_John BRAGG __________+
| (1647 - ....) m 1663
_Joseph BRAGG _______|
| (1665 - 1741) m 1689|
| |_? ___________________
| m 1663
|
|--Joseph B. BRAGG
| (1690 - 1747)
| _John TAP ____________
| | (1645 - 1688) m 1664
|_Mary TAP ___________|
(1671 - 1731) m 1689|
|_Elizabeth FULLERTON _+
(1645 - ....) m 1664
_Alexander Blaine BROWN _
| (1808 - 1863) m 1833
_Henry Hoffman BROWN _|
| (1838 - 1898) m 1869 |
| |_Elizabeth Finley NEVIN _+
| (1811 - 1897) m 1833
|
|--Mary H. BROWN
|
| _________________________
| |
|_Ella M. SWEENY ______|
m 1869 |
|_________________________
_John HARDWICK ______+
| (1749 - 1800) m 1776
_John HARDWICK ____________|
| (1777 - 1841) m 1798 |
| |_Jane REDMAN ________+
| (.... - 1777) m 1776
|
|--Samuel Redman HARDWICK
| (1817 - 1876)
| _Joseph MORGAN ______+
| | (1749 - 1785) m 1774
|_Elizabeth (Betsy) MORGAN _|
(1777 - 1833) m 1798 |
|_Elizabeth BRADFORD _+
(1751 - ....) m 1774
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"Peckatone Plantation lies in teh lower part of Westmoreland County,Virginia, on the bank of the Potomac opposite St. Georges Island,Maryland. The tract was named for an Indian chief of the region." OnMarch 26, 1664, the land was secured by Henry Corbin who built themansion in the later years of his life. Henry Corbin died on January8,1675.
"Peckatone house was a spacious and massive quadrangular building ofEnglish bricks with immense halls and wainscotted rooms. A wideplatform, reached by broad flights of stone steps, in front and rear,supplied the palce of porches, and offered a pleasing view of farextending lawn and fields on the one side, and on the other the river.A wall extended from one corner of the main building to a brickkitchen and servants' rooms; and on the opposite sied, but moredistant stood the spacious brick stable. Enclosed grounds had shadetrees, lawns and graveled walks. There was a profusion of fruits andflowers."
When Henry Corbin died, the land was passed on to his son, Gawen.While he never appears to have lived in the house, his son, alsoGawen, married Hannah Lee, sister of Richard Henry Lee.
In the late 1860's, Peckatone was purchased by Samuel Hardwick. Heraised tobacco and is reported to have built the first tomato canneryin Kinsale. At his death, the house was inherited by his daughterElizabeth, and her husband John Lynham, a Richmond attorney.
The house was sold by Elizabeth (Hardwick) Lynham, a widow by then, in1884 to Horace Kirkwood. Two years later (1886) the house was burneddown in a mysterious fire. Mr. Kirkwood "disappeared into thin air",after collecting the insurance and the house was passed back into thehands of Elizabeth Hardwick Lynham. The original house was gutted bythe fire and the bricks from the house have been used to restoreStratford Hall, birthplace of Robert E. Lee, in the 1930's.
Around the turn of the century the house was sold to John Dos Passos,Sr. In 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Maurcie A. Thorne of Detroit bought the siteof Peckatone and 175 adjoining acres from the Dos Passos. In 1959, theThornes moved into the house that they had built on the property. Mrs.Thorne was the great-grand-daughter of Samuel Hardwick.
_____________________
|
_David PURCELL _______|
| (1660 - 1693) m 1681 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--David PURCELL
| (1686 - ....)
| _John BRAITHWAITE ___
| |
|_Belinda BRAITHWAITE _|
m 1681 |
|_Frances ____________