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ŠJuly 25, 1999 (2nd Revision: July 31, 1999) [3rd Revision: 25 March, 2001]
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INFORMATION ON THE GREAT HOUSE
The following infomation was copied from "Westmoreland County, Virginia 1653-1983" Edited by Walter Biscoe Norris Jr., Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors, Montross, Virginia, 1983.
THE GREAT HOUSE
is well located on a bluff which looks out the Yeocomico River and across the Potomac to the Southern Maryland shore. The original house was constructed by Stephen Bailey I shortly after his acquisition of the land in 1667. The original patentee of the property was Richard Nelms in 1662. Family tradition has maintained that the original house was of brick, but this belief is undocumented.The property was sold out of the family in 1778, for the next forty-nine years it was owned by five individuals, including John James Maund who married Harriet Lucy daughter of Robert ("Cousncillor") Carter III, heir of Nomini Hall. It is said that the house was burned by the British in 1814 during the latter days of the War of 1812.
The property was reacquired by the Bailey family in 1827 when purchased by Major Robert Bailey (who died 8-13-1844 aged 57 years). He supposed to have built the present house or a portion thereof, over the original brick and sandstone cellar.... In the yard of the plantation complex are located an original kitchen with large cooking fireplace and a smokehouse with original framing and siding. Nearby on a bluff overlooking the harbor at Kinsale is the Bailey family cemetery. It contains the grave of Midshipman James Butler Sigourney of Boston, commander of the United States ship "ASP", who was killed defending Kinsale on July 14, 1813.
The Great House received sensitive additions to either end during the second quarter of the Twentieth century. Now a new dining room, kitchen, and breezeway following the style of the original house connect the old kitchen with the main house.
THE PROPERTY REMAINS IN THE HANDS OF THE BAILEY FAMILY AND
IS INHABITED BY THE ELEVENTH GENERATION OF THE FAMILY
IN DIRECT DESCENT FROM STEPHEN BAILEY I
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