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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
ty, organized in 1773, with one hundred members. Its first president was John Clayton, author of the Flora Virginianica, published in 1739. Its treasurer was David Jameson, long a member and for a time president of the Council. The second president of the society was John Page, an able and accomplished man, subsequently Governor of Virginia. He was an early contributor to the transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Both he and Jameson were fond of astronomy. I possess a letter, which I have mislaid, written by Jameson to Page in, I think, 1781, noting his observations of some astronomical phenomena, and jotted on the same sheet are the obseJameson to Page in, I think, 1781, noting his observations of some astronomical phenomena, and jotted on the same sheet are the observations of Page himself of the same manifestations. The society of propitious title, whose offices were suspended by the American Revolution, has left a tangible memorial. In the cabinet of the Virginia Historical Society is an engraved gold medal awarded John Hobday in 1774 for the model of a machine for threshing wheat. I wou
but the officers would not allow them to be forced to go. They arrested a number of citizens and carried them to Washington, among them Messrs. George and David Jameson, handcuffed and in chains. They said they had evidence enough to hang one of them. Mr. Henry Shackelford, David Stallard, S. S. Bradford, Mr. and Mrs. G.unty, and told them he was a Union man, and claimed protection of them; however his house was destroyed when they left. It is believed the arrest of the Messrs. Jameson was caused by J. J. Wilberham, a man who resided in Culpeper until Pope's army came there, when he behaved very badly, and was notified by Mr. Jameson that it wouarrest of the Messrs. Jameson was caused by J. J. Wilberham, a man who resided in Culpeper until Pope's army came there, when he behaved very badly, and was notified by Mr. Jameson that it would not be safe for him to remain in Culpeper, and that if he did not leave he would be hung.--This man is now a sutler with Meade's army.