Associate Curator Jessie MacLeod: Betsey Mason’s Letter
Martha Washington Library 6614 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22307
The Friends of Historic Huntley will host speaker Associate Curator Jessie MacLeod, from George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Her presentation is entitled “Thank God it is now in your hands”: Unpacking Betsey C. Mason’s Letter to John Augustine Washington III.
Ms.MacLeod will connect Mason’s letter with a key journal entry by Magistrate John Augustine Washington III on the 1845 trial of five enslaved men from Huntley for trespassing. Washington’s journal is held by Mount Vernon, while Mason’s letter was recently purchased at auction by FOHH. Ms. MacLeod will place this local historical event into the broader context of the Lives Bound Together exhibit at Mount Vernon, where the letter will be on display through September 2019. Free. For more information call 703 768-2525.
