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"Can't see no sign of him, Jimmy. Guess Jack Wonnell hit it, an' he's gone in the Jedge's. Mebbe he's buyin' of Jedge Custis's niggers. That's this gentleman's business." Jimmy Phoebus, himself no slight specimen of a man, gave another glance at the stranger from the black cherries of his eyes, and, apparently no better satisfied with the inspection, made no sign of acquaintance.
No other incident, beyond indiscriminate ridicule, was recorded of this hat, except once, when a group of little children in front of Judge Custis's house began to whisper and titter, and one, bolder than the rest, the Judge's daughter, gravely walked up to the unsocial man; it was the first of May, and he was in his best suit: "Sir," she said, "may I put a rose in your old hat?"
He stood up and put his foot on the negro, to the amusement of the boys gathering around. "John Fitch, the engineer," said John M. Clayton, "left a curious will; it begins, 'To William Rowan, my trusty friend, I bequeath my Beaver Hat." Judge Custis's countenance fell, thinking of another hat which had entered his family.
A picture of the room in which Washington died, and the bed on which he expired, may be seen in Lossing's Mount Vernon and its Associations. Custis's Recollections, &c., p. 477. At the head of the coffin was placed an ornament, inscribed SURGE AD JUDICUM. At about the middle were the words GLORIA DEO; and upon a silver plate was the record
Milburn shown into this room to await me. Do you go and engage my mother affectionately, and both of you remain in your chamber till I am ready to call you." The proximity of the dreadful creditor had almost paralyzed Judge Custis, and he glided out like a ghost. Meshach Milburn had locked the store after writing some letters, and had taken the broad street for Judge Custis's gate.
The acceptance of command compelled Washington to resign the care of Custis's estate, for which service "I have never charged him or his sister, from the day of my connexion with them to this hour, one farthing for all the trouble I have had in managing their estates, nor for any expense they have been to me, notwithstanding some hundreds of pounds would not reimburse the moneys I have actually paid in attending the public meetings in Williamsburg to collect their debts, and transact these several matters appertaining to the respective estates."
"She won't have nothin' to do with you, Jack; she's too well raised." "She ain't had yit, Levin, but I'm follerin' of her aroun'. There ain't no white gal in Princess Anne purty as them two house gals of Jedge Custis's." "Well, what kin you do with a nigger, Jack? You never kin marry her." "Maybe I kin buy her, Levin." "She ain't fur sale, Jack. Jedge Custis never sells no niggers.
Come over to the Governor's office with me, and I will get a requisition for her on the business of last night. Young Dennis here knows the band; friend Hunn saw the attack." Judge Custis's face grew suddenly troubled. "Clayton," he said, "I would rather not appear in this matter. Indeed, you must excuse me."
Custis's wishes in respect to his slaves when the news of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry reached Arlington. Word of this reckless attempt to free the slaves by force reached him in the form of a dispatch from the Secretary of War, ordering him to take immediate charge of the United States marines who were being hurried to the scene of action.
Custis's Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, page 145. Thursday, the thirtieth of April, was the appointed day for Washington to take the oath of office.
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