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Updated: June 10, 2025
It was the voice of that first night at Weyanoke, all pathos, all sweetness, all entreating. The Governor stopped short, the smile still upon his lips, his hand still outstretched, stood thus for a moment, then sat down. Around the half circle of gentlemen went a little rustling sound, like wind in dead leaves. My lord half rose from his seat. "She is bewitched," he said, with dry lips.
Ere we had reached Piersey's the rain had ceased and the clouds were breaking; above Chaplain's Choice hung a great rainbow; we passed Tants Weyanoke in the glory of the sunset, all shattered gold and crimson. Not a word had been spoken. I sat in a humor grim enough, and she lay there before me, wide awake, staring at the shifting banks and running water, and thinking that I thought she slept.
Douthat; and he seldom varies the greeting: "How is you dis mawnin', Miss Mary? I sut'n'y is glad to see you able to be up an' 'roun'. You know you an' me is chil'en of de same day." Weyanoke, like most of the large plantations on the James, has a postoffice in the house.
About midway along the north shore of the James River between the Chickahominy and Appomattox Rivers is a projection of land that forces a wide sharp turn in the James. This was separate, and distinct, from Great Weyanoke which lay along the south side of the James toward the Appomattox. The Weyanoke Indian tribe inhabited both areas, yet their chief town was on the south side.
On beyond was a glint of the sun-lit river. A group of towering cottonwood trees, standing in the dooryard, is so conspicuous a feature of the landscape that it serves as a guide for the pilots on the river boats. Leaving the sailor here to do some foraging in the neighbourhood, we went on to Upper Weyanoke.
All was lightness, gayety, and warmth; the sap was running, the heyday of the spring at hand. Ah! to be riding with her, to be going home through the fairy forest, the sunshine, and the singing!... The happy miles to Weyanoke, the smell of the sassafras in its woods, the house all lit and trimmed.
And when I think that that man whom I hate, hate, hate, breathes the air that I breathe, it stifles me! If I could fly away like those birds, if I could only be gone from this place for even a day!" "I would beg leave to take you home, to Weyanoke," I said after a pause, "but I cannot go and leave the field to him." "And I cannot go," she answered.
"Do you live here?" she asked at last, with a disdainful wave of her hand toward the town. "No, madam," I answered. "I live up river, in Weyanoke Hundred, some miles from here." "Then, in God's name, let us be gone!" she cried, with sudden passion. I bowed low, and advanced to kiss her hand.
Apparently the swamp was impassable; but the officers found, running through it, a most peculiar formation a natural ridge of solid earth. It was a ready-made military roadway upon which the troops could pass through the swamp and reach the river. Mr. Douthat always declared that "The Almighty had built it for them." Across the James from Weyanoke lies Fleur de Hundred.
At Weyanoke we had had trouble with the Indians. I was one who loved them not and had fought them well, for which reason the hundred chose me its representative.
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