. Historic Virginia homes and churches . siege ^^ Nelson family: See Page, Genealogy of the Page Family,p. 155 et seq. Interesting results from an investigation of theEnglish ancestry of the Nelson family arc given in VirginiaMagazine of History and Biography, xiii, pp. -iOS-iOS; xvii,pp. 187-188. 38 HOMES AND CHURCHES is still poiiitrd out. Secretary Nelson was brought outof Vorktowu under a flag of truce and congratulated theAmerican officers upon the havoc their bonihardnient wasplaying upon his own house. THE CHURCH In the churchyard a short distance away from theNelson House may
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . siege ^^ Nelson family: See Page, Genealogy of the Page Family,p. 155 et seq. Interesting results from an investigation of theEnglish ancestry of the Nelson family arc given in VirginiaMagazine of History and Biography, xiii, pp. -iOS-iOS; xvii,pp. 187-188. 38 HOMES AND CHURCHES is still poiiitrd out. Secretary Nelson was brought outof Vorktowu under a flag of truce and congratulated theAmerican officers upon the havoc their bonihardnient wasplaying upon his own house. THE CHURCH In the churchyard a short distance away from theNelson House may l)e seen the Nelson tombs. The churchwhere this patriotic family worshipped and which wasbuilt in 1()!)7 was burned in 1814. but was replaced by asmall stone-marle building on the original site. The oldbell of the earlier church bearing the inscription, Countyof York. \irginia, , was jjreserved and is still in use. THE MOORE HOUSE About tliree-(|uarters of a mile out of Yorktown, upon Temple Farm. stands the Moore House where the. Moimi; hi)l:>i;, nkau vcjUKrowx surrender of Cornwallis was drawn up and signed. Theroom 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 olll
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