Produced by Mark C. Orton, Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. ^{x} indicates superscript. LEGENDS OF LOUDOUN Reprinting of this book has been granted to the Loudoun Museum by Mrs. Harrison Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Williams. All proceeds from the sale of book will benefit the Loudoun Museum. We are indeed grateful to the Williams family for this generous gesture and to the Loudoun County Independent Bicentennial Committee for assistance in making this possible. [Illustration: JOHN CAMPBELL, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782). Governor-in-Chief of Virginia and Commander-in-Chief of British forces in America, for whom Loudoun County was named in 1757.] LEGENDS OF LOUDOUN _An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck_ By HARRISON WILLIAMS [Illustration: decoration--rider on horse] GARRETT AND MASSIE INCORPORATED RICHMOND VIRGINIA COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY GARRETT & MASSIE, INCORPORATED RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES To J. S. A. PREFACE Many causes have contributed to the great upsurge of interest now manifesting itself in Virginia's romantic history and in the men and women who made it. If, perhaps, the greatest and most potent of these forces is the splendid restoration of Williamsburg, her colonial capital, through the munificence of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York, we must not lose sight of the part played by the reconstruction of her old historic highways and their tributary roads into the fine modern highway system which is today the Commonwealth's boast and pride; the systematic and constructive activities of the Virginia Commission of Conservation and Development of which the present chairman is the Hon. Wilbur C. Hall of Loudoun; and the excellent work done by the Garden Club of Virginia in holding its annual Garden Week celebration in each spring and the generous permission it obtains, from so many of the present owners of Virginia's historic old homes and gardens, for the public to visit and inspect them at that time and thus capture, if but for the moment, a sense of personal unity with Virginia's glamourous past.