Identifier: manorsofvirginia01sale (find matches)
Title: Manors of Virginia in colonial times
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sale, Edith Dabney Tunis, d. 1932
Subjects: Manors
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ited in a petition to the Crown for his removal,and the petition was granted. All this and muchmore, is on record in the archives of LambethPalace. After Nathaniel Burwell married ElizabethCarter, he moved to Carters Grove, where hedied in 1721. The estate was then inherited byhis son Lewis, born in 1710, who married Mary,daughter of Colonel Francis Willis. Up to thetime of his death in 1772 Lewis Burwell was veryprominent in the affairs of the Colony, havingbeen both President of the Council and actingGovernor of Virginia. The plantation next went to his son. CarterBurwell, who married Lucy, daughter of theHonorable John Grymes of Middlesex County,and it was under their stewardship that the orig-inal dwelling was replaced by the present statelymanor-house in 1746, some years before the deathof his father. The road which winds from the main highway,over which so many Colonial notables rolled intheir gilded coaches on their frequent visits tothe mansion, is mostly through woodlands 176
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CARTERS GRO\^ whitened in April by dogwood and sheeted witharbutus, violets, and frail anemones, while thegorgeous yellow jessamine, that first flower ofthe South, flings its golden streamers from limbto limb of the smallest shrubs and greatest trees.One is in the midst of a riot of sweet-scentedcolor, which fades only when the lawn is reached.Crossing a picturesque ravine, the broad drive-way merges into an avenue about one quarter ofa mile in length, bordered by cedars of mag-nificent growth which spring from the thickturfing. Just before the grounds are enteredthe cedar avenue gives place to one of locusts,which continues through a wonderful grove ofthe same graceful trees to the circular stone stepson the north front. The substantial brick dwelling is situated di-rectly on the James, upon a high bluff, andcommands a very beautiful water view, the riverhere being seven miles across. The lawn is ter-raced on the water front, ending in a sunkengarden which extends quite to the beauti

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