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Pine hp ee ae RATE These Lawsons and their kinsmen, the Walkes, who occupied the place so many years, identified themselves with all that was fine in the history of the new country. One of them was always a vestryman in that ancient and most interesting church known as Old Donation, as well as the little church that preceded the present one. Another Lawson helped select the site of Norfolk. ‘There were women, too, of charm and beauty. One, Mary Calvert Lawson, has had her name handed down from generation to generation always Mary Calvert, whether it be Lawson or Walke, Hill or Truxtun, as it is today. When the moonlight streams over this garden, and lingers lovingly there, one feels that much of interest has happened in it. That these wonderful trees through their several generations have been revered is truly evident in that during these more than two centuries they have never been harmed, keeping their foliage green, and making of a lovely spot a perpetual summer, and well may the poet have applied to it: "A place of rest with swaying trees, A lovely garden by the sea.” CORNELIA HODGMAN. L153]
