. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. ONS OF DELAWARE was connected. Upon the marriage of his son James,he built the old home now occupied by Mayor JamesRodney, of New Castle, as a wedding gift to the pairsetting forth upon the seas of matrimony. When hisson Kensey married he built for him that house oppositehis own at Third and Delaware Avenues; and thesetwo houses, with his own, stand as monuments to hislove of fine things and the generosity both of histemperament and his pocket-book. He had threedaughters, Susannah (who married Dr. David Stewart,as has been related), Ann, and Nancy
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. ONS OF DELAWARE was connected. Upon the marriage of his son James,he built the old home now occupied by Mayor JamesRodney, of New Castle, as a wedding gift to the pairsetting forth upon the seas of matrimony. When hisson Kensey married he built for him that house oppositehis own at Third and Delaware Avenues; and thesetwo houses, with his own, stand as monuments to hislove of fine things and the generosity both of histemperament and his pocket-book. He had threedaughters, Susannah (who married Dr. David Stewart,as has been related), Ann, and Nancy (who marriedGovernor Stockton, of Delaware). Upon the death of its builder, the Johns Housedescended to his daughter Nancy and was thus for awhile the governors home of Delaware, during the in-cumbency of Governor Stockton. The mansion de-scended by inheritance to the Misses Nancy and FideliaStockton, who did not marry, and finally to Miss Eliza-beth Moore, of New Castle, their niece, who is thepresent owner, though not the present LOOCKERMAN HOUSE DOVER, DELAWARELOOCKERMAN—BRADFORD—CULBRETH
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