On a wooded section of road, an iron gate stands at the entrance of a driveway that climbs to the right, up a small hill. Peeking out behind trees and bushes stands Chequer Hall, a house built during the Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century and the home of my 7th great-grandfather, John Adams, … Continue reading Chequer Hall
This week's prompt for 52 Ancestors is "The Old Homestead." My grandmother loved Charleston, South Carolina. She even had a Rainbow Row (a row of colorful houses in Charleston) wallpaper border in her kitchen. One year my aunt gave grandma a print of a watercolor of the ancestral family home in Charleston. At the time, … Continue reading Maison DuPre
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