Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 291
d was a bell-tower in which hung what came to be both passing bell and fire bell, though its main object was to call farmhands to meals from their work in different parts of thelarge estate. If there was so much as a chimney afire thefamiliar tones of the bell would at once give the alarm,while… … ELTHAM, NEW KENT COUNTY ELTHAM, CLOVER LEA, AND THE WHITE HOUSE Before the War between the States New Kent con-tained other dwellings, which, like Hampstead, were spa-cious mansions. THE YORK RIVER COUNTRY 265 Eltham was long the home of the Bassetts, a familywhose emigrant ancestor, Captain…
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