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The surname of COLBY was a locational name 'of Colby' a parish in County Norfolk. Local names usually denoted where a man held his land, and indicated where he actually lived. The name was originally d...
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Mayor of RIchmond, 1813-1814. Survivor of the Richmond Theater fire of December 26, 1811, along with his son Robert.
Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via child Dr Robert Greenhow by SmartCopy : A...
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Comments by James B. Lynch Jr., author of The Custis Chronicles, regarding Black Jack Custis: Probably the supreme humiliation heaped upon poor Daniel by the terms of his father's will was his appointm...
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Edward Charlton practiced the trade of wigmaking for more than a half century and became one of the most important 18th-century wigmakers in Virginia. Many prominent men in Virginia, such as Thomas Jef...
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Wigmaker Richard Charlton first appears in Colonial Williamsburg records in early 1760. His previous residence is unknown, although he may have emigrated directly from Alnwick, Northumberland, England....
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Holt was born in 1721 (exact date unknown), at colonial Williamsburg in the state of Virginia (USA). He received his formal schooling and training as a merchant in the colonial town. His brother-in-law...
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William Hunter (died August 14, 1761) was a colonial American newspaper publisher, book publisher, and printer in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Shortly after the deaths of Hunter's parents, his sister Eliz...
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Margaret Maupin married Robert Miller in 1763 in Albermarle, Fredericksmille Parish (Now Whitehall), Virginia. They had 11 known children: John, Robert, Thomas, Anna, Elizabeth, Luienna, Lavinia, Mary ...
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Abstract of the Graves of Revolutionary Patriots indicates that William was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Luray, Page County, Virginia, USA.
MEMORIAL :
Sources (SEE "Timeline" events & "Media"): L...
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William Robertson was part of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition in 1716. Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jul 8 2016, 11:58:47 UTC
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Fontaine periodically kept a journal.
Upon his arrival in the Virginia colony, the reader follows John to Williamsburg and the reader meets a host of powerful and influential gentlemen farmers of the...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A020013
Son of Robert Carter, president of the Virginia council, and Elizabeth Landon, youngest daughter of Thomas Landon, of Credn...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of COLONEL. DAR Ancestor # A020159
From Wikipedia:
Cary was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1756 to 1776.[2] In 1764, he serv...
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Dabney Carr was born on October 26, 1743 at a thousand-acre Louisa County, Virginia farm named Bear Castle. He was the son of John Carr, grandson of Major Thomas Carr, and great-grandson of "Thomas Car...
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Robert Bolling was born on August 17, 1738, at Varina in Henrico County, the son of John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair Bolling and a great-great-grandson of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. He was a poet, plan...
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DAR A 011131, VA. Patriotic Service.
BLAND, Richard, statesman, born in Virginia, 6 May 1710; died in Williamsburg, Virginia, 26 October 1776. He was educated at William and Mary College and at the...
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Richard Bland (August 11, 1665 – April 1720), sometimes known as Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. He was the father of Richard Bland II, the son ...
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John Louis Taylor was the first Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He was the only foreign Chief Justice in North Carolina state history. He served in North Carolina House of Commons; b...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of MAJOR. DAR Ancestor # A045303
Marker Text:
Essay:
The naming of a county can provide a lesson in North Carolina history. W...
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John James Beckley (August 4, 1757 – April 8, 1807) was an American political campaign manager and the first Librarian of the United States Congress, from 1802 to 1807. He is credited with being...
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Robert Andrews (1748 – 1804) was a Colonial/American clergyman, professor and Virginia politician.
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REVEREND JAMES HENDERSON (1764-1818)
Reverend James Henderson came to Virginia from Scotland after the Revolution. He was rector of Westover parish, 1790-92, and rector of York-Hampton parish, 1793-9...
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author of "The History of Virginia: In Four Parts"
Birth: 1673 Death: 1722
LDs record
Family links:
Parents:
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Ursula Byrd (1681 - 1698)
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Birth: Nov. 29, 1681 Henrico County Virginia, USA Death: Oct. 31, 1698 Jamestown James City County Virginia, USA
Daughter of William and Mary (Horsemenden) Byrd
Wife of Robert Beverley Jr and the g...
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Lady Anne Skipwith attended at ball at the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia. She became miffed at her husband, Peyton Skipwith, and raced back to the Wythe house where she was staying at the...
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Edward Teach (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies during th...
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Mary Waters was the wife of Robert Nicholson, a tailor and merchant in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was the mother of 8 children.
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Robert Nicolson was born in England; his emigration date is not known. He was a successful tailor and merchant in Williamsburg, Virginia and built a home at the east end of York Street, below the Capit...
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Dr. William Cocke was Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1709, and member of the King's Council in 1713.
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Josiah Chowning was a tavern keeper in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A119663
Dr. Thomas Walker
(1714 - 1794)
Thomas Walker was born in King and Queen County, the son of Dr. Thomas Walker, Sr. and Su...
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Emigrated from Scotland to the colony of Virginia.
Archibald Blair, a brother of the more famous James Blair, founder of the College of William and Mary. For an understanding of the place of Dr. Arch...
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From Jane Jackson Kimble and Jack McAnally's page on Sarah "Sally" Tyler:
ID: I106
Name: Sarah 'Sally" Tyler
Surname: Tyler
Given Name: Sarah 'Sally"
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 1718 in Stafford Co...
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Francis Jackson, II MP
(c.1710 - c.1782)
"http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.princewilliam/914/mb.ashx"
From Jane Jackson Kimble and Jack McAnally's page on Francis Jackson II:
ID: I105
Name: Francis Jackson II
Surname: Jackson
Given Name: Francis
Suffix: II
Sex: M
Birth: BEF 1710 in Over...
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educated at the College of William and Mary
received his medical education in Edinburgh and Paris
was a surgeon in the Hudson Bay Company for a time
returned to Williamsburg, Virginia and began t...
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JOHN THOMAS, born in Wales 1585-1590, arrived in Jamestown 24 May 1610. He later lived near Williamsbug, Viriginia, on the north side of Queen's Creek in the County of Yorke, raising his sons with his ...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of AIDE-DE-CAMP. DAR Ancestor # A094169
Birth: Aug. 10, 1753 Death: Sep. 13, 1813
Politician. Statesman. Edmund was born at Tazewell ...
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"There is an alternate tree to Pres. John Tyler being that his father John Tyler w. Mary Marot Armistead parents were Henry Tyler(1725-1777) w. Alice Strother. Ancestry.com made a generic notation th...
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Henry Tazewell (November 27, 1753 – January 24, 1799) was an American politician who was instrumental in the early government of the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Brunswick County, Virg...
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John Walker (February 13, 1744 – December 2, 1809) was a public official from Virginia.
Walker was born in Virginia, the son of Dr. Thomas Walker. He received private education before at...
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Peyton Short (December 17, 1761 – September 1, 1825) was a land speculator and politician in Kentucky. He was a member of the first Kentucky Senate. He was the brother of William Short; he marri...
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William Short (1759–1849) was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789. Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, referred to Shor...
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James Mercer (February 26, 1736 – October 31, 1793), also known as William James Mercer, was born in Virginia at Malborough plantation on February 26, 1736. He was the son of John Mercer a...
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"William Parks might be the most astonished person of all to learn that his “Virginia Gazette” survives intact nearly 270 years after he published the first four-page edition on Aug. 6, 1...
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Barber and wig maker in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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"Here lies the Body of Mrs Frances Custis daughter of Daniel Park Esqr who departed this life March the 14th 1714/15 In the 29th year of her Age."
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Anne Percy MP
(c.1613 - 1661)
"West", "Ann Claiborne", "Anne de Percy"
Citation given by Wikipedia (entry for John West) to support John West's marriage to Anne Percy , daughter of George Percy and Anne Floyd:
John West married Anne Percy, daughter of George Percy and A...
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Anne (Pasteur) Marot Sullivant operated Marot's Ordinary in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia with first husband, John Marot, and second husband Timothy Sullivant until 1738 when she leased it to John Ta...
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Capt. John Rogers
Birth: 16 APR 1609 in Edinburg, Midlothian, scotland
Death: 1680
Burial: Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, Virginia
Notes
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US Congressman. Served in the United States Army during the War of 1812 as a Captain of Cavalry. He was elected to represent Virginia's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, servi...
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from Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume II VIII--Prominent Persons
Was born in Scotland in 1705, was ordained for the ministry, and came to Virginia in 1725, where he was given charge of St...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor A062349
From "THE HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THE JERSEY SETTLERS OF ADAMS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI" Vol II page 401:
John Jones w...
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William BARBER Major died in , York, VA. Justice 1705, Burgess 1710, Church Warden York-Hampton Parish 1703.Also in rec ords of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va. Parents: Thomas BARBER Capt. and ...
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Edward Nott, lieutenant-governor of Virginia under the Earl of Orkney, from August 18, 1705, to August 23, 1706, was born in England in 1657. He served very gallantly in the West Indies as major and co...
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John Palmer with Benjamin Waller and Bedford Davenport, were sworn attorneys in York Court (according to Act of Assembly) November 15, 1742. Agnes Hillard, in her will (proved 1746) directs a ring of t...
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Children of Col. Daniel Parke, Jr./II and Jane Ludwell: Frances and Lucy Parke.
Daniel Parke, II/Jr. also had 2 illegitimate children prior to his marriage to Jane Ludwell:
Julius Caesar Parke, b...
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Daniel Parke of London, Esquire.
Will 11 August 1677; proved 16 September 1679. To my son Daniel Parke all my Plantations and Negroes in Virginia, and to the heirs male; failing heirs male, to the he...
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William Rind , born in Annapolis in 1733, was reared there as apprentice to the public printer, Jonas Green. During the 7-year period of his partnership with Green (1758-65) young Rind acquired town pr...
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Clementina Rind, Printer
Clementina Rind (1740-1774), printer & newspaper editor, wife of William Rind, public printer in Maryland & Virginia, is said to have been a native of Maryland. She may have ...
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Peachy (Davenport) Purdie's sister Martha and her husband Augustine Davis took over the operation of Alexander Purdie’s printing office while Purdie’s surviving sons were underage.
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Peachy (Davenport) Purdie's sister Martha and her husband Augustine Davis took over the operation of Alexander Purdie’s printing office while Purdie’s surviving sons were underage.
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Alexander Purdie married Peachy Davenport, a local spinster of good family who owned property of her own, and was six years older than he.
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Alexander Purdie was born by 1743, perhaps in Scotland, but his birthplace is not stated in surviving records. He was in Williamsburg working in Joseph Royle’s printing office by 1764 and possib...
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Eldest son of John Mercer, of "Marlborough," was born June 23, 1733, was educated at William and Mary College; was lieutenant and captain in Washington's First Virginia Regiment in the French and I...
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Birth: 1727 Williamsburg City Virginia, USA Death: Jun. 30, 1784, England
Lawyer. Known as "John the Tory". Succeeded his brother, Peyton, as King's Attorney in 1766, appointed by Governor Faqu...
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Arianna Jennings Randolph was born 1729/1730 in Annapolis, Maryland and died February 1801 in London, England; she is buried there. She is also known as Ariana Jenings .
Parents: second child of Hon....
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John James Flournoy was the second husband of Martha Washington's grandmother. He was a watch maker in Williamsburg, Virginia. He came to Williamsburg around 1717.
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The Bray arms are on the tombs of the first and second David Bray in Bruton churchyard, Williamsburg, VA. They correspond with the arms of Bray in the Visitation of Nottingham in 1614.
Arms: Azure a ...
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See Ballard of Virginia: Thomas Ballard of James City County, Virginia (1630-1690) for a family tree and documented evidence for this Thomas Ballard.
"Thomas Ballard of James City county, born in 163...
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