A “manor” was usually thousands of acres owned by one family...
The “masor” house wasw usually the family hose...
In Albany, the Livingston Manor covered several sq miles of land...
Just one poor yung man arrived about 1700 and within 20 years had built himmself an empire...
My Irish ancestors arrived as indentured servants about 1720 and worked at the Livinston Manor...
Another one was the Cordlandt Manor which took up a lot of Westchester County...
The “manor” house was usually the family house...
Thanks for the replies.
I know my last ancestor to have died in Virginia before their migration to West Virginia did so in Giles county “at the Manor House”. Course I had always thought too that it was the family home and the above really does nothing to contradict that. But the context of some other references led me down a path of thinking it was possibly an inn of some sort, or indeed the largest house of the largest landowner in the area.
Jay, I’m sure my ancestor had a farm right along Sinking Creek not too far from that Link Farm covered bridge you showed us last week. Plus there is a plaque out front of the courthouse in Pearisburg that lists about 50 militia that were called out to fight at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. His name is on it which confirms he lived in Giles County!
I’m in the right area for where his homestead was, I just need to clinch it :-)