This house was part of the Ellegood Land Grant and Plantation given to William Ellegood I in 1680 by King George II. It may have well served as a Revolutionary War Hospital. The original structue is preserved in the interior of the later additions and can be seen in the large full height attic. Renovations were made over the centuries changing the home from original historic colonial style through to antebellum civil war changes finally to a Queen Anne/Victorian Style and ultimately now, a Delaware classic Eastlake. The orginal structure likely predates about 1731, when William Elligood II moved to Somerset County, Maryland. Information from "Colonial Families of the United States", Volume 6, page 192. "William Ellegood II, Northampton County, Virginia; he moved first first to Dorchester County, and then to Somerset County, Maryland; in 1760 he took up large tracts of land near the town of Concord, then in territory over which jurisdiction was claimed by Lord Baltimore; later in 1765, by the agreement between Penn and the Maryland Proprietor, it became a part of the State of Delaware; among other pieces of land; he took up one, in what is now Sussex County, Delaware, which was called "Isabelle's Choice;" a part of this land, referred to above, he sold to his son Robert Ellegood, the great grandfather of Dr. Joshua A. Ellegood; ... in the possession of Dr. Ellegood, having passed down to him through the succeeding generations; William Ellegood II, M. before 1750, Mary Coulburn." This home was the residence of the Ellegood relative, John Houston, before his departure for Texas, and many other well known colonial Delaware families including, Cannon and most recently Tyndal.
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