• About Mahockney
    • A Historical Timeline
    • About the Name
  • Art and Architecture
    • Historic Preservation, Restoration & Renovation
      • English Basement North
      • English Basement South
    • Mahockney’s John Tyler Portrait
      • Artist King and Subject Tyler
      • A Comparison of Charles Bird King’s Work 
      • Identifying the Mahockney portrait’s subject as John Tyler, 10th President of the United States
    • The Bricks of Mahockney
  • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane & Patrick Henry
  • The Grounds
    • Sights along the Underwood Trail
  • Who Lived Here
    • The Civil War Era

Mahockney

~ America's Story Told Through the History of One of its Oldest Houses

Category Archives: Farm

Killer Kitty makes the front page

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Our local Rappahannock Times published a story on the rabid-cat attack this week. Certain phrases still have me laughing: “antique …

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Killer Kitty

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2011, Nov. 19: Back in the spring of ’11, cute little black-and-white kittens were discovered playing at the side of …

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Ann Burwell Latane Ware writes to sister of battle south of Tappahannock

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1863, March 6: Letter from Ann Elizabeth Burwell (Latane) Ware  to Jannette Roane (Latane) Campbell (sisters born at Mahockney). Mahockney …

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Mahockney Slaves in the 1850 Federal Census Slave Schedule

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The unnamed slaves listed for James H. Latane of Mahockney number 44 in total. Below is one example of the …

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Bannerman Gets a Hoe from Parson Latane

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In the University of Virginia Rare Books Library, the Latane Family Papers collection contains a priceless treasure: the Parson’s Journal …

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Francis Gouldman conveys 300 acres of Mehockney to William Winston, widower of Martha Tomlin Gouldman who owned it

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May 19, 1725:  William Winston II, the second husband of Martha (Tomlin) Gouldman of Essex, married her sometime after January 1710 but …

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Mahockney plantation tied up in lawsuits

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August 1718:  The legal situation of Edward Gouldman’s and Robert Tomlin’s inheritances was rather messy, in part perhaps due to …

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Early 1660s Map of Rappahannock River parishes

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This modern map detailing the sequential parish churches of the 17th and 18th century in “Old Rappahannock County” (now Richmond …

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History of Gilson’s Mill

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1663: Gilson’s Mill was standing “before 1663.” Here’s a history of it:

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Sesquarcentennial

2023 marks the 360th anniversary of the original royal patent granting the right to settle Mahockney-
Happy Birthday, Mahockney!

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