. Historic Virginia homes and churches . , iianuvkk colnjv seven years later to Wilson Miles Cary. Afterward Scotch-town passed to the possession of John Payne, and wasthe girlhood home of Uolly Payne, who became the wifeof President James Madison. It is said that during theRevolution, Tarleton and his raiders rode their horses upthe stone steps of Scotchtown and clattered through thewide hall. 28^2 HOISIES AND CHURCHES EIKiEWOOD AND AIllWELL Edgewood, a sturdy old mansion of the Berkeleys,of IlaiiovcT County, was built by Doctor Carter Berkeleyupon a part of Air\vell, the
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . , iianuvkk colnjv seven years later to Wilson Miles Cary. Afterward Scotch-town passed to the possession of John Payne, and wasthe girlhood home of Uolly Payne, who became the wifeof President James Madison. It is said that during theRevolution, Tarleton and his raiders rode their horses upthe stone steps of Scotchtown and clattered through thewide hall. 28^2 HOISIES AND CHURCHES EIKiEWOOD AND AIllWELL Edgewood, a sturdy old mansion of the Berkeleys,of IlaiiovcT County, was built by Doctor Carter Berkeleyupon a part of Air\vell, the estate of his father, NelsonBerkeley. A sketch of the builder of Edgewood, by a brother , which appeared in the Southern Clinic, says: After completing his classical studies Dr. Berkeley was. KUGEWOOD, HANOVER COUN 11 sent to Edinburgh, Scotland, for several years, taking hisdegree about 1793. His thesis, in Latin, comprising 52pages {De Corporc Hiunano), now lies before me. Upon his return to Virginia Doctor Berkeley beganthe practice of his profession from his fathers home, butbuilt Edgewood and took up his abode there at the timeof his marriage to Catherine Spotswood Carter—a daugh-ter of Charles Carter, of Shirley, by his second wife, AnneButler ]\Ioore. The house is, therefore, probably over acentmy old. -- Berkeley family: The Critic (Richmond, Va.), December 6,1890, etc.
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