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  2. Servants' quarters - Wikipedia

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    At 18th-century Holkham Hall, service and secondary wings (foreground) clearly flank the mansion and were intended to be viewed as part of the overall facade. Servants' quarters, also known as staff's quarters, are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices and staff accommodation. From the ...

  3. Slave quarters in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2014) described slave quarters in the border-state city: "Generally, urban slaves' quarters were connected to their owners' property, usually in 'servant's rooms.' A typical newspaper ad from this period described a brick house for sale as having eleven rooms, two passages, a large kitchen, three servants' rooms ...

  4. Landed Army - Wikipedia

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    The system of conscription, when a certain number of warriors (with horse and weapon) was provided from a certain area of the land, or a certain number of households, prevailed in the 15th–17th centuries. It was usual to provide one warrior for each 100–200 quarters (0.5 ha) of land, or every 3–30 households. [1]

  5. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. ... for sale . [3] Other scholars have ...

  6. Colonial South and the Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    A lot of lands was given to tobacco plantations because of the high demand for the good in Europe. Before the 17th-century indentured servants were used to cultivate the land, but soon the new world's appeal to potential indentured servants decrease because the land grants they were formerly promised were no longer available. Therefore ...

  7. Swakeleys House - Wikipedia

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    Swakeleys House is a Grade I-listed [1] 17th-century mansion in Ickenham, London Borough of Hillingdon, England, [2] built in 1638 for the future Lord Mayor of London, Sir Edmund Wright. The house is a leading example of the architectural style known as " Artisan Mannerism ", a development of Jacobean architecture led by a group of mostly ...

  8. Martin's Hundred - Wikipedia

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    Martin's Hundred was one of the subsidiary "particular" plantations of the joint-stock Virginia Company of London. It was owned by a group of investors known as The Society of Martin's Hundred, named for Richard Martin, recorder of the City of London, [1] (not to be confused with his near-contemporary Richard Martin who was the father of Jamestown councilor John Martin). [2]

  9. Buttery (room) - Wikipedia

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    From the mid-17th century, as it became the custom for servants and their offices to be less conspicuous and sited far from the principal reception rooms, the Great Hall and its neighbouring buttery and pantry lost their original uses.