Tag: Tankerville
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Who was Tankerville? Part VI: The Slow but Certain End of the Feudal Land System in North Loudoun
By Edward Spannaus At the end of the American War of Independence, the Earl of Tankerville’s family was still anxious. Land was everything for the British nobility, yet the Tankerville land…
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Who Was Tankerville? — Part V: The Manor System Nears its End
By Edward Spannaus In Part IV of this series, we learned how some of the tenants on the Tankerville lands in the eastern part of the German Settlement began to…
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Who was Tankerville? — Part IV: The Tenants Speak
By Edward Spannaus In Part III of this series, we “listened in,” so to speak, on discussions between the 4th Earl of Tankerville (Charles Bennett), his brother Henry A. Bennett,…
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Who was Tankerville? Part III: The Revolution Puts Tankerville Lands at Risk
By Edward Spannaus In Part II of this series, we learned that the Tankerville lands, as Loyalist properties, had been “sequestered” during the Revolutionary War, and saw how the Dowager…
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Who was Tankerville? Part II: The Dowager and the General
By Edward Spannaus (Part I of this series, updated, may be found here.) In June 1783, as the Treaty of Paris to end the Revolutionary War was being finalized, the…
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The British Lords of the Manor in the German Settlement: Who was Tankerville?
By Edward Spannaus [Updated December 17. 2023] (This is one of an occasional series of articles concerning the impact of the American Revolution on the Lovettsville area, formerly known as…