Life in old Virginia; a description of Virginia more particularly the Tidewater section, Narrating many incidents relating to the manners and customs of old Virginia so fast disappearing as a result of the war between the states, together with many humorous . Locust Tree III lawn where stood the house in whichPresident Monroe was born, Westmore-land County, Va. The iield in whichthis tree now stands is owned by Stuart, a negro Baptist is tradition that this tree stood in thelawn in front of the house. It is very(.Id and much decayed. This site over-looks Mon
Life in old Virginia; a description of Virginia more particularly the Tidewater section, Narrating many incidents relating to the manners and customs of old Virginia so fast disappearing as a result of the war between the states, together with many humorous . Locust Tree III lawn where stood the house in whichPresident Monroe was born, Westmore-land County, Va. The iield in whichthis tree now stands is owned by Stuart, a negro Baptist is tradition that this tree stood in thelawn in front of the house. It is very(.Id and much decayed. This site over-looks Monroe creek and Potomac Log Cabin, Corn Houses and Barns, on Wakefield Estate,the Birthplace of George Washington. William H. Washington, a distant relative of George Washington, standing on pile of corn Loba. THE PENINSULAS OP TIDEWATER VIRGINIA 17 tenants, subject to an annual rent of two shillings sterlingper hundred acres, added to which he required the paymentof ten shillings sterling on each fifty acres, which he termedcomposition money/ and which was to be paid upon theissuing of the grant. In 1785 the legislature of Virginiapassed an Act, in which among other provisions, in relationto the jSTorthern Neck, is the following: And be it furtherenacted, that the land owners within the said district of theNorthern Neck shall be forever hereafter exonerated and dis-charged from composition and quitrents, any law, custom orusage, to the contrary notwithstanding. The present limits of the Northern Neck of Virginia haveearned a far greater distinction than that of its connectionwith the largest individual prop
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