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7 unusual facts about Westover Plantation


John Bolling

William Byrd II of Westover Plantation is said to have remarked that Major Bolling enjoyed "all the profits of an immense trade with his countrymen, and of one still greater with the Indian."

Patteson-Schutte House

At the time of the Patteson-Schutte House construction, William Byrd III was living at Westover Plantation in Charles City County.

Westover Plantation

However, recent dendrochronologic testing on boards and planks in the house showed that they dated to the 1750s.

The house was thus probably built and first occupied by William Byrd III, not his father.

William Byrd I

Byrd died on 4 Dec 1704, at his plantation home of Westover, in Charles City County, Virginia.

William Byrd II

William Byrd II died on August 26, 1744 and was buried at Westover Plantation, Virginia, British America.

He returned to the Colony following his schooling in England, lived in lordly estate on his plantation, Westover Plantation, and gathered the most valuable library in the Virginia Colony, numbering some 4000 books.


Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation

During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, Furneau Southall served as deputy-sheriff of Charles City County, under Otway Byrd, son of William Byrd III of Westover Plantation.


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