Tired of the political struggles in which he had been engaged, and annoyed by family circumstances in Europe, he preferred to establish himself in Virginia, where he took possession of a large estate conferred by King Charles I.
upon his ancestor.

Here Mr.Esmond's daughter and grandsons were born, and his wife died.

This lady, when she married him, was the widow of the Colonel's kinsman, the unlucky Viscount Castlewood, killed in a duel by Lord Mohun, at the close of King William's reign.
Mr.Esmond called his American house Castlewood, from the patrimonial home in the old country.

The whole usages of Virginia, indeed, were fondly modelled after the English customs.

It was a loyal colony.