Excerpt from Manors of Virginia in Colonial Times The interest which is shown to-day in the res toration and preservation of early mansions, encouraged me to undertake this meagre story of Virginia's oldest and most f ar-famed manor houses, no State in the Union boasting such a wealth of historic estates as this superb old Com monwealth, towards which the rest of the country so proudly looks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.