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This was the plantation (though not the original home) of my great10-grandfather, Arthur Upshur (1624-1709) and his last wife, Mary Clarke Hammond Jacob Upshur (1618?-1703), an ancestor of my Jacob lineage. Many Eastern Shore residents and tourists are familiar with the folklore surrounding Rachel Revell Upshur (wife of Abel Upshur, son of Arthur II) being bitten by a rabid fox and smothered to death between two mattresses Christmas night 1749 and that the blood from her fox bite can still be seen on the doorstep/millstone when it rains. This occurred here, and she and Abel are also buried in the cemetery in front of the house.
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