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William Travers (c.1630 - 1685)

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"Major" George Colclough (1622 - 1662)

Marriage 1 Ursula Bysshe b: 1621 in Worth, England widow Motrom Married: BEF 30 JAN 1656/57 in Northumberland County, Virginia Children John Colclough b: BEF 1640 in Northumberland County, Virg...

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Rev. James Blair MP (1656 - 1743)

) Rev. James Blair was a Scottish born clergyman in the Church of England, best known as the founder and first president of the College of William and Mary. He was the uncle of U.S. Constitution sign...

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Elizabeth Kenner (1652 - 1709)

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Robert Ellyson of Newcastle (c.1598 - 1656)

Second Generation 2. John ELLISON-14239 (John) was born about 1585 in Windyedge, Lanark Co, (Avendale), SCOTLAND. He died about 1660 in , , VA and was buried in , , VA. UPDATE: 1994-09-09 -11th...

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Capt. Francis Gray MP (1630 - 1679)

“Francis Grey (his name is frequently spelled Grey rather than Gray in the old records) was granted 750 acres in Charles City Co., Nov. 24, 1653 (Nugent, p. 231). “A Grace Singleton whom he claimed as ...

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Thomas Gray, Ancient Planter MP (1593 - 1654)

Original settler of Jamestown, VA. Thomas Gray is listed as “an Ancient Planter at or before the time of Sir Thomas Dale”. The date of his arrival was given as 1608 Notes: Thomas Gray, 550 acres ...

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John Baldwyn "Immigrant" of Virginia, the first John Baldwin MP (c.1600 - d.)

JOHN1 BALDWIN was born in England. Arrived in Jamestown, Virginia on the Tyger in 1625. On March 22, 1622 occurred the Indian Massacre at Jamestown, in which 347 settlers were killed out of a popul...

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Capt. William Robinson (1634 - 1695)

Biography of Capt. William (2) Robinson § Father of Col. Tully (3) Robinson, Elizabeth (3) Robinson Smith, and Mary (3) Robinson Thoroughgood § Husband to Elizabeth Tully (2) Robinson § Brother to Benj...

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Col. William Tully Robinson (1658 - 1724)

Biography of Col. Tully (3) Robinson § Brother to Elizabeth (3) Robinson Smith & Mary (3) Robinson Thorowgood § Husband to Sarah West § Son to Capt. William (2) Robinson and Elizabeth (2) Tully § Nephe...

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William Strachey, III (1572 - d.)

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William Strachey, V (c.1603 - 1634)

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John Buckner, I (c.1631 - 1695)

(JOHN5, THOMAS4, HUGH3, WILLIAM2, RICHARD1) "The earliest mention of the name of Buckner in Virginia is that of John Buckner to whom was granted in 1667 a land patent of 194 acres in Gloucester County....

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Thomas Shippey MP (c.1633 - c.1687)

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Thomas Shippey (c.1603 - c.1676)

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Thomas Welbourne (1646 - 1701)

Appointed as member of Accomac Board of Justices, 5 April 1678 Held rank of Captain in Virginia Militia

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Raleigh Travers MP (1622 - 1700)

Links Virginia genealogies: a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and ... By Horace Edwin Hayden. Page 299

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John Withers (b. - 1698)

Place of birth is in doubt. There was no West Virginia at that time. Perhaps western Virginia?

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Anthony West MP (c.1605 - 1652)

In 1649 Anthony West and his wife Ann Barloe moved to the Eastern Shore of Virginia from Jamestown.

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John Stone, Sr. (1636 - 1699)

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William Stone, 3rd Provincial Governor of Maryland MP (1603 - 1660)

) Larry Overmire's page on Governor William Stone is probably the most thorough in its treatment of his biography (the web pages in which he collected the information, mostly verbatim, are in his lis...

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Joseph Stratton (1581 - 1641)

Joseph Stratton was the youngest son of Thomas Stratton. Joseph came to Virginia in the spring of 1628. from:

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Col. Henry Randolph MP (1623 - 1673)

Henry Randolph I of Henrico, VA was baptized on November 27, 1623. He immigrated to Virginia in 1642 from Houghton Parva, Northamptonshire, England. He settled in Enrico County near Jamestown where h...

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Col William Randolph, II MP (c.1651 - 1711)

William Randolph was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and governement of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He moved to Virginia between 1669 and 1673, and married Mary ...

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Capt. John Appleton (deceased)

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Thomas Adams (1667 - 1722)

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John Branch (c.1659 - 1688)

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William White MP (c.1595 - d.)

William Corker arrived in Jamestown,Virginia before 1624 with his daughter.

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William Rookings (1598 - 1647)

On the opposite side of Chippokes Creek in Surry County, VA was "Flying Point," the Rookings Plantation. At least three or four generations of William Rookings lived at Flying Point from 1636. William ...

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William Rookings, II (1624 - 1676)

On the opposite side of Chippokes Creek in Surry County, VA was "Flying Point," the Rookings Plantation. At least three or four generations of William Rookings lived at Flying Point from 1636. William ...

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William Rookings, III (1652 - 1715)

On the opposite side of Chippokes Creek in Surry County, VA was "Flying Point," the Rookings Plantation. At least three or four generations of William Rookings lived at Flying Point from 1636. William ...

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John Rogers (1626 - 1674)

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William Browne (deceased)

son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Browne, of "Four Mile Tree," Surry county, and was born in 1671. He married Jane Meriwether, daughter of Nicholas Meriwether; justice in 1693 and for many years later,...

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Col. William Browne (deceased)

married Mary, daughter of Colonel Henry Browne, of "Four Mile Tree," Surry county; justice of Surry county, 1668-1705; major of militia, 1672, and lieutenant-colonel, 1679, 1687; presiding justice, 168...

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Nicholas Meriwether I (1631 - 1678)

Nicholas Meriwether arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, probably about 1652. The first confirmation of his existence in Virginia was 4 July 1653 when he patented 300 acres of land in Lancaster County. Fr...

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Elizabeth Meriwether MP (c.1633 - c.1679)

"Recall how after study of transcripts of the Surry Co. Tithable lists, 1668-1703, as opposed to incomplete, selected indexes (Connections, April 1993), we identified a close relationship between the...

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Col. Henry Woodhouse (c.1608 - 1655)

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Joane Palmer MP (c.1593 - c.1639)

Joan Jordan born 1593 in England and died 1633 in Northumberland, Virginia. Parents: Samuel Jordan and France. [n.b. this parentage needs to be checked and verified.] Married: 1613 in Virginia ...

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Thomas Palmer MP (c.1590 - c.1633)

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Francis Morgan (deceased)

Francis Morgan was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1647, 1652, and 1653 according to the "Colonial Virginia Register" published in 1902.

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Henry NORWOOD (1689 - d.)

Henry Norwood, Colonel, active in the Royalist cause at the outbreak of civil war in England. In 1649, after the beheading of Charles I, Henry fled with friends to Virginia where his cousin, Sir Will...

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Charles NORWOOD (1615 - d.)

Charles Norwood, Virginia Clerk of the Assembly 1654-56. from:

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Thomas Jordan, of Isle of Wight MP (c.1600 - c.1644)

Thomas Jordan was born in England in 1600 and came to America on the ship Diana in 1623. In 1624-5 he headed the list of the governor's men at James City, which indicates that he was a soldier in Gover...

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Samuel Jordan, of Jordan's Journey MP (c.1578 - 1623)

Samuel Jordan, born in England, arrived in America in 1610 after a 14-month journey. The ship had been wrecked on an island in the Bermudas where nine months of hard labor were spent building a new ves...

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Capt. John Holland, Jr. MP (1616 - 1710)

Major May have been buried on Fighting Cock Plantation (Chuckatuck, VA) about 1664 John Holland came to Nansemond County from New England. in 1663 he obtained acres 200 at Kinsale in 1682 ?He o...

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Peter Jennings (c.1630 - 1719)

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Capt. William Corker MP (c.1584 - 1675)

William Corker Birth: 1584 - Wiltshire, England Death: 1677 - Surry,, Virginia, USA Parents: John Corker, Dorothy Bishop Married: Susannah Blackmore; Lucy, widow of John White William Cor...

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Capt John Corker MP (c.1554 - c.1653)

John Corker born abt 1550-1560 in England and died after 1665 in James City or Surry County, Virginia. Married: Dorothy Bishop b abt 1609 in England. [2] Children of John Corker and Dorothy B...

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John Johannes Chew, I (c.1587 - 1668)

John Chew IV was born the 1st of seven children in Chewton, Somerset, England. Chewton probably derives from 'Chew town'. As the Chew's were previous Norman Lords in Southern England. He emigrated to J...

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Mordecai Cooke (c.1623 - c.1661)

Mordecai Cooke came to America at Elizabeth City, probably from Whitefield County, Suffolk, England, in 1639. He settled in Goucester County Virginia in 1650 and where he lived on 1174 acres called "Mo...

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Maj. Lewis Fairfield Burwell MP (1621 - 1653)

Lewis Burwell immigrant, was son of Edward Burwell, of Bedfordshire, England, and Dorothy Bedell, his wife. He was born March 5, 1621, and died November 4, 1653. He settled in Virginia about 1640, an...

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Edward Burwell, II MP (1579 - 1626)

BY a deed dated July 28, 1648, found by W. G. Stanard among the records of York County, Va., Dorothy Wingate, relict of Roger Wingate, Treasurer of Virginia, conveyed to "her well-beloved son Lewis Bur...

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Sir Thomas Davis, Kt. MP (c.1550 - 1622)

Sir Thomas Davis arrived in America aboard the ship Margaret in 1619 and settled in Jamestown. Source:

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Susannah Chiles (1632 - 1717)

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John Custis, III (1654 - 1714)

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John Custis, I (1592 - 1644)

John Custis and Joane Smithier Powell were first cousins.

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Sir George More (1553 - 1632)

Sir George More (1553-1632) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1625. He was an investor of the Virginia Company. More was the s...

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William Byrd, "of Martin's Brandon", Surry MP (1622 - 1672)

Descendants of William Byrd -------------------- He was the Virginia representative of the London merchants, John Sadler and Thomas Quiney. The actual arrival date of William Byrd to Virgina ha...

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Pasco Curle (1628 - 1705)

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Capt. Hugh Bullock (1578 - 1650)

Sometimes called Sir BULLOCK, and sometimes Captain BULLOCK. Owner and captain of the merchant ship "Endeavor". Captain Hugh BULLOCK is a qualifying ancestor for the James Towne Society. ==== Mos...

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John Mottram, Col. (1590 - 1655)

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Nathaniel Powell (1648 - 1678)

I first located a contact which led me to this ancestor from Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest Index Surname may be Step. Source: 'Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North C...

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Col. James Bray (c.1610 - 1691)

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Dr. Robert Booth (immigrant) MP (c.1615 - 1657)

Additional Curator's Note: The parentage of Robert Booth of Virginia is unknown. Please do not add parents to this profile without documentation. Maria Edmonds-Zediker, curator, 2/5/11 From: The Fami...

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John Brewer, I (VA) MP (1565 - 1635)

1st generation: William Brewer was born 1520 and died 1618 (age 98). He married Deannes Baker. They had a son: Thomas 2nd generation: Thomas Brewer was born in 1540 in Somerset, England and die...

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Henry Applewhaite (c.1633 - 1703)

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Nicholas Wyatt (c.1620 - 1672)

Birth: 1620 Virginia, USA Death: 1673 Anne Arundel County Maryland, USA Anne Arundel Gentry One of the first settlers of the Severn was Nicholas Wyatt, Gent., a wealthy planter, who migrated in 164...

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Col. William John Wilson MP (c.1646 - 1713)

Colonel and Commander-in-chief of militia. Military 1699. Elizabeth City Co. VA in Elizabeth City County Elizabeth City County was a county in southeastern Virginia from 1634 to 1952. Originally crea...

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Col James Wilson (1644 - 1712)

Col James Wilson was Sheriff of Norfolk county, Colonel of Militia and a member of the House of Burgesses 1710-12. from: Wilson family moved from England to Scotland and then migrated from that count...

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Captain William Powell MP (c.1577 - 1623)

William Powell was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619. Shortly after the massacre in 1622, Sir George Yeardly, Captain William Powell, and Captain Richard Butler each took a company an...

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William Presley, III MP (1608 - 1655)

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Peter Presley, Sr MP (1630 - 1693)

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Mary Maycock (c.1600 - 1622)

Mary Maycock was killed by Indians in the Jamestown massacre or 1622 when her baby, Sarah, was only 6 days old. The baby was the only surviving member of the family that day.

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Rev. Samuel Maycock (c.1594 - 1622)

Upon his arrival in the Virginia colony, Samuel MAYCOCK was made a member of the Council in the first Virginia General Assembly in 1619 by Sir George YEARDLEY and continued in office under Sir Franci...

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Sarah Pace, Jamestown Orphan MP (c.1621 - 1658)

Sarah Maycock "the Jamestown orphan" Birth: 1621 - Jamestown, James City, Virginia Death: 1655 - , Virginia, USA Parents: Samuel Maycock, Mary Pierce Husband: George Pace AKA: Maycox, Mayco...

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John Lee MP (c.1645 - 1673)

John Constable Lee was born in 1642 in Virginia, the eldest son of Col. Richard Lee and wife Anne Constable. He was sent to England for his education and returned to Virginia about the time of his fath...

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Col. Richard Henry "the Scholar" Lee II, Esq. MP (1647 - 1714)

Col. Richard Henry Lee II, Esq. (1647-1715) was a Colonel, planter, member of the Upper House and the King's Council. He was known as "Richard the Scholar". Richard was the son of Col. Richard Lee I, E...

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Hon. Hancock Lee, I MP (c.1652 - 1709)

Vital Statistics Born 1645 in Northumberland Co., Virginia. Possibly in Dividing Creek. Died 1714 in Isle Wight, Virginia. Married: 1) Mary Kendall (1651 - 1694); 2) Sarah Allerton (ca. 1669 - d....

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John Johnson II (c.1623 - 1681)

John Johnson, born about 1590, earned the title of 'Yeoman and Ancient Planter' by arriving in Virginia before 1616, remaining for at least three years, surviving the massacre of 22 March 1622, and r...

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John Johnson I (c.1590 - 1636)

Buried in Travis Cemetery, Jamestown, Virginia.

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Edmund Jenings MP (1659 - 1727)

Edmund Jenings was a Virginian politician. He was President of the Council of Virginia and later became the acting governor from August 23, 1706, to June 10, 1708. His father Sir Edmund Jenings...

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Edward Hill, III MP (1637 - 1700)

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Edward Hill, IV MP (deceased)

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Edward Hill, Jr. MP (deceased)

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Richard Townshend MP (c.1606 - 1651)

Listed in the 1624 Jamestown census as a servant of Dr. John Pott, age 19, arrived in 1620 on the Abigaile.

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Joseph Foster, Col. (c.1630 - 1660)

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Elizabeth Foster (c.1632 - 1682)

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Capt. William Bassett, II (1630 - 1671)

There is a lot of range in the sources of William Bassett's birth, anywhere from 1604 to 1650. I am choosing to go with the 1630 date. The most credible source is the Stella Picket Hardy book, and she ...

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Abraham Piersey (1585 - 1628)

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Frances Greville MP (c.1598 - 1633)

Frances was born in England and came to Virginia in the Supply when she was less than 20 years old in 1620. Links Sources Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Faris, 1996, 1s...

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Roger Wingate (c.1590 - c.1641)

Roger Wingate was a member of an old Bedfordshire family and the son of Roger Wingate, of Barnend, Bedfordshire. In the year 1637, he was living in London and two years later was appointed by the King ...

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Col. George Reade, Acting Gov. MP (1608 - 1674)

Birth: Oct. 25, 1608 Hampshire, England Death: Oct., 1674 Yorktown York County Virginia, USA Born in Linkenholt, England to Robert & Mildred (Windebank) Reade. He married Elizabeth Martiau in 1641 in...

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Augustine Warner, II, Col. MP (1642 - 1681)

. Colonel Augustine Warner II succeeded his father and became political friends with Nathaniel Bacon, who was educated at Oxford and a Barrister in London. Bacon staged the first actual American Revo...

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Augustine Warner, Sr. MP (c.1611 - 1674)

Augustine Warner I was born on November 28, 1610 in Norwich, England. He was one of the first Virginia Immigrants to sail to the New World under Captain Adam Thouroughgood in 1628. The Warner family ...

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Maj. Gen. Abraham Wood MP (c.1614 - 1683)

Abraham Wood (1614–1682), sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" Wood, was an English fur trader (specifically the beaver and deerskin trades) and explorer of 17th century colonial Virginia. W...

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Temperance Yeardley MP (c.1587 - 1628)

Temperance Flowerdew survived a hurricane at sea and ate rats for dinner, and she arrived in Jamestown in August 1609, just in time for the winter famine that followed. She lived through that harrowing...

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Nathaniel Bacon MP (1620 - 1692)

Nathaniel Bacon, a member of the governor's Council, was often referred to as Nathaniel Bacon (the elder) in order to distinguish him from his namesake cousin, known as Nathaniel Bacon (the rebel) (164...

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Col. Myles (Miles) Cary MP (1622 - 1667)

Our American Cary generational and historical study begins with the immigrant Miles CARY [AKA Hon Miles Cary, Miles Cary, Esq, Col. Miles Cary, and sometimes found as Myles Cary] of whom first record...

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George Calvert, Jr. MP (c.1613 - 1634)

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Alexander Baynham (c.1620 - 1659)

Alexander Baynham may have been a servant of his father-in-law's brother, Thomas Baldridge. from:

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