lived the last part of his life with his niece, Judith, and her husband, Rev. John Page McGuire, headmaster of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Although McGuire's residence, "Howard" was commandeered by Union soldiers in 1861 after the Confederate-sympathizing family evacuated, and some papers burned and others sold to an antique dealer, the family sold other papers to Morven Jones. In 1876, antiquarian and attorney William McCullough Darlington (1815–1889) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, bought papers from Jones, and some were published along with the journals of Christopher Gist in 1893. The widow Mrs. Mary Darlington provided some copies to William R. Mercer early in the next century. After the death of Mr. Darlington's attorney, Frank C. Osborne, other papers were sent to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, where they were recognized as part of the papers that had been part of Darlington's library willed to the University of Pittsburgh, which had organized the Darlington Memorial Library in 1936. The University of Pittsburgh Press published them in 1954. References 1733 births 1784 deaths People of Virginia in the French and Indian War House of Burgesses members Virginia colonial people People of colonial Maryland Mercer family of Virginia People from Stafford County, Virginia