• 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: People

Washington paper runs an expose on the Richmond Junto, featuring Spencer Roane

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1823, November 1: The most extensive, informative and valuable account of the Junto appeared in a series of letters published …

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Anne Waring Latane, daughter of William Catesby Latane, born

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1823, May 6: The fourth child, second daughter, of William Catesby Latane and his wife Ann Elizabeth Burwell Latane, is …

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Spencer Roane dies, and will lie forever next to cousin and ally John Brockenbrough

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1822, September 4: Spencer Roane dies in Warm Springs, Virginia. When I first read that fact in early research, I …

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Thomas Jefferson calls Spencer Roane “the bulwark of our political state”

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1822, July 18: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane: “We look to you as the bulwark of our political …

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Jefferson to Roane: Time produces corruption of principles

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1821, March 9: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane. Monticello Mar. 9. 21. “…but time produces also corruption of …

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Mahockney house expanded in 1820

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1820 12 21: This document is believed to be the bill for the 1820 addition of a second full story to …

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Thomas Ritchie rails against the Missouri Compromise, “the bitterest disappointment”

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1820, March 7: In response to Monroe’s support of the Missouri Compromise, according to Ammon in “The Richmond Junto”: “The …

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Spencer Roane to Madison: Virginians are “averse to be damned up in a land of Slaves”

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1820, February 16: Spencer writes to President James Monroe about slavery and state rights, particularly over the issue of Missouri. …

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James Henry Latane born at Mahockney

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February 1820: William Catesby Latane and his wife Anne Elizabeth (Burwell) Latane have their first child, at Mahockney, a son: …

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Mahockney’s Four-Foot Mountain of Conceit

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I was born of a Virginian mother and a North Carolinian father, used to ride across the state-line between the two states on …

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