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Mrs. B. C. McCoy presents candlestick from battlefield near Culpeper, Va.

Mrs. Robert Matthews, Culpeper, Va., presents a brass lock, relic of the Watkins family.

Lucille Dove Green presents brass crumb waiter, of the old Cleveland home of the Shacklefords of Culpeper.

Mrs. Enders Robinson, Richmond, Va., presents nails from the old Libby Prison.

Brass door knob of Major Philip Lightfoot's first home in Culpeper, Va. Presented in honor of the colonial family.

Mrs. Mary Gray Gilkerson, of Culpeper County, Virginia, a descendant, presents brass tongs from the old home of Gabriel Gray.

Norris family presents a Confederate sword handle.

Gen. Custis Lee presents a plaque from Damascus.

Mrs. William H. F. Lee presents metal coins and pieces from Arlington.

Anne Sanford Green, a descendant, presents a spoon, a souvenir of Col. Angus McDonald, who raised the first Colonial troops for Braddock's relief under Dunmore.

Mrs. Mary Mason Norris presents a lock from a bureau which her great-grandmother,

Mary Thompson Mason,, carried with her to West Farm, in Stafford county, Virginia, from her home, Gunston Hall, when she became the wife of John Cooke, she being the eldest daughter of George Mason.

Mrs. Bayard Stockton, of Morben, presents a brass door plate, a relic of Richard Stockton, of Morben, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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