Burwells

She was raped repeatedly by Alexander Kirkland, a neighbor of the Burwells, leaving her pregnant with her son George.

Archive 2009-01-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

The Burwells, the Bassetts, the Dandridges and all the rest came so frequently that hardly a week passed that at least one of them did not sleep beneath the hospitable roof.

George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

The Burwells had seen to it that their daughter did not go empty-handed to her man.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

Ludwells, the Burwells, the Custises, the Lees, the Washingtons -- were shaped chiefly by conditions within the colony and by renewed contact with Great Britain.

Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922

The Burwells had a long and honorable career as teachers at Hillsboro and later on at Charlotte and Raleigh.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

The Burwells, the Bassetts, the Dandridges and all the rest came so frequently that hardly a week passed that at least one of them did not sleep beneath the hospitable roof.

George Washington Farmer Haworth, Paul L 1915

The spot chosen for the meeting was a grass plot bounded on three sides by shrubbery and on the fourth by the wall of the little square within which had been laid to rest the mortal remains of some half dozen generations of the Burwells.

"George Washington's" Last Duel 1891 Thomas Nelson Page 1887

A brick wall, splashed with ochre and gray lichens, enclosed six generations of dead Burwells and their next of kin.

When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876

Remember me affectionately to all the young ladies of my acquaintance, particularly the Miss Burwells, and Miss Potters, and tell them that though that heavy earthly part of me, my body, be absent, the better half of me, my soul, is ever with them; and that my best wishes shall ever attend them.

Letters 1760

Burwells, the family of Sir Robert Walpole's mother.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757