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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Bolton, was a well known merchant of that city, the only son of Robert 

 Bolton, Esq., the first post-master of Savannah, in 1764, who removed 

 from Philadelphia, Pa., into Georgia about one hundred and thirty-two 

 years ago, whose father was Robert Bolton, Gent., merchant of Phila- 

 delphia and senior warden of Christ church in that city, A.D., 1727, 

 born at Wales in Yorkshire, 26th of July, 1688, and a lineal descendant 

 of the Bolton's, of Bolton, in Lancashire. A collateral branch of this 

 family gave to the Church of England, the well known author and divine, 

 Robert Bolton, B. D., (great grand uncle of the last mentioned Robert 

 Bolton of Philadelphia,) rector of Broughton, North Hamptonshire, who 

 died in 163 1, and penned the recently republished edition of " Bolton's 

 Four Last Things." 





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The Residence of the Rev. Robert 



The mansion house, which is of stone, affords a good specimen of the 

 old English style, and accords well with its romantic situation. The 

 building has two towers, affording splended views in which wood and 

 water are beautifully blended. The interior arrangements correspond 

 with the style of the house, and carry the mind back to days of old. The 

 armor)- is decorated with a mantle-piece brought from Venice, two or 

 three suits of ancient armor, besides helmets, morions, breast plates, 

 chain armor, &c, and a curiously carved chair of oak, found at Dorches- 

 ter near Oxford, bearing the date of 1639. There are paintings here of 

 members of the Bolton family, and among them a portrait of Robert Bol- 

 ton, merchant of Savannah, Ga., whose great wealth gained for him the 

 sobriquet of " King;" he died in 1S02. He is represented, dressed in 



