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8-August 2011 Newsletter Carlyle House August, 2011 D O C E N T D ISPATCH Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority Before Kings and Presidents Went to War : Family and Social Life in the Chesapeake 1800-1812 By Helen Wirka Life for Sarah Carlyle Herbert in the Federal Period was pleasant in spite of the difficulties that were coming in 1812. John Carlyle’s daughter and grandchildren experienced many delights in Alexandria as did their contemporaries in Washington, D.C. and in Maryland. Sarah Herbert and her young family thrived in the busy port city surrounded by the comings and goings of leading citizens and commodities being exchanged. The archives at Carlyle House contain eleven letters written between the years 1802 and 1805 to Margaret “Peggy” Herbert Fairfax by family members including her mother, her husband, th Thomas Fairfax the 9 Lord Baron of Cameron, and Vaucluse, torn down during the Civil War by Union Forces. two of her sisters, Ann “Nancy”, and Lucinda Herbert. There is also a letter from Mrs. Hannah Virginia Theological Seminary (“Seminary Hill”). Warner Washington to Sarah Herbert. Mrs. Family tradition states that Margaret’s sister, Ann Washington was the mother of Thomas Fairfax’s Herbert, refused to leave Vaucluse when the Civil second wife, Louisa, as well as his aunt. War came to Northern Virginia. Union officers came to tear down the home and make way for a Margaret Herbert Fairfax (b. 1784, d. 1858), the fort. But Ann stayed in her chair next to the warm eldest daughter of Sarah Carlyle and William fire until two Union soldiers lifted her, chair and Herbert, married Thomas Fairfax (b.1762, d. 1846) all, and removed her from the building. on December 31, 1800. They shared the same wedding anniversary as that of her grandfather and Margaret and Thomas also lived in two confirmed grandmother, John and Sarah Fairfax Carlyle. locations in the city of Alexandria. They rented Margaret and Thomas had ten children: Albert; 301 South St. Asaph Street, from 1828-1830. Henry; Orlando; Raymond; Eugenia Cary; Ethelbert; Before the Fairfaxes were tenants, the Marquis de Aurelia Herbert; Lavinia; Monimia; and Reginald. Lafayette stayed there when visiting Alexandria The couple lived in various locations after their for a month as part of a trip to the United States in marriage, including Charlestown in Jefferson County. They also made extended visits to Fairfield, Virginia to tend to Aunt Washington. Eventually, the family settled at Vaucluse plantation in Fairfax CARLYLE HOUSE County, about three miles from Alexandria. Sarah Coster, Site Administrator Vaucluse was first owned by Dr. James Craik and Helen Wirka, Site Specialist was positioned on a hill in the vicinity of the Lacey Villiva, Education Assistant Page 2 Docent Dispatch 1824. In 1830, the Fairfaxes then purchased 607 giving birth to their second son. Interestingly Cameron Street and lived there until Thomas’s death enough, the letter was written one month after his in 1846. The house on Cameron Street, (known in birth and they called him “nameless” until deciding the community as the “Lord Fairfax House”), was to christen the child as “Henry.” Another important built in 1800 by William Yeaton. Mr. Yeaton’s aspect of life in the early 19 th century was personal architectural skills were so impressive that he gained hygiene. Sarah wrote a most instructive letter to her the attention of the Washington family for whom he daughter discussing personal hygiene and advised “designed and erected [their] family tomb, which her daughter regarding brushing her teeth: “I hope contains George Washington’s body at Mount you take care of your teeth – for my sake, endure the Vernon Bark dayly as a tooth Powder, for indeed your teeth today.” is getting very bad. Mine threaten’d at your age [21 years of age] in the same way, & by cleaning them The Herbert constantly since with bark, they are very little worse and Fairfax since that time. I am sure but for that I Shou’d not families now have one tooth in my head.” were very close as can Letters between the Herbert and Fairfax family be seen by members can be compared to the letters of other this series contemporaries, such as Rosalie Stier Calvert. Mrs. of letters. Calvert was an émigré from Belgium whose family S a r a h settled just outside of the Federal City after first Herbert living in Philadelphia and later Annapolis. She often wrote married George Calvert a descendent from the Lords 607 Cameron Street, the “Lord Fairfax to her Baltimore who first founded the colony of Maryland. House.” daughter Her letters to her family, some of whom returned providing her home to Belgium and others who moved to with the Alexandria, were filled with information ranging news of who was in town, the fashions and sending from investments and her father’s banking her love to her grandchildren. Plagues and epidemics relationship with the Bank of Alexandria where were discussed and the difficult roads between William Herbert was personally involved in the care Alexandria and Fairfield in particular. In her letter of of her father’s accounts, to the daily chores of a September 22, believed to have been written in plantation mistress and the state of the family’s 1803, Sarah wrote “It appears seven or eight months priceless art collection, as well as new babies and the must pass before I can hope to see you? The roads latest in hair fashions. Gossip abounded as well, are bad until May, & then unless you make a very especially regarding the younger brother of long stay – that is, the summer – you must have very Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife who was an warm weather to return. The fall is the best time of American. The variety of topics goes on and on. the year to visit Alex’a.” Sarah went on to encourage Letters to Margaret Herbert Fairfax from the same a fall visit for that year, hoping to move her time period echo some of these same topics, though daughter’s trip forward to a few weeks after the the date range and number of letters is smaller. letter was written. In spite of the difficulties of Unfortunately, we don’t have any of Margaret’s travel, Margaret was able to make extended stays in letters that she wrote – only a few of the ones that Alexandria and there is a letter from June 1, 1804 she received. written by her husband while she was staying at her father’s house (Carlyle House). Thomas wrote Margaret’s mother and sister wrote to her regarding shortly after the birth of their second child her brother John Carlyle Herbert’s impending discussing the death of his aunt, Hannah nuptials to Mary Snowden of Montpelier as did Mrs. Washington, and Margaret’s return home after Calvert in her own letters. We also learn from a Page 3 Docent Dispatch letter written in 1807 by Madison drew the elites to these parties, including Mrs. Calvert to her Marcia Burnes Van Ness, the wife of New York brother, Charles Stier, Representative John P. Van Ness, where the women an investor in the Bank could officially meet to “implement projects of of Alexandria, that John benefit and interest to local society and the entire Carlyle Herbert was a Washington community.” Though we do not have friend of Charles and a evidence that members of the Herbert or Fairfax good neighbor of Mrs. families attended these activities, it is possible that Calvert’s. She wrote: they did so since they were part of the elite upper “Do you talk of class and held political office. America sometimes, and what do you think When war came to America in 1812, it is worth of this country? The considering how it affected the Herbert and Fairfax greatest failing I families’ relationships. Although Thomas Fairfax, perceive in Americans with his father, Bryan Fairfax, were among the last is their heartlessness. guests at Mount Vernon, on December 11, 1799 Empire Waist Dress popular in They do not seem to before Washington died, he was still a member of the Federal Period. feel anything deeply and the House of Lords. How were Thomas and are too prudent and Margaret treated in Virginia during the War of reasonable to be lovable. We have a very nice little 1812? Thomas had been a Lord since 1802 yet had circle of neighbors who we see often and grown up with George Washington and his father unceremoniously. Your friend John Herbert who and grandfather being friends and relatives. It would married Miss Snowden has built a house six miles then make sense that he could have not wanted to away.” John Carlyle Herbert was apparently in that ally himself when Britain and America met in war. “very nice little circle of neighbors” and accepted in But it is difficult to say for certain which side he spite of being an American. stood on, if any. His brother-in-law, John Carlyle Herbert, was a Federalist and served in the Virginia Entertainments in the Federal Period were many. House of Delegates and later in Maryland’s House Dinners and parties, dances and extended visits with of Delegates and was elected to the House of family kept the Herberts and Fairfaxes quite active Representatives after the war. Another possible point and busy. According to the book Parlor Politics, of contention for the family was that William Alexandria held more “civilized charms” than Herbert, Thomas Fairfax’s father-in-law, was the Washington, which the residents of the Federal City former mayor of could escape to.
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