. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. e doors and windowswere capped with stone, the cornice was elaborate, the hallwaywas large and ran through the centre of the house, and theinterior was divided into ample and convenient rooms, while theslaves quarters were a short distance away. Here Mr. Loocker-man lived in the easy style of the old-time Southern gentlemen,and here he died and is buried. He built a dam and saw-mill atthe head of St. Jones Creek, northeast of the house, which ismentioned in the same year, 1728. . Nicholas Loockerman married Susan (or Susannah) Emmer-son in 1721, an
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. e doors and windowswere capped with stone, the cornice was elaborate, the hallwaywas large and ran through the centre of the house, and theinterior was divided into ample and convenient rooms, while theslaves quarters were a short distance away. Here Mr. Loocker-man lived in the easy style of the old-time Southern gentlemen,and here he died and is buried. He built a dam and saw-mill atthe head of St. Jones Creek, northeast of the house, which ismentioned in the same year, 1728. . Nicholas Loockerman married Susan (or Susannah) Emmer-son in 1721, and in 1722, Vincent Loockerman was born. soon after died, and Nicholas married Esther,daughter of Benjamin Shurmer. The Loockerman burial groundis to the rear of the old mansion-house, surrounded by an ironfence and well shaded. The old homestead of Nicholas Loockerman is stillin preservation, though the landed estate has beendivided, and is now known as the Covell place. READ HOUSE NEW CASTLE, DELAWAREREAD—COUPER—SMITH. HE disastrous fire of 1824, whichswept New Castle and almostwiped the little city out of exist-ence, destroyed among otherbeautiful colonial reminders thehistoric Read mansion whichstood on the Strand near Har-mony Street. The edifice which stands on its site, how-ever, was built shortly after this unhappy year byGeorge Read, grandson of George Read, the signer, andis so typically Georgian in aspect and so gracious inmass and outline that it may serve to recall some of thecharm of its forerunner, as well as to continue the nameof the family so long associated with this spot of Read mansion which was destroyed was, so con-temporary records tell us, one of the finest edifices ofits day. It stood in the midst of spacious grounds andwas surrounded by venerable trees, tulip, oak and chest-nut. In its gardens might be found rare shrubs, as wellas the familiar box and other bushes of old was built by John Read, the first of his
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