ed them here with no success, having been spoilt in bringing, yet nevertheless these may grow and I will try.

I have had Peaches from the Stones you gave me when you was at my House, it is a good Peach and large but I think I have better and much larger and some has measur.. ed 14 Inches about, and I think of as rich a juce as a Pine to the full, I wish I could have sent you and Mrs. Nanny some of them. I have had this year such a Plenty and I have found such a benefit by letting my Hogs come into the Orchard that I propose to plant 6 acres more, and I shall give directions to your Overseer to plant a good Orchard, I will provide him with stones.

I shall plant good Store of May Cherry Stones (others I have enough) if they come up as I hope they will your Overseer shall have a part. I have some young Trees now growing and some black damasons, I am promised this Winter some plum and Morello Cherry trees.

The last time I was at Colo. Byrds his Lady desired me to send to Barbados for some Shells for her as Conk Shells Wilks and such Variety as may be got, let me beg the favour of you to get a small barrel full (enough may be had about Oistins and below Rock) and send them to Colo. William Byrd at Westover in James River and place the Charge to my Account. I am my Dear Friend,

Your most humble serv't,

WM. MAYO:

Sir,-The foregoing is a Copy of my last which I hope you have received-enclosed is a letter to your Sister which be pleased to deliver to her.

I am dear sir,

Your most affec't serv't,

WM. MAYO.

Dated foom the N. E. Corner of my Porch,
The 14th Oct., 1731.

THE WESTOVER LIBRARY.

PETERSBURG, MARCH 17TH, 1851.

Dear Sir.-Enclosed I send you an account of the Byrd Library, now forming a part of the Philadelphia Library. This memorandum was lately communicated to me by Lyman C. Draper, Esq., a gentleman, who, as you no doubt are aware, has been long engaged in a work which will throw a great deal of light upon the pioneer history and biography of Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, &c. General George Rogers Clarke will be the prominent figure on the canvass. Some estimate of Mr. Draper's indefatigable labors in the prosecution of this work may be inferred from the fact, that his MS. materials when completed will probably fill fifty folio volumes. The work will appear, as I understand, during the next year.

Mr. Draper, you will observe, is so obliging as to promise to send me some additional particulars, (relative to the "Journals of the Dividing Line") which I will forward to you.

Yours respectfully,

CHARLES CAMPBELL.

Catalogue of the Westover Library, in the Philadelphia Library.

Soon after the death of Col. William Byrd, the younger, during the Revolutionary war, his widow (a Philadelphian) had the Westover Library sent to Philadelphia, where it was sold at auction. It appears that N. G. Dufief, a bookseller, Robert Proud the historian, the father of the present John Pennington, bookseller and importer, and others were among the purchasers. The present Mr. Pennington, when he commenced the book business in Philadelphia, a few years ago, placed several of the Byrd library volumes (which his father had purchased at the sale) upon his shelves, and sold them all, except one small volume, before I had any knowledge of the fact. The remaining volume-" Loci Communes, Londini, MDCLXX. having on it the Byrd coat

of arms, and the autograph of William Byrd-the elder, I presume; I bought as a curiosity and much prize it. This volume Mr. Pennington the elder could not have purchased at the original sale of the Byrd library, as upon the title page is written as follows:-"Ex Libris Roberti Proudi, 1782" (which I take to be Dominie Proud's autograph, as he was fond of writing in Latin,) and immediately underneath is added evidently in another hand-writing, "From W. Byrd's Library, Virginia." This goes to show that the Byrd library was sold as early as 1782, and perhaps one two or three years earlier. The catalogue is a three quire quarto volume, gilt-edged and gilt red morocco binding: on the back" Westover Library :"-title page, "A Catalogue of the Books in the Library at Westover, belonging to William Byrd, Esq.-J. STRETCH fecit."

It has also in pencil "Wm. Mackenzie bought from N. G. Dufief, bookseller." It elsewhere appears that this catalogue was one of 500 volumes, presented to the Philadelphia library, by Wm. Mackenzie. In the catalogue I see no mention of the MS. Journals of Running the Dividing Line between Virginia and North Carolina in 1728-copies of which, I have heretofore informed you, are in the library of the American Philosophical Society, one judging from the title the same as that published among the "Westover Manuscripts" at Petersburg, in 1841, the other the "Secret History of the Dividing Line." Neither of these have I yet found the right time to call and examine, and the only knowledge that I have of them is from the catalogue of the Society which possesses them. Mr. Trego, the librarian, has kindly promised to exhibit them to me whenever I wish to see them. I shall make it a point to do so sooner or later and let you know about them. The catalogue of the Byrd library exhibits 3625 volumes, divided as follows: History 467 volumes, Law 275, Physic 163,

Classics and other Latin and Greek authors 540, French books chiefly entertaining 439, Divinity 207, Entertaining, Poetry, Translations, &c. 484, Miscellaneous 1050. The Miscellaneous seem to have been added after the preceding, and embrace works of all characters, and I should think were probably the additions of the younger William Byrd to the original Library of his father. Had these latter 1050 volumes been properly divided by subjects, and added to the others, I should suppose the relative subjects would have been represented nearly as follows:-History 700, Classics, &c. 650, Entertaining, &c. 650, French 550, Law 350, Divinity 300, Scientific 225, Physic 200,—Total 3,625. There are but very few novels catalogued. The histories mostly relate to Europe-Some few to New England. The dates of the editions of the works, history, &c. are seldom or never given. "History of Pennsylvania, 1 vol. Svo," the works of Hennepin, La Hontain, Thevenot, Purchas, Dampier, Wafer and Hackluyt's History of the West Indies are mentioned. On Virginia History only the following are catalogued:-History of Virginia, 1 vol. 8vo." There are three such entries, whether duplicates of the same work, there is nothing to determine: "State of Virginia 1 vol. 8vo,"-" Smith's History of Virginia 1 vol. folio:"-" Virginia Laws 1752, 1 vol. folio:"-" Virginia Laws manuscript, 1 vol. folio:"-Virginia Laws abridged, 2 vols." (quarto or octavo-thus the list is headed, in which the work appears.) Beverley's Abridgment 1 vol. 8vo. :" "Beverley's History of Virginia, 1 vol 8vo." "Records of the Virginia Company, 2 vols. folio." There are 15 volumes of 8vo. pamphlets. These might have furnished something on Virginia history. You will be disappointed that so little appears on Virginia history; you have also the consolation of knowing then that little has been lost. Among the larger works I noted the following: "Monthly

Do. to 1742. "Debates in

Mercury" from 1688 to 1722, 8vo. 17 vols. 4 vols. "Gentleman's Magazine" 8 vols. Parliament" 8vo. 22 vols. "Political State" 8vo. 26 vols. Do. 13 vols. "Philosophical Transactions" from 1665 to 1719, 21 vols. "Acta Eruditorum" from 1682 to 1722, 40 vols. "Universal History" 20 vols. "Histoire de l'Academie" from 1692 to 1718, 23 vols. "Journal des Savans" 24 vols. "Private Directions for Travels in England," MS. 1 vol. folio. Such works as "Hudibras," "Devil on Two Sticks," "Milton's Paradise Lost," "Tatler" 4 vols. of Van Tromp also appear.

Very respectfully,

Leverington, Phila. Co., Pa.,
Murch 12, 1851.

Life

LYMAN C DRAPER.

JAMES MOORE AND HIS FAMILY.

HARRISONBURG, October 28, 1850.

MR. EDITOR,-As the following narrative of the Destruction and Captivity of James Moore's Family has been substantially given to the public in Howe's Historical Collections, the republication of it in your journal might seem to be superfluous. But as that statement contains some errors, and I have since obtained some additional facts, I have thought proper to rewrite the whole, and request a place for it in your valuable work.

Very respectfully, yours, &c.,

HENRY BROWN.

Much of the land in the north of Ireland having been sequestered in the reign of James I., many of the Scotch were induced to cross over and settle it; and to escape from the persecutions under Charles II., the parents of