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China Retreat Pennsylva. the seat of Mr. Manigault

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View showing the Bucks County estate, near the Delaware River, built in 1796 by former Resident Director of the East India Company in China, André Everadus Van Braam-Houckgeest. Sold by Van Braam in 1798, the estate pased through several owners, including Gabriel Manigault in 1807, and at various times housed Bristol College, a boarding house, and an orphan asylum for African American children. The mansion, the estate grounds severely diminished, was demolished in the mid 20th century. View includes a worker attending the yard in front of the mansion.; Drawn engraved & published by W. Birch Springland near Bristol Pennsylvania.

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Keywords

  1. Engravings
  2. Estates
  3. Hand Colored
  4. Homes And Haunts
  5. Manigault, Gabriel
  6. Pennsylvania
  7. Philadelphia

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