Show BO T davi 4 ghostly dice game recalls recall how cavalier lost loit ette estate IN N OCTOBER 1633 out of the thames river england people pining for religious liberty put to sea in two wooden ships one of tons and the other of 50 tons at the isle of wight others joined tile the expedition and on the alie ame of november 22 the art arli and the doe receiving sn salutes utes as alil old england went astern shook out fresh white can canons calva va and with plunging prows headed for the new world once outside tile channel nt at the mercy of the road broad atlantic a a cane divided the two ships the dove racked in her timbers limbers put bid back to the scilly isles to rejoin the lie ark six weeks piter liter at r in the antilles touching at other islands linds is on oil the way north rei reaching ching point comfort february auary abl thence onward to st cle cie island in the potomac ot omac the following month there to lo establish st marys city on the st marys river an arm of ill the potomac here leonard calvert heading the expedition wide di treaties with indians indiana od religious liberty and succeeded in bringing about the lie dreams of his lather father george calvert lord baltimore and projector of the palatinate of maryland once its borders one feels the influence or of invisible charm the pit fiig of a new and old world that united has created a third estate out of the past and the present more keenly that than tiny any other section of maryland tills this subtle force is felt along tile lie patuxent river lined with old off manor houses that record two hundred years of the architecture plantation and river lire life which had its roots among the cavallars cavaliers Cava Caval liers lers king confiscated land of these estates which number about 20 more or less and occupy both sides of I 1 tile he river I 1 have elected to write about sotterley Sot Sol terley Sot sotterley Sotter terley loy takes its n name line from an all old country seat in suffolk Fuff olk england dating back more mole than years in those days no one owned anything that the king kill really coveted very well now comes ed cd ward IV vi nho ho ascended tiie the throne in right orf off the hat bat lie tile the sotterley Sot terley estates at suffolk Toll and passed them over to it a gentleman rallied named plaster nailer who had wed a daughter of the house of Sotter lev icy tile alie strain prospered multiplied and in CO 50 years after the arrival of the ark and the dove benedict of the Sot sotterley Sotter terley fey branch tur nedo cpr altering the spelling of his name to satterlee as it ft ivas as pronounced noun ced A few years after george clayter dropping tile the y front from his cognomen drifted in to the patuxent river section ills his son ron george second married alie widow I 1 dome and built the mansion on the a acre crl estate now known as sotterley Sot terley named after the old place in Sur suffolk folk the stone lugging flagging bricks and hardwire hardware came from england 81 six years 17 0 G were c consumed 11 in the construction st or of the mansion drama of human folly the original residence reside tice which the cresent resent owner herbert L luitt satterlee erlee a descendant of the Ben benediet edlet satterlee vi ho aniced in ili connecticut 1630 lini has restored lored with li fidelity delity stands standa after JUD years a testimony to the genius cf pinter its as a home hoine builder it Is not to wever of the architectural beauties or sini simplicities alic plic ties though they be many of which I 1 would birite but of the hundall dramas of those who lived within its wills walls four generations of walked through sotterley Sot terley the second being the sixth governor OVer Dor ot of Mar maryland who married annc aline cousby Ito ushy rained as the white itose how of mary land their son married a cecilia ilond bond through whose veins ran the ilic royal blood or of gustavus Gusti ivus visa vasa king hing of sweden the product of this union george plater last of the mao ti occupy Sott eiley bel believing leving him himself to be invincible with a dice box celebrated ills his majority and the taking over of his estates by rolling the honea bones with colonel somervell its his relative by marriage ge lady luck rebels this garne game which was wag played in th governors room of the old wan mansion sion began with small stales stakes swelled to a few hundred pounds thoroughbred horses and personal effects progressing to acreage houses river frontage fro niage et etc finally to slaves ant and at list to the grand manor house with all its priceless contents with the final throw george hater beggared by file fale deserted by L lady ady iti ac casting the dice box front from him to his bedroom signed over all that fiat was its is when the game opened and I for forthwith timith front froin tile the haunts of ili his equals to become a wanderer and an outcast finally to lie die from illness anif and ex exposure I 1 asure according to while on ills his way back to the scene wills losing tilt with fortune while rion morr thin than a hundred years hae since that ill fated game of chance there are people still living along the patuxent river who will tell you that while visiting i Sotter lcy they have heard in fit tile the stillness of the night tin rattle of dice in the old governors room where the garne game was staged and ami the footsteps fool steps of george plater as bending to his bedroom there to sign away his all before wander wandering lug awai awa to ti oblivion li 0 seral Ser vl vloe |