. Historic Virginia homes and churches . LAND COUNTY daughter of Colonel Isham Randolph, of his death the homestead passed to his son RandolphHarrison, who married his first cousin, Mary, daughter ofThomas Isham Randolph, of Dungeness. Randolph and ]Mary Harrison, of Clifton, hadfourteen children, and their descendants, now widely scat-tered, form an influential social connection. BELLMONT Tradition says that quaint Bellmont, in BuckinghamCounty, was the first frame dwelling in that section of thecountry—the pioneer settlers there having, hitherto con-tented themselves with log
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . LAND COUNTY daughter of Colonel Isham Randolph, of his death the homestead passed to his son RandolphHarrison, who married his first cousin, Mary, daughter ofThomas Isham Randolph, of Dungeness. Randolph and ]Mary Harrison, of Clifton, hadfourteen children, and their descendants, now widely scat-tered, form an influential social connection. BELLMONT Tradition says that quaint Bellmont, in BuckinghamCounty, was the first frame dwelling in that section of thecountry—the pioneer settlers there having, hitherto con-tented themselves with log-houses. Its dormer windows, RICHMOND AND THE IPFER JAMES 187 little sfiuair porch and I)i<^ chiiiiiievs arc iiidicatioiis of itsage. Ancient trees iorin an arcli liigli al)ovc tiie honsewliieh looks sedately forth from a yard filled with old-fashioned shnd)s and Howers. Belhnont was built by Colonel ^Vrchibald Cary for hissister, Judith, who married Colonel David Hell, a nativeof Scotland and a member of the House of Burgesses for. BELLMONT, BUCKINGHAM CUUNTY Buckingham County. It was inherited by Colonel and]Mrs. Bells daughter, Mrs. Harrison, who left it to herdaughter, ^Nlrs. Ligon. The I^igons sold it to Mr. I. THE BREMOS Near each other in Fluvanna County are the threehomesteads and estates known as Bremo, Lower Bremo,and Bremo Recess. General John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1 SfJO), of SurryCount}, a gentleman of prominence and fortune, removed, ISS VIHGIXIA HOMES AND CHURCHES al)()ut 180;}. to Fluvanna County, where he owned largetracts of land. He built Brenio Recess, and lived in itwhile he was erecting the handsome mansion which henamed Rremo, in honor of Brenio in Henrico County,which was the home of the Cocke family at a very earlydate. Bi-enio House, with its great stone barns and otherouti)uildings, is one of the notable places on James River.(General Cocke was devoted to the cause of temperanceand as a temperance memorial he had placed on the bank
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