. Historic Virginia homes and churches . Castle Hill estate in Albemarle County and was the in-heritance of Jane Frances Walker, eldest child of Honor-able Francis Walker (1764-1806), of Castle Hill. Theplantation was first called Turkey Hill and could boast ofthirty-seven hundred acres. Its mistress gave her hand inmarriage at the age of sixteen years to Doctor ]Mann Page,who, after thirty-five years of married life, died at Keswick,in 1850—his wife surviving him until 1873. The INIannPages were succeeded in their ownership of the estate bytheir son Doctor Thomas Walker Page, who died there i
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. Historic Virginia homes and churches . Castle Hill estate in Albemarle County and was the in-heritance of Jane Frances Walker, eldest child of Honor-able Francis Walker (1764-1806), of Castle Hill. Theplantation was first called Turkey Hill and could boast ofthirty-seven hundred acres. Its mistress gave her hand inmarriage at the age of sixteen years to Doctor ]Mann Page, who, after thirty-five years of married life, died at Keswick, in 1850—his wife surviving him until 1873. The INIannPages were succeeded in their ownership of the estate bytheir son Doctor Thomas Walker Page, who died there in1887, leaving children who still make their home at Keswick.Another son of Doctor INIann and Jane (Walker) Pagewas Doctor Richard Channing Moore Page, of New York, the historian of the Page family. Doctor Page has givenan interesting account of the long series of tutors whotaught at Keswick, which eventually became the site of anoted boarding school conducted by two of Thomas WalkerPages sons, James IMorris and Thomas Walker Page, Jr.. llAHIlol l;, 11, 1, 1 , iil;, VM, l-: c (II . I -1 H^^^DjB.. h he continued to live at Tuckahoe, inGoochland, his holdings in Albemarle had, as will be seen, an interesting effect upon the Randolph family history. Over and over again in Virginia, adjoining lands havebeen resjjonsible for the joining of hands. About 1770Thomas Mann Randolph, Senior (1741-171)3), of Tucka-hoe, a wealthy widower, and his son Thomas INIannRandolph, Junior (1708-1828), were both numberedamong the eligible beaux (or catches, as the popidarjjhrase would have expressed it) of Virginia. TheRandolph estate in Albemarle lay between Belmont, theHarvie estate, and JMonticello, the Jefferson estate; andat both Belmont and Monticello was a lovely young daug