In 1744 the Lancaster Commission, headed by Thomas Lee and William Beverley, set forth from Stratford Landing to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to treat with the Chiefs of the Iroquois. Lee's knowledge of the Indians and his arbitration skills contributed greatly to the resulting "Treaty of Lancaster" which transferred Indian ancestral rights to the colonies of Virginia and Pennsylvania and opened the Northwest Territory beyond the Alleghenies to settlement by the English.

In April 1781, landing crews from the HMS Savage and HMS Best Bower and sloops Swift and Rambler destroyed and looted plantations and tobacco warehouses along the Potomac. On April 9, the Westmoreland Militia, led by Lt. Richard Henry Lee, repulsed a British landing party that attempted to reach the shore at Stratford, killing and wounding several sailors.

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The Landing: Gateway to the World
The Stratford Mill
Controlling the Water Supply to the Mill
The Stratford Cliffs
Clifts Plantation Site
Clifts Plantation Burial Ground
Slave Cemetery
Stratford Hall
Oval Site
Stratford Hall

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