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Weston Manor is a large five-bay, wood-frame, plantation house built in 1789 for William and Christian Eppes Gilliam on land in Prince George County acquired from her cousin John Wayles Eppes as a wedding gift. The Gilliam family arrived in Virginia in the 17th century as indentured servants.
Prince George County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 43,010. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Prince George .
Belle Grove is a historic plantation located on U.S. Route 301 in Port Conway, Virginia.The present plantation house was built in 1790. [1]James Madison, a Founding Father and the fourth President of the United States, was born on March 16, 1751, at Belle Grove plantation in an earlier house which no longer stands.
In 1820, he owned 52 enslaved people in Prince George county, [8] which number had grown by 1830 to 86 enslaved people, [9] and by 1840 grew to 96 enslaved people. [10] The 1850 census was the first with separate slave schedules, and by then Edmund Ruffin owned 84 enslaved people in Prince George county, [ 11 ] and 41 enslaved people in Hanover ...
William Fairfax (1691–1757) was a political appointee of the British Crown in several colonies as well as a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia.Fairfax served as Collector of Customs in Barbados, Chief Justice and governor of the Bahamas; and Customs agent in Marblehead, Massachusetts, before being reassigned to the Colony of Virginia.
Lived at Hunting Quarter in Sussex County. Robert Harrison (b. 1738) [1] Charles Harrison (1740–1793) who was colonel of the 1st Continental Artillery Regiment. [1] Nathaniel Harrison (1742–1782), who became Sheriff of Prince George County in 1779 and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1781–1782.
Then, from 1720 until 1926, the plantation became home to members of the prominent Harrison family of Virginia. Located in modern-times in Prince George County, Virginia and known as Lower Brandon Plantation, in the 21st century, Captain John Martin's c. 1616 plantation is both a National Historic Landmark and one of America's oldest continuous ...
Burrowsville is an unincorporated community in Prince George County, Virginia, United States. [1] It is located on James River Drive . The community takes its name from the Burrow family who settled in the area during colonial period and whose many descendants still live in Burrowsville.