29.
Peterfield 1748, October 16.
Ason 1750, March 9.
Lucy 1752, October 10.
Anna Scott Randolph 1755, October 1.

MARRIAGES.

Jane Jefferson
Mary 1760, June 24.
Thomas 1772, January 1.
Elizabeth
Martha 1765, June 20.
Peterfield
Ason
Lucy 1769, September 12.
Anna Scott Randolph 1788, October.

DEATHS.

Jane Jefferson 1765, October 1.
Mary
Thomas
Elizabeth 1773, January 1.
Martha
Peterfield 1748, November 29.
Ason 1750, March 9.
Lucy
Anna Scott Randolph

[604:A] 1749.

[605:A] Where now stands the mansion of the late William F. Gordon.

[606:A] Randall's Jefferson, i. 50.

[606:B] Her father, who had married three times, dying in May, 1773,
left issue three daughters, one of whom married Francis Eppes, (father
of John W. Eppes, who married Maria, daughter of Thomas Jefferson,) and
the other, Fulwar Skipwith, afterwards American consul in France. The
portion that fell to Martha was encumbered with a debt, which
ultimately, by the depreciation of paper money, resulted in a heavy
loss.--_Randall's Jefferson, and Memoirs and Corr. of Jefferson_, i. 1,
3.

CHAPTER LXXXI.

1775.

Dunmore's Proclamation--Removal of Powder--Disturbances at
Williamsburg--Military Movements--Volunteers at Fredericksburg--
Governor and Council--Hanover Volunteers and Henry--He extorts
compensation for Powder--Dunmore's Proclamation--Henry's
popularity.

ON the twenty-eighth of March Dunmore issued a proclamation, by command,
as he said, of the king, for the prevention of the appointment of
deputies from Virginia to the congress which was to assemble in May. And
in compliance with instructions received from England, the governor
ordered Captain Collins, with a party of marines and sailors from the
Magdalen, lying at Burwell's Ferry, to remove the powder from the
magazine at Williamsburg, and it was carried on board of that vessel
secretly, between three and four o'clock A.M., of Thursday, April the
twentieth, the day following the collision at Lexington and Concord. It
had been rumored some days before in Williamsburg that Lord Dunm