Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . one remains, bear-ing the following inscription: Mayor William (iooeh. Dyed October 29th, it;.,:,. Within this tomb there doth interred lie, No shape, but substance, true nobility; Itself though young in years, but twenty-nine, Vet graced with natures Moral! and divine. The church from him did good participate, In counsil rare, fit to adorn a state. In a field near the house is another old graveyardand in 1834 Dr. W. Shields, who owned the farm,claimed to have discovered pieces of a grave
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . one remains, bear-ing the following inscription: Mayor William (iooeh. Dyed October 29th, it;.,:,. Within this tomb there doth interred lie, No shape, but substance, true nobility; Itself though young in years, but twenty-nine, Vet graced with natures Moral! and divine. The church from him did good participate, In counsil rare, fit to adorn a state. In a field near the house is another old graveyardand in 1834 Dr. W. Shields, who owned the farm,claimed to have discovered pieces of a gravestone i7 â which bore the name of Spotswood, and many are in-clined to believe that the governor was buried here. The Nelson House.âBuilt 1740. A splendid ex-ample of a Colonial residence with spacious halls androoms. The house is surrounded by an old fashionedgarden with a boxwood border. It fronts the riveron the main street. It was occupied by Gen. La-fayette on his visit to Yorktown and during thesiege by Cornwallis as his headquarters. The gablewas struck by three cannon balls and another was. NELSON HOUSE, YORKTOWN. embedded in the brick wall, while still another en-tered the dining room, shattering the marble this room is a secret panel, connecting two secretrooms with the garret. During the Civil war the house was occupied by the Confederates under Gen-eral Magruder. The Nelson house at the edge of the town, duringthe Revolution, -was occupied by British soldiers. TheAmerican militia under General Nelson disliked tofire upon the house of their commander, but the gal-lant General at once offered a reward of five guineasto the soldier who fired the first shot. It was notlong before the house was in ruins and hardly a traceof it now remains. General Nelson wTas a member of the House ofBurgesses, one of the signers of the Declaration ofIndependence and Governor of Virginia. During thesiege of Yorktown, he fed his command at his ownexpense and later gave his pers
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