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and surveyed the town; neither is she ready to accept them as gospel. Edna acknowledges that the young surveyor was working in the area and maybe even set out the boundaries of the town but she stops there.
For the history of Washington House, on the other hand, she's an encyclopedia of facts.
Licensed In 1803
Mrs. Annie Coxe applied for a license in 1803 to operate an ordinary in the large, white double-galleried building which had been constructed between 1735 and 1740, she reported.
According to Mrs. Walker, the Washingt n House lot was originally owned by George and Lydia Calvert who sold it to Annie and her husband, David Coxe.
The first commissioner of the peace for the newly formed Rappahannock County took his oath of office in the building and before the county was created in 1833, local ‘‘Gentlemen Justices” met at Coxe’s Ordinary to settle disputes and run local business. The bell on the upper balcony was used both to call the justices to meetings and customers for dinner.
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