"An incident which may be deemed at once legendary and historic in character is connected with a once stately mansion which is still standing in Lewes. The edifice has always been associated with the well known Fisher family and is called the Fisher House. It was once the residence of Colonel Samuel B. Davis, commander of the defending forces at the bombardment of Lewes in 1813."
"With the colonel, during his residence in this house, there lived a young lady as his ward for whom he cherished great affection as one of his own children, while she had never suspected that she was not his daughter until she was playfully bantered by some friends upon a certain occasion in a way implying serious doubt of her real relationship with one she thought her father. Startled with suspicion and awed with harassing doubts, she impatiently awaited a reliable test of the truth and when the colonel left the house to attend church on the ensuing Sunday she quickly searched through his well stored papers among which found unquestionable evidence that she was not the daughter, but the ward of her supposed father and the heiress of large estates in New Orleans." [Myra Clark Gaines]
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