. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. died medicine under Dr. Physick in Philadelphia, 243 COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND graduated in 1814, and took up his home at Cremona,another beautiful homestead of St. Marys County, onthe Patuxent River. He married Eliza Tubman, grand-daughter of Henry Greenfield Sothoron and MaryBond, of Chaptico Manor. He died at Cremona, Sep-tember 30, 1849, leaving, amongst other children, JohnHenry Thomas, who married November 12,1851, MaryLeiper, and resided at Trent Hall, an old estate devisedto him by his maternal cousin, John Truman died June 1
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. died medicine under Dr. Physick in Philadelphia, 243 COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND graduated in 1814, and took up his home at Cremona,another beautiful homestead of St. Marys County, onthe Patuxent River. He married Eliza Tubman, grand-daughter of Henry Greenfield Sothoron and MaryBond, of Chaptico Manor. He died at Cremona, Sep-tember 30, 1849, leaving, amongst other children, JohnHenry Thomas, who married November 12,1851, MaryLeiper, and resided at Trent Hall, an old estate devisedto him by his maternal cousin, John Truman died June 15, 1893. In the burying ground atTrent Hall are to be found the tombstones of JamesTruman, Gent., died August 7, 1672, and NathanielTruman, Gent., died March 4,1678. The children of John Henry Thomas were: GeorgeLeiper Thomas, an attorney of Baltimore; William,who died in 1857; and Elizabeth Snowden Thomas, ofBaltimore, present owner of Trent Hall. COLONIAL MANSIONS OFDELAWARE AMSTEL HOUSE NEW CASTLE. DELAWAREVAN DYKE—MOODY—BURNHAM—HAY. HE visitor to New Castle, Dela-ware, who walks up the well-shaded street which bounds thewestern side of the ancient courtsquare of this delightful little oldcity will find himself (about asquare beyond this commons) ina veritable colony of old houses holding gossip togetherin stately, old-time fashion. Conspicuous among themis the Amstel House, so known because so christened byits present owners; this is the oldest dwelling-house inNew Castle. Prof. Henry Hanby Hay, the present occupant ofthis mansion, has spent much of his leisure time, afterattending his official duties at Girard College, Phila-delphia, in investigation of the history of his home. Hehas found that the earliest mention of the homestead inthe records preserved in the court-house of his nativetown is to be found in a bill of sheriffs sale bearingthe date of 1745, but from structural architecturalpeculiarities and other suggestive characteristics heplaces the date of erecti
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