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of his father-in-law, continued to amass land and left
the sea for the life of gentleman farmer, soldier,
politician and mild rebel.
Bushwood, St. Clement's Manor
Built 1650. Destroyed by fire in 1947
The manor house of Thomas and Susanna
Girard, Bromley Hall, affectionately called Bedlam Neck
by neighbors and visitors, was a place in which
freedom reigned and conspiracy masqueraded as
righteousness. The Girard and Slye menfolk were
embroiled in one controversy after another. Susanna