agnes and
Ellen Hall McGregor $500 each; John R. McGregor, $4500 within
the discretion of his executor, testator's brother, Nathaniel Mortimer
McGregor; while Alerick McGregor was to receive an annuity of
$150.

All of his slaves were to be liberated one year after his death,
and a favored one, William Bowie, his wife and three children, were
to receive a home in the District of Columbia, a cart and horse, a
stack of hay and 50 bushels of oats out of $500 bequeathed for the
purpose. Roderick McGregor and John Francis McGregor were named
as residuary legatees.

September 14, 1857, Nathaniel M. McGregor, Benjamin Duvall
and Daniel C. Digges gave bond in the sum of $50,000 for the first
named as executor.

June 22, 1858, was filed inventory, including 30 slaves, valued
at $17,600, with a total appraisement of $25,531.

August 26, 1858, an unusual inventory was filed, that of the
realty, consisting of the Plain of Plenty, 379 acres, appraised at
$15,160; the Vale of Benjamin, 269 acres, appraised at $9,415; and
part of Duvall's Range and Beall's Benevolence, 31 acres, appraised
at $1240, in all $25,815.

August 28, 1860, was filed an additional inventory of six slaves
appraised at $2450 (William Bowie, wife and children), so that the

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total appraisement of Roderick M. McGregor's estate, real and per-
sonal, amounted to $53,796.

August 28, 1860, was passed the first and final administration
account.

Accountant charged himself with the amount of inventory. $25,531.00

And with additional inventory (6 slaves) 2,450.00

And with crops sold and collections made 11,757,15

Estate to be accounted for $39,738.15

Disbursements 22,146.95

Balance due estate $17,591.20

Additional expenses reduced the estate 1,085.17

Balance due estate $16,506.03

Distributees:

Alerick McGregor $396.00; Susan McGregor and Ellen H. Mc-
Gregor $500 each; Ellen M. EvMl, $1000; John R. McGregor, $4500;
William Bowie, slave, $657.50; executor, as guardian of Isabella Mc-
Gregor and Agnes McGregor $500 each, making total distribution
equal to $8,553.50, the balance going to Roderick McGregor and
John Francis McGregor, residuary legatees.

Roderick Mortimer McGregor and his wife Mary Ann Eaton,
born Berry, left no issue. He was buried at Dunblane; his tomb-
stone is inscribed:

To THE Memory of

RODERICK M. McGREGOR

who departed this life

the first of September 1857

in the 54th year

of his age

Like crowded forest trees we stand

And some are marked to fall
The axe will smite at God's command

And soon will smite us all.

Henry McGregor, planter and surveyor, son of John Smith Ma-
gruder and Eleanor Clarke, born Hall, was born December 15, 1807.

January 6, 1829, he was licensed to marry Eliza Berry.

He died intestate in 1851, leaving a widow and one child Eleanor
Hall McGregor, who married— Markwood. (Markward?)

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May 14, 1851, Roderick McGregor, O. C. Harris and James
Harper, gave bond in the sum of $300 for Roderick McGregor as
administrator.

May 19, 1851, was filed inventory showing an appraise-
ment of $ 67.62%

And a claim against Prince George's County, Maryland,

for the erection of a bridge 119.00

Estate to be accounted for $186.62%

August 14, 1851, the adminstrator reported sales amounting to
$75.92..

July 20, 1852, was passed the first and final administration
account.

Accountant charged himself with the amount of sales 75.92

And with receipts from Prince George's County 119.00

Estate to be accounted for $194.92

Disbursements 87.26

Balance due estate $107.66

Henry McGregor was buried at Dunblane; his tombstone reads:
In Memory

OP

HENRY McGregor

who departed this life May, 1851.
in his 44th year

Alerick Mortimer McGregor, planter, son of John Smith Ma-
gruder and Eleanor Clarke, born Hall, was born January 23, 1810,
January 8, 1829, he was licensed to marry Martha Key. Both died
intestate, without administration upon their estates, and are buried
at Dunblane.

They were the parents of sixteen children, all of whom died in
infancy except:

John Pidout McGregor, married, Mary Eliza McGregor, daughter
of Nathan:' 2I Mortimer McGregor, a first cousin.

Anna Potts Key McGregor, married Dr. Henry Waring Brent.

Nathaniel Mortimer McGregor, died young and unmarried.

Margaret Magruder, daughter of Nathaniel Magruder and Mar-
garet (Magruder) Magruder, died unmarried, intestate, and with-
out administration upon her estate.

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Her grave at Dunblane is marked by a tombstone reading:

Sacred
to the memory

OP

MARGARET MAGRUDER

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God

Erected by her niece

Eliza Hamilton.

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Nathaniel Magruder and Mar-
garet (Magruder) Magruder, was born in 1775, and died unmarried,
intestate, and without administration upon her estate in 1827.

Her tombstone at Dunblane is inscribed:

In Memory

OP

ELIZABETH MAGRUDER

who departed this life

in June, 1827.

aged 52 years.

Louisa Magruder, daughter of Francis Magruder and Barbara
(Williams) Magruder, died unmarried, December 12, 1828.

Her will was made December 11, 1825, and probated in Prince
George's County, Maryland, January 31, 1829. She devised all her
real estate to her sister Eleanor W. Magruder, to pass, in event of
her death without natural heirs, to testatrix's nephew, Francis M.
Bowie, in fee. A slave, Tom, was to be free at her dsath. All her
slaves above 20 years of age were to be sold for a period of six years,
and then set free. Those above 12 years of age, and under 20, to be
sold for a period of 12 years, and then set free. All under 12 years
of age to be sold for a period of 13 years, and then set free; the pro-
ceeds from such sales to be divided between her sister Elizabeth Har-
per and nephew, Francis M. Bowie. Remaining personalty was be-
queathed to her sister Eleanor W. Magruder. Her counsin Maria Wat-
terston and her aunt by marriage, Eleanor Magruder "Widow of my
late uncle, John Smith Magruder," were bequeathed $150 each. Her
sister Eleanor W. Magruder was named as executrix.

February 7, 1829, Eleanor W. Magruder, Samuel B. Harper and
Benjamin B. Jeffries gave bond in the sum of $10,000 for Eleanor
W. Magruder as executrix.

May 11, 1829, was filed inventory of the estate including 12
slaves, valued at $1,081, a trifling figure considering their ages, but
it must be remembered that the will provided they be sold for a term
of 5'^ears and then freed. As evidence of appraised value I will
mention :

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James, aged 70, with six years to serve $ 1-00

Benjamin, aged 21, with six years to serve 175.00

Dick, aged 14, with twelve years to serve 175.00

The total inventory amounted to $2,292.04.

May 11, 1829, was reported sale of 13 slaves, including a new
born boy, two weeks old, having, according to Louisa Magruder's will,
twenty-four years to serve before freedom, who fetched $14.00. James
brought the appraised price of $1.00; while Benjamin and Dick netted
$200 and $201 respectively, amounts in excess of their appraised
value, the 13 slaves selling for $1193.00.

On the above date was passed the first administration account.

Accountant charged herself with the amount of inventory. . .$2,292.04
And with collections made 344.46

Estate to be accounted for $2,636.50

Disbursements 112.18

Balance due estate $2,524.32

April 18, 1830, was passed the second administration account.

Accountant charged herself with balance due estate. .. .$2,524.32
And with receipts 256.66 1/2

Estate to be accounted for $2,780.98 1/2

Disbursements 125.98

Balance due estate .' $2,655.00 1/2

December 11, 1830, was passed the final administration account.

AccountJint charged herself with balance due estate $2,655.00 1/2

And with receipts 9.41

Estate to be accounted for $2,664.41 1/2

Disbursements 666.62

Balance due estate $1,997.79 1/2

This amount was distributed as follows:
To Samuel B. Harper, who intermarried -with Elizabeth

Magruder, sister of testatrix $ 328.77 3/4

To William M. Bowie, father of Francis M. Bowie,

nephew 328.77 3/4

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To Eleanor Magruder, widow of John Smith Magruder,

aunt 150.00

To Maria Watterston, first cousin, including interest. . . . 154.00
To Eleanor W. Magruder, sister and residuary legatee.. 1,036.24

Estate accounted for $1,997.79 1/2

Louisa Magruder was buried at Dunblane. The inscription on
her tombstone reads:

IN

Memory op

LOUISA MAGRUDER

who departed this life

on the 12th of December 1828.

The sickly dream of life will soon be over

And we shall meet dear friend to part no more.

Eleanor W. Magruder, daughter of Francis Magruder, and Bar-
bara (Williams) Magruder was born in 1791, and died unmarried,
February 5, 1847.

Her will, made January 25, 1847, was probated in Prince
George's County, Maryland, February 11, 1847.

She devised her cousin, Eliza Hamilton, wife of Dr. Charles B.
Hamilton, her real estate lying on the south side of the public road
from Long Old Fields through her plantation to Upper Marlboro',
on which stood the manor house of Dunblane.

Her nephews R. W. Bowie and Francis M. Bowie to divide her
remaining realty.

Her cousin Barbara Williams was bequeathed $3,000 and one-
half of her household effects.

Her cousin Maria Watterston, $600, to be paid out of any monies
or bonds of which she might die possessed and from proceeds arising
from the sale of personalty; the remaining one-half of her house-
hold effects to her nephew F. M. Bowie,

A brick wall on a granite foundation was to be erected around
the family graveyard before the payment of legacies.

Her friend Dr. C. B. Hamilton was bequeathed all slaves except-
ing one who was to be set free after serving him for one year, the
cost of his free papers to be paid by her executor. All personalty not
specifically bequeathed to be sold and after the payment of debts
and legacies any surplus remaining to be divided between Martha M.
Bowie and Florence Holcombe, the latter of whom was also be-
queathed a girl slave. Dr. Charles B. Hamilton was named as execu-
tor without bond.

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Richard W. Bowie and Francis M. Bowie filed a caveat to the
will through their attorneys Thomas Fielder Bowie and William H.
Tuck; my grandfather, Caleb Clarke Magruder, appeared for the
caveatees; the will was sustained.

March 26, 1847, Charles B. Hamilton, A. L. Addison and Rod-
erick McGregor gave bond in the sum of $24,000 for the first named
as executor.

March 25, 1847, was filed inventory, including 25 slaves valued
at $9,475, with a total appraisement of $11,051.75; and a list of debts
due the estate amounting to $1,259.98.

April 6, 1847, v/as filed a list of sales amounting to $11,105.16.

February 8, 1848, was passed first administration account.

Accountant charged himself with the amount of inventory. . $11,051.75

And with excess of sales over appraisement 53.41

And with cash found in decedent's home ($250.34) and other

sales 274.59

Estate to be accounted for $11,379.75

Disbursements 1,276.46

Balance due estate $10,103.29

May 5, 1848, was passed final account.

Accountant charged himself with balance due estate $10,103.29

Receipts 643.88

Estate to be accounted for $10,747.17

Disbursements 11,204.12

Overpaid estate $ 456.95

Eleanor W. Magruder is buried at Dunblane, the inscription on
her tombstone reading:

IN

Memory op

ELEANOR W. MAGRUDER

who departed this life

February 5th, 1847

aged 56.

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Francis Magruder and Bar-
bara (Williams) Magruder, was born March 31, 1793, and licensed
to marry Samuel Brooke Harper, February 25, 1828.

Samuel Harper, father of the latter, moved from Alexandria,
Virginia, to Prince George's County, Maryland, and the son filed an

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administration account upon his estate February 8, 1836, and died
two years later.

An examination of the probate records in Prince George's
County, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Alexandria City, and
Alexandria County, Virginia, has not revealed any data of Samuel
Brooke Harper or Elizabeth (Magruder) Harper, his wife.

The tradition among the Magruders of her line of descent la
that she bore no issue to Samuel Brooke Harper.

David Adolphus Watterston, son of Maria Shanley and George
Watterston, died May 3, 1903, aged 87. His will was made January
13, 1901, probated in the District of Columbia, June 12, 1903, and an
authenticated copy filed in Prince George's County, Maryland.

His nephew, George Holcombe, was devised Lot 7, Square 762,
known as 224 7th St., S. E., Washington, D. C. Nephew David Wat-
terston his gold watch, other jewelry and personalty.

Henrietta Smallwood (colored), for faithful services, $500.
Thomas R. Martin, executor and residuary legatee in trust, he to
receive five per cent, commissions, and of the balance, one-fourth to
nephew David Watterston for life and at his death the said one-
fourth to children of testator's deceased nephew, Charles Watterston,
per stirpes, the remaining three-fourths of the estate for the main-
tenance of said children during minority.

Thomas R. Martin qualified as executor upon filing bond, De-
cember 17, 1903, but on March 9, 1909, his letters of administration
were revoked. Litigation preceded, but suffice it to say that through
a bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Colum-
bia, May 7, 1907, it is shown that the heirs of David Adolphus Wat-
terston were:

Rebecca Machauer (wife of Bernard Machauer, daughter of
Charles Watterston and , his first wife) , Roderick J. Wat-
terston and Dr. Charles J. Watterston (children of Charles Watterston
and Mary Kate Hadsall, his second wife).

The said Charles Watterston was the son of George Wedder-
burn Watterston, a brother of the testator, David Adolphus Wat-
terston, and the only one of the former's children to marry and leave
issue.

In the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C, is a brick
vault with a marble insert reading

The

Family Vault

of

CHARLES B. HAMILTON

and
GEORGE WATTERSTON.

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The records of this cemetery show the following interments
therein :

February 6, 1854, George Watterston.

September 30, 1857, Miss Eliza Watterston.

January 27, 1859, Elizabeth J. Beall, whose remains were, on

September 25, 1866, transferred to Oak Hill Cemetery.

December 15, 1860, Mrs. Eliza Hamilton.

July 2, 1864, Mrs. Watterston.

February 11, 1878, Florence Holcombe.

April 15, 1886, Sarah M. Holcombe.

May 5, 1903, David A. Watterston.

Nathaniel Magruder of Dunblane was the son of John Magruder
and Susanna Smith, grandson of Samuel Magruder and Sarah Beall,
great-grandson of Alexander Magruder, Maryland immigrant.

AMONG THE MEMBERS.

On February 24, 1917, an organization known as the Genealogical-
Historical Society met at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Smith.
The purpose of this Society is for preserving and collecting genea-
logical and historical records. Miss Martha S. Harbison was chosen
temporary chairman, and Mrs. Katharine Bryant Smith secre-
tary. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Jennie Morton Cun-
ningham, president; Mrs. Mary Middleton Nicholas, vice-president;
Mrs. Katharine Bryant Smith, secretary; Mrs. Mamie Carrithers
Lawrence, historian; Miss Martha S. Harbison, registrar; Mrs. Annie
Middleton Bullock, treasurer. — From the Louisville Evening Post,
Thursday, March 1, 1917.

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TWO OLD MAGRUDER HOMES.

These Sketches are abstracted from the "Rambler" Appearing in the

SUNDAY STAR, March 16th and 26th, 1916.

UNION VALLEY.

ON the Sheriff road about two miles from the District line, a few
hundred yards east of the railroad one comes upon Union Val-
ley, an old Magruder home. This is a large frame house with
four strong and lofty brick chimneys situated on a hill near the road.
The house is surrounded by venerable trees, which are in keeping with
the house. It is a good looking old house, tall, broad, and strong-,
and there was no doubt that it had stood there many years. Theie
was nothing pretentious in the appearance of the house, but it had
a simple, quiet air of dignity, and it seemed to feel secure in its
social position among the houses of that part of Prince George's
County, It was no upstart of a house. It did not strive to make
an impression. It did not start out at once to tell how many great
men and lovely women had crossed its threshold. It did not stand
out on the hillside and shout to you that George Washington had
once slept in it; that Lafayette had been entertained in it; that its
bricks were brought from England in ballast, and that its timbers
were hewn and its shingles rived by hand. It did not even insist on
first acquaintance that its grandfather ten times removed had come
over with Lord Baltimore; that its great-grandaunt twice removed
had been lady-in-waiting or a maid of honor to Marie Antoinette.
It was a very quiet old house, and did not seem to be splitting its
sides and rafters to get its name and picture in the paper, but after
contemplating its kindly features the Rambler knew that had he
called out to that old house that he was cold and tired the old house
would have opened its arms and its doors and called back: "Com.,
strangei', and sit in my inglenook."

Six or seven generations of Magruders have lived in this house.
The present owner is Mrs. Laura V/ilson Magi-uder, the widow of
Edward Magruder, who was the son of Fielder Magruder.

OLD ORCHARD.
On a hill about half a mile from Union Valley is situated another
Magruder home. Old Orchard. The house is old in architecture and
material, with dormer windows and a porch with white columns
stretching all across its front. Off from one comer of the house is
one of those old bells perched on a post, which long ago, and is now
used to bring the hands in from the fields at dinner time. The place
is still in the Magruder family, being owned by Mrs. James Rea of
Hyattsville, who was Hattie Magruder. It is managed by Mr. Brook
Shaw.

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In the rear of the old house is a carefully kept little cemetery,
in which the following epitaphs are found:

"In Memory of Fielder Magruder, died August 5, 1840. Aged

^^ ^"In^Memory of Fielder Magruder, born February 26th, 1814;

•^'^^^n^'Jemoirof Ann T. G. Magruder, died February 8, 1894.

^^^"I^ Memory of Matilda, Consort of Fielder Magruder. Died Oc-
tober 1, 1849, in the 60th year of Her Age. t .. ^ 1822

"Sacred to the Memory of Lewis Magruder, born June 5, 1822.
Died June 18, 1897, in the 75th year of his age

"Sacred to the Memory of Susan Evelyn, wife of Lewis Magruder.
Bom June 13, 1827; Died December 13th, 1914, Aged 87 years.

"Sacred to the Memory of Rebecca M. Magruder, Who Departed
this life Nov. 1, 1862, Aged 69 years. , ^. , T^ v. on^v,

"In memory of William M. Magruder, who Died December 30th,

1879, Aged 67 years.

"Mary Magruder, Died August 4th, 1886, Aged 66 years.
"Fielder Wilson Magruder, Born February 1, 1850, Died Aug.

9 1910.

"Arthur Clarke Magruder, Bom January 22, 1852; Died October

10, 1898, in the 46th year of his age.

"In loving Memory of Lewis Montgomery Magruder, Born Dec.

11, 1848; Died Sept. 29, 1881, in the 36th year of his age.

"Sacred to the Memory of Sarah V. Magruder, Who Was Born
July 24, 1854, and Departed this life August 14, 1858.

"Hattie L., Daughter of C. C. and A. Magruder, bom August 5,
1896; died July 7, 1897."

There are some new graves in this cemetery. In one of these
lies Cassius Magruder, who lived at Tuxedo.

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THE MACALPINE KINGS.

By Miss Alice Maude Ewell.

SO much has been written of a poetic and imaginative nature con-
cerning the Clan Alpine that it is well by way of a change to

have a few facts now and then. I have culled most of those
in the present sketch from that most interesting repository of facts,
Burke's Peerage.

It is wonderful how much is known to the wise and patient gene-
alogist. Historians in the broader sense often so wrangle over their
conflicting statements that one is puzzled what to believe. The dear
old stories of Hume, many of them romantic and beautiful, are con-
tradicted by Greene with seemingly spiteful pleasure. According to
the latter Alfred did not have that spicy dialogue with the neat-
herd's wife; Canute never sat by the seashore; Queen Margaret, noble
and brave, did not ask for protection from the robber. We are poorer
far by reading the Gospel of Denial. So much for the General His-
torian. But the Genealogist pinned down to records, names and
dates, simply goes on unwinding a thread which goes back and back
till ofttimes the Middle Ages are left behind, and we see with a
shudder of awe the Far Past revealed.

It was once my good fortune to have frequent access to a
Chronological Tome which gave a list of Scottish Kings from the
very earliest dawn of history. I do not recall Alpine's exact place
but he was far down the line. The Scottish Royal Pedigree in Burke
begins with his son Kenneth MacAlpine who was the first king of
all Scotland.

Alpine was slain in battle with the Picts, or "Painted People "
who seem to have long divided Scotland with the more numerous
and powerful Scotch. Alpine's life paid the price of final victory
over them. From this time on, for more than four hundred years,
the monarchs of his Dynasty occupied the Scottish Throne. Among
them were Gregor, or Gregory, Kenneth's younger brother, founder
Of the Clan Gregor; also Duncan, slain by Macbeth, Macbeth himself

TT.i ^'^•n'.''"' ^""^ ^^^'' ^^^ L^^y ^^^«^' ^ho became Lady
Macbeth. William the Lion was a MacAlpine, also Alexander the
Second who married a daughter of John, King of England, and Alex-
ander the Third who married a daughter of Henry the Third The
dynasty proper closed with him, his grand-daughter, Margarei "The
Maid of Norway," who died on her passage to Scotland and the
throne having succeeded through the female line. Robert Bruc-
though a descendant, and inheriting on that ground, also bore an-
other surname. His son, David the Second, dying in 1370 without
issue was succeeded by his nephew Robert Stuart, son of Walter
High Steward of the Kingdom, who had mamed Mary, daughter of

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Robert Bruce, a Princess of the Ancient Royal House. Through her
and her Stuart descendants, the blood of Alpine runs in the veins
of King George the Fifth now on the throne of England. A wonder-
ful illustration of race continuity! What matters a few generations
of alien ad-mixture, even German, when merged into such a long
tidal flow as this?

There were twenty-three MacAlpine kings and nine Stuarts up
to the time of James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England.
The men of the older and longer line seem to have been the stronger.

The line of early succession from Kenneth MacAlpine does not
seem to have been always direct. Sometimes a younger brother
succeeded and then, later, the son of the elder brother. This custom
at one time placed on the throne our Ancestor, Gregor. I here quote
from Burke:

"The reign of Ethus, son of Kenneth MacAlpine, was brief and
turbulent. A party headed by Grig, or Gregory, rendering an ap-
peal to the sword indispensable, Ethus was wounded in battle, and
dying soon afterwards, the crown was usurped by his rival, Gregory,
surnamed the Great. This monarch who was contemporary with Al-
fred, King of England, upon ascending the throne selected for his
colleague Eocha, King of Strathclyde, grandson of Kenneth MacAlpine,
but both were compelled to abdicate within three years."

It seems to me there can be no doubt as to the identity of Greg-
ory. The ruling power was evidently in the hands of one family.
He must have been the younger brother of Kenneth; a good uncle,
and a person of some policy to choose for his colleague a nephew. The
petty Kingdom of Strathclyde was south of the Tweed on what is
now English ground. The surname of Gregory, "The Great," sounds
very large, but must have referred to his stature, as his reign was
neither long nor, it would seem, powerful.

If contemporary with Alfred the Great of England it must hava
shared to some extent the civilization of the time, which owed so
much to Alfred himself. News traveled then as now, though not
60 rapidly. It is likely that Gregory heard with interest of the
new fashioned Trial by Jury, the candles which marked time by burn-
ing twenty minutes, and last but not least the invention of that won-
derful convenience, the horn lantern. Whether he ever owned one,
is not stated. We must not indeed make the mistake of thinking
those days too barbarous. People were apparently no fonder of
fighting then than now. Christianity, introduced early into Scotland,
had suffered no such upheaval as that wrought by the Saxon subju-
gation of England, or South Britain. We are told that Modach, a
Royal predecessor of Alpine "founded churches and monasteries."
Even in Saxon England, so lately converted from heathenism, the
Christian Church had reached the point described below.

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I quote from "England's Story" by Eva March Tappan:

"In the reign of Egbert, father of Alfred, England was more
nearly united than ever before. More churches and convents were
built. These were held sacred, and in all the quarrels among
the various kings their property had never been touched. Not
only did they have vessels of gold and of silver, and finely
wrought lamps and censers swinging by golden chains, and jew-
els and embroidered vestments, and beautiful tapestries and
altars covered with plater of gold; but they had, too, treasures
of another kind, hundreds of manuscripts written on parchment
by the monks. For these convents were also schools, and every
one of them had its book-room. There the patient monks and
their pupils sat day by day, copying books, letter by letter, and
painting or illuminating ornamental capitals in most brilliant
colors."

There is no reason to think Scotland behind her sister kingdom
in this respect; rather the contrary. Alpine was doubtless not only
christened but went to church, and was both married and buried by
its rites. His tomb on the island of Inch Caillach is still a venerated
monument, and we hope no German bomb will break into his stone
coffin built to last 'till the Resurrection then so devoutly believed in.
On the whole, considering some recent happenings of this most scien-
tific age, we suspect that for simple faith and warm humanity those
days contrasted very favorably with ours.

I have heard it stated that Alpine married a Greek Princess.
If true, this would account for the later Greek, or Greco-Roman,
names in the royal line he founded; Gregorious, or Gregory Constan-
tine and Alexander; all Byzantine or Greco-Roman names. Hector
and Helen are also very common in the Scottish Highlands; and no
one can fail to note the striking resemblance between the Greek and
Highland costume. Indeed the name of Alpine itself suggests a
shortening of the Greek Alpinus. Many things point to a decided
national intercourse between early Scotland and that older world
of culture, Greece.

In trying to visualize Alpine and Gregor we would fancy the
former a fair-haired, blue-eyed Gael; the latter a probable cross be-
tween a Gaelic father and a Grecian mother. The result of this
should be a form no less symmetrical than "great" and a clear-cut
face. The complexion should be of medium tone; the eyes brown or
dark hazel, the hair red. The Highland officers are said to be the
handsomest men in the British army, "Like Grecian Gods," a recent
writer has described them. Gregor's claim to this style of beauty
would have been more than an accident.

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I wish to add that these few plain facts seem to me all the
more worth stating because Miss Georgina Murray MacGregor's
"History of the Clan Gregor" is in the opening chapter more or less
speculative and uncertain. There is something very pleasant in the
calm assurance of Burke.

As my own opportunities for research are limited I respectfully
invite any further light on this theme.

MY FLAG.

By Miss Tilton Singer (15 years old).

A crimson field with a cross of blue,

Gleaming with thirteen stars,
Emblem of war and brave men true.

My flag is the Stars and Bars.

It is enshrined in my inmost soul,

In a shrine by it made holy;
For it ten thousand hearts go glow.

And it will live in song and story.

I do no wrong to the Stars and Stripes,

In loving my flag so well,
Its day is past yet it gleams as bright

As the names of its heroes who fell.

It's heroes! who fought for the right they saw,
And gave up their lives to serve it;

Do you wonder we love it with tears and awe,
Remembering who fought to preserve it?

Remembering who fought for that emblem fair,
With its cross and its crown of stars?

The fairest names of history share

Their fame with the Stars and Bars.

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LIFE ON AN OLD MAGRUDER FARM.

By William Edwin Muncaster.

The Chieftain and the Chairman of the programme committee
have asked me to give some account of old customs, and to comply
with their request I will endeavor to tell something of life on an
old Magruder Farm in the long ago.

As I stated in a paper, read at our last meeting, I lived with
my paternal grandmother on her farm from 1845 to 1851, and re-
member something of the ways of life during that period. This may
«pell be classed as an old Magruder farm, as, at that time it had been
owned by the Magruder family for over one hundred years. In his
will, made in 1740 Captain Alexander Magruder bequeathed this farm
to his son Nathaniel, and at the same time left an adjoining tract
to another son, Samuel Wade Magruder. Our family consisted of
my grandmother Harriet Magruder Muncaster, her sister, Eliza Ma-
gruder Talbott, and myself, with quite a number of servants.

I think it is due Aunt Eliza Talbott to be recorded among our
Matrons. She was tall like Grandmother, but did not carry herself
so erect. She had blue eyes, fair complexion and a pleasing expres-
sion of face. She was fond of household ornaments, pictures and
flowers. She liked to visit and receive visitors, and was always busy
knitting or sewing. She had recently lost her husband, William
Talbott, whom she had married in 1812. He was a shipping mer-
chant, and she had spent most of her married life with him in George-
town, D. C. She had one son, Walter Marion, who had finished his
education, and was learning the dry goods business, as a clerk for
John H. Smoot in Georgetown. He was the greatest delight to her
widowed heart, and the joy of her life. She talked of him, dreamed
of him, and very often on Saturday mornings, she would say she
felt he would come out on that evening. As frequently on Saturday-
evening, as he could get away from business, he would come out in
the returning market wagon of a neighbor, walk across the fields
to our place and stay over Sunday. She had a standing contract
with the black pickaninnies that swarmed around the yard of the
quarters, to give a cake to the one who first told her "Marse Walter
Marion" was coming down the hill. Such was a mother's love.

In the olden time eating was a custom, and an important one,
as it is now. Our main dependence was corn bread and bacon, fish
and hominy. We had com bread made in various ways to give
variety. We had lightened pone, egg pone, cracklin pone, short cake,
Johnny cake, ash cakes, griddle cakes, and mush with milk. In
winter, buckwheat cakes were not forgotten. Every cut of bacon,
from jowl to ham was used during the year. Each Spring our neigh-
bors laid in a supply of herring and shad, enough to last for the

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year, bought at the fish wharf in Georgetown or Alexandria, and
one of them would kindly attend to getting ours at the same time.
"Uncle Dick" beat the hominy in a large, home-made wooden mortar,
and during the cool months, every Monday morning a large pot was
hung on the crane in the big kitchen fire place, and enough hominy
was cooked to last for the week. The flour was made from wheat
ground at the mill, on the adjoining farm, built by Major Samuel
Wade Magruder. To get the meal the shelled com was put into a
long sack which was balanced on the back of a horse. A small boy
was put on top of the bag to guide tho horse to the mill. Sometimes
the horse would stumble, or shy out from some object on the road-
side and cause the bag and boy to slip off. Here was a bad situation,
for the boy was not strong enough to lift the sack up on the horse.
We can imagine his feelings as he looked up the road and looked
down the road to see if a man was coming to help him out of his
trouble, and the sun was getting low.

Occasionally mutton was added to our meat supply, and each
fall a fat beef was butchered, mainly to get the tallow to make can-
dles. Then we had a constant supply of the various kinds of poul-
try raised on the place. There were no stoves used. The heating
of the rooms and the cooking were all done by open wood fires. The
farm was self-sustaining and supplied what the family needed.
Grandmother was opposed to making a bill at the store. In fact
very little was ever bought except tea, sugar and some dry goods.
The ladies thought tea v/as a necessity, and the grandson thought
sugar certainly wag. Grandmother did not believe in spending money
on luxuries. She thought the money had better be saved to give to
the Church or to help the poor and the sick. She believed in economy
and savings. One of her favorite sayings was "Do not spend your
money before you get it," and another was "It is not as much what
you make as what you save, that gives you financial independence
through life, and a welcome reserve for old age."

The most important event of every week was going to church en
Sunday. Great preparations were made for this every Saturday.
The two-horse carriage was washed outside, and dusted within. The
brass mountings of the harness were rubbed with brick dust so as
to shine resplendent, and the leather parts were all cleaned up to
look like new. At that time all elderly ladies wore white caps made
of a light material. These were fluted or quilled and trimmed with
lace or ribbons, as suited the taste of the wearer. There was great
concern about "the doing up" of the best cap to be worn to church.
The bombazine dresses were brought out, looked over, and brushed
up. In those days all the ladies, both old and young, were very lar-
ticular to have their dresses just touch the ground all around. This
custom has changed "somewhat" in recent years. They all wore bon-
nets tied under the chin with ribbons.

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We attended the Bethesda Presbyterian church, about five miles
from the farm. The members, as they came in, sat up straight and
read hymns until service began. The grandson was placed between
his grandmother and aunt, it might be supposed so he would not feel
lonesome. For the singing, there was no organ or other musical ac-
companiment. The leader started the pitch with his steel tuning
fork, the whole congregation joined in, as he beat the time. There
were some who sang the diffei-ent parts of soprano, alto, tenor or
bass, and the rest went along just as they could. The house was
usually filled. Every one went to church in those days, and came
from quite a distance around. The sermon was always one hour
long. During its delivery if the boy got restless and twisted to the
right to look about, his grandmother gave him a gentle punch in
the right side, if hs turned to the left the aunt gave him the same
in the left side. It was plain that his trainers wished to make this
scion of the old Magruder tree grow up straight. When the congre-
gation was dismissed they all lingered outside the church door, and
gave each other friendly greetings. They related the news of the
past Aveek, and told what might be coming oif in the coming one.
The gentlemen of that day w^ere very gallant to the ladies. They
helped them out of their carriages when they arrived, and assisted
them to enter when they departed, with many smiles and bows. The
men who did not drive the carriages, all rode horse-back. When
they rode away they dashed by the carriages, thinking the ladies
were admiring them and their manner of riding, as well as their
handsome saddles and their gaits. Next to their sweethearts and
wives the men of that day loved their saddle horses.

On one occasion, as they started from church. Grandmother and
Aunt Eliza began to speak of the beautiful sermon they had just
heard. They thought it very fine indeed. Then one of them said
"Now, son, what did you think of it." "Well, I thought it was power-
ful long, and might very well have been cut in two, and save one-
half for the next time." Here was a jolt that took the breath away
from the two ladies. When they could speak they began to discourse
to prove, "It was not a bit too long," "It was so instructive and com-
forting." When one of them got through repeating one of the points
brought out in the sermon, the other would bring out another, and
they kept it up until we got home. Right here the son made a de-
termination 'never-more' to object to the length of a sermon. After
sitting still to listen to one an hour long, it was not restful to have
an explanation of its merits and beauties, five miles long, when he
wanted to talk about those whom he saw outside the church door,
and what they said.

A large flock of sheep was kept on the farm and as soon as the
warm days of May came the wool was clipped and the women began

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to work on it. Few persons of the present day can form any idea
of the amount of work both mistress and maid of that day did on
this product of the farm. Time is wanting for details, but it occupied
them for months. Part of the wool was prepared and sent to the
fulling mill, and came back manufactured into heavy cloth for the
men, and striped linsey for the women and children. These had to
be made up into clothes for the servants with no help from a sewing
machine — just stitch by stitch with the needle. The rest of the wool
was carded into rolls and turned over to the expert spinners, who
kept the big spinning wheels humming in the large kitchen, making
it into yam. This in turn was wound on balls to feed the rapacious
knitting needles, that were ever changing it into stockings, gloves
and warm comforters. When the ladies of our house sat down, if
not sewing, they were always knitting. The appetite of these knit-
ting needles was insatiable. As soon as they had eaten up one ball
they began on another. The boys had to wind the yam that came
from the spinners into the balls.

The colored women did the milking. During the months the
cows were on pasture, the "cuppen" as it was called, was a rail pen
in the grass field. It was the duty of the boys to drive the cows into
this and help the milk-maids with the unruly ones and kickers. The
largest mPker was a big brindle cow named Sook, and she was the
champion kicker. She had a mild expression in her face, and a most
gentle countenance. When she was called upon to take her turn, she
would demurely walk up to the fence, and hold up her right hind
leg as the milk-maid ran a rail under it, putting one end into an
opening in the fence, and a boy would hold up the other end. There
she would stand meek and quiet, and produce a large bucket of milk.
But if that rail was not in use she would kick the bucket again and
again so that not a gill of milk could be saved from her. At one
milking time "Aunt Ellen" whose duty it was to milk Sook was
sick and Rachel took her place. But she forgot all about the rail.
The work progressed fairly well until suddenly Sook gave the bucket
several vicious kicks, turning it completely over, and wound up by
giving the milker, also a severe tap. Being taken so unexpectedly,
she had not time to get up from her stool. As she rose up Rachel
exclaimed, "Oh! you look mighty pious and sweet-minded, but you
got the stripe of the tiger on your back, and you got the hoof mark
of the Old Boy on your leg. If you ever kick me agin, I will break
your back with dis here rail, do you hear me?" She evidently did,
for she turned upon her a most sympathetic look.

Kerosene was not used then, but home made tallow candles were
the source from which light was obtained, and you may well infer
that the illumination was not brilliant. A bright light really was
not needed. There was very little reading done in the evening. The

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post office was quite a distance away and we usually only got the
mail once a week. A tallow dip gave light enough to talk by, and
the whole evening up to bedtime was often devoted to genealogy, a
subject of which the old folks of that day were very fond. They
knew the ancestors of every one way back, whom they had married,
and their children. Cousins were traced out, and degree of relation-
ship assigned. It seemed to be a standing rule with every one in that
section to shut up the house at 9 o'clock, and go to bed, as they got
out at 4 o'clock in summer and 6 o'clock in winter so as to get break-
fast over, that the laborers could get to work in the field.

There was a complete circle of neighbors who owned farms all
around us. These were all very sociable, and we frequently exchanged
visits with them. It was not the custom to leave a card, or to make
a call of an hour. Visitors always came in the afternoon early, and
invariably stayed to take tea. This, the hostess was sure to have pre-
pared early, so the guests would have full time to partake of it
and get home before dark. Sometimes four or five neighbors would
arrange to come at the same time, and thus have a more enjoyable
meeting, and I will try to describe one of these visits.

Four ladies came early in the afternoon. First they walked
around the yards and looked at the different kinds of poultry and
compared their "luck" in raising the young ones for that summer.
Then they inspected the garden. This was laid out in squares, be-
tween which were grass walks, that were kept closely mowed with
a sharp scythe. No horse and plow were allowed to desecrate the
soil of the squares. It was all spaded up by the men and dressed
over with a hoe and rake. Around the edges of the squares were
borders of roses and delightful old fashioned flowers, some of every
kind that Aunt Eliza could procure. The growing vegetables made
a fine show. The visitors admired everything very much, and en-
gaged seeds for which they promised to exchange some of theirs
of both vegetables and flowers. There were no seedsmen, then, and
the house keepers saved their own seeds or procured them from
friends. When supper was announced, Grandmother took the head
of the table and poured the tea. Aunt Eliza sat at the foot and
helped the broiled chicken, the guests arranged themselves on each
side and the boy found a place near the end where sat the milk
pitcher. Ann, a brown girl fourteen years old, stood behind the
chair of the mistress, with a brush of long peacock plumes to keep
the flies off the table and the guests. Linny, the house maid, stood
ready to hand things and bring in from the kitchen hot biscuits and
rolls. The best of the china, glass and silver furnished the table.
The guests were very complimentary to the hostess. "This is most
delicious tea, Harriet, what kind do you use?" "I always use Gun-
powder tea." "I have tried Gunpowder, but I could not make it
taste like this. But I am not so skillful as you are." "What kind

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do you use? Lucy." "I rather like Young Hyson." "What kind do
you prefer, Mary?" "I have settled down on Imperial Green, but
I cannot make it have the flavor this has." Another said, "These
biscuits are fine, they just melt in your mouth, how do you make
them, Harriet?" "My cook, Jane, made them." "Oh! yes but you
tanght her to do it!" "Have you tasted these rolls" said another,
"they are light as a feather, I wish I could make such."

"Yes, Eliza, I will take another piece of chicken, it is done to
a turn. A friend of mine told me that Harriet can beat any one she
ever saw in having chicken broiled just right." Grandmother was
a very modest person and looked quite mortified at being considered
so skillful. The boy, in the meantime, absorbed quite a number of
glasses of milk along with many biscuits, and samples of all the
jellies and preserves. He had never been allowed to drink tea, it
being considered too strong a beverage for his young nerves. When
the supper was finished, the ladies got away in good time to reach
their homes before dark.

A few days ago, as I was driving along the road, near which
she owns a house and some surrounding lots, I saw Ann, the brown
fairy who waved the wand of pea-fowl plumes over the table of that
tea party coming towards me. She was eighty-two years old on the
3rd of last June, and has raised five sons and three daughters. She
was stepping along quite spry. As I held up my horse to speak to
her, she gave a sweeping curtsy, such as was in vogue when she was
a girl, but now obsolete, and exclaimed, "Well! I certainly is glad
to see you Sir. How does you find yourself?" "O, I am about as
usual. How do you keep yourself so spry and looking so well?" "It
was dat good, strong feed, and plenty of it, dat old Miss give me when
I was a gal dat makes me so strong now. But I can't work like I
used to on account of the rheumatics, sometimes you know." "Why
don't you rest off and have the girls do the work now?" "I kin do
more work now than any one of 'em. Dey done got edication and
book larnin' and sich, so dey don't do nothing now, but writ letters,
keeping up with the fashions, and wearing high heeled shoes. But
how is all our family?"

You see she still claims to be one of the family, and I suppose
I must put her down as an associate matron of old Magruder Farm
life.

Sometimes some young ladies, friends or cousins of Grand-
mother's came to pay us a visit of some weeks. The young men soon
learned the fact, and would get introdjaced at church, and then pay
a call. A very pretty cousin just grown came once, and one of the
young men was quite taken with her, so he called frequently. He
would come in the afternoon and take tea, and then he and the cousin
would sit on the porch with the family, while he bragged about how

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fast his high-headed saddle horse could rack, and how high he could
jump, and she showed her appreciation with responsive giggles.
After they got tired of sitting there they walked around the yard,
to see the flowers and poultry, and talk about them as they said.
When nine o'clock came, the candles were brought in and set on the
table and the shutters were closed. The young man was invited to
put his horse up and stay over night, but he was unable to do so
as he had matters to look after early the next morning at home, ao
he bid good bye, mounted his horse and galloped away, thinking how
very pretty was the girl he left behind.

She in turn, lighted one of the candles and tripped away, an.l
sank into her big couch of feathers like Venus into the foam of the
sea, and smiled rosy dimples as she thought of the many nice things
that she had heard while walking about the yard seemingly admir-
ing the flowers and discussing the poultry. "We may infer that Cupid
had the same sly tricks and customs then as now.

The picking of the large, flock of geese was another epoch of the
year. When the proper season came, and the feathers were ripe and
ready for moulting, the birds were driven into a pen and the women
were set to picking their feathers. The boys caught the geese and
as boys love to catch anything from a frog to a bird, they took great
pleasure in making the captures. The pickers said the birds did not
mind the picking much, as the feathers were somewhat loose, anyway,
but from the expression of the eye of the goose and the protests
she made, I think she would have preferred to shed her feathers in
a natural way. When turned loose v/ith nothing on but the wings
and a tuft of feathers on top of the head they looked very different
from what they had been in full plumage. In answer to a question
Aunt Ellen told me that a goose had not much brains anyhow and
they always left the bunch of feathers on top of her head to keep
the heat of the sun off the little she has got. This is the way our
old ancestors got those feather beds they were so fond of 'giving
and bequeathing' in their wills, to especial favorites in their families.
The ladies of the period occupied much of their time in making
quilts, and it was a favorite recreation. They discussed the colors
and patterns for squares, on every occasion, and when the squares
had been put together there was a quilting party and they made it
a most enjoyable occasion. It must not be supposed that they were
very sedate at these meetings, on the contrary they were quite hi-
larious. There was as much talking and laughing at them as there
is at the Spinster clubs, card parties and woman's clubs of the pres-
ent day.

The com was not cut and shocked as at present. The top was
cut just above the ear, the blades pulled off, and the ears left on the
stalk until they were fully cured, then they were pulled off, and piled

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in a long rick near the barn. A night was appointed for a husking,
and the negro men for miles around attended. They received no
pay besides a big supper and the fun of being together. Several fat
sheep were killed, and other meats provided. Lots of bread and pies
were made, and sometimes there was a keg or two of cider, under
the charge of a chief butler who was careful to let none drink too
much. The dusky maids of the country all around came to wait on
the supper tables, and when a red ear was found the fortunate one
had the privilege of kissing any one he could catch, and strange to
say, in spite of this they would all stay around to hear the singing,
they said. All the huskers sang as they were stripping the shucks.
A number of them knew a great many songs and when the supply
of one leader ran short, another would take it up. All sung the
chorus and it was strong always. Many of the men improvised as
they went along and though most of the songs have long been for-
gotten, a few remain and I wish I had time to give some of them
to you. Presently a red ear was found and then an exciting time
began. The lucky finder started after the girl he picked out and she
went away screeching around the corn pile and among the crowd,
amid the cheers of some and the guffaws of others. She was always
caught and submitted to the penalty for being there. Others had
the same misfortune, when more red ears were found, and Aunt
Eliza said she believed the men brought the red ears with them,
they found so many.

The last event of the year was the hog killing. This took place
in the early part of December, as soon as the days began to be cold.
Any number of hogs from thirty to forty were butchered, and cTit up
into bacon pieces, which were hung in the meat house after being
cured with salt, and smoked for the year's supply. The scraps were
cut into sausage, scrapple and so on, the fat tried into lard which was
stored away for those biscuits "Aunt Jane" used to make. Packages
of "fresh" was sent to the neighbors who always reciprocated when
they butchered, so we had fresh pork for a long time every fall.

The winter clothing has been made up, the feather beds refilled,
the com crop secured, the meat house filled, and full provision made
for the support and comfort of the coming year, as was the custom
then, so now I have come to a time when I can close my account of
Life on a Magruder Farm,

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MACGREGOR OF GLENSTRAE.

By Donald Fitz Randolph MacGregor.

Alastair MacGregor was the Chieftain of his Clan,
Of a long line of Chieftains, that with our kings began,
Of a long line of heroes, who in turn had led the way,
Down to Alastair MacGregor — MacGregor of Glenstrae.

II.

In speaking of the Chieftain, to applaud his noble ways,
There was always for his children too, the heartiest of praise:
For the son who would succeed him, be Chieftain in his place,
A gallant scion of the name, all worthy of the race;
And his daughter, like her mother was, a few short years away,
The lovliest maiden in the land — Fair Helen of Glenstrae.

III.

When we write about our heroes, or try to sing their praise.

We forget they all had mothers, to lead them noble ways;

We forgot through all the ages, from earliest time till now,

Has man been led to greatness, by woman's prayer, or vow.

In all of man's achievements, in all he has dared to do,

A woman, true and faithful, has ever labored too;

Like old Israel's fiery pillow — a star to ever guide.

Has man been ever aided, by the women at his side.

Through all the generations, from Ararat to our gate.

Beside her struggling hero, has fair woman rode in state.

Or foot-sore, weak and weary, to her clinging children's prayers.

All thought of self has banished, as she answered to their cares;

Each in their turn encouraged, each in their turn caressed.

As across the wastes of Europe, they pressed toward the West.

So as Alastair MacGregor, went the Highland's rugged way.

His lot was more than doubly shared, by Helen of Glenstrae.

IV.

"^t was a Highland custom, when the house was closed at night,
To stand before the open door, and see that all was right;
J?or a Highland welcome waited, any stranger that might go
Through the MacGregor Country, though he be friend or foe;
For no one asked a stranger's name, or where his course might lay,
But gave the best of all their store, and let him go his way.

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V.

On one evening, as MacGregor stood, beside his open door,
A stranger pale with fear dashed up, protection to implore;
The Chieftain passed the stranger in, and said, "Beneath my roof,
Your perfect safety is assured, MacGregor's word is proof."

VI.

But barely had the stranger passed to safety from attack.

When a troupe of young MacGregor's came in frenzy on his track,

Madly calling as they came: "A murder has been done!

And now, 0 Chieftain, steel yourself! The victim was your son!"

VII.

The Chieftain that no danger swerved, burst in a flood of tears,
The sadest sorrow of his life, now blanched his failing years.
His only son, his pride, his heir, and the slayer there at bay;
But no dark thought, the great heart stirred, of MacGregor of Glen-
strae.

VIII.
With faithful guard, and heavy heart, MacGregor led the man
Beyond the border of his lands, from the vengeance of the Clan:
"And here MacGregor's duty ends, go, Lamond, but beware
If e'er you meet a Clansman of MacGregor's murdered heir."

IX.

The young man grasped the Chieftain's hand, with all his nature

stirred,
And pressed it to his ardent lips, ere he could speak a word:
"O Chieftain, if you only knew, how I regret this day,.
But sometime, somewhere, somehow, I may in part repay."
Then overcome, MacLamond dropped the Chieftain's hand and fled,
And MacGregor, broken-hearted, returned unto his dead.

X.

A merry group that afternoon, at the village Inn made gay.

With pipe and glass, and jest and song, and the bar-maid's winsom

way;
As has ever been, since time began, the world has rolled along.
In a quickened time, by the mystic aid, of Woman, Wine and Song;
For wine flowed red before the flood, and was Ararat's cheer.
And sacred songs, divinely sung, made David, King Saul's peer;
And priest and sage, since time began, have failed complete to show,
How we can to fair woman-kind, e'er pay the debt we owe;
But the rose has thorns, the diamond specks, there are spots upon

the sun.
And the ruddy wine that nerved the swift, oft dims the victory won.

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XL

And so this day as glasses clinked, and heavy mugs did clang.
As brawny sons of gallant sires, made jests, and danced and sang;
Some over-zealous youth proclaimed, the deeds his Clan had done,
And in a moment dirks were drawn, by each disputing one.
It was the old time mad affair, in which none seemed to know,
Just what the fighting was about, or who was friend or foe;
But first to fall with mortal wound, amidst the revelers there,
Was Roderick Mac Gregor, the Chieftain's son and heir.

XII.

But soon forgotten was the fray, and the glasses clinck again,
For the glass will ever over-flow, while the world produces men;
The same wild youngsters drank and sang the same old Highland airs,
While the lonely Chieftain in his home, grieved o'er the Clan's affairs;
For treacherous foes forever seemed, upon Clan Gregor's track,
And all depended on the way, they rose to beat them back.

XIII.

Then James Grant of Glenmoriston, sued for his daughter's hand,

And now that Roderick was dead, another match he planned;

For Alastair Mac Gregor was zealous of his fame,

And the man his daughter married, must now bear Mac Gregor's

name;
For when the proud old Chieftain, had run his earthly race,
The man his daughter married, would take his and Roderick's place —
Unless some bold dissenter, claimed his to be the right;
For in olden times in Scotland, right oft was made by might.

XIV.

Now the Laira cf Grant came wooing, fair Helen of Glenstrae,

Arriving at the village Inn at closing of the day;

And being not in mood to join the revelers with their glass.

He took a quiet place apart, the evening for to pass;

And there he heard between the songs, of the Mac Gregor's plan,

That the maiden that he thought was his, must marry in the Clan;

But the wily keeper of the Inn, Old Duncan of the Braes,

Had trained his guests to only tell, what would be to his praise;

So of Roderick Mac Gregor's death, no hint the Grant received,

But a song a bearded Clansman sang, in part his heart relieved.

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FAIR HELEN OF GLENSTRAE.

As I came gaily singing

On a day all clear and fair,
A maiden met me bringing

A soul into my air;
Before the lovely creature

My singing died away,
Charmed by each perfect feature

Of Helen of Glenstrae.

No sun or star had brightness

Like each great dark blue eye,
No zephyr had the lightness

With which she glided by;
My heart in passion bounded

To be with her for ay,
By the innocence surrounded

Of Helen of Glenstrae.

Mac Gregor's lovely daughter

Sweet maid almost divine,
O sprite of Lomond Water

We worship at thy shrine:
Clansmen, raise your glass in hand

And let all hear you say —
The sweetest girl in all the land

Fair Helen of Glenstrae.

XV.

The Laird of Grant had made his plans, upon the coming day

To journey to the Southward, after he had seen Glenstrae;

And the promise of his daughter's hand, received in Highland guise,

From Alastair Mac Gregor's lips, and the lovely Helen's eyes,

XVI.

But on the morrow, as the hills, received the sun's first ray,
Glenmoriston was on his horse, upon his lonely way;
But at the Inn, before he left, in Duncan's trusty hands.
He placed a message for his Love, to tell her of his plans;
And then upon his journey sped — it seemed life's saddest day-
Humming to himself the song, of Helen of Glenstrae.

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XVII.
Now Alastair Mac Gregor had a price upon his head,
Yet for so long a time it slept, he thought the matter dead;
And now it seemed, the treacherous hand, the coward blow had stayed,
Until Clan Gregor's gallant Chief, with sorrow was dismayed;
But like the bow-string over-stretched, that breaks when most re-
quired,
Just at the last, the plan went wrong, though craftily inspired.

XVIII.
The mean, ignoble, wily Lord, the base Earl of Argyle,
Had Alastair Mac Gregor's death, designed a long-drawn while.
In searching for the kind of man, of his henchman in the Clans,
The proper sort of vagabond, who knew Mac Gregor's lands;
And had found a man most willing, for what the Earl would give,
And in the annals of the future, with the faithless Lord to live;
For never did a brutal chief, a coward murder plan.
But quick to profit by it, was the victim's fellow man.

XIX.

This henchman learning that the Grant, with whom he chanced to

meet,
Had just seen Mac Gregor's Country, gave all his plans complete;
And received the Grant's opinion, of the cunning of the plans.
To get the Chief of the Mac Gregors, in the Earl of Argyle's hands.

XX.

The Laird of Grant, now made quite sure, this boaster's tale was true.

And also he was satisfied, Argyle would see him through;

And so the business he was on, most gladly he forsook,

And back to Mac Gregor's Country, his hurried way he took.

XXI.

Yet proudly did the gallant Laird, upon his honor stand.

He would not make the Chieftain's life a bribe for Helen's hand.

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XXII.

Now Alastair Mac Gregor, again stood at his door,

As he stood, when young Mac Lamond came, protection to implore.

Again, a stranger nears him, but this a beggar man.

One of those aimless fellows, who drift from Clan to Clan;

And as a cloud, comes o'er the sun, upon a Summer day.

The Chieftain saw some weighty care, on the stranger's visage play.

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XXIII.

The stranger doffed his dusty cap, and made a courtly bow,
To the lovely Helen, who beside her Sire was standing now;
And without further greeting, he hurriedly began.
To tell the aged Chieftain, of the plot against his Clan.

XXIV.

The tale he told convinced the Chief, his only hope was flight,
For Argyle treacherously had planned, to strike that very night;
And so it was, the Chieftain for his Clansmen was afraid,.
For well he knew how quickly, they would hasten to his aid;
And as 'twas only 'gainst himself, that Argyle laid his plan,
Mac Gregor deemed it Vvould be wrong, to jeopardize the Clan;
For though the Fiery Cioss went out, with even eagle flight.
The night would find a faithful few, for an unequal fight;
And so to save his Clansmen's lives, each unto him most dear.
And not because the Chieftain, any mortal foe did fear.
That he resolved at once to cross, to some Clan friendly then.
And there aAvait what time would bring, for the calling of his men.

XXV.
"But Helen! O my Helen!" In despair the Chieftain cried,
"How can I leave you all alone, how let you from my side?
No! You shall not be left alone, this man gave me my life,
And I will also generous be, I give you, for his wife."

XXVI.

"O! Father! Father!" Cried the girl, "Let me this grief be spared,
You know my heart, yes, all my heart, is with my Highland Laird."

XXVII.

The stranger could not see her grieve, one moment was too long,
He grasped the cloak bound at his neck, and broke the lether thong,
He threw away his heavy staff, tore off his matted hair.
The ragged beggar-man was gone, the Laird of Grant stood there.

XXVIII.

Now Alastair Mac Gregor, can go with lighter heart.
Now with his only daughter, he can more easy part;
So seeing danger in delay, he bid the twain adieu,
And like a hunted beast of prey, he left for scenes anew.

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XXIX.

The night was fast approaching, but every foot of ground,

Mac Gregor knew from boyhood, for many miles around;

And armed as at Glenfruin, he feared no single foe,

As age had failed to dim his eye, or take strength from his blow.

For in a raging Highland storm, alone upon the heights,

And hunted by a hostile Clan, had he seen many nights;

So on a pleasant night like this, with but himself at bay,

Mac Gregor bid his home adieu, and took the mountain way;

'Twas only but another wrong, of all the many crimes,

Imposed upon our noble Clan, in those soul-trying times.

XXX.

There was great ado in Cowal, when of Mac Lamond's Chief,
Mac Gregor claimed the manrent, for immediate relief;
But when the young Mac Lamond, who had slain the Chieftain's heir,
Heard that the man who saved his life, now himself sought safety

there :
He came with the affection, with all the youthful fire.
That Roderick Mac Gregor, could have given to his Sire;
He promised every swordsman, who wore Mac Lamond's plaid.
He pledged unto him every means, that Clan Mac Lamond had;
His zeal and strong devotion, Mac Gregor's whole heart won.
He saw it was no craven's hand, had slain his gallant son.

XXXI.

But Argyle, base, low thing he was, thwarthed in this coward plan,,
And learning that Mac Gregor's Clan, had gathered to a man.
Veiled in deceit, another scheme, he hoped would gain his end,
And like the felon thing he was, posed as MacGregor's friend;
Then with his craven plans went on, which treachery, later won.
And by the blackest of deceit, was Mac Gregor's murder done.

XXXII.

Clansmen! This is but a page, from a Highland Chieftain's life,

The nobleness, the treacheries, of the continual strife

Of a Patriarchal Father, of a family, proud and strong.

From whom we claim a birthright, and a lineage grand and long;

And so to us, the duty falls, with the ancestral name.

Each in our own peculiar way, to add unto its fame.

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JOHN READ MAGRUDER.
By Calvert Magruder.

LAST March the American Clan Gregor Society lost one of its
most devoted members, its Deputy Chieftain from the State of
Maryland, a charming old gentleman with whom I wish you
had all been acquainted — John Read Magruder. By one of those
misfortunes that often try the souls of good men, he had, for years
beyond my memory, been confined to his chair from rheumatism —
and so it was that his cheering and stimulating personality delighted
a smaller circle than otherwise surely would have been the case.
Though I never heard from his lips the slightest breath of complaint,
I do know how dear was his wish that he might somehow get over
to one of these gatherings, mingle with his kinsmen, and deliver by
word of mouth some of the messages that he had been compelled to
write and leave for me to read. But this was not to be, and I want
to tell yovi a little something about him, in order that those of you
who never knew him may see at least faintly the outline of his
lovely character.

John Read Magruder, eldest son of George Lee Magruder and
Henrietta Sanford Randall Magruder, was born in Annapolis, Mary-
land on October 2, 1829, when old Andrew Jackson was just begin-
ning his first term of the Presidency. He was a brother of Richard
Randall Magruder, Judge Daniel Randall Magruder, and Deborah
Knapp Magruder who died in youth. When a young boy, he moved
with his family out to Carrollton, Illinois, where he spent many
years on a little farm, and where, I dare say, he laid the foundations
of that rugged constitution that stood so well the test of time. Upon
the return of the family to Annapolis, he entered St. John's College —
even then a venerable institution — but did not stay to graduate. He
went into business life, and at the outbreak of the Civil War was
in partnership with his brother Richard Randall Magruder. He had
always taken an active interest in public affairs, and viewed the
coming struggle with great anxiety, especially because, though he
had Southern sympathies, he was uncompromisingly for the preser-
vation of the Union. He had been a Whig until the dissolution of
that party, and in the contest of 1860 supported the ticket of Bell
and Everett. He was elected Mayor of Annapolis in 1860, reelected
again in 1861, and still again in 1863. During these trying times,
when little Annapolis was filled with Federal troops who were not
at all popular with a large part of the inhabitants, it took both cour-
age and tact on the part of Mayor Magruder to preserve the public
peace and keep the ordinary process of civil administration running;
in orderly fashion. He succeeded well at the task.

John Eead Magruder,
Born, 1829; Died, 1916.

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There are many incidents he has told me about that are now
too dim in my recollection to be repeated. Unfortunately he has left
only a short and hasty pencil memorandum of some of the trans-
actions of that period, but I am going to read this as it is, for T
know you would rather hear the story in his own words than as
"edited" by me. It is entitled

"Reminiscenses"

On the 19th of April, 1861, the country was thrown into a state
of excitement by the attack in Baltimore upon some Massachusetts
troops going to the defence of the Capitol. The only roads leading
into Baltimore at that time, the N. & C. and P. & W., were torn up,
and bridges destroyed. At night a mass-meeting was held in Monu-
ment Square and the excited people were addressed by Governor
Hicks, Dr. Robinson and others. The Governor was quoted by the
papers as saying that he was a Marylander and a Southerner and
that the interests of Maryland were with the South; and he was
charged with assenting to the destruction of the railroad bridges
and the tearing up of the tracks leading to and from Baltimore. On
the next morning the Governor came down to Annapolis. I met him
at the steamer and we walked up together and talked over the events
of the day and night before in the executive chamber. He indig-
nantly denied the charge that he had authorized or agreed to the
destruction of the bridges and the tearing up of the tracks. He said
he did all in his power to allay the excitement and assured the people
that as far as the Executive of Maryland was concerned their rights
and property should be fully respected and protected, but said notii-
ing that could be construed into sympathy with secession. He said
that after the meeting, Mr. William T. Goldsborough, a very promi-
nent citizen of Dorchester County, and distinguished throughout the
State, had called upon him at the hotel and told him how much
gratified he was at his course. He said he was very much afraid
that he (the governor) might say something that might excite the
people against him, or else he might commit himself to what he might
afterwards have cause to regret, but his remarks had been most
judicious and pacifying to the meeting.

That night and the next the Battalion of Governor's Guard under
Major W. H. Thompson (of which I was a Lieutenant) was under
arms, and there was much excitement throughout the city and the
small police force was kept constantly on duty. [In a speech accept-
ing the colors presented to this guard, Mr. Magruder strongly urged
the preservation of the Union. See Riley, "The Ancient City."] That
night the Magothy Home Guard under Captain Dunbar, intending
to land at the Ferry wharf, in the darkness neared the Naval Academy
and were fired on by the Marine Guard. The next morning I received
a communication from Lieutenant (afterwards Admiral) Rodgers,

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then second in command at the Naval Academy, regretting the oc-
currence and assuring me that it was a mistake — which explanation
was conveyed to Captain Dunbar.

On the morning of Sunday the 21st of April, 1861, at quite an
early hour, I was awakened by the announcement that there were
two gentlemen below who wished to see me. I went down and found
Mr. Hagner (now Judge of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia), and Captain Blake, Superintendent of the Naval Academy.
They had called for me as Mayor of Annapolis, to announce that
during the night General Butler had arrived with troops from Llas-
sachusetts on their way to the defence of the Capitol, threatened by
the Confederates. Captain Blake stated that in consequence of the
railroad being torn up between Baltimore and Washington and the
excited state of Baltimore city. General Butler was obliged to come
in here, but that I could assure the people of Annapolis that they
would not be interfered with in any manner, and that the Naval
Academy would go on as usual. With these gentlemen I went to see
the Governor and we talked over the situation. I had several inter-
views with him during the day, in one of which Mr. Hagner urged
him to call a convention to decide upon the course to be pursued,
arguing that it would better represent the views and wishes of the
people of the State tha na legislature which had been chosen some
time before on different issues. This he declined to do, but r^aid he
would probably call the Legislature, which in a day or two he did,
to convene at Frederick. A number of the members were arrested
by General McClellan, and confined in Fort Warren for several
months, being thwarted in a suspected attempt to establish a pro-
visional government in sympathy with the secessionists. In accord-
ance with suggestions, on the next day (Monday), I called a town
meeting to consider the situation, but the views of those composing
it were so divergent that nothing came of it. In the afternoon I
called on General Butler, representing to him as well as I could the
state of affairs, and urging upon him the importance, in the interest
of the city and the Naval Academy, of his getting away as soon as
possible, for his presence would likely provoke attack from those
in Baltimore. He said that he was anxious to get to the Capital for
its defence, and that if unmolested the county through which he
passed would not the next day know that he had been through; that
if we were anxious to get rid cf him we could help him by assisting
in getting wagons, horses, etc., I told him that I did not think, in
the present excited state of public feeling, that he would receive aid
of that kind. He said he was a democrat and a warm friend of the
South, admired its peculiar institutions and would like to be a slave-
holder himself; that in the Democratic National Convention he had
voted 27 times for Jefferson Davis for the Presidency; and I think
said that in the presidential contest had supported Breckenbridge. I

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still urged him to try to get to Washington in some other way, either
via the Patuxent or West River, from whence his march would be
shorter and with less likelihood of being molested. He replied that
the worm would turn upon the heel that trod it, and regretted that
in view of his patriotic mission and his feeling for the people of the
South he should meet with so little sympathy and encouragement;
but he insisted upon going to Washington from here. He further
said that he would be followed by thousands. Captain Blake, who
was present at the interview and seemed impressed by what I had
said, took me aside and asked me if I would not repeat to Colonel
Lefferts (of 8th N. Y. Regiment which had in the meantime arrived)
what I had said to Butler. This I did, and urged him to try and in-
duce the General to go by some other route. Colonel Leffei-ts said he
could not advise General Butler as to his duty; that his was an inde-
pendent command; that he was going only to the defence of the
Capital; that he had great regard and affection for the South, where
he had but a short while before been stationed; and that nothing
would induce him to invade her soil; but that he would begin his
march to Washington on the next morning — which he did. So my
efforts to induce a change in their plans was not successful.

On the next day General Butler sent out and took possession of
the Annapolis & Elk Ridge R. R., repaired the tracks and rolling
stock, and soon was in uninterrupted communication with Washing-
ton. The thousands predicted by General Butler soon began to ar-
rive, and little Annapolis, her harbor crowded with transports, her
wharves piled with munitions of war, and her streets crowded with
people, took on the aspect of a great commercial emporium.

I do General Butler but justice when I say that no one could
have been more considerate than he was of the rights and wishes of
the people of Annapolis and the neighborhood. He seemed always
willing and anxious to consult their wishes and interests in every
respect, and deferred to the civil authority as far as possible. [In
conversation with me, Mr. Magruder did not speak in such commend-
ing terms of General Butler. He was particularly indignant that the
general in his memoirs stated that the Mayor of Annapolis had ap-
plied to him for a position as post sutler — he said he would not have
taken the highest office in the General's gift.]

Other parts of the county experienced very different treatment,
but we certainly had very little to complain of. I recollect that soon
after he came, there v/as a reported rising of the negroes in the 3rd
District. He sent for me and offered troops for its suppression. I
told him that it was not a matter within my province, but that the
(Governor was the one to see. It turned out, however, to be a false
alarm. I may remark that the behavior of the negroes in this neigh-
borhood was remarkable and characterized by no outrages.

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About the same time I found the engineers of General Butler
at work on West Street and near Church Circle. I asked what they
were doing, and they said they were getting ready to lay a railroad
down West Street; and their line carried it through St. Anne's Church
yard. This would have been a great annoyance and inconvenience
to many. I saw the general, and he directed them to locate on a
line which I pointed out. When I look back upon these years of the
war, and the trying events connected with it, I wonder that there
was so little to disturb or annoy. In view of the disturbed condition
of affairs, I called upon the citizens to organize patrol. The appeal
was promptly and generally responded to, and for several weeks 't
faithfully guarded our homes and firesides until a provost guard took
its place.

There were many exciting incidents connected with this period
of our history. Thousands and tens of thousands of troops passed
through the city; three large expeditions were fitted out and sent
south, from here; and their terrible results were seen in the return-
ing armies of paroled prisoners, sick, wounded and dead, who were
brought here by the flag of truce boats for exchange for medical at-
tendance, or for burial — real and fearful witnesses to the horrors of
war. The long funeral processions were sad and sickening sights;
and the hospitals crowded with the sick and wounded appealed to
the kindness of heart of many of the ladies, who did all in their
power to alleviate the suffering.

About the time of the invasion of Maryland by General Lee, and
his repulse by General McClellan, Annapolis was greatly moved by
alarming reports of a contemplated raid for the destruction of the
capital of Maryland and the Naval Academy. [I?] called a meeting
of the citizens for their protection. All the efficient troops had been
hurried to the front; but the Invalid Corps, and two companies of
the citizens, one under the command of myself, and the other under
command of H. H. Goldsborough, then Comptroller of the State under-
took the defence of the city. A call upon the citizens was promptly
responded to by most of the citizens, and those who did not volun-
teer were forced to help in the work. Breastworks were thrown
across the peninsular from one creek to the other and all available
cannon were mounted inside of them. Two gunboats under the com-
mand of Captain J. H. Mitchele, took position up the two creeks and
everything was in readiness for the threatened invasion. For three
days we were on duty, but the expected attack was never made. An
attacking force would have met with a very stubborn resistance.

During these years the fear of the permanent removal of the
Naval Academy kept us constantly on the alert, requiring frequent
visits of prominent citizens to the Navy Department and the Naval
Committees in the Houses of Congress. We were met by the assur-
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Academy would be returned to Annapolis; but in view of the earn-
est efforts made by Newport to retain it, we were kept very uneasy.
All our efforts were ably seconded by our Congressman, Hon. Charles
B. Calvert, who kept us constantly informed, and aided most effec-
tually in thwarting the purposes of Newport. We were fortunate
in being so ably represented in Congress. Annapolis and Maryland
owe him a debt of gratitude for his faithful and efficient sei-vice in
their behalf." [Mr. Magruder in this memorandum nowhere speaks of
his interviews with President Lincoln. If I recall correctly, there were
two or three occasions upon which he called upon the President. In one
of these visits, Mr. Magruder and a delegation from Annapolis were
urging the promotion of a certain officer to Brigadier General. Presi-
dent Lincoln scratched a few lines on a piece of paper and said,
"Here, take this to Stanton." The committee waited upon the Sec-
retary of War, who took the paper, glanced hastily at it, and tossed
it in the waste basket. That was the last that was heard of the pro-
posed promotion.]

After the war Mr. Magruder continued in business for a number
of years, and then secured a government position in the office of the
Secretary to the Naval Academy, where he remained until a severe
attack of rheumatism — which, I believe, was not very intelligently
treated — deprived him of the use of his limbs and compelled him to
retire. For one who loved so much to be about, and who had been
so active, this enforced confinement must have been very trying.
But he bore it with a wonderful sweetness, never complained, and
resolved to enjoy the remainder of his life to the fullest of his limited
opportunity. Accordingly, he took great delight in books, in writing
occasional articles for the newspapers and magazines, in keeping
thoroughly up to date in politics, current events, and literature. . He
was at any hour of the day delighted to receive visitors, and to the
end retained a cheeriness of nature, a freshness of view, together
with a vivid recollection of past events, that never failed to entertain
those who came to see him. The range and variety of his information
and anecdote were truly remarkable. Besides the ready knowledge
of events occurring within his own time, he had a fund of informa-
tion from the lips of people who went back to Revolutionary days.
All this, alas, is lost to us forever. I think it cannot be too strongly
impressed upon us that if we ever come to know interesting things,
we should put it dov/n on paper — even a page a day makes a good
sized book within a year. We owe this to those we leave behind.

In politics Mr. Magruder was ever after the war, a thorough-
going Democrat — indeed I suppose you might say a "hidebound"
Democrat, in the sense that he never scratched a ticket, though he
never missed an opportunity to vote. I think he acted on the pre-
sumption that, however bad the Democratic candidate in the particu-
lar case might be, the Republican candidate v/as sure to be worse.

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He belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church, devout and stead-
fast in his faith, and widely acquainted with the history of the
Church and its institutions. I believe he knew every psalm by heart,
or at least the greater part of them.

Almost till the end Mr. Magruder retained his general health.
His sight and hearing never failed him, his mind was clear as a
bell, he was never troubled with functional disorders. I suppose you
can truly say that he died of old age. Within a very few weeks he
de(;lined rapidly — with no particular ailment, except that the ma-
chinery of life had run its appointed course. On March 28th, 1916
he passed quietly and peacefully away, in the eighty-seventh year
of his life. He is buried in St. Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis, where
lie his parents and grandparents, his two brothers and his sister.

Mr. Magruder, in the 60's married Emily Erving Nicholson,
daughter of Colonel Joseph H. Nicholson and Eliza Ann Hagner
Nicholson. She died in 1905. They had four children, John Randall
(not living), Mary Nicholson, Peter Hagner and Eliza Nicholson
Magruder, all of whom reside in Annapolis.

My uncle was especially dear to me. I knew him, of course,
only in his later years, when the frosts of age had whitened his beard
though they had not chilled his heart. Despite the great difference
in our ages, we were real companions, for although my uncle had at-
tained unto that calm philosophy of life that is the peculiar posses-
sion of age, he kept, withal, a refreshing up-to-dateness. . Though
he looked the patriarch, with his benign countenance and long flow-
ing beard, there was much of the boy left in him. We both loved to
talk politics, avA had many animated — and for me, illuminating — dis-
cussions on that engaging topic. He had seen and heard Webster,
Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and many other celebrities of a time which
seems ancient history to me, and I enjoyed his descriptions of their
appearance and their oratorical powers. Another of our hobbies was
chess — he was eager to play at any time (except Sunday, and I
could never persuade him to break that rule), and I was willing to
play anytime I felt serene enough to take a licking. I always used
to wheel him out to the polls on election day, and at odd times T
used to ride him around town in a bicycle chair. Once I took him
to the moving pictures — that was a new experience for him, but he
seemed to enjoy it immensely. He was so genuinely grateful for the
smallest attentions, his face would light up with such evident inter-
est and appreciation, that I could not help but find great pleasure
in my frequent visits. An interesting, well-informed talker, a cul-
tured Christian gentleman, as the Chieftain said, a Hero of Peace, he
richlj'' repaid me for the hours I spent in his company, by giving me
the inspiration of his lovely character, by quickening my pride in
the highland race from which he sprung. For he was a MacGregor,
with all that the name implies!

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Genealogy. — John Read Magruder was the son of George Lee
Magruder and Henrietta Sanford Eandall, gi-andson of John Read
Magruder and Annie E. Addison, great-grandson of John Read Ma-
gruder and Barbara Contee, great-great-grandson of James Magru-
der and Barbara Coombs, great-great-great-grandson of Samud
Magruder and Sarah Beall, great-great-great-great-grandson of
Aexander Magruder, Maryland immigrant.

THE MARCH.

By Miss Alice Maude Ewell.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

'Tis the March of Dreadful Death,

On field and fell, by shot and shell,

And the deadly poison breath;

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

In the flower of youth they go —

In the flower of youth with its love and truth-

To risk the fatal blow,

Laying their glad life low.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

From the gay green fields of France,

(Now gay no more) from England's shore —

On sweeps the great advance.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

With dauntless eyes and hearts.

To where death flies in the high-noon skies.

Or out of the mined earth starts.

Where soul from body parts. _

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

Old Scotland's heathery hills.

Like mother's breast, give up their best,

To go this "pace that kills."

Tramp, tramp, ti-amp!

And who that hath in his veins

A drop of the blood of Alpine, could

Say "naught to me their pains —

Their losses or their gains"?

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Tramp, tramp, tramp!

From the bloom of the heather bells

To the bloody jaws and the iron claws

Of the Death-trap Dardenelles.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

From the tang of the northern seas

To the burning sands of the desert lands,

With the blighting desert breeze.

Swift-breeding dire disease.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

Month after month they go —

Till months to years of hopes and fears

Have counted, sure and slow.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

Till the bravest and the best.

In life's full prime

Before their time.

Crave but a chance to rest.

E'en lapped in earth's dark breast.

Alas for the homes of England,
O'erhung with mourning gloom,
Alas for the homes of Scotland,
With so many a heart a tomb!
In the bright October weather.
With heath-bells all abloom.

For the lads, who went from the heather,

For the lasses they've left behind,

In the sweet pure autumn weather.

To mourn a fate unkind!

For despite the love of country

One is not dumb nor blind.

The mist is on the mountain,
The moonight's on the lake,
But the horns of the merry hunters
' No more the echoes wake.

For too many have gone forever.
And left sad hearts to break.

Oh the lads who have gone from the heather
In the sweet autumnal weather.
Facing the guns together.
For King and Country's sake!

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Ye who sit by your firesides,
'Tending the blaze of Peace,
Yet take no thought of those others
Across the wreck-strewn seas.
Give up the name of Clansman!
Ye hold it but by lease!

Ye who sit full at your tables,
Eating the bread of Peace,
Nor meat nor sweet denying
That want may these surcease,
Speak not of the blood of Alpine!
It doth not suit nor please.

Ye who go dress'd as always,
Wearing soft clothes of Peace,
Nor think if the war-made cripple.
Hath garments, warmth, or ease,
Call not on the God of Nations*
His voice might bid you cease.

Shall we of the old Clan Gregor,

Who so few years ago

Proved so true to the blood call.

Shall we be faithless now!

Ah no! should we lose the pathway,

The Fiery Cross will show.

We of the ravaged Southland,
Have felt War's loss and pain,
Not yet have we forgotten
That the like should plead in vain.
And as ye do to others
So to yourself again!

Peace cannot last forever
After the long repose
Up comes some burning question
And we too must face our foes.
How can we claim the honor
That we deny to those?

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Peace cannot last forever
Dream not of aught so strange!
What ne'er hath been will be not
In Human History's range,
And of all her laws the strongest,
It is the Law of Change.

When Europe again is smiling
When her great guns are dumb,
When her battlefields are greening.
And her shops and looms a-hum
As sure as there's Heaven above us,
'Tis then our time will come.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

And now 'tis millions strong;

And it falls — ^this tread, on the heart like lead,

Yet 'tis war of right 'gainst wrong;

Who coldly neutral is,

And hath no heart in this fray,

The Fiery Cross it sheds no gleam

Upon his narrow way.

Tramp, tramp, tramp!

We have helped — we'll be helping still.

We are part of a Clan who, woman and man,

Have breasted the waves of ill.

All hail to the Chief o'er yonder!

All hail to the Chieftain here!

In these the days that prove men's souls

Their souls shine high and clear.

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RECORD FROM THE BIBLE OF AQUILA
MAGRUDER.

Furnished by Miss Gertrude O. Pendleton.

The Bible from which this record was copied was published in
Philadelphia in 1822, and was the property of Aquila Magruder, and
is now in the possession of Miss Susan R. Pendleton, Pilot Grove, Mo.

Aquila Magruder and family landed in Kentucky from the State
of Maryland May 4th in the year of our Lord 1804.

Family Record.
Ma/rriages.

Aquila to Mary A. Magruder, daughter of Enoch Magruder,
March 27th, A. D. 1799.

Charles Afflick to Mahala T. Magruder, daughter of Aquila and
Mary A. Magruder, December 16th, A. D. 1819.

Thomas M. Cardwell to Julian Magruder, daughter of Aquila
and Mary A. Magruder, September 18th, A. D. 1821.

Births.

Aquila Magruder was born June 16th, 1773.

Mary Ann Magruder was born May 4th, 1782.

Mahala T. Magi'uder, daughter of Aquila and Mary A. Magru-
der, was born December 29th, 1799.

Julian Magruder, daughter of Aquila and Mary A. Magruder,
was born July 20th, 1801.

Levi Magruder, son of Aquila and Mary A. Magruder, was born
July 18th, 1802.

Owen Magruder, son of Aquila and Mary A. Magruder, was
born May 30th, 1804.

Levinia Magruder, daughter of Aquila and Mary Magruder, was
born January 30th, 1808.

Horace Magruder, son of Aquila and Mary A. Magruder, was
born October 17th, 1814.

Charles 0. AfRick, son of Chas. and Mahala T. Afflick, was born
November 18th, 1820.

Mary A. M. Cardwell, daughter of Thos. M. and Julian Cardwell,
wag born October 26th, 1822.

Julian M. Cardwell, daughter of Thos. M. and Julian Cardwell,
wag born November 9th, A. D. 1824.

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Deaths.

Levi Magruder, son of Aquila and Mary A. Magruder, departed
this life July 18th, A. D. 1802.

Horace Magruder, son of Aquila and Mary Anne Magruder, de-
parted this life January , A. D. 1815.

Charles Afflick departed this life October 1st, A. D. 1820.

Julian Cardwell, daughter of Aquila and Mary A. Magruder,
departed this life November 9th, A. D. 1824.

Aquila Magruder departed this life September 3rd, A. D. 1825.

Mary Ann Magruder, daughter of Enoch Magruder, departed
this life August 23rd, 1854.

Owen Magruder departed this life March 11th, 1859, aged 54
years, 8 months, and 26 days.

A CANNIE MacGREGOR.

A MacGregor Chieftain was once sentenced to be hung for steal-
ing cattle. "Cattle reiving" they called it romantically, but Mac-
Gregor was sentenced to be hung. As he was a big Chieftain, they
allowed him. to select his own tree from which to be hung. Mac-
Gregor, with great presence of mind, chose a gooseberry bush. The
judge, however, objected that the gooseberry bush was not big
enough, but MacGregor replied with great dignity, "Let it grow; I
am in nae hurry."

The following story is attributed by Tit-Bits to a famous Scots
colonel :

THE EXACT SCOT.

A young subaltern of his own nationality was one day on guard
with another officer at Gibraltar, when the latter fell over the rock
and was killed. The subaltern, however, made no mention of the
accident in his guard report, but left the addendum, "Nothing ex-
traordinary since guard mounting," standing without qualification.
Some hours afterward the general came to demand explanations.

"You say, sir, in your report, 'Nothing extraordinary since guard
mounting,' when your fellow officer has fallen down a rocky precipice
four hundred feet deep and has been killed!"

"Well, general," replied Lieutenant Sandy, slowly, "I dinna think
there's anything extraordinary in that. If he had faun doon a pre-
cipice four hundred feet deep and not been killed I should ha' thocht
it extraordinary, and put it doon in ma report."

Mrs. Mary Strange Chewning,
Born, 1829; Died, 1898.

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MRS. MARY STRANGE CHEWNING.
By E. M. Tutwiler.

ON THE 12th of December, 1898, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. George Walke Wallace, in Norfolk, Va., God took to Him-
self one of the noblest of women, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Strange
Chewning, born January 16, 1829, at Oak Hill, Fluvanna county, Va.

On May 30, 1848, she was married to John W. Chewning, of
Albemarle county, Va. She was the daughter of Col. Gideon Alloway
Strange and Harriet Magruder, and granddaughter of John Bowie
Magruder, of Union Hall, Fluvanna county, Va. She was the mother
of the following thirteen children:

Sallie Willie, John Edward, Mary Strange, Julia May, John W^il-
liam, Edward Granville, Shirley Stapleton, Henry Magruder, Mar-
garet Lee, Gideon Alloway, Charles Dudley, Grace Douglas and Agnes
Mildred. All reached maturity with the exception of John Edward,
who died in infancy.

Mrs. Chewning was an exceptionally bright and forceful woman.
Her large family of children were dependent on their parents at the
beginning and during the Civil War. None except those who passed
through those troublous times can realize the struggles and hardships
that were endured in the South, yet this grand woman never faltered.
She sent the older children to school and taught the younger ones.
She imparted to them her spirit of endurance and cheerfulness. She
instilled into them her innate refinement, her high ideals of principle
and truthfulness. She was firm but just, and throughout her life,
whether filled with sunshine and happiness, or when the dark clouds
of misfortune beset her, there flowed through her a vein of humor
and wit that was enchanting, infectious and irresistible.

She was fond of company and her home was the rendezvous of
relatives and friends, where they were welcomed with unstinted hos-
pitality. She reaped the reward of her example and teachings by
seeing her children becom.e successful men and noble women .

She was an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church, and
while her religious views were broad, she was a strict observer of
her Christian faith.

Mrs. Chewning was the daughter of Gideon Alloway Strange and
Harriet Magruder; granddaughter of Rev. John Bowie Magruder and
Sarah B. Jones; great-granddaughter of James Magruder and Mary
Bowie; great-great-granddaughter of Ninian Magruder and Eliza-
beth Brewer; great-great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Magruder
and Sarah Beall ; great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Alexander
Magruder, Maryland immigrant.

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JAMES BAILEY MAGRUDER, Jr.

By Robert Leg Magruder.

JAMES BAILEY MAGRUDER, JR., son of James Bailey Magruder,
was born in Sanford, Florida, in October, 1890.

He attended Stetson University. He was established in busi-
ness as owner of carriage and auto livery at Orlando, Florida, and
was hotel manager of one of the large hotels of that city.

In January, 1914, he was married to Miss Adelaide Voorhees, of
Ohio.

On December 23, 1915, just a few days before Christmas, he
was with a party of friends at Lake Eola, near his home, when he
suddenly decided to swim out and get a duck floating on the surface
several yards away. He reached the duck, started on his return,
then cried out, "Help! help!" and sank to rise no more. His body
was recovered after four hours submersion.

He was survived by his young wife, his father and mother, one
sister. Sue Magruder, and four brothers, namely, Robert, Chessley,
Clarence and Richard.

He was a nephew of Cornelia Frances Magruder, of Tampa,
Florida, Deputy Chieftain for Florida, and also a nephew of Hubert
Magruder of Oak Hill, Florida, member of American Clan Gregor
Society.

James Bailey Magruder, Jr., son of James Bailey Magruder,
grandson of Cephas Bailey Magruder, great-grandson of George Ma-
gruder, great-great-grandson of Ninian Offut Magruder, great-great-
great-grandson of Ninian Magruder, great-great-great-great-grandson
of Samuel Magruder, great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Alex-
ander Magruder, immigrant.

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MRS. MARY JOHN MAGRUDER GRIMES.
BY Mrs. J. M. Cunningham.

ARY JOHN MAGRUDER GRIMES was born August 7, 1851,

at Bladensburg, Md., the third daughter of Dr. Archibald

Smith and Narcissa Adamson Magruder. She was married

on June 27, 1883, to Dr. Louis A, Grimes, of Concord, Ky., and died

at the latter place August 28, 1916.

Mrs. Grimes was a charter member of Clan Gregor, and though
unable from failing health to attend any of its meetings, took a lively
interest in its proceedings, and always hoped to attend some of them
in person. She received her early education at a seminary for young
ladies in her native village, and while a very young woman moved
with her widowed mother and family to Baltimore, Md. There she
became a devout and earnest member of St. Paul's Church in that
city, from whose sanctuary some of the most learned and godly men
of the Church have been called to be Bishops, including the present
Bishop of Washington, D. C, and many of whom she knew well.
Within its sacred walls she was married June 27, 1883, to Dr. Louis
Allen Grimes, of Kentucky, and lived the remainder of her life in the
"blue grass" State. Of a most lovely, amiable disposition, kind and
charitable to a remarkable degree, she died as she had lived with a
firm faith in her Lord and surrounded by those she loved. She was a
dutiful daughter, a most unselfish sister, and a devoted wife aad
mother. She is survived by her husband. Dr. Louis Allen Grimes, and
only son, Archibald Gree Magruder Grimes. On August 30, 1916,
the consoling burial service of the Episcopal Church was said for her
by Bishop Burton of the diocese of Lexington, Ky., an old friend, and
her body was finally laid to rest at beautiful Rock Creek Cemetery,
Washington, D. C, near friends and kindred. Rev. Geo. W. Atkinson,
Jr., officiating.

"Father, in Thy gracious keeping
Leave me now, thy servant sleeping."

Mrs. Grimes was the daughter of Dr. Archibald S. and Narcissa
Adamson Magruder, the granddaughter of Thomas and Mary Clarke
gruder; great-great-granddaughter of Nathan and Rebecca Beall Ma-
gruder; great-greatgranddaughter of Nathan and Rebecca Beall Ma-
gruder; great-great-great-granddaughter of John and Susanna Smith
Magruder; great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Samuel and
Sarah Beall Magruder, and great-great-great-great-great-grand-
daughter of Alexander Magruder, the immigrant.

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THOMAS ALAN MACGREGOR PETER.
Furnished by Mrs. J. M. Cunningham.

THOMAS ALAN MACGREGOR PETER was born November 4,
1891, at Forest Glen, Md., and died October 12, 1915, at Wash-
in^on, D. C. Alan was the eldest son of George and Laura
Magruder Peter. From his father he was descended of distinguished
Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry, being the great-grandson of
Major George Peter, who at the early age of 19 years enjoyed the
distinction of receiving his commission as Lieutenant of the Ninth
Infantry from the hands of General Washington. He was also a
lineal descendant in the seventh generation of Mrs. Washington, the
wife of the immortal "Father of his Country."

Alan received his early education at the public school of Ken-
sington, Md., to which place his parents had removed, and from there
went for two years to Charlotte Hall Academy, St. Mary's county,
Md. In these schools he carried off first honors in oratorical contests,
at one time receiving a handsome medal and $30.00 in gold as first
prize, over all competitors of his native county.

He had a great predilection for the legal profession, for which
he seemed fitted by natural gifts, and had hoped to follow that calling,
though for several years previous to his death he was employed by
the Agricultural Department at Washington for experimental work in
Colorado, from which State he vsTote many interesting descriptions
of its natural beauties and grandeur, some of which were published
in the local press.

Until a few months before the end he seemed to have perfect
health, and his unfailing cheerfulness and enjoyment of youthful
pleasures blinded his family and friends to the fact that anything
was wrong with his health.

"We cannot say and we will not say,
That he is dead. He is just away.
With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand,
He has wandered into an unknown land.
And left us dreaming.
How very fair it needs must be,
Since he lingers there;
And you, — oh, you, who the wildest yearn
For the old time step and the glad return,
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here,
Think of him still as the same, we say,
He is not dead — he is just away."

Thomas Alan MacGregor Peter
Born, 1891; Died, 1915.

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Of marked tenderness and thoughtfulness of others, his unfail-
ing courtesy and kindness, especially to the elderly and little children,
was often remarked upon in his home town and elsewhere. A good
comrade for those of his own age, ever ready to join in all of the gay-
eties it seemed hard to realize that death could lay its cold hand on
him.

"He was so young to die! If he had lived
Great honor had been his; but now — !
So spake our hearts in those first days of grief
When we had learnt that he was called to God.
So young! Yet what is age, or youth, or death,
In God's great changeless mind where Time is not!
He calls each one of us when we have come
As near perfection as on earth we may.
That boy, in his self sacrifice for us,
Had reached life's climax, and in reaching it
Touched Heaven's very gates — unlocked them — passed.
Go watch o'er those he loves and plead for them
With that great God who leaves none comfortless."

A devout member of the Episcopal Church, he would go some-
times many miles to attend some special service, and was a great
favorite with his spiritual masters and teachers.

Great hopes were entertained by himself and family that he
would have an early recovery from the disease that had attacked him,
but it made a sudden onslaught and by the advice of physicians and
nurses he was rushed to Emergency Hospital, Washington, D. C, in
the vain hope of saving his life, but in the early morning of October
12, 1915, his soul passed to his God, leaving a grief stricken family and
a sorowing community to whom the word "Alan Peter is dead"
seemed beyond belief. All that was mortal was laid to rest in beau-
tiful Rock Creek Cemetery, there to "av/ait the summons from on
high," and

"In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion

By guardian angles led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution

He lives whom we call dead.
There do we walk with him, and keep unbroken,

The bond which nature gives,
Thinking our sad remembrance though unspoken

May reach him whei-e he lives."

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Alan Peter was a charter member of Clan Gregor and always
attended its meetings when in Washington. He was the son of George
and Laura Magruder Peter, the grandson of Dr. Archibald and Nar-
cissa Adamson Magruder ; great-grandson of Thomas and Mary Clarke
Magruder; great-great-grandson of Isaac and Sophia Baldwin Ma-
gruder; great-great-great-grandson of Nathan and Rebecca Beall Ma-
gruder; great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Susanna Smith
Magruder; great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Samuel and
Sarah Beall Magruder, and the great-great-great-great-great-great-
grandson of Alexander, the immigrant.

He is survived by his parents and one brother, Phillip Norman
Peter.

MAGRUDER BIRTHS, BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES

As Recorded in the Parish Register of St. John's Protestant Episcopal
Church, Piscataway Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland,
from 1701 to 1805.*

Contributed by Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr.

Anna Magruder and Robert Hay, married March 13, 1791.

Barbara Magruder and John Hawkins Lowe, married January
3, 1788.

Easter Beall Magruder, daughter of Haswell, baptized December
9, 1764.

Elizabeth Magruder and John Blackburn, married February 5,
1787.

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Francis and Barbara, born
March 31, 1793.

Jane Sprigg Magruder, daughter of Haswell and Charity, bap-
tized June 6, 1763.

Margaret Sprigg Magruder, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth,
born July 1, 1783.

Mary Magruder and James Handley, married May 22, 1787.

Mary Meek Magruder (daughter of Enoch and Meek) and Thomag
Clagett (son of John and Sarah of Frederick County, Maryland),
married October 11, 1768. Issue: Judson Magi-uder Clagett, born
August 29, 1769; Mary Meek Clagett, born February — , 1771.

Sarah Magruder and John Ozbern, married January 15, 1788.
William Magruder, son of Haswell and Charity, born July 3, 1773.

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MAGRUDER BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES

As Recorded in the Parish Register of St. Barnabas' Protestant
Episcopal Church, Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's County,
Maryland, from 1705 to 1773.*

Eleanor Magruder and Thomas Pratt, married February 2, 1755.

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Ninian and Elizabeth, born
4th 9ber 1717.

John Magruder and Susanna Smith, married December 1, 1715.

John Magruder, son of Ninian and Elizabeth, bom 11th lOber
1709.

Margaret Magruder, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and Jane, born
April 20, 1729.

Nathaniel Magruder, son of Ninian and Elizabeth, born 30th
9ber 1721.

Ninian Magruder, son of Ninian and Elizabeth, born April 5, 1711.

Rachel Magruder, daughter of Ninian and Elizabeth, born Janu-
ary 23, 1726/7.

Rebecca Magruder, daughter of Ninian and Elizabeth, born Feb-
ruary 7, 1725.

Robert Magruder, son of Samuel and Ellenor, born 11th 8ber
1711.

Samuel Magruder, son of Ninian and Elizabeth, born February
24, 1708.

Zachariah Magruder, son of Samuel and Ellenor, born July 24,
1714.

Sarah Magruder, daughter of Ninian and Elizabeth, born March
19, 1713/14.

MAGRUDER BIRTHS

As Recorded in the Parish Register of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Chztrch, Prince George's Parish, formerly in Prince George's
County, Maryland, subsequently in Frederick and Montgomery
Counties, Maryland, and noio in the District of Columbia, from
1726 to 1829.

Ann Magruder, daughter of Samuel 3rd and Margaret, born
July 8, 1738.

Charles Magruder, son of Samuel Wade and Lucy, born April
26, 1761,

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Zadok, born February 10, 1764.

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Ninian and Mary, born Novem-
ber 2, 1738.

Elizabeth Magruder, daughter of Samuel 3rd and Margaret,
born November 8, 1730.

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Jefi'ery Magruder, son of Nathan and Rebecca, born April 20, 1762.

Joseph Magruder, son of Samuel 3rd and Margaret, born October
16, 1742.

Margaret Magruder, daughter of Samuel Srd and Margaret, born
September 30, 1740.

Nathaniel Jones Magruder, son of Nathaniel and Mary, born
November 22, 1761.

Ninian Beall Magruder, son of Samuel Srd and Margaret, born
November 22, 1735.

Rebecca Magruder, daughter of Hezekiah and Susanna, born Sep-
tember 19, 1759.

Ruth Magruder, daughter of Samuel Srd and Margaret, born July
8, 1732.

Samuel Bruer Magruder, son of Samuel Srd and Margaret, born
October 14, 1744.

Sarah Magruder, daughter of Samuel Wade and Lucy, born Janu-
ary 15, 1763.

Sarah Magruder, daughter of Samuel Srd and Margaret, born
April 11, 1734.

Samuel Jackson Magruder, son of Joseph and Mary, born March
2, 1765.

Walter Magruder, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, born June 15,
1760.

William Offutt Magruder, son of Ninian and Mary, born August
6, 1740.

* Extracted from copies of the original Parish Register now
(April 8, 1917,) in possession of the Maryland Historical Society.

DATES OF MAGRUDER MARRIAGE LICENSES

Issued in the District of Columbia from December 23, 1811, to
September 1, 1858.

Contributed by Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr.

Adlina E. Magruder and Daniel S. Jasper, November 11, 1845.
Alfred Magruder and Nancy Minnis, August 19, 1835.
Alfred Magruder and Mary D. Knowles, December 13, 1846.
Ann E. Magruder and O. M. Linthicum, September 2, 1823.
Ann E. V. Magruder and William Everly, September 20, 1854.
Ann M. S. Magruder and William B. Branch, January 12, 1814.
Belford Magruder and Harriet Cousins, February 6, 1840.
Elizabeth Magriider and Gustavus Harrison, June 1, 1815.
Elizabeth L. Magruder and James Mosher, December 8, 1819.
Ellen Magruder and Richard B, Maury, April 13, 1831.

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Fielder Magruder and Elizabeth Carroll, May 1, 1826.

Fielder Magruder and (Ann T.) Young, April 9, 1835.

Fielder Magruder and Mary Ann Cummings, February 15, 1853.

Greenberry Magi-uder and Julia L. Offutt, May 5, 1836.

Haswell Magruder and Adaline Boyd, July 4, 1832.

Hezekiah Magi-uder and Harriet L. Cruttenden, March 3, 1830.

Hezekiah Magi'uder and Mary Chapman, June 30, 1841.

Jesse H. Magruder and Rebecca Penn, July 9, 1825.

Julian Magruder and Margaret A. Johnson, April 19, 1853.

Louisa Magruder and Sothern Diggs, April 21, 1845.

Mary Magruder and Nathaniel Suit, July 7, 1826.

Mary Magruder and John Stamp, December 23, 1828.

Mary A. Magruder and Hawleigh W. Downman, November 8, 1854.

Nathaniel Magruder and Louisa Rigden, May 8, 1828.

Thom.as C. Magruder and Elizabeth O. Morgan, February 5, 1844.

Thomas J. Magruder and Sarah A. P. Boteler, May 27, 1844.

Wesley L. Magruder and Elizabeth V, Mullican, May 15, 1855.

William B. Magruder and Elizabeth B. Hutchenson, September
8, 1835.

William B. Magruder (M. D.) and Sarah Van Wyck, February
16, 1854.

William L. Magruder and Treasy A. Goodrick, August 2, 1838.

From September 1, 1858, to June 16, 1870.

Annie Magruder and Frederick W. Stork, April 7, 1863.
Caleb C. Magruder, Jr., and Bettie R. Nalle, June 30, 1868.
Chloe A. Magruder and Charles Fields, August 3, 1865.
Ellen Magruder and Herman Bruggeman, March 10, 1868.
Hester A. Magruder and Martin A. Watson, August 1, 1865.
Hester A. Magruder and Henry Bell, August 29, 1868.
Horace Magruder and Lizzie Davis, June 8, 1866.
John W. Magruder and Sarah J. Berry, May 28, 1862.
Julia A. Magruder and William H GrifFm, July 22, 1869.
Louisa Magruder and George W. Washington, July 12, 1854.
L. G. Magruder and Annie E. Tippett, February 5, 1863.
Margaret Magruder and Thomas A. Johnson, March 17, 1862.
Maria C. Magruder and Frank Wolfe, January 18, 1865.
Mary A. Magruder and Isaac Williams, December 20, 1860.
Nelie Magruder and George F. Bowie, April 26, 1859.
Richard A. C. Magruder and Virginia E. Darrell, March 29, 1870.
Roberta B. Magruder and Joseph Thompson, January 25, 1870.
Samuel C. Magruder and Emma J. White, December 13, 1865.
Thomas L. Magruder and Mary A. Kinly, March 3, 1863.
Victoria J. Magruder and Henry Roberts, April 27, 1867.

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DATES OF MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED TO MAGRUDERS,

As Recorded Among the Records of the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Washington Countij, Maryland {Organized 1776), from 1799,
the earliest date so recorded, to 1904, both dates inclusive.

Contributed by Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr.

Alice Clara Magruder and Ezra K. Schindel, March 8, 1864.
Emma Cora Magruder and William A. Newman, December 2, 1863.
J. S. G. Magruder and Adelaide Sophia Craley, June 23, 1859.
John C. Magruder and Mollie C. Crum, March 22, 1881.
Mary Susan Magruder and Isaac W. Thornburg, October 2, 1856.
Mary V. Magruder and John C. Seabright, August 16, 1865.
Nettie May Magruder and Ernest Royal Post, July 30, 1904.
Samuel E. Magruder and Catharine Oden, August 10, 1835.
Sarah Ann E. Magruder and Francis Kidwell, August 29, 1871.

MRS. ISABEL GREGORY JOHNSTON

By Mrs. Jennie M. Cunningham.

Died on the 25th of October, 1916, at the residence of her sister,
Mrs. Thomas Leadbetter, N. Washington Street, Alexander, Va.,
Isabel Johnston, daughter of the late William Gregory, a native of
Kilmamock, Scotland, and his wife Mary Donaldson Long, of Alex-
andria, Va.

Mrs. Johnston was born in Alexandria on the 16th of October,
1839, and was married on the 29th of November, 1871, to the late
Major George Johnston of Fairfax County, but for many years a
resident of Alexandria.

While Mrs. Johnston had not mingled in the social life of the
town since her husband's death, many will remember her beautiful
home, one of the oldest residences of the town Avhere her friends
always met a most cordial welcome from her husband and herself, and
where they enjoyed generous hospitality graced by her attractive and
dignified personality, animated by her charming conversational gifts,
enriched as they were by knowledge acquired by the constant culture
of a mind of unusual intellectual power.

The sad loss of her only child, an infant less than a year old,
drew her more closely to the little step sons and to the orphan nephews
who were dependent upon her for the care that only a mothr knows
how to bestow, and growing to manhood, their love and affection
amply repaid her. Yet the fell destroyer took away all these joys of
her old age and she lived to mourn the untimely death of each. Mrs.

Mrs. Isabel (Gregory) Johnston,
Boi-n, 1839; Died, 1916.

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Johnston was remarkable as a person of fine practical ability and
sound judgment, the evidence of these gifts found in the fact that
she was the accepted counsellor of her family and her friends, who
confidently relied upon the wisdom of her advice in matters which
appeared difficult of adjustment. She has passed away with the love,
honor and respect of the community where she spent her life, and
the esteem of all who knew her.

Mrs. Isabel Johnston was the daughter of William Gregory, 12th;
granddaughter of William Gregory, 11th, and Elizabeth Smith of
Glasgow; great-granddaughter of John Campbell or MacGregor of
Loch Joilhead, Argyleshire, who was outlawed in the latter part of
the 17th century. A record of this branch of the MacGregor family
may be seen in the Year Book of 1915, in the sketch of Mrs. Julia G.
Chapman.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENROLLED MEMBERS.

(c) Indicates charter members.

(m) Indicates minor members.

(a) Indicates associate members.

Figures in front of names indicate enrollment members.

Maiden names of married members are in parentheses.

Deceased members are in a list following this.

463 Abercrombie, Mrs. Clarence W., Tuskegee, Ala.

397 Adams, Mrs. Jane A. Magruder, Congerss Heights, D. C.

371 Addison, Ed. Magruder Tutwiler, Eastville, Va.

255 Addison, Mrs. Minnie (Chewning), Eastville, Va.

432 Arnold, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth, R. F. D. No. 6, Shelbyville, Ky.
51c Bailey, Miss Maria Forrest, Office Auditor for State, Treas-
ury Department, Washington, D. C.

364 Ballard, Mrs. Varnett Reynolds, Eleventh and Main Sts.,
Shelbyville, Ky.
45 Barrett, Mrs. Florence Magruder (Wynne), Huntsville,
Texas.

317 Beall, Mrs. Margaret Dorsey (Waters), Olney, Montgom-
ery County ,Md.

196 Beall, Miss Ruth, 23 Boone Ave., Winchester, Ky.

445 Beall, Miss Sarah, The Montana, 1726 M St., N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C.

419 Beall, Miss Virginia Louisa, 1831 California St., N. W.,

Washington, D. C.

420 Beatty, Mrs. Edith Morlev, 405 S. Front St., Wheeling, W.

Va.

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18 Berry, Mrs. Minnie Lee (Magruder), 3014 Garrison Ave.,
Baltimroe, Md.

275c Bethel, Mrs. Helen Magruder (Bukey), 209 Maryland Ave.
N. E., Washington, D. C.

170a Birckhead, Mrs. Annie Leonidine (Clowes), Proffit, Va.

181 Birckhead, Miss Cornelia Eachel Magruder, Proffit, Va.

192 Birckhead, Edgar Belt, 2204 Center Street, Dallas, Texas.
37 Birckhead, Edward F., Jr., Fredericksburg, Va.

106 Birckhead, Miss Ella Bowie, Proffit, Va.

182c Birckhead, Miss Mary Eliza, Profit, Va.
97 Birckhead, Kobert George, Profit, Va.
96c Birckhead, Miss Thea Sallie, Profit, Va.

159 Birckhead, Thomas Graves, Proffit, Va.

133m Black, Bryan, Jrr., 1729 Coliseum St., New Orleans, La.

132m Black, Miss Elizabeth Hennlin, 1729 Coliseum St., New
Orleans, La.

130 Black, Mrs. Henrietta Kingsley Hutton (Cummings), 1729
Coliseum Street, New Orleans, La.

131m Black, Miss Laura Kingsley, 1729 Coliseum St., New Orleans,
La.

247 Bonnie, Mrs. Clara Bruce (Haldeman), 517 Ormsby Ave.,
Louisville, Ky.

110c Bowie, Mrs. Agnes Woods (MacGregor), 149 A Street, N.
E., Washington, D. C.

287m Bowie, Frank Bakewell, 315 W. Lee Street, Louisville, Ky.

111c Bowie, George Calvert, Harford Court, Washington, D. C.

138c Bowie, Miss Helen Swann, 149 A Street, N. E., Washing-
ton, D. C.

139c Bowie, John Francis MacGregor, Beverly Court, Washing-
ton, D. C.

438 Bowie, Mrs. John F. M., Beverly Court, Washington, D. C.

235m Bowie, Miss Margaret Bakewell, 315 W. Lee Street, Louis-
ville, Ky.

157 Bowie, Nathaniel Mortimer, 183 Barrington St., Rochester,
N. C.

234m Bowie, Nathaniel Mortimer, Jr., 315 W. Lee Street, Louis-
ville, Ky.

145c Bov;ie, Richard Somervell, "The Sheridan," Washington,
D. C.

236m Bov/ie, Thom.as Somervell, 315 W. Lee St., Louisville, Ky.

233c Boyd, Miss Ida, 1209 W. Eighth St., Los Angeles, Cal.

273 Boyd, Leroy Stafford, 604 Harvard St., N. W., Washington,
D. C.

276 Brandon, Mrs. Nellie Wailes, 507 N. Pearl St., Natchez,
Miss.

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327 Brooks, Mrs. Mary Sophonia (McCormick), 410 Eleventh

St., S. E., Washington, D. C.
37ac Bukey, John Spencer, Vienna, Va.
8c Bukey, Mrs. Roberta Julia (Magruder), Vienna, Va.

193 Chewning, John William, Concord, Florida.

150 Christian, Mrs. Susan Elizabeth (Killam), Shelbina, Mo.

263 Clarke, Mrs. Laura Wolfe, 1236 Madison Ave., Chicago, 111.

345 Cockey, Edward Thomas, C. P. A., 580 W. 183rd St., New
York City.

334 Coleman, William M., 854 W. 181st St., New York City.

356 Cox, Mrs. Mamie Staunton Wynne, Huntsville, Texas.

119 Cummings, Miss Laura Lee, 1729 Coliseum Stret, New Or-
leans, La.

109 Cummings, Mrs. Laura Turpin (Hutton), 1729 Coliseum St.,
New Orleanss, La.

149c Cunningham, Mrs. Jennie (Morton), 828 Clay St., Shelby-
ville, Ky.

259 Davis, Mrs. Adelina Magruder (Wyatt), Petersburg Hos-

pital, Petersburg, Va.

183 Deemy, Mrs. Bessie (Riddle), 317 E. Chillicothe Ave., Belle-
fontaine, Ohio.

186m Deemy, John Riddle, 317 E. Chillicothe Ave,, Bellefontaine,
Ohio.

187m Deemy, Miss Ruth Gorton, 317 E. Chillicothe Ave., Belle-
fontaine, Ohio,

185 Deemy, Miss Josephine Saxton, 317 E. Chillicothe Avenue,
Belllefontaine, Ohio.

354 DeJarnette, Horatio Erskine, Princeton, W. Va.

260 Donnan, Maxwell Kenan, 13 Perry St., Petersburg, Va.

261 Donnan, Miss Sallie Ward Branch, 13 Perry Street, Peters-

burg, Va.

393 Dorsett, Mrs. Belle MacGregor, Forestville, Md.

205c Dorsett, William Newman, 234 E. Street, N. E., Washing-
ton, D. C.
a206c Dorsett, Mrs. Roberta Hoxton (Coombe), 234 E. Street, N.
E. Washington, D. C.

208m Dorsett, Miss Suzie Mitchell, 234 E. St., N. E. Washington,
D. C.

207m Dorsett, Telfair Bowie, 234 E. Street, N. E., Washington,
D. C.

238 Drake, Joseph Turpin, Port Gibson, Miss.
30 Drake, Winbourne Magruder, Box 806, Memphis, Tenn.

352 Evans, Mrs. Bernice Churchill Hedges, Gorham, Colo.

100 Ewell, Miss Alice Maud, R. F. D., Haymarket, Va.

310 Ewell, Miss Charlotte, 151 W. Lafayette Ave., Baltimore,
Md.

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103a Ewell, Mrs. Mary Jane (Ish), Ruckersville, Va.

22 Ewell, Miss Helen Woods, Euckersville, Va.
21c Ewell, Dr. Jesse, Ruckersville, Va.

88c Ewell, Jesse, Jr., Ruckersville, Va.

23 Ewell, Miss Laura Susan Lavinia, Ruckersville, Va.
134c Ewell, Miss Mary Eleanor, R. F. D., Haymarket, Va.
128ac Femeyhough, Mrs. Elizabeth (Waller), Forest Hill, Rich-
mond, Va.

448m Ferneyhough, Henry Hutton, Warrenton, Va.
27c Ferneyhough, John Bowie, Forest Hill, Richmond, Va.
202 Ferneyhough, Dr. Robert Edward, Waenton, Va.
394a Ferneyhough, Mrs. Margaret H., Warrenton, Va.
396m Feneyhough, Robert Edward, Jr., Warrenton, Va.
395m Ferneyhough, Mae Lavinia, Warrenton, Va.
385 Fields, Mrs. Grace McLaughlin, 261, Alsina, Buenos Aires,

South America.
387 Frisbee, Mrs. Mamie Button, 804 Sixth Street, Sheldon,

Iowa.
466 Fuller, Mrs. Robert Waight (Elizabeth Smoot), 1810 Riggs

Place, N. W. Washington, D. C.

321 Gallaher, Miss Eleanor Magruder Briscoe, U. S. Naval Hos-

pital, Pensacola, Fla.

322 Gallaher, Miss Juliet Hite, 2342 Fitzwater Street, Phila-

delphia, Pa.

74c Gantt, Mrs. Helen Woods (MacGregor), 501 B Street, N. E.,
Washington, D. C.

60c Gantt, Miss Helen Woods MacGregor, 501 B Street, N. E.,
Washington, D. C.

75c Gantt, Miss Jessie Waring, 501 B Street, N. E., Washing-
ton, D. C.

252 Gassaway, Mrs. Helen (Muncaster), Rockville, Md.

253 Gassaway, Miss Helen Muncaster, Rockville, Md.
254m Gassaway, Miss Rosalie Hanson, Rockville, Md.

177m Golladay, Miss Dorothy Katherine, 4508 14th Street, Wash-
ington, D. C.

165c Golladay, Mrs. Rose Virginia (Ferneyhough), 4508 Four-
teenth St., Washington, D. C.

447 Golson, Mrs. Martha Moxley, 617 Magnolia Ave., Shelbyville,

287 Goodwin, Mrs. Dora Hedges, Emporia, Va.

115ac Green, Mrs. Kate Evelyn (Makely), Stafford, Va.

117 Green, Mrs. Inez (MacGregor), Stafford, Va.

277 Greene, Mrs. Adelaide Stonestreet, Rockville, Md.

421 Gregory, Alvra W., SO Chestnut St., Rochland, Me.

267m Griffin, Miss Anne Mary, Spring St., W. Falls Church, Va.

123m Griffin, Miss Caroline Hill, Spring St., W. Falls Church, Va.

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124m Griffin, Miss Eleanor Bryan, Spring St., W Falls Church, Va.

126m Griffin, Miss Elizabeth Marshall, Spring St., W. Falls Church,
Va.

125m Griffin, Miss Frances Fenwick, Spring St., W. Falls Church,
Va.

121 Griffin, Mrs. Mary Edelweiss (Marshall), Spring St., W.,
Falls Church, Va.

122ac Griffin, Robert Bryan, Spring St., W. Falls Church, Va.

347 Griffiths, Arthur Llewellyn, Halidon, Cumberland Mills,
Maine.
71a Grimes, Dr. Lewis Allen, Concord, Ky.

449 Groverman, Miss Susan Ellen, "The Mount Eoyal," Balti-
more, Md.
19c Hammond, Mrs. Minnie Magi-uder (Berry), 3904 Norfolk
Ave., Baltimore, Md.

433 Hardy, Mrs. Johnetta Beall, Cryder's Point, Whitestone
Landing, L. I., N. Y.
69 Henry, Mrs. Kate (Kearney), 2021 I Street, N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C.

218c Higgins, Mrs. Laura Cook (Muncaster), Rockville, Md.

219 Higgins, Miss Laura Magruder, Rockville, Md.

148 Hill, Albert Sydney, 3680 Seventh Street, SanDiego, Cal.

162c Hill, Miss Frederica Dean, Upper Marlboro, Md.

147c Hill, Miss Henrietta Sophia May, Upper Marlboro, Md.

376m Hill, Miss Mary Alice, R. F. D., Landover, Md.

142 Hill, Miss Mary Therese, R. F. D., Landover, Md.

375m Hill, William M., IIL, R. F. D., Landover, Md.

137 Hooe, Mrs. Augusta (Magruder), Croome, Md.
11 Hooe, Miss Mary Bernard, Croome, Md.

101c Hundley, Mrs, Mary Ish (Ewell), Ruckersville, Va.

457 Hunter, Mrs. Robert F. (Julia Bradley Singleton), 1501 12th
St., Washington, D. C.

437 Hutchison, Mrs. Tracy Magruder, 988 Government Street,
Mobile, Ala.

286 Jenkins, Mrs. Adelaide Lowe, 1300 St. Paul Street, Balti-
more, Md.

293 Jones, Captain Hilary Pollard, Jr., care Navy Dept., Wash-
ington, D. C.

136c Keyser, Mrs. Caroline (DeJarnette), Washington, Va.

422 Kincheloe, Mrs. Mary L,, Shelbyville, Ky.

299 Knibb, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd Crockett, Wytheville, Va.

341 Kollock, Mrs. Elizabeth Olivia Wolfe, 198 Fort Pleasant St.,
Springfield, Mass.

398 Laverty, Mrs. Annie Magruder, Congress Heights, D. C.

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343 Leadbetter, Mrs. Janet Boyd Gregory, North Washington

Street, Alexandria, Va.
295 Lee, Mrs. Ada Beall Cochrane, 2006 White Avenue, Austin,

Texas.

358 Leonard, Walter Magruder, 433 North Main St., Fostoria,

Ohio.
284 Lester, Mrs. Neal Drane, Batesville, Miss.
285m Lester, Walter Hugh Drane, Batesville, Miss.
50c Lesher, Mrs. William Anderson (Margaret Magruder), 763

Quebec St., Washington, D. C.
112 Lewis, Mrs. Matilda Frances (Beall), 753 Milwaukee St.,

Dever, Col.
251 Linthicum, Mrs. Ella Magruder (Stonestreet), Rockville,

Md.
372 Lyles, Mrs. Stella Pendleton, Virginia, Cass Co., 111.

460 Mackall, Mrs. Mary Bruce, 732 9th St., N. E. Washington,

D. C.

461 Mackall, Saidler Bowie, 732 9th St., N. E. Washington, D. C.
350m MacGregor, Alaric Rideout, Stafford, Va.

329 MacGregor, Donald Fitz,~Randolph, 653 I St., S. E. Washing-
ton, D. C.

359 MacGregor, Miss Eleanor Barstow, 295 Spring Street, Port-

land, Md.

163c MacGregor, Miss Elizabeth, Forestville, Md.

164c MacGregor, Miss Ellen Ewell, Forestville, Md.

294 MacGregor, Harlan Page, 1119 Main St., Wheeling, W. Va.

280 MacGregor, John Alaster, Stafford, Va.

428m MacGregor, Malcolm Parker, Rayville, La.

369 MacGregor, Miss Nannie Bowie, 3803 Jocelyn St., Chevy
Chase, D. C.

201c MacGregor, Miss Rebecca Mason, 501 Second St., N. E.,
Washington, D. C.

368 MacGregor, Miss Rosa Lee, 3803 Jocelyn St., Chevy Chase,
D. C.

179c MacGregor, Miss Sarah Louise, Forestville, Md.

346 MacGregor, Thomas Burnett, Frankfort, Ky.

406 MacGregor, Thomas Henry, Rayville, La.

426 MacGregor, Mrs. Thomas Henry, Rayville, La.

427m MacGregor, Thomas Henry, Jr., Rayville, La.

129cm Magruder, Miss Allaville, Charlottesville, Va.

431m Magruder, Alexander Dalton, 509 Trenton Ave., San An-
tonio, Texas.

429 Magruder, Alexander Leonard Covington, 509 Trenton Ave.,
San Antonio, Texas.

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430m Magruder, Alice Hartwell, 509 Trenton Ave., San Antonio,

Texas.
451 Magruder, Arthur, Oklahoma City, Okla.
13c Magruder, Arthur Hooe Staley, Gunther Building, Balti-
more, Mr.
453m Magruder, Betty Elizabeth, Oklahoma City, Okla.
6c Magruder, Caleb Clarke, Annapolis, Md.
5c Magruder, Caleb Clarke, Jr., Upper Marlboro, Md.
127 Magruder, Calvert, 23 State Circle, Annapolis, Md.
141 Magruder, Miss Cornelia Francis, 309 Boulevard, Tampa,

Florida.
339 Magruder, Dudley Boston, Rome, Ga.
225c Magruder, Edward, Beltsville, Md.

Ic Magruder, Dr. Edward May, Charlottesville, Va.
4c Magruder, Egbert Watson, Royster Guano Co., Norfolk, Va.
55c Magruder, Miss Eliza Nicholson, Annapolis, Md.
49c Magruder, Miss Elizabeth Cummins, 765 Quebec St., Wash-
ington, D. C.
43a Magruder, Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar (Long), Eastham, Va.
319m Magruder, Miss Elizabeth Dunbar, Eastham, Va.
14ac Magruder, Mrs. Elizabeth Rice (Nalle), Annapolis, Md.
425 Magruder, Mrs. Elizabeth Wright Cardwell, Shelbyville, Ky.
355m Magruder, Mr. Earnest Pendleton, Jr., Balquhidder, Scot-
land.
144a Magruder, Mrs. Eva (Liter) 316 W. Market Street, Louis-
ville, Ky.
128c Magruder, Miss Evelina, Charlottesville, Va.
373 Magruder, Miss Frances Virginia, Yates Center, Kansas.
258 Magruder, George Corbin Washington, Choctaw, Okla.
337 Magruder, George Hillary, Rome, Ga.
81 Magruder, Dr. Geo. Mason^ U. S. P. H. S., Portland, Oregon.
104c Magruder, Herbert Staley, Port Gibson, Miss.
414 Magruder, Herbert Thomas, 731 Townsend Ave., Staten
Island, N. Y.
2c Magruder, Horatio Erskine, Keswick, Va.
265 Magruder, Herbert Johnston, Oak Hill, Florida.
82a Magruder, Mrs. Isadore Carvallo (Causten), Medical Build-
ing, Portland, Oregon.
361 Magruder, Rev. James Mitchell, Annapolis, Md.

25 Magruder, James Opie, Danville, Va.
301m Magruder, James Person, 1516 Amelia St., New Orleans, La.
403 Magruder, James Taylor, 1715 Washington Street, Fort
Worth, Texas.
35 Magruder, Dr. James William, Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
228 Magruder, Miss Jane Beall, Beltsville, Md.

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3c Magruder, Mrs. Julia May (Chewning), Keswick, Va.
882 Magruder, Lilburn Duerson, care Crutchfield & Woolfolk,

Pittsburg, Pa.
307 Magruder, Miss Lizzie, 61 Washington Place, Chicago, 111.
332 Magruder, Lieutenant Lloyd Burns, Fort Ruger, H. T.
264 Magruder, Mrs, Lula Barnes, Oak Hill, Florida.
248ac Magruder, Mrs. Margaret Jane (Graham), 765 Quebec St.,

Washington, D. C.
362a Magruder, Mrs. Margaret M., Annapolis, Md.

33 Magruder, Miss Maria Louisa, Eastham, Va.
155c Magruder, Mrs. Martha (Lumsdon), Rockville, Md.
212c Magruder, Miss Mary, Sandy Spring, Md.
36c Magruder, Miss Mary Blanche, "The Everett," Washington,

D. C.
143ac Magruder, Mrs. Mary Cole (Gregory), Charlottesville, Va.

304 Magruder, Miss Mary Harrelson, 124 Dallas Street, San

Antonio, Texas.
336 Magruder, Miss Mary Louise, 105 Fifth Ave., Rome, Ga.
335 Magruder, Miss Mary Lynn, Lynnwood, Montgomery Ave.,

Bryn Mawr, Pa.
314m Magruder, Miss Mary Martin, 924 Madison Ave., Baltimore,
Md.
54c Magruder, Miss Mary Nicholson, Annapolis, Md.
57 Magruder, Miss Mary Randall, Annapolis, Md.
227c Magruder, Miss Mary Teresa, Beltsville, Md.
318 Magruder, Mrs. Maryel Alpina (MacGregor), Balquhidder,

Scotland.
370 Magruder, Miss Mattie Beall, Box 153, Columbus, Ga.
330a Magruder, Mrs. Nannie Gates, Box 153, Columbus, Ga.
90 Magruder, Miss Nannie Hughes, Port Gibson, Miss.
413 Magruder, Nathaniel Hawkins, Austwell, Texas.
47c Magruder, Oliver Barron, 765 Quebec St., Washington, D. C.
178c Magruder, Oliver Graham, 765 Quebec St., Washington, D. C.
452m Magruder, Paul Julian, Oklahoma City, Okla.
412 Magruder, Paul Kleinpeter, 404 W. Marshall St., San An-
tonio, Texas.

305 Magruder, Richard Brooke, Klatskanie, Oregon.

435 Magruder, Richard Johnson, 419 Johnson Ave., Fayetteville,

Ark.
113 Magruder, Robert Lee, Box 153, Columbus, Ga.

41 Magruder, Robert Lee, Jr. Chipley, Ga.

46m Magruder, Roger Gregory, Charlottesville, Va.
120 Magruder, Miss Rosa, Port Gibson, Miss.
248a Magruder, Mrs. Rosa (Williamson), Danville, Va.

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105 Magruder, Miss Rosalie Stuart, 23 State Circle, Annapolis,
Md.

325 Magruder, Mrs. Rosalind Geddes, Washington, D. C.

226c Magruder, Russell, Beltsville, Md.

320m Magruder, Miss Sallie Watson, Eastham, Va.

230 Magruder, Miss Sarah Cummins, Beltsville, Md.

338 Magruder, Simpson Fouchi, 501 E. Third Street, Rome, Ga.
15c Magruder, Thomas Nalle, Mitchellville, Md.
12 Magruder, Capt. Thomas Pickett, U. S. N., Navy Dept,
Washington, D. C.

331 Magruder, Dr. Thomas V., 719 American Truit Bldg., Bir-
mingham, Ala.
34c Magruder, Versalius Seamour, 316 W. Market St., Mechan-

icsburg, Ohio.
94 Magruder, Willett Clark, 316 W. Market St., Louisville, Ky.
95m Magruder, Willett Clarke, Jr., 316 W. Market Street, Louisa-
ville, Ky.

349 Magruder, William Belhaven Hamilton, 1215 McCullough
Avenue, San Antonio, Texas.

313 Magruder, Dr. William Edward, Jr., 924 Madison Avenue,
Baltimore, Md.

434 Magruder, Wm. Howard, 419 Johnson Avenue, Fayetteville,
Ark.

450c Magruder, William Pickney, Hyattsville, Md.

424 Magruder, William Robert, Shelbyville, Ky.

302m Magruder, William Thomas, 1516 Amelia St., New Orleans,
La.

306 Magruder, Miss Virginia Williamson, 137 Sutherlin Avenue,
Danville, Va.

176 Mannar, Mrs. Martha Wilson (Magruder), Rockville, Md.
99c Marshall, Mrs. Caroline Hill (Magruder), Spring St., W.
Falls Church, Va.

303 Martin, Mrs. Anna Dalton, Elmendorf, Texas.

239 Maynard, Mrs. Henrietta Maria Clarissa (Follansbee), Gam-
brills, Maryland.

297 Mayne, Miss Clifton Ethel, 4011 Izard St., Omaha, Neb.

282 McCoU, Mrs. Suzie Mitchell, 126 C Street, N. E., Washing-
ton, D. C.

409 McCormick, Mrs. Annie Magruder, Prarie Grove, Ark.

204ac McDonnell, Prof. Henry Barnett, College Park, Md.

203c McDonnell, Mrs. Julia (Magruder), College Park, Md.
29 McFarland, Mrs. May Samuella Magruder (Wjmne), 707
Holman Ave., Houston, Texas.

291 McFerrin, Mrs. Margaret Roberts, Shelb3rville, Tenn.

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383 McLaughlin, Mrs. Mary Rebecca Long, 1552 Calls Peru,
Buenoa Aires, S. A.
73 McMurdo, Mrs. Sarah Gilmer (Magruder), Wilsall, Mon-
tana.

308 Merryman, Miss Lilian, Edgemont, Md.

309 Merryman, Marvin, Hagerstown, Md.

20c Moore, Mrs. Elizabeth Ruff (Merry), 3019 Garrison Avenue,
Baltimore, Md.

411 Morrison, Mrs. Mary Shipman, Wardman Court, Washing-
ton, D. C.

168 Morgan, Mrs. Agnes (Chewning), Raleigh, N. C.

151c Muncaster, Alexander, 482 Louisiana Avenue, Washington,
D. C.

199c Muncaster, Mrs. Alletta Magruder (Waters), R. F. D. No.
5, Rockville, Md.

154mc Muncaster, Miss Edna Sarah, 907 Sixteenth Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

198c Muncaster, John Edwin, R. F. D. No. 5, Rochville, Md.

158cm Muncaster, Miss Margaret Carter, 907 Sixteenth St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

215m Muncaster, Miss Margery Ivolue, Cumberland, Md.

214a Muncaster, Mrs. Mary Ivolue (Spear), Cumberland, Md.

455a Muncaster, Mrs. Otho Magruder (Mary Rittenhouse Nourse),
North Fork, Va.

152c Muncaster, Dr. Steuart Brown, 907 Sixteenth Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

213 Muncaster, Walter James, Cumberland, Md.

362 Muncaster, William Edwin, R. F. D. No. 5, Rockville, Md.

405 Nally, Miss Elizabeth E., Landover, Md,

351 deNewberry, Mrs. Fannie Taylor, Cordola, Argentine Re-
public, S. A.

348 Nicklin, John Bailey, Jr., 516 Poplar St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

389 Olmstead, Mrs. Frances Arabella, 139 Chambers St., New-
burgh, N. Y.

324 Olmstead, Henry Hall, 139 Chambers St., Newburg, N. Y.

442 Offutt, Mitcham Webb, Eugenia Club, 32 W. 40th St., New
York City.

440 Offutt, Dr. Wm. Nelson, 230 N. Broadway, Lexington, Ky.

441 Offutt, Rueben Ford, Maplewood, Georgetown, Ky.

417 Offutt, Winfield Roach, 1222 Garvin Place, Louisville, Ky.
223 Osburn, Miss Eugenia Hilleary, Manassas, Va.
191c Palmer, Mrs. Joanna (Mayne), 219 Main St., Dayton, Ohio.
210m Parker, Miss Emily Gaines, 86th and Broadway, New York

City.
211m Parker, Francis Redall, 86th and Broadway, New York City.

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209 Parker, Mrs. Sannie (Gaines), 86th and Broadway, New

York City.
31c Passano, Edward Boteler, Townsontown, Md.
440 Pendleton, Miss Gertrude Owen, 727 6th St., Booneville, Mo.
311 Pollock, Mrs. Caroline Mayne, 550 Courtland Ave., Park

Ridge, 111.
377 Pollock, Tom L., 703-707 E & C. Building, Denver, Col.

414 Poole, Miss Katherine Riggs, 1520 R St., N. W., Washington,

D. C.

415 Poole, Miss Martha Sprigg, 1520 R, St., N. W., Washing-

ton, D. C.
64m Pope, Milton Smith, Tuskeegee, Ala.
63 Pope, Mrs. Olive Magruder (Smith), Tuskeegee, Aa.
423 Powell, Dr. LleweUyn, 201 N. Washington St., Alexandria,

Va.
292 Powell, Mrs. Mary Cranford, 201 North Washington Street,

Alexandria, Va.
296 Pratt, Miss Elizabeth Logan, 4948 Indian Ave., Chicago,
IlL

380 Puckett, Mrs. Laura V. (Magruder), 422 N. Burnett Ave.,

Denison, Texas.

381 Puckett, Miss Lorelle, 422 N. Burnett Ave., Denison, Texas.
357 Rees, Mrs. Eugenia Farr, 3745 Huntington St., Chevy Chase,

D. C.
891 Rhea, Mrs. Rosa Smith Turpin, 2309 Grace St., Richmond,

Va.
407 Robertson, Miss Anita Key, Derwood, Md.
290 Rogers, Mrs. Mary Beall Hedges, 1011 College St., Bowling

Green, Ky.
190m Scarff, James Gorton, 218 N. Main St., Bellefontaine, Ohio.
189 Scarff, John Edward, 218 N. Main St., Bellefontaine, O.
216 Sessford, Mrs. Mabel Clare (MacGregor), 1410 M. St., N.

W., Washington, D. C.
388 Scoggan, Miss Vernett Wilson, 166 State Ave., Louisville,

Ky.
462 Shell, Mrs. Brooks E., 253 Pearl Ave., Lancaster, O.
180ac Sheriff, Mrs. Ann Wade (Wood), Penning, D. C.
171c Sheriff, Clement William, Benning, D. C.
328 Sheriff, Mrs. Walter Ann (McCormick), Benning, D. C.
402 Sheriff, William Hall, Seat Pleasant, Md.
272 Short, George Ninian, 103 Lewisohn Bldg., Butte, Montana.
271 Short, Mrs. Mary Rutan Magruder, 1412 Franklin St., Den-
ver, Colorado.
418 Simmons, Mrs. Nancy Graham (OfTutt), 461 Prairie Ave.,

Kenosha, Wis.

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458 Singleton, Thomas D., 53 Hillside Ave., Jamaica, N. Y.
459a Singleton, Mrs. Thomas D. (Maude Sevier), 53 Hillside Ave.,

Jamaica, N. Y.
326 Smith, Mrs. Isabel Geddes, 3703 Ingoma St., Chevy Chase,

D. C.
390 Smith, Miss Sailie W., Shadwell, Va.
62 Smith, Mrs. Sue (Magruder), Tuskegee, Ala.
408 Snively, Mrs. Elizabeth H., 2, Sixteenth Avenue, S., North

Yakima, Washington.
107c Sowell, Mrs. Nancy Katherine (Wade), 1325 Broadway, Pa-

ducah, Ky.
443 Spiller, Mrs. W. H. Wytheville, Va.

266 Steele, Mrs. Mary Eleanor, 3003 P Street, N. W., Washing-
ton, D. C.

274c Stevens, Mrs. Sarah Goldsborough Magruder, Berwyn, Md.
58c Stewart, Mrs. Sailie (Magruder), Charlottesville, Va.

353 Stout, Mrs. Florence Graham Offutt, Frankfort, Ky,

410 Stout, Robert Lee, Versailles, Ky.

384 Stover, Mrs. Mary Keen McLaughlin, 1552 Calle Peru,
Buenos Aires, S. A.
Strong, Miss Helen Strong.

454 Suit, James Alexander Young, National Soldiers' Home,
Ohio.

360 Talbott, Miss Alice, Bearwood, Md.

400 Talty, Mrs. Belle W., 1911 F Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.

436 Taylor, Henry Magruder, Eastham, Va.

386 Taylor, Miss Lucy Ann Gilmer, 711 Greenwood Avenue,
Richmond, Va.

173 Thomas, Mrs. Caroline Hall (Stonestreet), 526 Campbell
Ave., Roanoke, Va.

268 Thompson, Mrss. Ann Magruder, 108 Eleventh Ave., S., Bir-

mingham, Ala.

269 Thompson, Winston Walker, 108 Eleventh Ave., S. Birming-

ham, Ala.
169c Thrift, Miss Elsie Magruder, Madison, Va.
367 Toulmin, Priestly, Jr., 2241 Sycamore St., Birmingham, Ala.
245 Trescott, Mrs. Kitty Colma (Magruder), Wingfield, Mo.
194 Tutwiler, Major Edward Magruder, Birmingham, Ala.
195c Tutwiler, Mrs. Margret (Chewning), Birmingham, Ala.
456 Van Sickler, Mrs. Rachel Nourse (Muncaster), North Fork,

Va.
312 Veirs, Miss Rebecca Thomas, Rockville, Md.

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Voorhees, Mrs. Louisa Mason (Ferneyhough), Groton, N. Y.

Vose, Mrs. Lorna Craig (Fowler), Lyndon, Ky.

Wade, Mrs. Anna Thomas (Magruder), St. Joseph, La.

Wade, Mrs. Mary Sprigg Belt (Magruder), 2030 Fifteenth
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
79 Wade, Miss Ruth Eizabeth, 2030 Fifteenth Street, N. W.,

Washington, D. C.
JOO Wade, Thomas Magruder, Jr., St. Joseph, Tensas Paris, La.
JOO Wallace, Mrs. Sallie Willie (Chewning), 420 Chestnut St.,

Norfolk, Va.
139 Walters, Mrs. Sarah E. Drane, 2218 Crawford St., Houston,

Texas.
565 Waters, Miss Hannah Cochran, 1334 S. First Street, Louis-
ville, Ky.

Waters, Mrs. Mary Emma (Magruder), Olney, Md.

Waters, Thomas Worthington, Onley, Montgomery Co., Md.

Whitacre, Mrs. Ira C. (Rachel Cook), Silver Spring, Md.

Whitacre, Ira C, Silver Spring, Md,

White, Mrs. Eliza Thrift (Andrews), White's, Va.

White, James Andrew, 233 Broadway, New York City.

Whitney, Mrs. Daisy Hedges, 244 Fourteenth Avenue, Den-
ver, Colorado.

Wilcox, Mrs. Caroline Magruder (Sowell), Paducah, Ky.

Willard, Mrs. Mary Magruder (Tarr), Poolsville, Md.

Wilson, Mrs. Fannie Ewell, Lone Tree, Montana.

Witherspoon, Mrs. Eddie O. (Mary Edmonia Offutt), 608
West Broadway, Louisville, Ky.

Woolf, Miss Elizabeth Kinzar, 1322 Monroe St., Washing-
ton, D. C.

Wolfe, Miss Helen, 21 Ave & Broad St., Tuscaloosa, Fla.

Wood, Miss Eleanor McGregor, Forestville, Md.

Wood, Mrs. Grace (MacGregor), Forestville, Md.

Wood, Miss Roberta, Forestville, Md.

Woodward, Miss Edith, 11 W. Fifty-first St., New York City.

Woodward, Miss Elizabeth Ogden, 11 W. Fifty-first Street,
New York City.

Wjmee, Miss Sabra Loise, Huntersville, Texas.

Zimmerman, Miss Martha Eggleston, 325 S. Fourth Street,
Oklahoma City, Okla.

304 American Clan Gregor Society

DECEASED MEMBERS.

32c Allen, Mrs. Dorothy Edmonston (Zimmerman), B. 1846, D.
1917.

80c Andrews, Mrs. Sallie Magruder (Femeyhough), B. 1848, D.
1914.

98c Bowie, Thomas Trueman Somerville, B. 1842, D. 1910.

161 Campbell, Mrs. Ellen Jane Lynn (Magruder), B. 1834, D.

1911.

344 Chapman, Mrs. Julia Gregory, B. 1842, D. 1912.

76 Chewning, Charles Dudley, B. 1868, D. 1912.

61 Clopton, Mrs. Mary (Boyd), B. 1834, D. 1910.

184m Deemy, Miss Margaret Saxton, B. 1899, D. 1912.

26 Drake, Elijah Steele, B. 1841, D. 1914.

17 Ewell, Eleanor Mildred Beale, B. D. 1916.

279 Ewell, John Smith, Jr., B. 1874, D. 1915.

102 Ewell, Robert Alexander, B. 1887, D. 1910.

118 Grieser, Mrs. Mary Ridout Green, B. 1886, D. 1915.

52 Grimes, Mrs. Mary (Magruder), B. 1851, D. 1916.
114c Green, Rev. Ivan Marshall, B. 1881, D. 1911.
116a Green, Ivan Marshall, Jr., B. 1910, D. 1917.

246 Haldeman, Mrs. Elizabeth Robards (Offutt).

217c Jones, Colonel Spencer Cone, B. 1836, D. 1915.

140 Jones, James Dixon Magruder, B. 1828, D. 1912.

342 Johnson, Mrs. Isabel Gregory, B. 1839, D. 1916.

283 MacGregor, Mrs. Mary Eliza, B. 1831, D. 1916.

24 Magruder, Franklin Minor, B. 1870, D. 1913.

250 Magruder, Dr. George Lloyd, B. 1848, D. 1914.

270 Magruder, Judge Daniel Randall, B. 1835, D. 1915.

7c Magruder, Dr. Ernest Pendleton, B. 1871, D. 1915.

158c Magruder, Dr. William Edward, B. 1836, D. 1914.

56 Magruder, John Read, B. 1829, D. 1916.

16 Magruder, John Burruss, B. 1840, D. 1913.
298 Mayne, Harry Leas.
224 Metz, Mrs. Fannie Buchanan.

53 Morton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Logan), B. 1826, D. 1911.

40 Peter, Thomas Alan MacGregor, B. 1891, D. 1915.
108 Sowell, Albert Bingham, B. 1849, D. 1915.

188 Scarff, Mrs. Gorton Riddle, B. 1870, D.
59a Stewart, Colonel William Henry, B. 1838, D. 1912.

175c Toulmin, Mrs. Grace Douglass (Chewning), B. 1870, D. 1911.

323 Waters, Rev. William Magruder, B. 1861, D. 1915.

197c Williams, Mrs. Rebecca (Rutan), B. 1848, D. 1917.

41 Woodward, James Thomas, B. 1837, D. 1910.
240a Woodward, Mrs. Sarah Abigal (Rodman).

42 Woodward, William.

INDEX

Names contained in the List of Officers, Committees, Marriages, Births,
and Deaths, and in the Program and Genealogies are not included.

Page.
Address of Dr. E. M. Magruder, 10
Affiliation with the Scotch So-
ciety 11

Among the Members 46

Baptisms, Magruder 86

Beall, Col. Ninian 20

Belfast 21

Births, Magruder 86-87

Cannie MacGregor 80

Chewning, J. W 81

Chewning, Mrs. M. S., Sketch

by E. M. Tutwiler 81

Committees 5

Coombs, Barbara 22-24

Corn Husking 60

Councilmen 3

Cunningham, Mrs. J. M 46

Cunningham, Mrs. J. M., Sketch

of Mrs. M. J. M. Grimes 83

Cunningham, Mrs. J. M., Sketch

of Mrs. I. G. Johnson 90

Cunningham, Mrs. J. M., Sketch

of T. A. M. Peter 84

Deceased Members 104

Deputy Chieftains 4

Donation of the Society to

Needy MacGregors 12

Dunblane 20-21-22-36

Ewell, Miss A. M., The MacAl-

pine Kings 49

Ewell, Miss A. M., The March. 75
Ewell, D. J., Address, The First

Born 18

Ewell, Dr. Jesse 36

Ewell, John Smith Magruder. . 36

Exact Scot 80

First Born, by Dr. J. Ewell ... 18
Glenstrae, MacGregor of, by D.

F. R. MacGregor 61

Page.
Grimes, Mrs. M. J. M., Sketch
by Mrs. J. M. Cunningham. . 83

Gregory, W 90

Hamilton, Charles B 45

Johnson, Mrs. I. G 90

Leadbetter, Mrs. T 90

Licenses, Dates of Magruder

Marriages 88

Life on An Old Magruder Farm,

by W. E. Muncaster 58

Long, Mrs. M. D 80

MacAlpine Kings, by Miss A. M.

Ewell 49

MacGregor, A. Cannie 80

MacGregor Alastair 61

MacGregor, D. F. R., MacGre-
gor of Glenstrae 61

MacGregor, Sir Malcolm, hon-
ored 18

MacGregor of Glenstrae, by D.

F. R. MacGregor 61

MacGregor, Roll of Honor 14

McGregor, Henry 40

McGregor, Margaret Ellen 36

McGregor, Roderic M 39

Magruder, Alexander 20

Magruder, Capt. Alexander 53

Magruder, Aquilla, Record from

Bible of 79

Magruder Births, Baptisms, and

Marriages 86

Magruder, Calvert, Address,

John Read Magruder 68

Magruder, C. C, Jr., Contrib-
uted list of Magruder births,

etc 86-87-88

Magruder, C. C, Jr., Address,
Nathan Magruder of Dun-
Wane 20

106

American Clan Gregor Society

Page.
Magruder, Judge Daniel Ean-

dal 68

Magruder, Deborah Knapp 68

Magruder, Edv/ard 47

Magruder, Eleanor W 34-44

Magruder, Eliza Nicholson. ... 74
Magruder, Elizabeth. . .22-24-36-40
Magruder, E. M., Address of.. . 10

Magruder, Fielder 47

Magruder, Francis 23-24-25

Magruder, G. L 68

Magruder, Hattie 47

Magruder, Mrs. H. S. R 68

Magruder Homes, Two Old 47

Magruder, James 22

Magruder, John 20

Magruder, J. B., Sketch by R.

S. Magruder 82

Magruder, John Read, by Cal-
vert Magruder 68

Magruder, John Randal 74

Magruder, John Smith. 22-24-34-36

Magruder, Laura 24-40

Magruder, Margaret. ..22-23-34-41

Magruder, Martha 26

Magruder, Mary Nicholson 74

Magruder, Nathan 20-53

Magruder, Nathan, Inscription

on tomb of 22

Magruder, Nathan, by C. C. Ma-

Gruder, Jr 20

Magruder, Nathan, buried at

Dunblane 22

Magruder, N. A 83

Magruder, Patric 28

Matn'uder, Peter Hanger 74

Magruder, Richard Randal .... 68
Magruder, R. S., Sketch of J. B.

Magruder 82

Magruder, Sam. Wade 53

Magruder, Sarah 20-22

Magruder, Suzanna 20

Magruder, Mrs. S. W 47

Page.

Magruder, changed to MacGre-

gor 34

March, The, by Miss A. M.

Ewell 75

Marriages, Magruder .... 86-87-88
Members, Alphabetical List of. 91

Members, deceased 104

Michelson, Emily Erving 74

Muncaster, Harriette Magruder, 53
Muncaster, W. E., Life on An

Old Magruder Farm 53

My Flag, by Miss T. Singer 52

Number Members present 8

Officers, Appointed 4

Officers, Elected 3

Official Sprig of Pine 8

Old Orchard 47

Pendleton, Miss G. O 79

Peter, G : 84

Peter, M. S 84

Peter, T. A. M 84

Proceedings of 1916 Gathering. 6

Eea, Mrs. James ; . . 47

Record from the Bible of Aquil-

la Magruder 79

Record of Proceedings 8

Scott, The Exact 80

Shanley, Mrs. Sarah 28-32

Singer, Miss T., My Flag 52

Smith, Dr. A 83

Strange, Col. G. A 81

Strange, Mrs. M. E 81

Talbott, Eliza Magruder 53

Thomas, Philip 20

Treasurer, Report of 9

Tut-sviler, E. M., Sketch of Mrs.

M. E. Chewning 81

Two Old Magruder Homes 47

Union Valley 47

Visiting in the Country 57

Voorhees, Mrs. A 82

War Record of MacGregors. .12-13
Wattcrston, George 28-32-45