calthrope

Updated: May 20, 2025

The widow, a son and three daughters shared in the estate, which not only included land in York and at the Southward, but possessions in a considerable number. Both tobacco and corn were raised on the Calthrope land, hives of bees were kept, and a dairy was in operation.

Annie Lash Jester - Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century