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before he came again, if possible,
there should arise a building the
equal, if not the superior, of anything
of which. Williamsburg could boast.
Parson Earle, rector of St. Paul's
Parish, public-spirited citizen that he
was, sent my joists two feet square
from hie estate at Bandon, drawn by
toiling oxen on wagons with solid
» wooden wheels over the fifteen miles
of rough and perilous Toads. From
Cullen Pollock’s swamp at Balgrae
came the six huge pines, solid light
wood, from which my interior columns
were hewn, and Mr. Hewes sent
skilled .craftsmen from his shipyard
on the water front to fashion the den
tal blocks for my cornices and carve
the panelling for the Council Cham
ber on my upper floor. From my
mother country came the bricks for,
my walls, as attested by a receipt in
the Museum in Mr. Corbin's house
here, metal workers wrought by hand
the spikes and locks, and the adze
marked surfaces of the wood are still
'crisp and clear where protected from
the sun and rain of years, while the
deep-worn undulations of my .great
stone steps bbar silent witness to the
passing centuries. When completed I
was a far cry from the spreading
branches of the great oak tree under
which the first Assembly met at
Nixonton in what is now Pasquotank
County in 1665, as well as from the
room where in 1708 the
was held at Captain John Heckle
field’s home in Perquimans, and how I
well the builders met the challenge
of Colonel Byrd is best told by the |
thousands who visit me each year and
proclaim that both in size, in archi
tectural beauty and in my natural.
setting I fully equal if I do not far:
surpass my compatriot built three 1
years later and now standing on Duke
of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. 1
And was I proud! Proud of the'
beauty and symmetry of my lines, of
the strength and sturdiness of my
construction, and proud Os the people
who had labored for me and of the
trust imposed upon me to meet the
responsibilities of the future as my
more humble, but stout-hearted ‘to
bacco barn’ ancestor had done in the
past.
’Twas a sad turn of fate, however,
and grieves mb still to think upon,
•when my old friend, Cullen Pollock,
who had been one of the commission
ers appointed for my construction,
was brought to trial within my halls
for sedition against the colony in the
time of the Revolution and lodged in
the old gaol which still stands behind
me, and from which Samuel Johns
ton, true and loyal friend, had him
released and carried him to his home
at “Hayes.” I knew he was inno
cent of the charge and that his neu
trality was being grossly exaggerated
into active participation in seditious
acts.
And, now, surely ’tis Sam Johnston
I see. being rowed across the creek
from “Hayes” to meet his friend,
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Joseph Hewes, and Jimftiy Iredell
will soon be having the shutters taken
down for the day from the Customs
House across the street ere he, too,
comes over to join Sam and Joe. My,
my, what my old eyes have seen and
my old ears have heard through these
years, as well as the tales of wisdom,
valor, bickering and duelling re
counted to. me from a more distant
past. ’Twas on this very spot that
Charles Eden, Royal Governor for
whom the town is named, presided
over the destiny of the Colony, and
here that that swashbuckling pirate,
Edward Teach, or Blackbeard, defied
the laws of God and man; here also
that Richard Everard and George
Burrington, both Royal Governors,
fought a famous duel, and when the
bounds allotted to me comprised a
full six acres, my broad lands as- .
forded space for every phase of com
munity life. For many years the
bell in my old tower tolled a knell for
the passing of members of the House
’ of Hanover or pealed forth the joy
ous tidings of a royal birth, acknowl
edging allegiance as loyal subjects of
Crown and Mother Country; through
six conflicts the call to arms has re
sounded through my halls; I have
known the inauguration of every
President of these United Statep;
President Monroe and governors from
the time of Josiah Martin have spok
en from my rostrum, a prince of the
roval blood of England visited in,
Edenton and was entertained at a
ball in my Assembly room while |
maids and matrons vied with each
other in donning their most captivat
ing gowns and practicing for long
,-tours the proper way to make a
I graceful curtsy.”
| And then I heard a, deep sigh
1 which seemed to issue from the very
heart of the old Court House. “Ah,
Penelope, Penelope,” it repeated the
name with loving tenderness, “I ne’er
i shall look upon your like again. How
well do I recall the day, ‘when you
I and I were young, Nellie,’ and you
, and all the fair ladies of Edenton as
i sembled almost at my doorstep to
hold your tea party and make your
protest against the treatment of your
mother country. And, yet, methinks
your deed has resounded down the
years, and should occasion arise, some
other of your sex, inspired by the
memory of the patriotic spirit which
actuated you and your companions,
would stand and speak out against
tyrxany and injustice. But, my dear,
, my dear, there’s nae the charm to my
old eyes to-be found in bobby sox and
bobbed hair that was inherent in hoop
skirts and powdered coiffure, sheen of
satin and frills of lace, under the
soft glow of candle light. I’ll take
my feminine patriotism with gla
mour, if you please! Old fashioned
am I, perhaps—but flexible and ad
justable as well—and a bit amused
sometimes when history repeats it
self, for recently when that much be
rated or highly praised (as the case
might be) governmental agency, the
Office of Price Administration,' was
set up, I well bethought me of the
law passed on this spot in 1746 es
tablishing the lawful rates to be
charged at taverns and ordinaries,
and the verbal protests on the one
hand or praise on the other which
ensued.
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I ‘Madeira wine per qt— 12 6
jA diet of fresh meat, wheat
• bread and small beer 6
Lodging per night 2 6
( A bottle,of Claret 1 '5
Pasturage or stabling a
horse per night _T__ 1 5
‘lf any person or persons presume
to take any higher or greater price
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than above rated, on complaiht and
proof thereof made before any. two
justices of ye peace within the said
County, they shall forfeit their li
censes and further be lyable to the
penalties by law prescribed.
Signed James Craven, Clerk.’ '
The dire influence of witchcraft
touched the village when about 1705
a warrant was issued for one Sarah
charging her with the practice of
witchcraft and that she be haled into
Court and made to indemnify the
plaintiff in the sUm of 200 pounds
sterling for ‘scandalous and malicious
words and practices,’ and also a cer
tain Susannah and Martha, ‘being led
by ye instigation of ye devil-did dia
bolically bewitch several of her Ma
jesty’s liege subjects against ye peace
of our sovereign lady, ye queen’; but
4he jury found no true bill against
‘ye persons ignoramus.’
’Tis dull times these .days with
never a sail upon the broad waters
of Edenton Bay. Time was when the
news of an incoming vessel brought
all the village together to the
wharves at the foot of the Court,
House green for the news of the out
side world as well as for the excite
ment of seeing the cargo unloaded —
cottons and silks, gold embroideries,
musk, cinnamon and cloves, flowered'
taffetas and soosys, ‘mahogany and
wool. Within my walls is housed
even now a treasured item brought
i here during the Resolution by Cap-
I tain Russell in his sailing vessel, the
I chair preseflted by Lord Baltimore to
the Masonic Lodge at Alexandria,
Va., which our great General and
President, George Washington, used
when he presided over the meetings
of the Masonic Order there, brought
here for safe-keeping from the Brit
ish when that lodge was suspended.
And the self-same cannon which now
serve as peaceful markers for the
water front before me I saw unload
ed from the ‘Holy Heart of Jesus’
which brought them here from France
where they were purchased by
Thomas Benbury and Robert Smith,
Commissioners, for defense of this
great port.
As I look out across the water I
miss an old familiar friend who stood
as a symbol of good cheer and bon
voyage throughout the years—the old
Dram Tree—within whose hollow'
trunk reposed a jug of rum from
which the captain of each outgoing
vessel to England and the Indies
drank a toast to a safe and success
ful voyage and each incoming vessel
paused within sight and sound of
home to fill it up.
Again I seem to hear the foot
falls of the countless thousands who
have crossed my threshold—the run
ning feet of little children hastening
to the Christmas parties held for
many years in my Assembly Room. I
like to look back upon those times
when fun and merriment held sway,,
though I shudder at the memory of
one occasion when a serious catas
trophe caused b£ Santa Claus’ beard
catching fire was narrowly averted
and Sir Nathaniel Duckenfield, come
over from his plantation in Bertie,
was the hero of the occasion. I hear,
too, the lightsome, tripping feet of
maiden and their beaux hurrying to
take their places for the stately
minuet, and perhaps those same
eager feet at some later day on their
way to secure a marriage license
within the office of the Register; the
dignified steps of statesmen—Chris
topher Gale, first Chief Justice of
North Carolina; Samuel Johnston,
outstanding leader of the Colony, first
Senator from North Carolina, Judge
and Governor; Joseph Hewes, Signer
of the Declaration of Independence
and Chairman of the Committee on
Naval Affairs, thus becoming in ac
tuality the first Secretary of the
Navy; James Iredell,- Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
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under Washington; Hugh Williamson,
Signer of the Constitution, Royal
Governors of the days when we were
under the King, Judges presiding
over the High Court, the reluctant
feet of the condemned led away to
justice, the tottering feet of the aged
'And indigent coming to receive a dole,
the martial tread of men in uni
form—redcoats, and blue and buff,
and khaki, and the dauntless steps
of men in gray returned from war
(wearing defeat like a plumed hel
met — and all the intermingling steps
| of the hordes that have passed in and
out in the daily round of life’s mani
fold duties.”
And then, as the rising sun light
ened the eastern sky the old Court
House gave a sigh for the past, but
its face caught the glow of another
day and* it settled back to repose With
the consciousness that the tangible
evidence of the heritage of pur illus
trious past made manifest to future
generations in the preservation -of its
landmarks—that out of this might
come the challenge and inspiration to
posterity to hold high the torch and
with integrity of purpose ‘act well
their part,’ whether great or small, in
the making of a better world with a
lasting peace under God’s guidance
; hnd protection.
“The long toil of the brave
Is not lost in darkness,
'Neither hath counting the cost
Fretted away the zeal of their hopes.
Over the fruitful earth and athwart
the seas
Hath passed the light of noble deeds
unquenchable forever.”
The old Court House slept again,
and so did I.
Twas a “Lusty Wind For Caro
lina” that brought Inglis Fletcher to
Raleigh’s Eden” to make her home
among the “Men of Albemarle” and
give us renewed interest and a keen
er awareness of the priceless herit
age of our past, and we look forward
with eager anticipation to the time
when with the restoration of the old
Council Chamber in the Court House
in Queen Anne’s Town we may again
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W. A. HARRELL, Chairman
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WILLIAM R. ISRAEL W. H. HOLLOWELL HECTOR LUPTON J. PHATTIE PERRY
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G. M. BYRUM T. B. WILLIFORD JESSE L. HARRELL C. O. LETCHER
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T. C. BYRUM, SR. J. H. WARD J. REUBEN BASS J. EDWIN BUFFLAP
TROT LEARY JOHN G. WOOD, JR. E. E. HARRELL H. T. LAYTON
J. HAYWOOD BUNCH C. E. BAKER E. L. WELLS, JR. H. M. PHTHISIC
F. P. WOOD 0. C. LONG GEORGE C. HOSKINS H P. LAYDEN
C. J. WILLIAMS M. L. BUNCH W. M. WILKINS W. H. PARKER
EDWARD WOZELKA R. S. MARSH LLOYD E. BUNCH R. C. HOLLAND
I. E. HALSEY, SR. MARVIN WILSON J. F. HARRELL E. W. SPIRES
E. B. WILLIAMS H. C. JACKSON R. W. LEARY P. C. ASHLEY, JR.
F. W. HOBBS J. LOUIS HARRELL C. T. DIXON JOHN A. KRAMER
W. B. JONES T. E. HASTE ROY SPRUILL RUSSELL H. BYRUM
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MRS. R. C. HOLLAND WENDELL COPELAND REBECCA COLWELL
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Township G0a1—225 Members to Date—Bx
SECOND TOWNSHIP
T. O. ASBELL, Chairman
P. G. PERRY E. E. PRIVOTT E. L. BELCH F. A. WHITE
T. S. L*EARY A. M. FOREHAND E. D. BYRUM TROY TOPPIN
J. E. BUNCH M. J. EVANS CARLTON GOODWIN E. W. PERRY
W. H. SAUNDERS T. O. ASBELL GARLAND ASBELL J. H. ASBELL
E. R. BUNCH T. L. EVANS J. H. BYRUM JOHN A. BUNCH
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' W. J. PRIVOTT I. D. JORDAN C. B. WHITE W. L. MILLER
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THIRD TOWNSHIP
L. E. TWINE, Chairman
N. E. JORDAN J. ET. PERRV, JR. A. E. ASBELL L. E. TWINE
O. M. BLANCHARD F. M. WARD A. L. HOLLOWELL ISAAC BYRUM
E. M. HOWELL C. A. PERRY J. E. BAKER D. H. BERRYMAN
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J. W. FOREHAND R. C. WARD L. C. BRIGGS E. E. FOREHAND
J. T. BYRUM -PERCY M. HARRELL M. C. WARD H. D. WHITE
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F. A. JORDAN MRS. R. W. TWINE T. A. BERRYMAN .D. G. WELCH
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R. F. JORDAN ‘ L. C. BAKER I. D. BRIGHT T. L. WARD
L. R. BLANCHARD W. R. EASON C. E. ASBELL J. E. PERRY, SR.
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Township Goal —125 Members to Date— 75
FOURTH TOWNSHIP
JOE A. WEBB, JR., Chairman
GUY C. HOBBS C. Y. PARRISH W. J. GOODWIN T. C. JACKSON
A. C. BOYCE ' L. A.' BARRINGTON HENRY BRABBLE . THOMAS O. HARRELL
TOM GOODMAN M. W.- JACKSON J. O. PERRY LLOYD OVERTON, SR.
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“We are of those who hold the past
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The "Rev. Jesse McCloud, in charge
of the Albemarle Camp Meeting be
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County, announced early this week
that the camp meeting will come to a
close next Sunday, when an all day
service will be held.
The guest speaker for the occasion
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ANNUAL FIRE INSPECTION
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