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His wife was Charlotte, daughter of Charles Cantey 

 of Mattesee. Their daughter Ann married George 

 Enelish of Clarendon. 



46. Tucker's, the next plantation, was the resi- 

 dence of the father of Peter and James Sinkler ; 

 after his death the family moved to Lifeland. As 

 an instance of the facility with which property was 

 accumulated at that time, it may be stated that on 

 Mr. Sinkler s death his widow was left in possession 

 of one male slave. When Peter Sinkler died, and 

 he did not pass beyond the meridian of life, he left 

 three plantations and several hundred negroes, be- 

 sides the large amount of property of which he was 

 plundered when taken prisoner by the British. His 

 brother James was no less successful. 



47. Gravel Hill was the residence of John Palmer, 

 a gentleman whose successful enterprise in the col- 

 lection of naval stores has caused him to be remem- 

 bered in our days by the distinguished appellation 

 of Turpentine John Palmer. His wife was Mari- 

 anne, daughter of John Gendron, whose father, an 

 emigrant Huguenot, was one of the pillars of the 

 Church at Jamestown. Their children were : Capt. 

 John Palmer, of Richmond, who married Anne 

 Cahusac ; Peter, who lived afterwards at Polebridge, 

 and never married ; and Thomas, who lived at 

 Gravel Hill and married Elizabeth Richbourgh ; 

 after her death he married Amelia Jerman, and 

 after her death, her sister, Harriet Jerman. 



