Cocke Family, Bremo Plantation Related Group

19th century, eleven items including˜Old Sheffield plate hot water urn with fire box; urn form silver plate hot water urn, monogram, "PSGC" for Philip St. George Cocke, applied plaque for maker Thomas Bradbury & Co., 17 in.; silver items including two Mitchel & Tyler butter knives, (Richmond, Virginia, working 1845-1866);˜Gorham sterling floral bowl, "C" monogram; silver pitcher, mongramed, unmarked, probably American coin; silver plate meat cover, "C" monogram; silver plated pitcher; two silver plate salt spoons; together with pewter pitcher; metal spur with leather strap; reproduction engraved portrait of John J. Cocke by H.S. Sadd,˜Note: Brigadier General John Hartwell Cocke, sixth in descent from English immigrant, Richard Cocke, established Bremo Plantation in, Virginia in 1808. The Cocke family land grant extended an impressive 3,184 acres along the James River and was the site of three manses and acres of flourishing gardens and planting fields. Built on a broad ribbon of prime farmland, together Bremo Recess, Lower Bremo, and Upper Bremo were home to John Hartwell Cocke and his family. Bremo Plantation was a tranquil, but industrious center in which Cocke cultivated not only experimental farming practices, but a keen interest in social reform, religion, education, and architecture as well. An agricultural innovator, Cocke helped found the Agricultural Society of Albemarle and published numerous essays in Cultivator and the Southern Planter. John Hartwell Cocke also sought to improve the qualities of not only the agriculture of his estate, but the livestock and horses raised there as well. Cocke bred an exceptional line of easy-gaited saddlers. Sharing deep connections to both land and the built landscape, John Hartwell Cocke became a close associate to neighbor, Thomas Jefferson. Cocke was among those who assisted Thomas Jefferson in the development of the University of Virginia. ˜Provenance: Historic Bremo Plantation, Bremo, Virginia`
Condition Report: urn with dents and loss, spout frozen, rusted base, pewter pitcher missing hinged lid, spur with corrosion and losses to leather,ÿsilver with wear and damage