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In Washington's last will and testament, a 42-page document executed in his own hand in July of 1799, Washington provided his widow with the use and benifit of the estate, valued at more than $500,000,during her lifetime. Washington freed his personal servant William with a $30 annuity and ordred the rest of the slaves to be freed upon Martha's death. Washington also left his stock in the Bank of Alexandria to a school for poor and orphaned children and ordered his stock in the Potomac Company to be applied tword the construction of a national university. Washington also forgave the debts of his brother Samuel's family and that of his brother-in-law Bartholomew Dandridge. He also ensured that his aid Tobias Lear would live rent free for the rest of his life. To nephew Bushrod Washington he left Mount Vernon, his personal papers, and his library. In sundry other bequests, the gold-headed cane Benjamin Franklin had given him went to his brother Charles, his writing desk and chair to Doctor Craik, steel pistols taken from the British during the Revolution to Lafayette, and a sword to each of his five nephews on assurance that they ..."never unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood except it be for self-defence, or in the defence of their country and its rights..." Here is more input: * In his will he freed his slaves and gave his stuff away. * Since he had no children I believe he left most of his property to Martha's daughters and their husbands. He provided that all of his slaves should be freed upon Martha's death. * George Washington had no children but was the stepfather of Martha's two children. He and Martha also raised her grandson and granddaughter. When he died he left his estate to his nephew. Martha's estate was left to her grandson, George Washington Custis, father of Mary Custis, wife of Robert E. Lee. The bed George Washington died in ended up in an upstairs bedroom at Arlington, the home of George Washington Custis. Arlington later was inherited by Mary Custis Lee, the only child to grow to adulthood. Arlington was seized by the Union at the beginning of the Civil War and was made a cemetery for Union soldiers.

Baseball had never been safer when Cleveland’s Ray Chapman died. So there was not much impact. Just a lot of bad, revisionist history.The extent of the aftermath was that some teams wanted pitcher Carl Mays tossed out of baseball. Mays was never popular, even with teammates. Some teams wanted to boycott games pitched by Mays.None of that had any impact on MLB.But it’s easy to find people who wrongly think Chapman’s death was game-changing.Three of the results you might have expected from his death preceded that death.Outlaw the spitball. The spitball had been outlawed in the off-season before Chapman was killed.New baseballs. Fresh baseballs had been introduced to play for decades before Chapman died, to the point in the World War I years the owners were complaining they were being introduced too often. Babe Ruth talked about his era and said you could get a fresh ball anytime you asked. The Sporting News called it “unpatriotic” that 36 balls had been used in the first three innings of a game weeks before Chapman died. Heck, in 1882 the National League introduced a rule that allowed an umpire to call for a new ball at the end of a even inning to replace a damaged ball. (The AL launched in 1901, if you’re asking “Why the NL only?”)Don’t discolor the ball. Such a rule was introduced in 1908, more than a decade before Chapman died.Bunting, crowding the plateNew York’s Carl Mays, who threw the pitch, said as he was in his delivery that he saw Chapman’s back foot move, as if he were going to bunt. Chapman, a record-setting bunter, had bunted in his two previous plate appearances that day against Mays. So Mays decided to throw up and in, so Chapman could not bunt.If true - Chapman was hit in the temple - imagine starting forward to drag bunt at the last blink and finding a ball coming at you.Yankee manager Miller Huggins said in the New York Times the next day that he thought Chapman’s left cleat caught in the ground.Mays was a right-hander whose delivery came from down under and was hard for a right-hander to pick up. It was an overcast day.Chapman, a very good player, crowded the plate.EyewitnessesYankee catcher Muddy Ruel said in 1948, “You know, Chapman had a peculiar stance. It is literally true that he could have been hit on the head by a perfect strike. He crowded the plate and hunched over.”Some contend Mays’ pitch was even over the plate.Hall of Famer Stan Coveleski, the starting pitcher for Chapman’s Cleveland team that day, said the pitch was up and in, but he and everyone else in the game threw there all the time.Ruel said he didn’t think Mays tried to hit Chapman in the head.“On the other hand, I don’t want to put myself in the position of picturing Carl Mays as a great humanitarian. He was a rough, tough son of a gun.”Never saw the pitchPlayers on both teams commented that Chapman reacted as if he never saw the pitch. Ruel, closer to Chapman than anyone, said, “I saw the pitch coming. I saw Ray standing there, never moving so much as a muscle.”Mays said he saw Chapman begin to duck with the pitch closing in.Chapman stood for a second or two, and then collapsed in a heap. He was conscious when he was removed from the field and some quote that he said, “Tell Carl not to worry.”Not the only bean ball deathChapman was not unique in being hit in the head in that era, he was just the only one who died. Or, the only major leaguer to die.At least seven minor leaguers have been killed by pitched balls, most recently in 1951.It’s an unfortunate irony that the rules to prevent this had occurred before 1920 and the spitball rule was enacted right before the 1920 season, yet Chapman died that year.The game, in fact, was safer than ever when this happened.Aftermath, triviaWhen the MLB owners met after the season, there was no discussion on action to address changes to the game that could avert another death. In a testament to committee inaction, no MLBer has died this way since.Chapman’s funeral was huge. The 29-year-old was wildly popular.In 1917, Chicago’s Pants Rowland said the White Sox had tried to buy Chapman from Cleveland during the 1915 season. Clevelalnd owners wouldn’t sell. Instead, Cleveland sold Joe Jackson to Chicago.Chapman’s pregnant widow, who was not at the game in New York, never attended a baseball game again. She died six years later; their daughter shortly after that.Chapman’s father died at age 90, having survived his son by 32 years and granddaughter by more than a quarter century.Carl Mays became a scout for the Cleveland Indians after he retired.Babe Ruth was the first Yankee to homer at Yankee Stadium after it opened in ‘23. Carl Mays was the second.

THE THIRD COUNTESS OF MIRAVALLE, A FEMINIST CHAMPION WORTH KNOWING FROM THE EIGHTEEN CENTURY NEW SPAIN, TODAY MEXICO.Lucretia BorgiaWell, the answer its a total NO! Most of them would not even know who she was, however more than History, there’s a Story, a legend, that most people outside of few people in Mexico, do not know, and its interesting. A sort of overblown gossip story a la Lucretia Borgia, Mexican style, I am pretty dubious, even a small portion of it is true, except for being a feisty lady who fought for her property rights.THE THIRD COUNTESS OF MIRAVALLE, ACCORDING TO THE LEGEND.Tuxpan, Mich.- She died 235 years ago and her story still resonates in the Eastern region of Michoacán, especially in Jungapeo Tuxpan, and Compostela Nayarit . Woman surrounded by wealth, loved and hated, victim and victimizer. María Magdalena Catalina, was a woman who left an indelible mark on the places she inhabited. It was her love affairs and riches that were combined to, after her death, give way to legend.“Miravalle County was born on December 18, 1690, in Compostela de Indias, in the lands of Nueva Galicia, today Nayarit. The First Count of Miravalle was Don Alonso Dávalos y Bracamontes, Knight of the Order of Santiago. His firstborn, Pedro Alonso Dávalos and Bracamontes Uliberri, was the Second Count of Miravalle. In one of his expeditions as Knight of the Order of the Holy Crusade to the Michoacan lands, he married María Antonia Francisca Orozco de Rivadeneyra and Orendain, whose veins ran indigenous blood from the former Otomí manor of Tocpan, today Tuxpan. It was with that marriage bond that Miravalle County extended to the lands of eastern Michoacano.Miravalle County is a Spanish noble title granted on December 18, 1690 by Carlos II to the descendants of Alonso Dávalos y Bracamontes, son of María Uliberri de la Cueva and Alonso Dávalos y Bracamonte, nephew of the Spanish monarch and direct descendant of Isabel Tecuichpo, who in turn was the daughter of the Tlatoani (Mexican sovereign) Moctezuma Xocoyotzin.Today, the rights holder is Carmen Ruiz Enriquez de Luna, XIII Countess of Miravalle.HistoryAt the time of its creation, the county included an extension of land with tobacco and pasture crops for cattle, the gold mines of the Holy Spirit and Santa Maria del Oro, sugar and alcohol work, and had its main house in the Hacienda de San Juan of the town of Santiago de Galicia de Compostela de Indias, currently a homonymous city in the Mexican state of Nayarit.Like all the novohispanos nobles, they also had a palace in Mexico City, located in the current street of Isabel la Católica, in front of the Spanish Casino. This palace has a mural of Manuel Rodríguez Lozano on its main staircase.Casino Español Mexico city.Likewise, the Countess María Magdalena Catarina Dávalos de Bracamonte and Orozco acquired in 1704 the hacienda of Santa María del Arenal, which centuries later became a racecourse and is today known as the Condesa Racecourse colony, in Mexico City.La Condesa, a fashionable area with tree-lined streets and a bounty of cute restaurants, cafes and boutiques. It neighbours Roma, a similarly arty enclave, but with more of a hipster edge,.Pedro Alonso Dávalos y Bracamontes and María Antonia Francisca Orozco de Rivadeneyra and Orendain, were the parents of the girl born in 1701, in the hacienda of Santa Catarina de los Arenales, in Tacubaya. Her name was María Magdalena Catarina Dávalos de Bracamontes and Orozco, heiress to Miravalle County.Ruins of the Hacienda in Santiago de Compostela NayaritOrphan of a mother at an early age, hospitalized and held in the convent of Las Carmelitas Descalzas, in Puebla de los Ángeles, by her maternal uncle, the presbyter Francisco Orozco, who was a friar of the company of Jesus, and that according to the testament of his mother, he would be the executor of the Orozco properties in eastern Michoacán.A Nun in New Spain just before taking Monastic Orders and Vows, on those days a well to do family for marrying a daughter required money, a dowry, if you had several daughters, and not enough money, or properties, guess where those unfortunate creatures ended their days? Even if the famous writer of the book Life in Mexico by Madame Calderon de la Barca, retired to a convent across the Pyrenees, after the death of her husband, inspired no doubt by the tranquil, and idyllic memories of her visits to the nunneries Convents in Mexico, I doubt it hold a great appeal to many of them.Aided by her paternal grandmother, who used the same Viceroy to get her granddaughter out of the convent, the still young Maria Magdalena Catarina, began to learn how she should be a good countess. He married a Knight of the Order of Alcantara, Don Pedro Antonio de Trebuesto y Alvarado, in 1719. With him, he moved to Compostela de Indias (Nayarit), where, in just 15 years of marriage, she gave birth to nine sons. (Right here you could see the lie, imagine a woman with nine children playing seductress, and with the Religious mores of the time)Santiago de Compostela Nayarit today.When suddenly widowed, in 1734 she returned to the paternal house of Mexico City. The misfortunes did not come alone because she also suffered the loss of his firstborn, faced a hostile society, and faced with the threat of economic ruin of her family, she filed a lawsuit against the Society of Jesus, to claim the lands that his great uncle had left the Society of Jesus as a testament at the time of his death. The enormous profits of the numerous estates that belonged to him, were used by the Jesuits to finance their expeditions and build churches and palaces; One of them is the Clavijero Palace in the city of Valladolid, today Morelia.Clavijero Palace in the city of Valladolid, today Morelia.María Magdalena Catarina won the lawsuit, and her family's property in the Michoacan lands, for which they were returned after 27 years. The numerous farms and extensions of land were in the municipalities of Tuxpan, Jungapeo, Irimbo, Ciudad Hidalgo, Susupuato and Zitácuaro, and were their economic salvation. In the sugar mills of the farms, sugar and alcohol were made to be distributed in the corners of the new Spain.In 1742, his father, the Second Count of Miravalle, died and María Magdalena Catarina inherited Miravalle County. The noble title was inherited along with immense heritage in the form of palaces, estates and rents. One of the first things she did when she had the title of nobility, was to change her name of Catarina, to that of Catalina; that by disposition of her late grandmother, the women of the family would have to be heirs of the title.María Magdalena Catalina belonged to the highest aristocracy, which in the New Spain of the time formed an idle minority, compared to the people who lived in precarious conditions, and often inhuman. The nobility, was engaged in games, walks, social gatherings and love intrigues, dotted with artistic veleities. A way of life that the Third Countess of Miravalle perfectly embodied. It is said that she launched into worldly life, her banquets and gatherings reached great popularity in Mexico City, and artists and intellectuals struggled to participate in them.Widow, the Countess lived her maturity without almost suppressing her desires, which gave rise to intense rumors. True, imagined or just probable, but always wrapped in a halo of mystery and legend. The Countess maintained loves with men of very different class and condition, since she had intimate relations with nobles, with mayorales,(managers) with foremen; and even, with a Franciscan friar from the convent of Santiago Apóstol, in the town of Santiago Tuxpan (Fray Tomás Camata Estrada, who was an alchemist, he helped her bury her money, thereby benefiting from her monetary secrets).What marked her legend.The brutal murders against those who let themselves be loved by her and also those who refused to do so, was what marked her legend. Almost demonic accusations against him as the confirmed ironwork of 300 slaves in the hacienda of Santa Catarina. The almost poetry crimes, which were committed by her in San Miguel Púcuaro (Jungapeo). All this, crowned by the excommunication that fell on her, when in 1765, she filed a second lawsuit against the Society of Jesus, this time for the return of the profits of what they obtained from her property, for 27 years.And here you can see the why, and from where her black legend come from, the church couldn’t be too happy, specially the Jesus Society.So she had to be a bad woman in order to size what was righteously hers, and here is how probably her life no different of any other rich woman in New Spain, at the time was turn into a legend a la Lucretia Borgia style.Word of mouth, simply put; love of gossip, and generation after generation, the legend has been told in Agostitlán, Angangueo, Ciudad Hidalgo, Irimbo, Jungapeo, Zirahuato, Zitacuaro and Tuxpan. But also in Compostela, Santispac, and Tepic, in Nayarit; as well as in Huesca and Mineral del Monte in Hidalgo, in addition to Mexico City, where one of the colonies of the Cuauhtemoc delegation bears the name of Condesa, in honor of María Magdalena Catalina (those lands were her property along with those of the Roma colony, part of the Hippodrome and Tacubaya colonies. His house was the property that the Russian Federation occupies today).Russian Embassy in Mexico city, former house of the Condesa de MiravallesPoisoned by the friar.Her death came suddenly and not naturally, since she was the victim of her lover and accomplice, the Franciscan friar of the convent of Santiago Apostle, because he poisoned her when she was 76 years old. This happened at the Hacienda de la Santa Catarina in Tuxpan, a place that was his permanent residence during the last ten years of his life. (Note a Franciscan friar, not a Jesuit, usually the Franciscan are the ones who take over from the Jesuits after they are expelled from some country because their political intrigues, the friar very probably was on her side, against the Jesuits, being her confessor, and very likely adviser, as it was the style of the day, plus the machismo surrounding her, who could not think a woman capable of see things by her own, or take action against them, and therefore the Jesuits riled against the friar, a Franciscan inventing all those stories )Gardens of the ex Hacienda in Santa Catarina Michoacan, today an Hotel.Fray Tomas committed that murder by greed, since the Third Countess of Miravalle was the owner of a great treasure. Therefore, the friar, in an act of infinite evil, put aside the love between them, to give way to ambition. "Thus ended the days of a woman who was controversial, who abused in quantity of her noble title and her power, to commit the impure acts that have immortalized her in the popular imaginary," said Dr. José Luis González.After she was embalmed, they put her in a coffin and was exhibited for almost 150 years, in the crypt of the counts, which is in the Church of Santiago Apostle, in Tuxpan. Later it was buried right there, next to its parent; this in 1924; The friar also accompanies her in the crypt.Church of Santiago Apostle, in Tuxpan, MichoacanAt the time it was exhibited, various people came to that town to look at the Countess; These include some members of the French army, also characters who were part of the Supreme American National Board, such as the López Rayón brothers.It was the Third Countess of Miravalle, a powerful woman who abused her beauty and her noble title to achieve what she intended; Not caring about sacrificing your morals, or your good principles. "Hated by many and loved by few, defied the customs of her time, leading even to confront the ecclesiastical authorities, a situation that brought her misfortune and tragedy?Hardly, just a bunch of stories added after her death, by the church clergy, sore losers of the day, against this powerful woman, who best them on the trial and took back her possessions.Angangueo, MichoacanThe Countess owned 70 haciendas in Michoacán (Irimbo, Hidalgo; Tuxpan, Jungapeo; Benito Juárez, Susupuato, Tuzantla, Zitácuaro and more). In addition to owning the Mines of Compostela, Nayarit, the mines of Tlalpujahua and some of AngangueoThe Hacienda de Púcuaro is 7 kilometers from Jungapeo.Their properties had an extension of 68, 454 hectares.The Countess won a poetry contest in 1729; She participated in a literary contest celebrating the canonization of San Juan de la Cruz. (Hardly the kind of contest you will enter if all the lies told about her were true. )Bottom line the Countess was loaded with properties, mines, lands, haciendas in three States, and a big chunk of Mexico city downtown real state, and she fought for her property, and won, the Jesuits were the sore losers, and the ones who come out with the gossip, and the black legend.Santa Maria del Oro, Nayarit.