Peachy Ridgway Gilmer, the oldest son of Dr. George Gilmer, of Williamsburg, was blunt, open-hearted, and careless about the accumulation of riches. He accompanied Frank Meriwether, his college crony, to Albemarle, when Braddock’s expedition against the French and Indians suspended for a while William and Mary College. Whilst at Frank Meriwether’s home, he and Frank’s sister, Mary, fancied each other, and married. The Meriwethers were then, as they are now, plain in manners and dress. Peachy Gilmer, from being the most dashing beau of the metropolis of the colony became as unpretending in his appearance and manners as any of his new relations. To make his home accord with this change, he settled in Rockingham county, in the midst of the Dutch, at a place still called Lethe, from the forgetfulness of care by its owner and his numerous Low Country visitors. He lived to old age without troubling himself about anything. The Lethe tract of land was large and fertile. He had many negroes, kept fat horses and cattle, and lived bountifully upon the products of his farm, selling only what was sufficient to pay his taxes, and buy sugar and coffee in small quantities then used… Peachy Gilmer's unruffled temper, frank manners, and unrestricted hospitality, made his house the collecting place of old and young, who were fonn of frolic and fun. He was his father's executor, and so negligent in collecting the debts of the estate, that large sums are never collected at all. (Georgians, George Rockingham Gilmer, p. 12)
Peachy R. Gilmer had two sons, Thomas Meriwether and George, and four daughters, Mary Peachy, Elizabeth Thornton, Lucy, and Frances Walker.
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Peachy R. Gilmer had two sons, Thomas Meriwether and George, and four daughters, Mary Peachy, Elizabeth Thornton, Lucy, and Frances Walker.
TMSI [3604]
Peachy Ridgway Gilmer, the oldest son of Dr. George Gilmer, of Williamsburg, was blunt, open-hearted, and careless about the accumulation of riches. He accompanied Frank Meriwether, his college crony, to Albemarle, when Braddock’s expedition against the French and Indians suspended for a while William and Mary College. Whilst at Frank Meriwether’s home, he and Frank’s sister, Mary, fancied each other, and married. The Meriwethers were then, as they are now, plain in manners and dress. Peachy Gilmer, from being the most dashing beau of the metropolis of the colony became as unpretending in his appearance and manners as any of his new relations. To make his home accord with this change, he settled in Rockingham county, in the midst of the Dutch, at a place still called Lethe, from the forgetfulness of care by its owner and his numerous Low Country visitors. He lived to old age without troubling himself about anything. The Lethe tract of land was large and fertile. He had many negroes, kept fat horses and cattle, and lived bountifully upon the products of his farm, selling only what was sufficient to pay his taxes, and buy sugar and coffee in small quantities then used… Peachy Gilmer's unruffled temper, frank manners, and unrestricted hospitality, made his house the collecting place of old and young, who were fonn of frolic and fun. He was his father's executor, and so negligent in collecting the debts of the estate, that large sums are never collected at all. (Georgians, George Rockingham Gilmer, p. 12)
Peachy R. Gilmer had two sons, Thomas Meriwether and George, and four daughters, Mary Peachy, Elizabeth Thornton, Lucy, and Frances Walker.
TMSI [3604]
Peachy R. Gilmer had two sons, Thomas Meriwether and George, and four daughters, Mary Peachy, Elizabeth Thornton, Lucy, and Frances Walker.
TMSI [3604]
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Probably buried in "Lethe", Rockingham County, VA.
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