Sophia's Dairy: A Colonial Family Web

The property known as Sophia's Dairy, likely a corruption of Sophia's Dowry, has been threading through Maryland history since the colonial era. Captain Hall of Cranberry left this land to his daughter Sophia in seventeen thirty-seven. She married Colonel Thomas White, whose family connections reached across the upper ranks of early American society: their children included Bishop William White of Philadelphia, one of the first Episcopal bishops in the new nation, and the wife of Robert Morris, the financier who largely funded the American Revolution.

The house on this land was built in seventeen sixty-eight. Through inheritance and marriage, a single piece of Maryland farmland linked frontier colony, revolutionary finance, and the founding of the American church in one unbroken family line.