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The Smithfield Review, Volume 19, 2015, Glanville 2 Governor John Floyd, Letitia Preston Floyd, and the Catholic Church* Jim Glanville ©2015 Introduction Letitia Preston ( 1779-1852) was born at Smithfield Plantation in present- day Blacksburg, Virginia, and lived there until her marriage to John Floyd at the age of24. For her biographical sketch see the companion article published in this issue ofthe Smithfield Review. Around 1820, as she approached the age of 40, Mrs. Floyd commenced a relationship with the Catholic Church that culminated three decades later, in the final year of her life, with her formal conversion to the faith. Specific documentary evidence about this relationship comes in six letters written to her by two different Catholic bishops and two other Catholic churchmen between the years 1843 and 1846. This article consists mainly of these six letters, which are here published in full transcriptions for the first time, with added annotations and background information by the author. The six letters concern Mrs. Floyd's efforts to found a Catholic community in Burke's Garden in Tazewell County, Virginia, and her conversion to Catholicism. With the death of her husband, Governor John Floyd, in 1837, Letitia Preston Floyd became a widow at the age of 58. She had been married to him for 33 years and had given birth to 12 children. At the time of the governor's death they were residing at Thom Spring1 in Pulaski County, Virginia, where they had lived for approximately two decades, or since about 1817. In 1839, two years after becoming a widow, Mrs. Floyd moved from Thom Spring to Burke's Garden, to a home she called "Cavan." She lived at Cavan until her death there 13 years later, in 1852. The historian Ralph Mann has provided an excellent picture of what life was like in Burke's Garden during this final period ofher life.' The six letters published here all come from this final period, and all were addressed to her at Burke's Garden. The letters deal principally with Catholic responses to her efforts *This is one of three articles about Letitia Preston Floyd that appear in this issue of the Smithfield Review. The companion articles are a biographical sketch of her including some letters written by her and an article that describes her as a "Pioneer Catholic Feminist." 121 JIM GLANVILLE to establish a Catholic community in Burke's Garden, with several of them also urging her conversion to the Catholic faith. The Floyd Family and Catholicism Letitia Preston grew up in a Protestant household at the Smithfield Plantation. Her parents, William and Susanna Preston, had both been educated by Scottish Protestant clerics: William in Augusta County by the Aberdeen-trained Presbyterian minister John Craig and Susanna in Hanover County by the Edinburgh-trained Anglican minister the Reverend Patrick Henry (uncle and namesake of the founding father). 3 John Floyd was born near present-day Louisville, Kentucky, in 1783, two weeks after his father had been killed by American Indians. His mother was Jane Buchanan (daughter of John Buchanan the surveyor and a ward of William Preston), and his stepfather was Alexander Breckinridge. Both his mother and stepfather were of Scotch-Irish extraction, so Floyd was no doubt raised in a Protestant, and probably Presbyterian, environment, and was educated at the local log schoolhouse. 4 The association with, and conversion to, the Catholic church of the Floyd family was well described by an article published in the New York Freeman's Journal soon after Mrs. Floyd's death and reprinted in the February 5, 1853 edition of The Tablet. 5 The article, titled "The Late Mrs. Letitia Preston Floyd, of Virginia, Her Conversion and Death," is in effect her obituary combined with a brief history of her family's relationship with Catholicism. The entire short article is reproduced below: Our century has been renowned for the number ofbrilliant and eminent persons who have returned to the bosom of the Catholic Church. It is not as swelling the number of these, but as an edifying and consoling example of how souls of a high mould, sooner or later, find their true home in the bosom of the Church, that we devote a few lines to the memory of Mrs. Floyd. Born, by her misfortune, outside of the Catholic Church, and remote from Catholic influences, she yet, by the instincts of a virtuous and noble nature, clung to the Catholic traditions offamily and society that it is the misery of our times to see so fast dying out in the Protestant world. The proof of the excellent moral training of her family exists in the fact that of her surviving children no less than four are already garnered within the Catholic Church. Of the living we will not speak; we are only recording the memory of the dead. 122 Governor John Floyd, Letitia Preston Floyd and the Catholic Church Mrs. Floyd was the widow of the late General John Floyd, formerly Governor of Virginia; mother of ex-Governor Henry B. Floyd, sister ofthe late James P. Preston, ex-Governor, also, ofVirginia, and aunt of the late Governor James McDowell of Virginia, and of the Hon. Wm. Campbell Preston, of South Carolina. On the 12th of August last the Right Rev. Dr. Whelan, Bishop of Wheeling, had the satisfaction of receiving this lady into the Catholic Church,6 when she received the Holy Sacraments with the lively devotion and penitence that marks the true convert. Just four months from that date, on the 12th of December, after practising the duties of religion and enjoying its consolations, in the 74th year of her age she yielded up her soul to God at her residence, Burke's Garden, Tazewell Co., Va., and was buried according to the rites of the Church in a blessed grave7 by Rev. Mr. Parke, of Wytheville. "Even in these days," a friend writes to us, "when the Faithful are consoled and cheered by the conversion of so many that are good and great, the Church has not made conquest of a more elevated spirit, a warmer heart, or a more splendid intellect than hers for whom I request your prayers." May her soul rest in eternal peace. Mrs. Floyd's daughters Letitia, Lavalette, and Nicketti, were the first members of the Floyd family to formally convert to Catholicism. All were baptized at St. Peter's Church in Richmond. The church records do not give the precise dates, but the baptisms apparently occurred while their father was governor (1831-1834 ). The present-day Catholic historian Gerald Fogarty considers that Father Timothy O'Brien was the priest responsible for the "successful cultivation" of the Richmond elite for the Catholic church.8 The Catholic historian Joseph Magri gave "about I 832" as the conversion year of Mrs. Floyd's daughter Letitia and wrote that it "caused a sensation throughout the state."9 The tenure of John Floyd as governor corresponds to the beginning of a period ofrapid growth ofCatholicism in Richmond at the time ofbuilding there of St. Peter's Church, which was consecrated in 1834. This rapid growth of Richmond Catholicism is evidenced by the records of baptisms and marriages during this church's early years. In 1834 and 1835 combined, I 9 baptisms and 12 marriages took place at St. Peter's. In 1836, 28 baptisms and 17 marriages took place, and in I 837 there were 48 baptisms and 14 marriages. 10 123 JIM GLANVILLE The best explanation that has been offered for the ongm of the engagement of the Floyd family with Catholicism comes from a writer known to us only by his initials "JWJ." 11 JWJ suggests the origin occurred when Congressman John Floyd sent two of his young sons to Georgetown- related Catholic schools in Washington City. JWJ wrote "Perhaps no conversion ever occurred in this country which was so unexpected and surprising, and attended with such great consequences, as that of Miss Letitia P. Floyd ... the eldest daughter of [Governor and Mrs. Floyd]." JWJ added that Letitia's mother (Mrs. Floyd, the governor's wife) "was a member of the Preston family, which produced so many brilliant men and women, and was remarkable for her powers of conversation, in which she equaled any ofthe distinguished men of the day. She took the same interest in public affairs that her husband did, and kept well informed about them during her whole life." 12 As for the initial involvement of the Floyd family with Catholicism, JWJ explained that before Floyd became governor he "had been for a number of years a member of Congress, and, in order to have his sons near him, had caused two of them to be educated at Georgetown ...." John Floyd was first elected to Congress for the Fifteenth Congress which assembled in Washington City in March 1817 during the first two years of the presidency of James Monroe. Floyd's two sons who attended Georgetown were William Preston Floyd (who was age 8 in 1817) and Benjamin Rush Floyd (who was age 6 in 1817). A Catholic school for secondary education that was associated with Georgetown Academy was opened in Washington, D.C., around 1821 and the two sons may have attended there, or possibly at an earlier Georgetown facility. 11 Both William Preston Floyd and Benjamin Rush Floyd went on to graduate from Georgetown College. William Floyd received the A. B. degree in 1830 and the A. M. degree in 1836. Benjamin Floyd received the A. B. degree in 1832 and the A. M. degree in 1836. William Floyd made a valedictory address in 1830 that was "long remembered for its eloquence," and in 1832 an address by Benjamin Floyd to the Philodemic Society at Georgetown was received with plaudits.
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