Ginger Cake 12
Tavern 1.50
Turnpike 18
4.37

Tablespoon vingar with 10 gns of salts of Tartar in teacup swallowed
in effervescent state--slight sweat.

[Illustration: The Fawcett House where Dr. Dick lived]

Dr. and Mrs. Dick were the parents of two children, Julia and Archibald.
Julia married Gideon Pearce of Maryland and their son, James Alfred
Pearce, became a United States senator from Maryland.

Dr. Dick, who began life as an Episcopalian, became a Quaker and Mrs.
Dick became an Episcopalian. His dueling pistols are among the curios in
the Masonic museum, but if he ever used them, it is not known in
Alexandria.

Writing to her son, Smith Lee, April 10, 1827, Mrs. R.E. Lee commented:
"Poor Alexandria has suffered much by fire this winter. Mr. Dulaney will
give you the particulars, it has lost some of its old inhabitants too.
Capt. Dangerfield, Mr. Irvin, dear Dr. Dick, and Sam Thompson ..."[145]

Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick rests in the Friends burial ground in an unmarked
grave, but his spirit hallows several houses in Alexandria. With such a
wealth of dwellings to choose, it has been difficult to settle Dr. Dick
for long; nor really does he want to be settled. He was full of
surprises during life, and it will be another to most Alexandrians when
we place him in the old clapboard house known for better than a century
as "the Fawcett house."

On December 20, 1774, John Alexander sold to Patrick Murry a certain lot
or half acre of land situated and adjoining the west side of a lot or
half acre of land lying in the town of Alexandria and represented by lot
No. 112. This lot, lying on the north side of Prince Street, between
Pitt and St. Asaph Streets, was described as: "Beginning on the
Southwest corner of the said lott No. 112 and running thence with it to
the Northwest corner thereof 176 feet 7 inches, thence Westerly with a
line at right angles with the last 123 feet 5 inches thence Southerly
with a line parallel to the first one and of the same extent thence
Easterly with a straight line to the beginning."[146]

There was a ground rent upon this property every year forever of L13
5_s._, and the provisions that Patrick Murry or his heirs should build
within the space of two years from the date of purchase a brick, stone
or wooden house, twenty feet square, to cover four hundred square feet,
with a brick or stone chimney or chimneys. At the same time Jo