Polly was the niece of two master builders: one, Henry Rieff, who built the original HERMITAGE for Andrew and Rachel Jackson, and two, Joseph Rieff, who with William C. Hume, re-built the HERMITAGE in 1835 & 1836 for President Jackson after it had burned.
(from "Here, There and Yonder, a Brinson Genealogy" by Robert W. Brinson)
Polly was the niece of two master builders: one, Henry Rieff, who built the original HERMITAGE for Andrew and Rachel Jackson, and two, Joseph Rieff, who with William C. Hume, re-built the HERMITAGE in 1835 & 1836 for President Jackson after it had burned.
(from "Here, There and Yonder, a Brinson Genealogy" by Robert W. Brinson)
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