Note 651 — Chapter IV

The Westover Papers also contain a journey to a tract that Byrd owned near the river Dan, which he called a “Journey to the land of Eden.” See the view of the Westover mansion in Harper’s Magazine, May, 1871 (p. 801); in Appleton’s Journal, Nov. 4, 1871, with notes by J. E. Cooke; and in Mrs. Lamb’s Homes of America, 1879, where are views of other colonial houses like Powhatan Seat, Gunston Hall, etc. Cf. references on country houses in Lodge, Short History, p. 79. There are views of Ditchley House, the home of the Lees of the Northern Neck, and of Brandon House, the seat of the Beverleys in Middlesex, in Harper’s Mag., July, 1878 (pp. 163, 166). For some traces of family estates in the eastern peninsula, see Harper’s Mag., May, 1879. It was the cradle of the Custises. There is a paper on the ancient families of Virginia and Maryland by George Fitzhugh in De Bow’s Review (1859), vol. xxvi. p. 487, etc.