Some Colonial Mansions and Those who Lived in Them: With Genealogies of the Various Families MentionedH. T. Coates, 1899 - 482 oldal |
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2d wife 2dly acres afterward Albany Anna Anne Augustine Herrman Benjamin Harrison Berkeley Bohemia born brother Burwell Cary Charles Carroll Charles Carter Children Church circa Cleve Colonel John Colonel John Page Colonial Corotoman Council County daughter death descendants died Digges Doughoregan Doughoregan Manor Edward eldest Eliza Elizabeth England Evelyn Byrd father Francis George Gloucester Co Governor Græme Park Henry Hill issue John Carter John Stockton Judith June Keith Kiliaen Kiliaen Van Rensselaer King Carter land Landon Carter letter Lewis lived Lord Lucy Mann Mann Page Manor mansion Maria married Mary Maryland Matthew Morven Nathaniel Nelson parish Paschall Patroon Philadelphia Philip plantation portrait President Randolph Rensselaer Richard Stockton Richmond Robert Carter Rosewell Sabine Hall Samuel Sarah SELAER Sept Shirley Signer Thomas Coates Virginia Walker Washington William Byrd York young
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39. oldal - ... had like to have treated him roughly. After excusing the unseasonableness of his visit and letting us know he was a parliament man, he swore he was so taken with our lodging that he would set fire to his house as soon as he got home and teach his wife and children to lie, like us, in the open field.