In a message dated 08/04/05 4:53:52 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jtressel@rochester.rr.com writes: He had a plantation in Orange Co. (I believe called "Vaucluse"). I'm looking for more information on the whereabouts of that land, the disposition of the house (if it exists) and the associated family. I am emailing you a number of websites that I found with a Google search for Vaucluse and Orange County, but this one might be the most helpful: >Benjamin Grymes, who had accompanied the Jones brothers, married Miss Steptoe, a cousin of Speaker Robinson of the House of Burgesses. He built "Vaucluse", about two miles from Ellwood, and raised a large family. One of his sons, John R. Grymes, ranked among the most distinguished lawyers of his day in New Orleans, and married the widow of Gov. Claiborne of Louisiana. Two unmarried daughters, Hannah and Sallie, kept up the old house after the rest of the family had scattered, and were true Virginia gentlewomen of the olden type. Of their mother, when she was a stately and well preserved old lady, John Randolph said that she reminded him of the last piece left of a rare and costly service of old china.< _http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~elacey/chatham.htm_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~elacey/chatham.htm)