Buckles and History at Mahockney
We continue to do metal detection across the lawns and fields surrounding the manor house at Mahockney. The most productive effort …
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Francis Gouldman conveys 300 acres of Mehockney to William Winston, widower of Martha Tomlin Gouldman who owned it
May 19, 1725: William Winston II, the second husband of Martha (Tomlin) Gouldman of Essex, married her sometime after January 1710 but …
Mahockney plantation tied up in lawsuits
August 1718: The legal situation of Edward Gouldman’s and Robert Tomlin’s inheritances was rather messy, in part perhaps due to …
Martha Tomlin Gouldman and her late husband’s 21 slaves
1709 03 10 Gouldman, Edward’s estate inventory and 21 slaves From records of Essex County, found in Library of Virginia …
Bacon Mobilizes his “Northern Force”
June 5, 1676: Rebel Nathaniel Bacon orders up a Northern Force, including Rappahannock County men (the site of Mahockney). And it …
Robert Tomlin patents some land
May 30, 1654: Robert Tomlin patented 350 acres of land on the south side of the Rappahannock, along Lawson’s Creek – …
Mahockney is an Indian word…
From the 1612 “Strachey’s Dictionary of Powhatan,” the predominant language of the tribes of the Powhatan Nation, including the Rappahannock …
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