He lived at Stratford until his death in 1927. . His friend William Clark Somerville bought the property for $25,000. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. 6:30 Dinner (African American foodways/SDP Chef) Juneteenth is a festival held annually on the nineteenth of June by African Americans (especially in the southern states), to commemorate emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865. Construction of the Georgian Great House did not begin until the late 1730s. More about this marker. These slaves were born during the American Revolution while Henry Lee was leading his cavalry and before he courted Matilda and married her in 1782. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Over time, the Lees sold or hired out slaves to cover their expenses and debts. I have been following his journey for several years and the stars finally aligned that allowed me to be in the same place and the same time as his program. It is not a place for humankind. Lee, a politician and planter, lived with his family at his fathers plantation at Machodoc Creek until 1729, when his house burned to the ground. Its possible that combing through Westmoreland County court records might produce some evidence for Keseys whereabouts after 1803, but that research project would require a lengthy time investment. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. The birthplace of Robert E. Lee is sacred grounds to some and many of those worshippers of Robert E. Lee are not buying what the Slave Dwelling Project is selling. [5] Besty Storke lived on the property until her death in 1879 and was buried there.[5]. When I heard that Joseph McGill was bringing the Slave Dwelling Project to Stratford Hall for their Juneteenth Celebration, I jumped at the opportunity to participate. The buyer is Henry Storke. That one item made the tour more relevant for me. Elizabeth McCarty Storke, owner of Stratford Hall, dies. Westmoreland County. Slave Cemetery Marker Inscription. 714-803-7343 . Location. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Juneteenth is a festival held annually on the nineteenth of June by African Americans (especially in the southern states), to commemorate emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865. He and his wife, Hannah, had six sons and two daughters. The Spotsylvania County Sheriffs Office has decided to end its participation on a national television show, at least for now. 9:00-10:30am: Opening talk, Joe McGill, African American History Museum, Montross, VA. 11:00 African drumming in front of mansion/welcome at Stratford Hall, 12-2: Lecture and tour: The Enslaved Community at Stratford Hall, Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz, 4:30-6 Music/open mic/storytelling (Rita Wagstaff-Stratford hall)/Afrocentric arts and crafts, 6-630: Libations, drumming, prayers at the enslaved African American cemetery, 6:30 Dinner (African American foodways/SDP Chef), ___________________________________________________________________________. 14.6 miles from Stratford Hall. Stratford Hall is a historic house museum near Lerty in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Stratford Hall is located in Westmoreland County on the beautiful Northern Neck of Virginia. In the April 1782 estate division of slaves, there were two girls allotted to Matilda and Flora with names beginning with a K. Those names, as far as I can tell, are Keavy (age 5) and Kenny (age 3). Stratford Hall remained in private hands for more than a century. Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. They played important roles in shaping the early history of the nation. Facebook; Twitter; Instagram; Dr. Kelly Deetz is on my shortlist of these people. And yes, Dontavius and I went searching for those fingerprints in the bricks, and yes, we found some on some of the outbuildings and the fence line. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. 10-? Henry Lee III and Matilda Ludwell Lee marry. He is buried in the cemetery at Shiloh Baptist Church near Stratford Hall's entrance gate. William Lee (17391795) and Dr. Arthur Lee (17401792) were diplomats to England during the turbulent struggle for American independence. After Somervilles unexpected death in 1826, the Westmoreland County Court seized the property and put it up for auction. I asked myself what do I need to do to show my gratitude for being a part of history going forward at this place? Im attempting to think of the word or words that describe what I felt being given the opportunity to stay on plantation grounds overnight where former slaves experienced a life of depravity. His son, William Wesley Payne, was also a longtime resident. The Lee-Fendall House was the home of Major-General Henry Light-Horse Harry Lee III, the father of Robert E. Lee. [5] After his death his heirs discovered that obligations incurred by Henry Lee IV continued to encumber the property. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Thomas Ludwell Lee, active in local politics, served as a Virginian legislator and helped compose the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Richard Henry was later instrumental in guiding the fledgling nation, serving as President of Congress in 178485. Try again later. It was an historically edifying Juneteenth Day! At first, I resisted, wasnt interested in the lavish lives of enslavers. Not only politically, but they were representative of very elite, wealthy Virginians of the day.. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Also sincere thanks goes to the many at Stratford Hall Plantation, including Dr. Kelley Deetz and Jon Bachman, and all the many actors, contributors and participants. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. In some writings of Robert E. Lee he was disturbed to hear of the sad state of the family burial vault at Stratford. A CWT marker stands along the path that leads to the Great House at Stratford Hall. She is a pioneer, fearless. Turns out, I was blatantly wrong! Discovery of a tombstone bearing the name Elizabeth Lee in a Canadian cemetery and related family oral history have prompted her descendants to claim kinship with Henry Light Horse Harry Lee, father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. You and the girls could remain there in quiet. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Slaves of Stratford Hall Plantation (82402017)? Richard Henry Lee (17321794) and Francis Lightfoot Lee (17341797) were delegates from Virginia to the Second Continental Congress, and signers of the Declaration of Independence. Materials for the house came from the surrounding property: timber from forested land nearby, red clay for bricks, and oyster shells for mortar. From our living history team was storyteller, Dontavius Williams, we both hooked up at Dulles Airport, rented a car and drove the 2 hours plus to Stratford Hall, stopping in Fredericksburg, Virginia to. Thomas Lee passed the Ludwell name to two of his sons, and four of Thomass sons (one married a Ludwell cousin) passed the name to their sons. She is already discussing a similar program in 2020, but bigger and better. Where was Kesey after 1803? cemeteries found in Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. But KatzHyman still dug up plenty of interesting details gleaned from what remains of Lee family records and archeological digs at Stratford. It was the Stratford-Hall Corporate. This account has been disabled. The architect of the Great House is also unknown, although a likely candidate is Richard Taliaferro, who designed what is now called the Wythe House in Williamsburg, among other buildings. Born at Stratford when Elizabeth Storke owned it, he continued to live and work there after it passed to the Stuart family and then to RELMA. Over the next few decades, Elizabeth Storke scaled back farming operations considerably. From playful to practical, subtle to sensuous, quintessential to quirky, Stratford Hall's diverse palette has a flavor that compliments your design and environment. I attempted to think of what challenging times might have gone on hundreds of years before in the laundry setting. Henry Lee, a former Revolutionary War hero, moved to Stratford in 1782 after marrying his cousin Matilda, eldest daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee. * Could this child, born circa 1798, be the Kizzie who had her own child Ludwell by age 20 in 1818? Sold individually. She also used personal records from other Westmoreland-area slave owners. In my mind, it was like fitting a square peg into a round hole, someone or entity had to conform to the other. Henry Lee sold the slaves from Cabin Point to his brother Richard Bland Lee for $2,000 credit against his debt in 1807; Richard Bland Lee hired out the Cabin Point slaves beginning January 1808. The embodied energy of the enslaved Ancestors who made those bricks is in each one of them. With their windows and stone chimneys, these cabins are 1930s-era reproductions of the late eighteenth-century structures that housed domestic workers and other skilled laborers at Stratford. 1836-1926) left the Federals and returned to Stratford and his family. However, I can discuss my research plan. Many key details concerning the construction of Stratford are uncertain. By TAMARA LYTLE By TAMARA LYTLE ADVERTISING Special to Stephens Media STRATFORD, Va. The stately Virginia plantation home Stratford Hall is silent on a Sunday morning. Enslaved Africans and African Americans lived and worked throughout the plantation grounds. There is a problem with your email/password. KatzHyman said slave owners meticulously recorded expenses and care for slaves. There was a lot of history to be made on this weekend. We hope that the descendants of Kizzie will continue their quest to discover unknown family names and relationships. 30 seconds . Lectures, music, storytelling, historic food sampling, special tours, and more will begin at 9:30am and last all day, Here at Stratford, many people here would have been born slaves or shipped over from Africa; their stories are now being told along with that of the women of the Lee family, many of whom are absolutely phenomenal." Archaeology and the study of artifacts is essential, according to Deetz, due to most slaves being kept illiterate. She also utilized information gathered from archeological finds at Stratford Hall. It was their stolen labor that enabled that big house to be built. The two Lee probate inventories do not list any slave with a name that could possibly be construed as being Kizzie. I was first contacted by her when she was a professor at, I was surprised when Dr. Deetz turned up on the staff of Stratford Hall, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Lee's mother died on January 25, 1750; his father, then acting governor of Virginia, died that same year, on November 14. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Several Lee nephews, including Henry Lee and Richard Bland Lee, received equal portions of the estate, including slaves living there, in 1803. The punishment that would be inflicted as a result of that mishap was unthinkable. Stratford Hall is a historic house museum near Lerty in Westmoreland County, Virginia. William C. Somerville buys Stratford Hall from Henry Lee IV for $25,000. We both did and it was great. . In 2003, the school was awarded authorization for the IB Primary Years Programme, and was the first school in Western Canada to do so. 2:00-3:00: Afrocentric arts and crafts Lisa Ainsworth Covington Resource Group 3 Aspen Tree Lane Irvine, CA 92612. Slaves also sold productsbrandy in one Lee family instanceto their owners. Stratford Hall, an independent coeducational school located on the east side of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opened on September 5, 2000. Stratford Hall acknowledges that we are situated on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. The politician and planter Thomas Lee purchased the land for Stratford in 1717; although no records exist to indicate when the house was built, construction likely began in 1738 and was completed sometime in the 1740s. based on information from your browser. The house and skilled slaves lived near the Great House in these multi-family houses. Stratford Hall centers on a parterre. Slavery at the Shirley Plantation: Very likely that some of my family from Charles City Co., VA were slaves here. Try again. ANational Historic Landmark, Stratford Hall is home to some of America's most influential patriots and the only brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee. Henry Lee IV, Lees half-brother, was the last of the Lees to be master of Stratford. Philip Ludwell Lee inherited Stratford Hall Plantation at the death of his father Thomas Lee in 1750. From our living history team was storyteller, Dontavius Williams, we both hooked up at Dulles Airport, rented a car and drove the 2 hours plus to Stratford Hall, stopping in Fredericksburg, Virginia to give our opinion about removing a slave auction block from its current location to a museum. January 19, 2021. mile away). Calhoun, Jeanne A. And there it was, a whip on display. The enslaved community at Stratford Hall was essential to the Lee family. Because Philip Lee's oldest son, Philip Lee II, is still a child, Richard Henry Lee effectively becomes master of Stratford Hall. 0.3 miles away); Oval Site (approx. They grew fruit and vegetables in Stratfords orchards and gardens, and wheat, barley, oats, flax, and corn in its fields. Unless you are listening to the spirits of history. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. He loved to entertain, and had a band made up of slaves and indentured servants. By itself, oral history often leaves many questions unanswered, but it is invaluable as an impetus to document the oral history tradition. GREAT NEWS! Thank you for this opportunity! In 1810, the Federal Census shows that there were only 32 slaves over age 12 at Stratford, a number that had been steadily decreasing as Henry and Ann Lee began selling off acreage not included in the deed of trust to his children by his first wife Matilda. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Their tasks would have included cooking meals, digging and firing clay for bricks, and working as launderers, blacksmiths, plasterers, carpenters, and masons. Failed to report flower. In The Slaves' Economy, Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas, edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, pp. It was there that Philip R. Fendall built the Lee-Fendall House. It is a poor place, but we could make enough cornbread and bacon for our support and the girls could weave us clothes. Kelly encouraged us to come back on the next day and take the audio tour. Isabelle Blakemore made the trip from Washington, D.C., to hear the talk. Stratford Hall Plantation was the home of the Lee family, including two Declaration of Independence signers, and it was Robert E. Lee's birthplace. May Field Lanier, the first president of what is now RELMA, offered to build a monument to Wes Payne; he requested instead that a cabin, similar to the one he was born in, be built near the Great House. In 1717 Thomas Lee bought the Clifts, a tobacco plantation in Westmoreland County, from the descendants of colonist Nathanial Pope. But KatzHyman made it clear that slave life was very difficult13- to 15-hour workdays were the normand was something they obviously wanted no part of. On February 12, 1749, Richard Mynatt, a 20 year old cook, signed an agreement of servitude with Thomas Lee for a period of 4 years at 8 pounds sterling salary per year. Some of these enslaved laborers may have been purchased by Lee and tasked to build Stratfords Great House and its dependencies. While slaves were often given a diminutive of the names frequently used by their owners family, i. e., Harry for Henry, a family name was sometimes used for slaves when it was not used for a member of the slaveowners household. Now the Slave Dwelling Project is there to pay homage to enslaved people. 1,000% improvement. At the same time, the plantation was self-sufficient, producing enough food and clothing for its white and enslaved inhabitants. 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