etc.Sir T. Malory, History of Prince Arthur, iii. 176 (1470.) EDEN (A Journey to the land of), Col. William Evelyn Byrd of Westover Virginia gives this name to a tract of Southern Virginia surveyed under his direction and visited by him in one of his numerous expeditions for the good of the young colony.

(Colonel Byrd laid out upon his own ground the cities of Richmond and Petersburgh, Va.)William Evelyn Byrd, Westover MSS.

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R69660 ... WESTOVER, Russ.

William Byrd of Westover.

PATTON, CAMILLA. Another secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739-1741, with letters & literary exercises, 1696-1726.

Faye Westover, Ann S. Shafer, John W. Smillie & Louise G. Godt (C); 23Dec74; R593971. R593972.

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William Byrd of Westover.

PATTON, CAMILLA. Another secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739-1741, with letters & literary exercises, 1696-1726.

Another secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739-1741, with letters & literary exercises, 1696-1726.

John W. Smillie, Ann Smillie Shafer, Faye Westover & Mrs. F. Eugene Godt (C); 19Sep73; R559137.

"There's to be a Westover column in Leslie's news.

"I was going to say, I wish there might be a Westover correspondent, to put in just a word or two, sometimes; but then I was afraid that would be impertinent.

I'll tell youin confidenceanother of our ways at Westover; what, we did, mostly, after the last two meals, to save our afternoons and evenings and our nice dresses.

The maples were in their gold and vermilion now, and the round masses of the ash were shining brown; we filled the vases with their leaves, and pressed away more in all the big books we could confiscate, and hunted frosted ferns in the wood-edge, and had beautiful pine blazes morning and evening in the brown room, and began to think how pleasant, for many cosey things, the winter was going to be, out here at Westover.

But there was no doubt of one thing,that our Halloween at Westover was a famous little party.

It was such a thing as had never rolled up, or branched out, though, in Westover before.

So we took our lovely Westover summer days as things we could not have any more of.

This, at any rate, had come out of our year at Westover.

We got to talking about Westover and last summer, and the pleasant old place, and all; and I couldn't help telling him something about the worry.

The next daythat day, after our eleven o'clock breakfastHarry came back, and was at Westover all day long.

Bracelets and pocket-handkerchiefs have come from New York; all the "girls" here in Westover have given presents of ornaments, or little things to wear; they know there is no housekeeping to provide for.

Between 1747 and 1754 he visited the Carters of Shirley, Nomony, and Sabine Hall, the Lewises of Warner Hall, the Lees of Stratford, and the Byrds of Westover, and there was acquaintance at least with the Spotswoods, Fauntleroys, Corbins, Randolphs, Harrisons, Robinsons, Nicholases, and other prominent families.

Cornwallis crossed at Westover, also marked now on the maps as Ruffin's, some twenty miles lower down the river.