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A sampler sewn in 1784, by Katherine Wright, is
the only known image of Lord Stirling9s Manor
House. (Courtesy Somerset County Park Commission)
Stirling carved a lavish country estate out of 600 acres in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, bequeathed to him by his father, who was an East Jersey Proprietor and surveyor general
of New Jersey, a position Stirling also inherited. The holding was part of 3,000 acres purchased from a Lenni Lenape chief named Nowenoik, in 1717, but less than 50 years later,
Stirling9s gentrified tract would have been unrecognizable to native eyes.
The centerpiece was a glittering Georgian manor dubbed
