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  • Shortly before dawn this morning, a fire gutted the Clifton Inn in Shadwell, killing two guests and seriously injuring a third.

    Clifton Inn Burns; Two Die at cvillenews.com 2003

  • Shortly before dawn this morning, a fire gutted the Clifton Inn in Shadwell, killing two guests and seriously injuring a third.

    2003 November archive at cvillenews.com 2003

  • Resolved, That the ballads set forth in the parchment manuscript, known as the Shadwell folio, are genuine old English ballads, composed by English balladists, and illustrating most correctly life in Chicago in Ancient Times, which is to say, before the fire.

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

  • Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous descendants, and Peter, my father, who settled on the lands I still own, called Shadwell, adjoining my present residence.

    The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900

  • His home was among the mountains of Central Virginia on a farm, called Shadwell, 150 miles northwest of Williamsburg.

    Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • He had three sons; Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous descendants, and Peter, my father, who settled on the lands I still own, called Shadwell, adjoining my present residence.

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • He had three sons; Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous descendants, and Peter, my father, who settled on VOL. I-I the lands I still own, called Shadwell, adjoining my present residence.

    Autobiography 1821

  • He had three sons; Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous descendants, and Peter, my father, who settled on the lands I still own, called Shadwell, adjoining my present residence.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Among original Jefferson manuscripts acquired, covering the period 1810-23, are two drawings of the house described by Dr. Fiske Kimball as "Shadwell," two preliminary sketches for the governor's house in Richmond, and an important letter to Robert

    Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40 1940

  • The illustrious statesman was born April 13, 1743, at "Shadwell," his father's home in the hill country of central Virginia, about 150 miles from Williamsburg, once the capital of the State, and the seat of

    Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

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