In truth Dolly Todd was not greatly changed
in any way from her childhood days, for through
life she carried the child's heart open to every
passing impression, and to the last preserved
all the freshness of feeling which belongs to
early youth. The two years following her
marriage with John Todd wrought many
changes in her immediate family circle. Her
younger sister Lucy, at the mature age of fif-
teen, became the wife of George Steptoe Wash-
ington, nephew of the President, and went
back to Virginia to live at "Harewood," the
Washington estate in Jefferson County, not
very far from Harper's Ferry. A sad and sud-
den change came to the Payne family too in
the death of the beloved father, which befell in
1792. It was a sorrowful end to so good and
true a life, for he died bowed down by a sense
of failure and disgrace. His small property he
bequeathed entirely to his wife, leaving her sole
executrix.

His funeral was held, after the fashion of his
sect, in the meeting-house; thence, after the
services, the corpse was borne by young men
to the burial-ground. Arrived there, it was, ac-
cording to Quaker custom, set down that the
family might have one last look at the dead,
and that "the Spectators have a sense of mor-
tality by the occasion thus given them to reflect

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