. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. okedrumpled as if somebody had slept in it and just left ghost was never again seen, and a thoroughsearch of the house on the night of his one visit failed todisclose anything that would give a reasonable explana-tion of the strange figure which the frightened womenand the servant had seen. After the death of Miss Sallie Harris, the old placewas preserved in the style in which she had kept it byher nephew and heir, Severn Teackle Wallis, who livedthe last years of his life here. A man of large means,Wallis spent most of his years in Ba
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. okedrumpled as if somebody had slept in it and just left ghost was never again seen, and a thoroughsearch of the house on the night of his one visit failed todisclose anything that would give a reasonable explana-tion of the strange figure which the frightened womenand the servant had seen. After the death of Miss Sallie Harris, the old placewas preserved in the style in which she had kept it byher nephew and heir, Severn Teackle Wallis, who livedthe last years of his life here. A man of large means,Wallis spent most of his years in Baltimore where he isremembered for his large benefactions, and is memori-alized by a statue in Mount Vernon Place, the mostbeautiful section of that city. He left the estate at hisdeath to his nephew, John Mather Wallis, from whom itwas purchased in 1889 by Mr. Hiram G. Dudley, ofBaltimore and Queen Annes County, who has a countryhome at Hemsley Farm, not far from Bloomingdale. MONTMORENCI BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLANDWORTHINGTON—CONRAD—LEHR. EAR the hamlet of Glyndon,Baltimore County, Maryland, inthe Worthington Valley, is to befound the old Worthington home-stead, Montmorenci, built about1760 by Samuel Worthington whomarried Mary Tolley. Fromthese two a long line with many branches has descended,and from this generous old home have gone forth manysturdy sons who have played conspicuous parts amongtheir fellows. The house is finely situated on the crest ofa hill in the centre of the thousand and more acres whichremain to it of the vast tracts over which it lorded whenit was young, and is as sound and weatherproof to-dayas when it was new. It is of stone and plaster construction, the walls beingvery thick and the foundations of a mass sufficient tosupport a battlemented tower. A winding road leadsfrom the entrance of the grounds to the front of thehouse, and from the rear the ground falls sharply awayto the Italian garden which the present mistress of theold home, Mrs. Mary Con
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