Patrick Henry's Scotchtown
16120 Chiswell Ln, Beaverdam, VA 23015, USA
Virginia, USA
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EST. 1760
EST. 1760
1771
Henry, Patrick
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Patrick Henry's Scotchtown.
Patrick Henry’s original eighteenth-century plantation house survives as a Preservation Virginia historic site. The restored dwelling contains furnished period rooms and preserved architectural features, while reconstructed outbuildings, archaeological areas, gardens, trails, and surrounding rural land interpret the plantation’s free and enslaved communities.
About Patrick Henry's Scotchtown
The Scotchtown property was given as a land grant to Charles Chiswell, a prominent planter and iron mine owner, in 1717. Chiswell built a small house on the property, probably in the 1720s. It was expanded to its present size around 1760. It was first given the name "Scotch Town" in a 1757 deed of sale. At this time the house also was used as a store that bought and sold local tobacco.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Patrick Henry's Scotchtown
Patrick Henry purchased the house in 1771 and lived there with his wife, Sarah Shelton Henry, and their six children. This was his home during his most influential period, including his famous "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" speech at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. It was also his residence when he was elected Governor of Virginia in 1776. His wife Sarah, who suffered from mental illness, died at the site in 1775. He resided at Scotchtown until 1777. That year he married his second wife and in 1778 they relocated, after his election, to the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg.
The house was purchased by the Wilson Miles Cary family after their original home had been taken over as a small-pox rest camp. They briefly resided there until attempting to sell it in December 1781. The house and land were transferred to Benjamin Forsythe in Hanover County's 1787 tax records,
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