Identifier: baltimoreitshist03hall (find matches)
Title: Baltimore : its history and its people
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hall, Clayton Coleman, 1847-1916 Lewis Historical Publishing Co
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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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identified for nearly forty years with the socialand commercial life of our city, he has proved himself to be possessed ofthose sterling traits of character which are needed and are sure to beappreciated in every community. Mr. Boswell comes of ancient Virginia stock, being descended on bothsides from leading families of the Old Dominion. His maternal line canbe traced back to Major Lewis Burwell, who settled about 1640 on Car-ters creek, in Gloucester county, Virginia. He was descended from Ed-ward Burwell, of Harlington, Bedfordshire, whose father was also Edward.Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford, premier of England, and Horatio, LordNelson, were descendants of the Burwells through female lines. LewisBurwell, the immigrant, owned the great plantation of Fairfield, the man-sion being one of the most unusual in Virginia. It was like some medievalcastle, or fortress, standing staunch and timeworn until a few years ago,when it was burned to the ground. After the Burwells had left it, which
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