. Historic Virginia homes and churches . eroom made forever famous by this epoch-making agree-ment is still pointed out. The house is a very old oneandis i)robably part of the residence of Colonel George Ludlow YORKTOWN 39 (1596-1656), member of the Colonial Council, who was akinsman of the English regicide, Etlmund , and ismentioned by him in his memoirs. Standing within a greenlawn on a hold bluff of York River, the long, dormer-window farm-house makes a charming picture. An interesting bit of history connected with TempleFarm is found in the fact that just about this site stood,more
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . eroom made forever famous by this epoch-making agree-ment is still pointed out. The house is a very old oneandis i)robably part of the residence of Colonel George Ludlow YORKTOWN 39 (1596-1656), member of the Colonial Council, who was akinsman of the English regicide, Etlmund , and ismentioned by him in his memoirs. Standing within a greenlawn on a hold bluff of York River, the long, dormer-window farm-house makes a charming picture. An interesting bit of history connected with TempleFarm is found in the fact that just about this site stood,more than a hundred years before the Revolution, the homeof Captain Nicholas ^Martahi (1591-1657), ancestor ofGeneral Washington and General Nelson and one of theleading spirits in the first rebellion against tyranny inVirginia, when, in 1634, the Colonists thrust the un-popular Governor, Sir John Harvey, out of olllce andshipped him to England. Another historic spot near Yorktown is the field whereLord Cornwalliss men laid down their iii.\GHi:i,i) mil >i:, \inih iihm\RINGFIELD The most historic spot on York River—Yorktown—has been noticed. The only other place on that side of theriver to be represented here is Ringfield, lying between the 40 MKdIMA AND CHURCHES forks of Kinds Creek and Felgates Creek. Tliis planta-tion was first patented hy Captain Robert Felgate, aprominent sliip-captain of London, wlio made his will inItiK), lea\iiig liis estate to his hrotlier, ^^ilIiaIn Felf^ate,a skiiinei- of London. At Lel<ates death his widow, I\lary,married (in l(HiO) Captain John Underhill, Jr., from theCity of \\oreester, Kngland, from whom the Felgate plan-tation passed to Joseph Ring, a prominent planter, whoprobably bnilt the house still standing. Since his time theplace has been known as Ringficld. There were long tobe seen there two old tombs of meml)ers of the Ring family,one liaving a mutilated eoat-of-arms, but they have beenlately removed to the old Hrut
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