The Botetourt Statue in the front campus has had a notable history. Lord Botetourt was the Royal Governor who had repeatedly to prorogue the Assembly for action inimical to the Crown. Nevertheless, the people of Virginia respected him deeply for his personal qualities and for his sincerely democratic sentiments, realizing that his public actions were such as he was obliged to take regardless of his sympathies. So, after his death in 1770, the Assembly had this statue made in London by Sculptor Richard Hayward. The statue was erected in the open corridor of the Capitol; but during the Revolutionary War feeling against all that was English ran so high that some of the 100 percent disloyalists threw it to the ground, with casualties that still are to be seen. When the excitement somewhat calmed, and after the Capitol had been abandoned as the seat of government, the Botetourt statue was set up in the College campus, somewhat nearer the building than at present. During the War Between the States the statue found refuge with the Eastern State Hospital, thereafter being brought back to its present location. Lord Botetourt’s body is entombed in the College Chapel.
[Illustration: A true MAPP of the Town of WILLIAMSBURG incorporated, 1722 at one time the CAPITAL of the Colony of VIRGINIA.]
_A_. Wren Building, A.D. 1695 (pp. 4, 16, 20) _B_. The Brafferton, 1723 (p. 20) _C_. The President’s House, 1732 (p. 20) _D_. The Cole Shop, _c._ 1756 (pp. 15, 24, 25) _E_. Old County Prison, 1715. _F_. Travis House, 1765 (p. 12) _G_. Market Square Tavern, 1749. _H_. Bland-Wetherburn Tavern, _c._ 1700 (p. 8) _I_. Office of Secretary of the Colony, _c._ 1748 (p. 25) _J_. Raleigh Tavern, _c._ 1740 (pp. 7, 8) _K_. Dr. Blair’s Apothecary Shop, 1717. _L_. Site of _Virginia Gazette_, 1736. _M_. Ludwell-Paradise House, 1716 (pp. 6, 27) _N_. George Wythe’s Residence, 1755 (pp. 16, 27) _O_. Deane House and Forge. _P_. Carter-Saunders House (p. 28) _Q_. Site of First Theater in America, 1716 (p. 28) _R_. St. George Tucker House, 1788 (pp. 17, 28) _S_. Peyton Randolph House, _c._ 1715 (pp. 20, 28) _T_. Coke-Garrett House, 1720 (pp. 21, 30) _U_. Site of Second Theater, 1751. _V_. Bassett Hall, 1753 (pp. 15, 30) _W_. Masonic Lodge. _X_. William Byrd’s Town House, 1769. _Y_. Modern Court House. _Z_. Tazewell Hall (p. 30)