. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. her lover rode away, vowing that he would nevercome to see her again. The next month he was at thedoor of Cedar Park, in the straitest of Friends garb andwith the properest of Friends dialect. 146 CEDAR PARK How is thee? he asked soberly. Is thee a Friend? inquired the fair Elizabeth. The affirmative answer was all that was needed tosignalize the plighting of their troth and they wereshortly married. Thomas Sprigg and Elizabeth Galloway had threesons, only one of whom lived to maturity. This son,Richard Sprigg, married Margaret Caile, of Dorchester
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. her lover rode away, vowing that he would nevercome to see her again. The next month he was at thedoor of Cedar Park, in the straitest of Friends garb andwith the properest of Friends dialect. 146 CEDAR PARK How is thee? he asked soberly. Is thee a Friend? inquired the fair Elizabeth. The affirmative answer was all that was needed tosignalize the plighting of their troth and they wereshortly married. Thomas Sprigg and Elizabeth Galloway had threesons, only one of whom lived to maturity. This son,Richard Sprigg, married Margaret Caile, of DorchesterCounty, Maryland, in 1765, and had a daughter, Sophia,born April 23, 1766, at Cedar Park, married Col. JohnP. Mercer, in 1785, and inherited the daughter married Dr. James Steuart, ofAnnapolis. Mrs. Sophia iGalloway and her daughter, , lived for many years as widows at Cedar Park. The Galloway family of Maryland divided intomany branches, every one of which terminated in femaledescendants, and the name is RATCLIFFE MANOR NEAR EASTON. TALBOT COUNTY. MARYLANDHOLLYDAY—GIBSON—HATHAWAY =9ENRY HOLLYDAY, the son ofCol. James Hollyday, builderof Readbourne, built RatcliffeManor for his bride, Anna MariaRobins, whom he married in1749. It is situated in TalbotCounty, on the banks of thebeautiful Tred Avon River, and is not far from thebusy little Eastern Shore metropolis of Easton. The site of Ratcliffe Manor is such that it has acharming outlook. One sees the windings of the TredAvon and the fine farms of this rolling, fertile approach the house one drives through a long avenueof trees set in rows about one hundred feet apart, andthis avenue is bounded by white bar fences of oldtimeappearance. The home grounds are encircled by afence of this same fashion and in back of the house theland is terraced, falling away to the river in gracefulgreen sweeps. Here, too, are shrubs and flowers, whilegiant trees give a grateful shade from summers
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