Blandfield

The Beverleys eldest son, William, decided to move to England at which point his younger brother, Robert, felt compelled to return from his studies there to help their father at Blandfield. When their father died in 1800 there was something of a "storm" between the thirteen inheritors but Robert managed to keep the estate in tact. He married Jane Tayloe of Mount Airy and they lived between Blandfield and Washington D.C. After Robert died, his eldest son, William, retained Blandfield while also living at Selma. He never married and left Blandfield plus an estimated £275,000 to his nephew, Col. Robert Beverley.

The Colonel's sixth child, Robert Beverley, took ownership of Blandfield and became, "a very large and successful farmer," living here until his death in 1928. His second son, Robert Bland Beverley (1882-1957), took over the management of Blandfield on behalf of his brother, Welby, and the heirs of his brother, Carter, by which two interests it was jointly owned. In 1983, after 300-years of being in the Beverley family, the subsequent generation of Beverleys sold up to the Wheat family in whose possession it remains today.