Peninsula In Passage

see Maryland as a more religiously tolerant colony than Virginia, which was governed by the Anglican Berkeley. The area covered by your book had marked Puritan sympathies in 17th century, and during the revolution, marked Tory sympathies - sort of a contrarian corner of Tidewater Virginia. One of the Knott families, Capt. Elvinton Knott, fought in the Revolutionary War, commanding a company of militia. He was killed by Tories in Nansemond County. Later, John Ames acquired a 437-acre part of the original Knott grant lands by 1814 and built a residence overlooking the creek. The lumber used in the house that still stands was sawed on the property. Outbuildings include an icehouse, schoolhouse, barn, carriage house, corncrib and sheds. A one-room schoolhouse where the children of the plantation were taught by a governess stands on the south lawn below the house. The Ames family became prominent truck farmers raising produce that was shipped to Norfolk from a pier on the farm. An icehouse was converted to a root cellar to store Irish seed potatoes that were shipped from Maine in January for spring planting.

John H. Sheally II

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Laundry house

Stencil used to label farm produce