1983 Steven Colvin
CHAPTER
VIII
MANSKIN
LODGE
“On the
“New Castle” estate there were two large
fields which formed a neck of land which protruded into the Pamunkey. The greater of these was known as the “River” field, and a common road extended through it, from the wet, marshy grounds along the river, on up to the road which led from the town of New Castle to Hanovertown. Above
this field, in King William
County, was another slight peninsula, known as Manskin Neck, after a tribe of
Indians of that name. This land was part of a patent of 13,500 acres, secured in 1699 by Ralph Wormeley II, of “Rosegill.” l During the 1840s Ralph's great, great, great, grandson, Dr. Carter Warner Wormeley, settled with his family on this point of land, and used the roadway as a landing for his ferry. “
1983 On
Deep Water, page 11, 45-50
Map on page 13 Showing Manskin Neck
