Some Colonial Mansions and Those who Lived in Them: With Genealogies of the Various Families MentionedH. T. Coates, 1897 - 482 páginas |
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2d wife 2dly acres afterward Alice Anna Anne Augustine Herrman Benjamin Harrison Bohemia born Brandon brother Burwell Cary Charles Carroll Charles Carter Children of Mann Church circa Colonel John Colonel John Page Colonial Corotoman Council County daughter death descendants died Edward eldest Eliza Elizabeth England Evelyn Byrd father Francis George Gloucester Gloucester Co Governor Græme Park Henry infant issue James Jane Byrd John Carter John Stockton Joseph Paschall Judith June Kiliaen Van Rensselaer King Carter land Landon Carter letter Livingston London Lord Lucy Mann Page manor mansion Maria married Mary Maryland Matthew Morven parish Patroon Philadelphia Philip plantation portrait Princeton Randolph RENS RENSSE Rensselaerswyck Richard Stockton Richmond River Robert Carter Robert Page Rosewell Samuel Sarah SELAER Sept Shirley Signer Susan Thomas Coates Thomas Nelson Virginia Walker William Byrd York
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