Personal Life
After the war Eggleston returned home to Egglestetton, and on February 23, 1788 he married Sarah 'Sally' Meade. They had three children, Joseph Everard (1790), Charles (1791) and William (1792). When his father (Joseph Sr.) died in 1792 he inherited the family seat and 400 acres (1.6 km2). Over the years he would buy land and expand his holding to 730 acres (3.0 km2). Sally died in 1794, and in 1798 Joseph married again, to his first cousin Ann Cary Eggleston (daughter of his uncle John). She gave him two more children: Francis (1798) and in 1802 a daughter they named Sarah Meade Eggleston after his first wife.
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