William Burdett

This is really old! Check out the newer Biography at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burditt-151. I did not create most but edited some based on data from FamiliySearch and the Community college in LaPlata.

Notes

Why do folks refer to Northhampton County in 1640? I know I'm nitpicking, but shouldn't we probably say Accromack or Accromack Shire, what became Northampton County. I know the locale is correct but this is geographical History

From https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0235...

Contributed by Mary Zashin

Virginia Immigrants an Adventurers, 1607-1635, Martha W. McCartney, GPS, 2007, p. 174 GoogleBooks

WILLIAM BURDETT (BURCHITT, BURDITT)
William Burdett (Burchitt, Burditt), an ancient planter, came to Virginia on the Susan in 1615. In early 1625 he was living on the Eastern Shore, where he was a 25-year-old servant on Captain William Eppes's plantation (74). Sometime prior to 1634 he obtained a leasehold on Old Plantation Creek (73) and, as time went on, accumulated massive amounts of land by means of the headright system. In January 1634 William Burdett was appointed a commissioner of Accomack's monthly court, and a year later he became a vestryman. In 1639 he was elected a burgess. When he made his will on July 22, 1643, he identified himself as a resident of Northampton County and made bequests to his wife, Alice, and Thomas Burdett, his only son. By early October he was dead (CBE 68; PB 1 Pt. 1:157; Pt. 2:657, 713; AMES 1:8, 39, 153; 2:293-295, 307-308)

From https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0111...

• (3) Will of William Burdett, gent. dated 22d July 1643, Rec. 7 Aug., 1643.
  • Son Thomas,
  • wife Alice, widow of George Traveller;
  • wife's son Geo. Traveller, and dau. Elizabeth.
  • Bequeaths "£5 to the lower parish of Northampton for a communion cup and plate if it will hold out. otherwise one cupp only, or, as the ministers and their church wardens shall think fitt." Thos. Burdett to have 1 doz. silver spoons with his name engraved upon them Alice, his wife, to have the charge of the education of his child and to live on his lands. Asks that "Mr. John Rozier, Capt. Wm. Stone and Mr. Thomas Johnson take special care of he educacon of my Tender Sonne"

From http://earliestessettlers.blogspot.com/2011/11/william-burdett.html...

a William Burdett (1598-1643) arrived in Virginia in 1615 on the ship “Susan” when he was sixteen years old and was registered in the 1624 census on the Eastern Shore, and later became an overseer of the estate of Lady Dale. In London there is recorded a 1633 administration against the estate of Thomas Dale stating that “Thomas Dale, of parts beyond the seas” was to have his estate assigned to Thomas Burnett (Burdett?), principal creditor, and the relict (Lady Dale) was "unanswering." William’s son Thomas Burdett may not have been born until 1635, but in 1657, Thomas Burdett made claim to Lady Dale's plantation on the Eastern Shore of Virginia from Lt. Col. Edward Douglas who apparently had claims as a family member. Burdett claimed it was due as a right of his father, William Burdett.

From https://scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu/repositories/2/resources/7445

Sir William Berkeley land grant to William Burdett of three hundred acres of land in Accomac County for the transportation of six persons into the colony, 3 Oct. 1641.
On verso, Thomas Burdett to whom land is granted by Berkeley assigns his land to John Custis of Northampton. January 15, 1657. William Burdett's wife, widow Alicia Traveller, later married John Custis as her fourth husband. D.S. 2 pp.
Note: John Custis built his Arlington plantation on this land.
Dates 1641 October 3, 1657 January 15

References

• Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary By Martha W. McCartney. Page 142. GoogleBooks
• QUISENBERRY, A. C. “THE FIRST PIONEER FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA.” Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, vol. 11, no. 32, 1913, pp. 55–77. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23367151.