Beverley Manor Chapter
Organized September 22, 1893
Staunton, Virginia
The name Beverley Manor was selected because Staunton is located in the original grant of the Manor of Beverley. The grant was of 118,491 acres of land and covered many of the lands already occupied by settlers, who proceeded to get their titles from Beverley. Up to 1745 the deeds were recorded in Orange County and after that date in Augusta.
On September 6,1736 William Gooch, 'Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia,' in pursuance of an order in council, dated August 12, 1736, and in the name of George II, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, 'Defender of the Faith', etc. issued a patent for the "Manor of Beverley."
William Beverley, the patentee, was the son of Robert Beverley, the historian of Virginia, and grandson of the Robert Beverley who commanded the royal forces at the time of Bacon's Rebellion. William Beverley's home was in Essex County where he was for twenty years Clerk of the Court and at various times was County Lieutenant, Burgess and member of the Governor's Council. So far as is known, he died in 1756 without ever having visited his Manor in Augusta County
His grandson, Carter Beverley, came to Staunton and lived in considerable state at 'Kalorama' (now the Staunton Public Library) on South Market Street.