William Moseley, of Lower Norfolk

Not the same as Capt. William Moseley, of Old Rappahonack

Married Mary Gookin. Their children were Edward, William, Elizabeth & John.

His family emigrated to Rotterdam, Netherlands, where his father was a merchant. He is reported to have been born in England before the emigration, as well as having been born in Rotterdam.

He was Commissioner for Norfolk County, 1660 to after 1663, when the titles of members of the County Court were changed from "Commissioners' to "Justices."

His brother was Arthur Moseley, son of William Moseley, an English merchant of Rotterdam, Holland, who came to Virginia in 1649 and received grants of land in Lower Norfolk county, was burgess in 1676, and one of the justices of his county. He died in 1705.

From Virginia Encyclopedia of Biography:

Moseley, Edward, son of William Moseley and Mary Gookin, his wife, daughter of Captain John and Sarah Gookin, was born in 1661, and was county lieutenant of Princess Anne county, justice of the peace and high sheriff, and burgess in 1700-1702, 1703-1705, 1706. He died in 1736. He married several times, his first wife being Frances, daughter of Colonel John Stringer, of Northampton county. His father, William Moseley, was second son of William Moseley, merchant of Rotterdam.

Siblings reported by http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/e/Ray-C-Alexander-VA...

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moseley-405
• http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I06980...
• Families of Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan., 1898), Virginia Historical Society, page 330 "Families of Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 5, no. 3 (1898): 327-34. Accessed September 18, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242061.