Peninsula In Passage

John H. Sheally II

John H. Sheally II

Hog killings and farm life

Levi D. Ames, Mary Fletcher Ames, W. Raleigh Old and Raleigh Old Green are part of the family line descended from John Ames. Bill Old still cares for the land of his ancestors and feel that the Nansemond River and adjoining creeks are still beautiful and ecologically important watersheds that need to be carefully protected as future growth takes place. His family has placed a perpetual conservation easement with the Virginia Outdoor Foundation on over 1.5 miles of shoreline along the Nansemond River and Knott’s Creek and on 145 acres of farmland, timber and marsh. This area cannot be developed and will remain as protected ‘open space.’ Sleepy Hole Farm Sleepy Hole Farm appears as part of an original 2000 acre land grant to Richard Bennett in 1635 and by 1863 it is drawn on a Civil War map as part of the D. Ames’ farm. The farm passed through several parties and by 1900 had become Bay Point Farm and was a thriving dairy when Amedeo Obici purchased it in 1924.

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