This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... THE STORY OF MARY WASHINGTON CHAPTER I. The counties of Westmoreland, Richmond, Northumberland, and Lancaster, in eastern Virginia, form the peninsula that separates the Rappahannock from the Potomac River. In the year 1700, Lancaster County lent character to the "Northern Neck," famed for broad ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... THE STORY OF MARY WASHINGTON CHAPTER I. The counties of Westmoreland, Richmond, Northumberland, and Lancaster, in eastern Virginia, form the peninsula that separates the Rappahannock from the Potomac River. In the year 1700, Lancaster County lent character to the "Northern Neck," famed for broad plantations and for the wealth and refinement of the inhabitants. The largest landholder in this region was Robert Carter, of Corotoman, a territorial grant washed upon the east by the Chesapeake, and upon the south by the Rappahannock. The latter is a lordly stream at this point, and navigable for over a hundred miles from the mouth. John Carter, the father of Robert, built in 1670 the first Episcopal church on the Neck. His name had headed the list of parish vestrymen in 1654, preceding that of the clergyman, -- an arbitrary order followed in the cases of his namesake-son John, and Robert, surnamed "King" Carter, the greatest of the line. The temper and customs of the day and country were semi-feudal; leaders were few in number and despotic in spirit. If planters and small farmers dwelt together in unity it was because the autocrat's position was not questioned. So near to Christ Church which the first Carter had builded, that the two were early in the eighteenth century united into one parish, was St. Mary's White Chapel; the place of worship for those belonging to this parish was a chapel-of-ease of the motherchurch. Prominent among her vestrymen for almost one hundred years was the name of Ball. It occurs so frequently upon the crumbling tombstones paving the old churchyard as to persuade one into the idea that this was, at the first, a family buryingground, and the chapel an afterthought. The present building, erected in 1740, occu
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