I35800: RODRIGO de Castile, Cde de Castile (ABT 0845

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2 Mary Champe CARTER + E.T. BROOKE

Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke married second, Mary Champe Carter, daughter of Edward Carter of Blenheim and Sarah Champe, son of John Carter and Elizabeth Hill of Shirley, whose father was King Carter, married Judith Armistead. ^[S2128] ^[S3444]

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4th. Ann married Richard Bouldin and had three children.

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Father: Josias GAMBLING, spouse unknown. LDS Father: John Josias GAMBLING b. About 1581 in England

Elizabeth or Sarah Gambling
m 1 JOHN PINKARD (Husband) b. About 1606
Children: 1. Five Children Pinkard

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"Philip Ludwell Lee inherited Stratford Hall Plantation at the death of his father Thomas Lee in 1750. A member of the ruling Council of Virginia, (on March 22, 1757, he was appointed for life to the governing Council of Virginia, the most prestigious position in the colony.) Colonel Phil was a prominent figure in colonial society. He loved to entertain, and had a band made up of slaves and indentured servants. Guests would promenade on the roof platform connecting the two chimney clusters. The door on the river side opened onto a porch where visitors could dance under the stars.
Philip Ludwell Lee made many changes to the Great House. Research continues in an effort to solve these architectural mysteries."

"He transformed the simple, austere plantation of his parents into an elegant estate, stories of which even now evoke the lavish and graceful lifestyle of the elite of pre-Revolutionary Virginia. Under his ownership, the main house complex was modernized and expanded, the waterfront developed, and a stud farm was begun. Philip Ludwell took his pleasures as seriously as his commerce. While he lived, Stratford was filled with the melodic strains of the violin and the laughter of guests dancing in the Great Hall. The stable bays were full of fine horses for races and hunts. And Col. Phil, master of Stratford, presided over it all. In the colony, Philip Ludwell Lee served as judge, officer in the militia, elected official in the House of Burgesses, and member of the governing Council of Virginia.".

"He hired British-trained builder and architect John Ariss to direct the architectural improvements. John Ariss was born in Westmoreland County. He advertised in The Maryland Gazette of May 22, 1751: By the Subscriber (lately from Great Britain) Buildings of all Sorts and Dimensions are undertaken and performed in the neatest Manner ... either of the Ancient or Modern Order of Gibbs' Architect and if any Gentleman should want plans, Bills of Scantling or bill of Charges, for any Fabric, or Public Edefice, may have them by applying to the Subscriber at Major John Bushrods at Westmoreland County, Va., where may be seen a great variety and sundry Draughts of Buildings in Miniature, and some buildings near finished after the Modern Taste.23

On August 18, 1755, John Ariss purchased 311 acres adjacent to Stratford from Sampson Demoval, a planter in Fairfax County.24 Ariss had returned to Richmond County by October 1761.25 The work at Stratford which required the services of a skilled builder probably took place during the years in which he lived on this property. Philip Ludwell modernized the Great House to reflect his own personality as well as new attitudes regarding family and privacy. Among other probable alterations, he widened the passages and turned his father's former library adjoining his bedroom into a room which would later prove suitable for a nursery. A door from the passageway directly into his bedroom was also added. His main concern, however, seems to have been the Great Hall. It is quite probable that he decided to close the doorways leading into the adjacent bedrooms, making them private, and use the newly created space for book presses. The elaborate panelling was probably designed and supervised by Ariss.26 Philip Ludwell also turned his attention to the exterior of the house. It may have been he who ordered the replacement of the wooden stairs by more permanent, and impressive, ones of brick and stone, although this may not have been done until the 1770s.

Some of Col. Phil's greatest efforts, however, seem to have been expended on the grounds. It appears that he built two sets of slave or perhaps servant quarters on the southwest and southeast of the house. It also seems evident that he constructed the northwest and northeast dependencies, octagonal building, possibly a matching octagonal icehouse, and the surprisingly sophisticated circular spring house.27 His innovations may have included an extensive roof platform on the Great House. Slaves and indentured servants may have continued to carry out new construction and alterations throughout the 1760s and 1770s.

Col. Phil owned a group of skilled slave house carpenters and joiners who were occasionally "hired out" to other planters.28 In 1782, the list of slaves belonging to his estate included four house carpenters and one bricklayer. 29 He also had one indentured joiner in the 1770s and, presumably, others, of whom no records have yet been discovered."

"Philip Ludwell Lee's life represents a brief period in the history of Virginia. It was a time when Virginia gentlemen referred to England as "home" and primogeniture reinforced the power of the landed gentry. Col. Phil's brothers were a part of the Revolutionary whirlwind, destroying the ties that held England and her colonies together. Perhaps it was sadly appropriate that he died on the eve of the revolution his brothers helped to create. Philip Ludwell Lee might have found it difficult indeed to adjust to life in "a world turned upside down"."

Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine
December 1996, Vol. XLVI No.1
Published Annually by
The Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society
Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia
Pages 5360-5378

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My Southern Family

RODRIGO de Castile, Cde de Castile

ABT 0845 - ____

ID Number: I35800

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MARGARET BEECHIN

1278 - ____

ID Number: I102485

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Margaret CAILE

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I79299

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Mary Champe CARTER

ABT 1780 - 25 Oct 1846

ID Number: I20262

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J. W. CORCORAN C.S.A.

ABT 1840 - ____

ID Number: I27999

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ELIZABETH ERSKINE

____ - ____

ID Number: I98753

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Ann FENNELL

ABT 1800 - ____

ID Number: I100115

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Elizabeth GAMBLING

ABT 1610 - BEF 1665

ID Number: I42149

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GATEWOOD

1782 - ____

ID Number: I75978

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ISABEL HAMILTON

ABT 1534 - 13 Nov 1604

ID Number: I89470

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Thomas HENTON

1718 - 1796

ID Number: I90128

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Col. Philip Ludwell LEE Sr.

1726 - 21 Feb 1775

ID Number: I25629

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Nancy MAGOWAN

1782 - ____

ID Number: I48404

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PERRYMAN

ABT 1730 - ____

ID Number: I73608

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Austin SMITH

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I52320

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