. Historic Virginia homes and churches . BLADENSFIELD. RICHMOND COUNTY Tasker, President of the Council of jNIaryland, and his wifeAnne Bladen), gave to the place the present name. InJanuary, 1790, jMr. Carter conveyed Bladensfield to hisson-in-law, John Peck, whose heirs, in 1842, sold it toReverend William Norvell Ward, whose family has sinceowned it. Well founded tradition states that the home wasonce occupied by Nathaniel Rochester, a native of West-moreland Comity, Virginia, who was a colonel in the Con- THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 3^3 tinental Army and for whom the city of Rochester. X.
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . BLADENSFIELD. RICHMOND COUNTY Tasker, President of the Council of jNIaryland, and his wifeAnne Bladen), gave to the place the present name. InJanuary, 1790, jMr. Carter conveyed Bladensfield to hisson-in-law, John Peck, whose heirs, in 1842, sold it toReverend William Norvell Ward, whose family has sinceowned it. Well founded tradition states that the home wasonce occupied by Nathaniel Rochester, a native of West-moreland Comity, Virginia, who was a colonel in the Con- THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 3^3 tinental Army and for whom the city of Rochester. X. Y.,was named. Rladensfield is l)elieved to have been builtearly in the eighteenth century. KIRN AN Kirnan, in the upper part of Westmoreland County,was originally known as China Hall. The ReverendArchibald Campbell, an uncle of the Enghsh poet ThomasCampbell, bought it before the Revolution and changedits name to Kirnan in honor of his ancestral home in Scot-. Kin \ \ \, W KSTMORELAND COUNTY land. ]Mr. Campbell was the rector of Washington Parish,Westmoreland, for years before the Revolution and alsotaught a school at Kirnan which tradition says was attendedby Presidents Washington and ]Monroe. Several of Parson Campbells sons were prominentlawj^ers, one of them being the first United States districtattorney. One of his grandsons, Ferdinand Stuart Camp-bell, a distinguished professor at William and Mary Col- 324 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES lege, took the name of Stuart upon inheriting a Scottishestate. In hiter daj^s Kirnan became the home of the Bowiefamily. STRATFORD In an out of the way corner of Westmoreland County,in the midst of a vast and wooded estate, on a high bluffof the Potomac River, and approached from the landwardby a narrow, lonely, and densely shaded road, stands Strat-ford, the sturdy castle of the sturdy race of Lee of Virginia. Fronv the landing of their first ancestor upon Americanshores, about 16-iO, until the present
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