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"The 3,000-acre tract which includes the present Pitts Neck Farm was first granted to Robert Pitt II (d. 1670) in 1663, partially as headrights for the transportation of twenty persons to Virginia. It remained in the family for 170 years; among its Pitt owners were Robert IV (d. 1756), who probably built the main part of the present house, and his son John Pitt II (d. 1779), a surgeon in the revolutionary Virginia State Navy. Ann Pitt Beard Hall finally sold the then 170 acre plantation in 1834 to Thomas H. Joynes. Jones conveyed the house to Thomas W. Hargis in 1852, and sixteen years later, Hargis' executors sold it to James H. Fletcher. Fletcher's daughter, Julia W. Fletcher, who inherited the property in 1896, sold it to Seth E. Bell, a tenant in the house, in 1901. Bell left it to the present owner, his son Harry F. Bell, in 1925. Mr. Bell has been living in the house at Pitts Neck since 1890. BTU "
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