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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The history of the Royall house and its occupants. (search)
hat time being used as headquarters at the request of George Washington. Slave quarters. The Slave Quarters, which housed Isaac Royall's retinue of servants, twenty-seven in number, may still be seen in the yard and in a good state of preservation. The out-kitchen of brick with its latch-string always out, still shows the massive fireplace, ten feet across its beam, and brick oven where the food was cooked and carried to the home dining room to be served. Isaac Royall, Sr., died in 1739. The title then passed to Isaac Royall, Jr. When the estate was appraised in 1740, it was valued: House at 50,000 pounds and land at 37,000 pounds, making a total of 87,000 pounds, and well may it be said that the owner was one of the richest men, if not the richest man, in the Colonies. Such was the home of Col. Isaac Royall, a man more sinned against than sinning, in the opinion of many writers. Royall family. Isaac Royall's ancestors were genuine Colonists and shared the trial
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Standing armies and navies of the world (search)
t seven years, is stated, (on English official authority,) to be, for England $265,000,000, and for France $90,000,000. We have before us two calculations of the cost of only the great wars of England, and we find by the lowest calculation that the war occasioned by the revolution of 1688, "to establish William and to humble France," cost $155,000,000. The war of the Spanish succession, "to deprive Philip of the crown of Spain and to humble the Bourbons, " cost $220,000,000. The Spanish war of 1739, "a quarrel. about Campeachy and the crown of Hungary, commonly called the Logwood War," $235,000,000. The seven years war, in 1776, about Nova Scotia, $535,000,000. The American war, resulting in the independence of the United States, cost $755,000,000. The war of the French Revolution, "to impress anti-monarchial principles in France and the rest of Europe," cost $2,360,000,000. The war against Bonaparte, "to restrain the ambition of Napoleon," cost $2,930,000,000.--Scientific American.
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
Old St. Paul's" is undergoing some necessary improvements at this time. The growth of trees becoming too thick and foliage too dense, the branches intermingling so closely as to prevent the proper circulation of air, it has become requisite to cut down some of the trees and remove many large branches of those that are left standing to shade and ornament the sacred enclosure and add interest to the old church--a venerated relic of the past. St. Paul's Church (P. Episcopal) was erected in 1739 on "the road leading out of town. " The walls only escaped destruction from the general conflagration of '76. In the indentation made by a cannon shot from one of the British ships, fired by order of Dunmore, a ball has been placed, which was found imbedded in the earth near the part of the building that was struck. Like the sturdy old oak of the mountain, that defies the fury of the levelling tornado, and which has escaped the scattering thunderbolts of the God of Nature; or, like the
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