In Colonial Virginia with its established church, every parish was required by law to provide its minister with a glebe, a farm or plantation, and a glebe house as part of his recompense. There were numerous glebe houses in Colonial Virginia and they were
In Colonial Virginia with its established church, every parish was required by law to provide its minister with a glebe, a farm or plantation, and a g...
Over seventy years ago, the Huntington Library published a slim volume of the letters of Robert E. Lee, To Markie. Who was Markie? The short answer is that she was Martha Custis Williams, a cousin of Lee[
Over seventy years ago, the Huntington Library published a slim volume of the letters of Robert E. Lee, To Markie. Who was Markie? The short answer is...