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Excerpt from The Works of William M. Thackeray
The estateiof Castlewood, in Virginia, which was givento our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifice made in' his Majesty's cause by the Esmond family, lies 1n Westmoreland' Cou'nty', between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and Was once as great as an' English Princi pality, though in the early times its revenues were but small. Indeed, ffor near eighty years after our forefathers possessed them, our plantations were in the hands of factors, who enriched 'memselves one after another, though a few scores of hogsheads -of tobacco were all the produce that, for long after the Res toration, our family received from their Virginian estates.
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