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Ancient Planters of the Colony of Virginia

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Bagwell, Barham, Beheathland, Beverley and 16 others
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  • http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gray-688
    Thomas "The Planter" Grey (1594 - 1657)
    Thomas “Ancient Planter” Gray I BIRTH 1595 England DEATH 1653 (aged 57–58) Virginia, USA BURIAL Southwark Parish Cemetery, Surry County, Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 82936248 Pictures added by S G...
  • Colonel John Dandridge, II (1700 - 1756)
    Colonel John Dandridge of Chestnut Grove (13/14 July 1700 – 31 August 1756) was a distinguished colonel, planter, and Clerk of the Courts of New Kent County, Virginia from 1730 to 1756. Dandridge is ...
  • Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr. (1741 - 1793)
    Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. Find A Grave Memorial ID # 49012421 Randolph (1741–November 13, 1793) served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776, and the Vi...
  • Francis Asbury Dickins (1804 - 1879)
    Francis Asbury Dickins Dickins was a planter of Ossian Hall in Fairfax County, Virginia, an agent for the U.S. War & Treasury departments and a lawyer of Washington, D.C., specializing in governme...
  • Seth Botts (1713 - 1776)
    Seth lived in Virginia at least as far back as 1735Member, Aquia Episcopal ChurchA wealthy, prominent and influential planter Seth Botts [1] Born 1713 Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Ge...

The term "Ancient Planter" is applied to those persons who arrived in Virginia before 1616, remained for a period of three years, and paid their passage. They received the first patents of land in the new world as authorized by Sir Thomas Dale in 1618 for their personal adventure.

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Supplemental Reading

  • Colonial Surry By John Bennett Boddie: those Ancient Planters who settled in what became Surry County.
  • Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635 by Martha W. McCartney: short biographies in alphabetical order of early Virginia settlers.
  • Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, by Nell M. Nugent: abstracts of Virginia's early land grants. link
  • http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscovery/pdf/buckweb.pdf. The APVA's report on the excavation of Neck-O-Land, the land grant belonging to Rev. Richard Buck.
  • http://www.virtualjamestown.org/essays/brown_essay.html. An essay about the role of women in the founding of Jamestown.

Scope of Project

The scope of this project will be to link the Geni profiles to the Ancient Planters of Colonial America. If anyone is interested in researching and helping find or create the profiles of the listed ancient planters, please contact a project manager.

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