Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
On she rode, excited almost to frenzy, her raven hair flowing to the winds, her black eyes flashing, occasionally encountering some wandering wayfarer who was undecided as to whether she was a woman or some passing phantom.
But the "Farrow Boys" were too well known and too valuable soldiers for the mother's mission to fail. Arriving at Col. Williams' camp and making her request he readily granted her six captured British soldiers and an escort. Losing not an hour, not stopping for rest but with increasing courage at the difficulties that beset her, she rode on and on, miles and miles, through barren wilderness and gloomy forests with an almost inspired madness, toward the British camp. Before daybreak of the second night of her wild ride she caught sight of the British standard waving above the scarlet uniforms of the British and with her petticoat as a flag of truce she dashed up to the camp of Col. Cruger and informed him of her mission.
Col. Cruger grimly replied, "Well, you are just in time for I have given orders for those rebellious youngsters of yours to be hanged at sunrise, but I guess you can take the rebels."
"My sons," she cried. Then turning with eyes flashing with indignation toward Col. Cruger she retorted, "I have given you two for one, Col. Cruger, but understand that I consider it the best trade I ever made, for rest assured hereafter the Farrow boys will whip you four to one."
As she dashed off, followed by her sons, an English soldier said, "That's a pretty good speech for so dainty a lady but she is as warm for the cause as the men."
The Waters patriots were running true to vine, for they were the lineal descendants of Captain Edward Waters and his wife, Lady Grace O'Neill, who were so prominent in Virginia Colonial history. This family has been referred to time and time again in the Virginia Quarterly, William and Mary Magazine, Tyler's Quarterly, and in similar publications of the official records of the Founding of Virginia too numerous to mention. It is also included in "Heraldic Families of America" tracing descent from King Edward III, King Richard H and other crowned heads of England. This story, however, is of the Waters Family in America.
Captain Edward Waters, Gentleman and Arminger, was born in England in 1584. He came to America, the first time, in 1608 on the Ship, "Patience". He was one of the Founders of the London Company which was organized for the purpose of colonizing Virginia. His life was an eventful, colorful and romantic one, as was that of his wife, Lady Grace O'Neill.
Remaining but a short time in the New World on his first
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