over, many of them were reduced to great distress in their
pecuniary circumstances.

"This selling of Quakers' property afforded great
opportunity for designing individuals to make profitable
speculations. They continued to refuse to pay taxes for
several years after the war, holding it unlawful to
contribute their money towards discharging the war debt.
This being at length adjusted, no part of our citizens pay
their public demands with more punctuality (except their
muster fines, which they still refuse to pay)."


_Loudoun's Revolutionary Hero._

John Champe, the tall and saturnine sergeant-major of Lee's celebrated
partisan legion, was a resident of Loudoun County. Readers of Lee's
"Memoirs of the War" will recall the account of Champe's pretended
desertion from the Continental armies. This perilous adventure was
undertaken for the threefold purpose of capturing the traitor Arnold,
saving the life of the unfortunate André, and establishing the
innocence of General Gates, who had been charged with complicity in
Arnold's nefarious intrigue. His investigations secured the complete
vindication of Gates; but, failing in his other attempts, he drifted
with the Red Coats to North Carolina, where he deserted their ranks
and rejoined the American forces under General Greene.

That officer provided him with a good horse and money for his journey,
and sent him to General Washington. The commander-in-chief
"munificently anticipated every desire of the sergeant, and presented