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John Ariss

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Ariss was born in Westmoreland County in 1725, but by 1743 his father was dead and Ariss apparently chose his brother Spencer Ariss as his guardian. Subsequently, Ariss may have been sent to England for schooling because his return from England is noted in 1751. In 1755, Ariss moved to nearby
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Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America, James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002
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The relationship between the two families was of long standing: Ariss was the great-grandson of Col.
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have been attributed to him. One of the best documented surviving examples of his work is
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to a family long settled in the Old Dominion. Several houses now considered
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of Cople Parish, Westmoreland, who had patented the
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Index

Westmoreland County
Colony of Virginia
Jefferson County
Virginia
Traveller's Rest (West Virginia)
Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia
Architect
Westmoreland County, Virginia
National Historic Landmarks
Traveller's Rest
Kearneysville, West Virginia
American Revolutionary War
General
Horatio Gates
Neo-Palladian
estate
Mount Airy
Richmond County, Virginia
Northern Neck
Harewood
Samuel Washington

Richmond County
Fauquier County
Berkeley County
Jefferson County
Norborne Parish
George Washington
Mount Vernon

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