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Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.
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Life of prince Eugene.
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Farriers compleat Guide.
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McLung on Bile
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Westleys History of the Bible 2 Vol's.
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Fontenelle des Morts.
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Grammatica Institu. Rudi.
Drydens Fables.
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Shaftsburys Charactericstics.
Rapin on Aristotles Poesy.
Musae Anglicanae 2 Vol's.
King on the Heathen Gods.
Adventures of a Guinea 2 Vol's.
Manners, from the French.
Collection of Poems. 3 Vol's.
Massons Life of Horace.
The School of Woman.
Wesleys Poems.
A Lady's Religion.
Ovids Art of Love.
Whears Relectiones Hyemales.
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Menahenii Declamationes.
Blackwells Introduction to the Classics.
Present State of Polite Learning.
Zenophons Cyropedia in Greek.
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Guide to London Trader.
Horus's Epitome of Hist. Rom.
Plurality of Words
Grotius De Veritate.
Ponds Kalender.
Memoirs de la Pompadour.
Favel of the Heavens. 2 Vol's.
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Laurentii Vallae de Lingua Latinae Elegantia.
Sherlocks Sermons 3 Vol's.
Peace of King William.
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A Gentlemans Religion.
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Clarks Essay on study.
Drydens Juvenal.
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Hist de Theadosa le Grand.
More's Utopia.
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Wilkies Epigoniad.
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Salust Horace Hudibras.
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Castalio de Christo imitando.
Elegantiarum centum Regulae.
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Account of the Death of the Persecutors.
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Riders British Merlin.
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Pia Desideria. (A Poem)
Cororna Virtutum.
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Ovids Metamorphosis 2 Vol's.
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Dowel on Heresy.
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Anacreontis et Saphonis Carmina.
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Crito 2 Vol's.
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Jewish Spy 5 Vol's.
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La belle Assemble 4 Vol's.
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Petronii Satyricon:
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King on the Heathen Gods.
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Paradise Lost.
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De Linguarum Artificio.
[Valentine Made by Fithian for Priscilla Carter]To Miss Priscilla CarterPresented as a Valentine.
When Custom calls I must away,She calls me now, & chides my Stay;She asks my usual annual care,To compliment some worthy Fair;To hasten to Apollo's Shrine,For Aid to form a Valentine.But if Apollo I invoke,Gay Fancy I shall sure provokeWho swears these yearly Rhimes should be,From Order, Sense, & Learning free;That if each line be fill'd with Stuff,Twill please a Lady well enoughThat Fancy only can inspireA Youthful Heart with frantic Fire,To write such inconsistent Lines,As always please in Valentines;That if Apollo lends his Aid,And I address a well-bred Maid;With Verses plain yet fill'd with sense,The Girl would curse my Impudence;Pedantic, earth-born Fellow! he,A hobbling Tutor write to me!Let him go teach his Scholars Greek,Or learn, himself, to dance, to speak;And learn to please, or never dare,Disturb the Quiet of the Fair.She spoke; but why should I obey,What unsubstantial Phantoms say?Yet Fancy urg'd her case so well,No human Mind could guess or tell,What hidden Scheme she had in View,Nor what the Baggage meant to do:'Till Pallas Queen of wisdom came,And told the mischief of the Dame,For Fancy, Madam, early knew,Twas my Desire to write to you;She therefore whisper'd in my Ear,That you would nought but Nonsense hearIn hopes to baffle my Design,Or form a vulgar Valentine.But Pallas told me what to doIf I design'd to write to you,Make Humour, Truth, & Sense conspire,With genuine poetic-Fire,To form a Song in Taste & Ease,Such would your Infant-Bosom please.Now, Miss, accept in humble Lays,My weak attempt to sing your Praise;Nor think it rudeness when I try,To hold your virtues up on high,To shew their bright yet living BlazeAnd make inraptured Numbers gaze;Slander herself must disappear,Or justify my Conduct here,Since Fancy, Wit, & Pallas, too,Are all contending, Miss, for you.I in the common sportful Way,With pleasure now of you might say,That both your Eyes are glowing Darts,Which only seen do wound our hearts;That Venus' Son by her commandWaits always at your fair Right-Hand,And that the Loves in Beauty drest,Are always hov'ring near your Breast;But, tho Such words appli'd to you,In every sense should all be true;And if you hear such pleasant Rhimes,Sung in your Ear ten thousand Times:Yet always doubt what makes you more,Than ever Mortal was before.When any Girl; with beauty drest,And Innocence above the Rest,Tho' Fortune has withheld her Store,And left the blushing Maiden poor,Yet Ladie's look with envious Eyes,And well-born Men the Angel prize.Or when the God of Wealth is kind,Who does not worth nor Beauty mind,And gives some sordid Woman Gold,Our foolish Sex is bought & sold;We cringe, & court, & sigh, & whineAnd swear the Nymph is quite divine.And sometimes, tho' Examples here,Exceeding seldom do appear,When a good Girl of solid sense,Who does not make the least pretence,To what our Fancies rate so high,A great estate & sparkling Eye;Who knows tis only want of these,Makes her incapable to please,And therefore Studies hard to find,And plant such Virtues in her MindAs shall the place of Friends supplyWith constant mirthful Company:Sometimes these Virtues far outdo,The power of wealth & Beauty too,And make a low-born Virgin rise,To seem a Goddess in our Eyes.But when we image in our Mind,Beauty, & Wealth, & Genius join'd,And see them all to one belong,The Colours are so bright so strong;None can resist the powerful BlazeBut all with Love, & Rapture gazeIf Madam, my Presage be true,I may apply all these to you;And free from Fear, or Interest say,That on some happy Future Day,When years shall have the worth exprest,Which yet lies prison'd in your Breast;And settled more the charming Grace,Of grave good Humour in your Face;As you have been by Fortune blest,And born of Fame, & Wealth possest,Those full-blown Charms the world will see,And with one common voice agree,That such perfection is design'dTo be a pattern for Mankind.Sure then I've cause with Heart sincere,To bless the Chance which led me here,And plac'd me down by Wisdom's Flow'r,Which still grows lovelier every Hour;Whose tender Branches bud & shootAnd promise early useful Fruit;Tho' Chance has given me in Care,To Nurse this plant & make it fair,Yet generous Nature had before,Been so unsparing of her Store,That unemploy'd, with wondering Eyes,I only stand, & see it rise!Philip. V FithianWestmorland-County}
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February 2d: 1774.}
Footnote_1_1
Cf. Morton, Louis, Robert Carter of Nomini Hall: A Virginia Tobacco Planter of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 62-87.
Footnote_2_2
In the issue of the Virginia Gazette for May 24, 1751, Thomas Eldridge of Prince George County advertised the sale of his "Mannor Plantation" and three other plantations. Such references to manor plantations appeared frequently in the Gazette and in the wills of the period.
Footnote_3_3
Cf. Wright, Louis B., The First Gentlemen of Virginia, passim.
Footnote_4_4
William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. VII, series 1, p. 43.
Footnote_5_5
Stanard, Mary Newton, Colonial Virginia, p. 271.
Footnote_6_6
Hornsby, Virginia Ruth, "Higher Education of Virginians," p. 10. Typed M.A. Thesis, Library of the College of William and Mary.
Footnote_7_7
William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. XX, series 1, p. 437.
Footnote_8_8
Cf. Wright, First Gentlemen, passim.
Footnote_9_9
An Englishman visiting Virginia at the close of the eighteenth century stated, with reference to persons he met who had been educated abroad before the Revolution, that he "found men leading secluded lives in the woods of Virginia perfectly au fait as to the literary, dramatic, and personal gossip of London and Paris." Bernard, John, Retrospections of America, 1797-1811, p. 149.
Footnote_10_10
Stanard, Colonial Virginia, p. 290.
Footnote_11_11
Letter of Robert Beverley to Landon Carter, Blandfield, May 19, 1772, in possession of Mrs. William Harrison Wellford of Sabine Hall. Cf. "Extracts from Diary of Landon Carter in Richmond County, Virginia"; William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. XIII, series 1, pp. 160-163.
Footnote_12_12
William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. XIX, series 1, p. 145.
Footnote_13_13
Robert Andrews, a Pennsylvania youth educated at "the College of Phileda," served as a tutor at "Rosewell," the Page home in Gloucester County, for several years, and two young men from Princeton taught the Carter children at "Nomini Hall." Cf. letter of John Page, Jr., to John Norton. "Rosewell," September 18, 1772, in Mason, Frances Norton, John Norton & Sons, p. 271. See also page 160.
Footnote_14_14
A "falling garden" consisted of a series of very broad terraces, usually connected by ramps covered with turf, oyster shell or other surface material to prevent erosion. In some instances the successive levels were planted in elaborate patterns. In others the whole was covered with turf. The "falling garden" at "Sabine Hall" retains its eighteenth-century design intact.
Footnote_15_15
A ha-ha is a boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park of such a nature as not to interrupt the view from the mansion and may not be seen until closely approached. According to a French etymologist, the name is derived from ha, an exclamation of surprise, uttered by one suddenly approaching such a boundary. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with a wall; the outer being sloped and turfed. The ha-ha permitted grazing cattle and sheep to appear on the landscape, and at the same time held them at a distance from the mansion. In his diary, George Washington refers, on several occasions, to the ha-has on the grounds at "Mount Vernon." Cf. Fitzpatrick, John, The Diaries of George Washington, Vol. II, passim.
Footnote_16_16
At "Mount Vernon" the mansion and its wings together composed three sides of an open square, the main house and its wings closing the side opposite the open end. At "Stratford Hall" four dependent structures formed a square court, inside of which the great house stands. Two offices are set twenty-eight feet in advance of the main house on the land front. On the water front two others are placed in a similar relation to it. At "Shirley" the great house and four principal dependent buildings form a long rectangular court, the mansion closing the side facing the river.
Footnote_17_17
A Huguenot Exile in Virginia, ed. and tr. by Gilbert Chinard (New York, 1934), p. 142. In writing of Maryland early in the eighteenth century, Sir John Oldmixon said: "Both here [Maryland] and there [Virginia] the English live at large at their several Plantations, which hinders the Increase of Towns; indeed every Plantation, is a little Town of itself, and can subsist itself with Provisions and Necessaries, every considerable Planter's Warehouse being like a Shop…" Oldmixon, John, British Empire in America (second edition, 1741), Vol. I, p. 339. Cf. Kimball, Fiske, Domestic Architecture, passim.
Footnote_18_18
A historian who described the Virginia residences at the beginning of the eighteenth century stated that "All their Drudgeries of Cookery, Washing, Daries, &c. are perform'd in Offices detacht from the Dwelling-Houses, which by this means are kept more cool and Sweet." Cf. Beverley, Robert, The History and Present State of Virginia, Book IV, p. 53.
Footnote_19_19
The Tidewater plantation economy had spread into the Piedmont section prior to the American Revolution. A paroled British officer writing of his situation in Albemarle County in 1779, said: "The house that we reside in is situated upon an eminence, commanding a prospect of near thirty miles around it, and the face of the country appears an immense forest, interspersed with various plantations, four or five miles distant from each other; on these there is a dwelling-house in the center, with kitchens, smoke-house, and out-houses detached, and from the various buildings, each plantation has the appearance of a small village; at some little distance from the houses, are peach and apple orchards, &c. and scattered over the plantations are the negroes huts and tobacco-houses, which are large built of wood, for the cure of that article." Cf. Anburey, Thomas, Travels Through the Interior Parts of America, Vol. II, p. 187.
Footnote_20_20
A British observer reported in 1779 that "… before the war, the hospitality of the country was such, that travellers always stopt at a plantation when they wanted to refresh themselves and their horses, where they always met with the most courteous treatment, and were supplied with every thing gratuitously; and if any neighbouring planters heard of any gentleman being at one of these ordinaries, they would send a negroe with an invitation to their own house." Cf. Anburey, Travels Through the Interior Parts of America, Vol. II, p. 198. This same traveller described the hospitality shown the guests at one of the James River plantations. "I spent a few days at Colonel Randolph's, at Tuckahoe, at whose house the usual hospitality of the country prevailed," he wrote. "It is built on a rising ground, having a most beautiful and commanding prospect of James River; on one side is Tuckahoe, which being the Indian name of that creek, he named his plantation Tuckahoe after it; his house seems to be built solely to answer the purposes of hospitality, which being constructed in a different manner than in most other countries; I shall describe it to you: It is in the form of an H, and has the appearance of two houses, joined by a large saloon; each wing has two stories, and four large rooms on a floor; in one the family reside, and the other is reserved solely for visitors: the saloon that unites them, is of a considerable magnitude, and on each side are doors; the ceiling is lofty, and to these they principally retire in the Summer, being but little incommoded by the sun, and by the doors of each of the houses, and those of the saloon being open, there is a constant circulation of air; they are furnished with four sophas, two on each side, besides chairs, and in the center there is generally a chandelier; these saloons answer the two purposes of a cool retreat from the scorching and sultry heat of the climate, and of an occasional ball-room. The outhouses are detached at some distance, that the house may be open to the air on all sides." Ibid., p. 208.
Footnote_21_21
Cf. Wright, Louis B., Letters of Robert Carter, 1720-1727 (San Marino, 1940), p. viii.
Footnote_22_22
Cf. Jones, E. Alfred, American Members of the Inns of Court, p. 41.
Footnote_23_23
Sisters of Anne Bladen Tasker and Thomas Bladen had married Daniel Dulany, Samuel Ogle, and Christopher Lowndes, all men of important political and financial connections in their world.