William Stamps, Jr.

1. Birth: ABT 1765 in , Fauquier Co, VA, USA
2. Death: 22 Oct 1855
3. Burial: Walnut Lea, Cemetery, Bourbon Co, KY, USA

OLD HOMES IN BOURBON COUNTY

"Walnut Lea" William Stamps' home on

George Town Pike, near Paris. Built in 1823.

Data compiled by Miss Elizabeth E. Grimes

Historian Jemima Johnson Chapter DAR,

Published Friday, September 21, 1934

issue of the Kentuckian-Citizen

Walnut Lea, the Stamps' home, is situated two and one half miles fromParis on the Georgetown Pike. the earliest records of Bourbon Countyshow that the land on which this homestead was established belonged toRobert Whitledge, a Revolutionary soldier. He and his wife, NancyWhitledge conveyed it to James Morin on Jan. 09, 1787, while Kentucky wasstill a part of Virginia. Soon after, James Morin and his wife, JaneShores Morin, settled here, the Indians killed an entire family on thefarm of U.S. Senator John Edwards, just back of this place and traditionsays that James Morin and wife hourly expected the

return of the Indians and were armed for defense.

James Morin was killed in felling a tree. His widow married Wm Stampswho built the present house in 1823. an article of agreement between WmStamps and Enoch Hughes and Henry Leer who were to do the carpenter workon the house is still in existence. It recites the main body of thehouse to be two stories high with one room 20 ft. by 20 in the clear anda passage at one end 10 ft. by 20 in the clear with one pair of stairs;and six windows with 24 lights each 3 by 10 and six panel doors and fourpresses and two chimney pieces, also an ell 36 feet by 13 in the clearwith four windows of fifteen lights each 3 by 10, three panel doors andtwo presses and two chimney pieces and six grates and two cellar doors;also the said Hughes & Leer to get the shingles and hew the rafters withthe exception of cutting and sawing the blocks for the shingles which thesaid Stamps is to do for them, also the said Hughes & Leer to get thetimber for the window frames out of locust and prepare the same for thebuilding, which they are to frame and to cover and finish in a plain,neat and workmanlike manner, with the venetian shutters to every window.The bill for plastering the house has also been preserved. A beautifulcarved mantel stands in the main room. The floors are of ash.

Unusual features are the two little rooms of brick built over theentrances to the cellars and standing under the long side porch. On thedeath of Wm Stamps in 1856, his grand daughter, Elizabeth Ewalt Hedgesacquired the old home. The next year she added three rooms to theoriginal house. It is in good state of preservation and is now occupiedby a descendant, Mrs. George L. Clayton (Ann McMillan Talbott). The nameWalnut Lea was given to the place on account of the many walnut trees andthe level land. Family tradition claims that the name was given inremembrance of the old home in Fauquier County, Virginia.

Gov. Thomas Metcalfe spent many nights here with his first cousin, WmStamps, while enroute from his home in Nicholas County to the ExecutiveMansion in Frankfort, the trip being too long to make by carriage in oneday.

Joseph and Jefferson Davis were often guests in the home, their sister,Lucinda, having married the oldest son of Wm. Stamps.

GEDCOM Note

Biography

William was born in 1765. He passed away in 1855.

Sources

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