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King William County, Virginia, USA

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  • Juliet Lee (1860 - 1915)
    Juliet Lee (Carter) "Juliet and my mother and myself used to have chills, though my father, Spencer and Anne seemed to be immune, Mother and Juliet both had two congestive chills. In one of these...
  • Mary Ellenor Newcomb (1787 - 1860)
    The Smith, Moseley, Newcomb, and Vinson families have been allied for many generations. Will not be surprised if we find the familiar link to Mary Ellenor's Smith family to the Smith, Smythe families t...
  • Abraham Maury (c.1731 - 1784)
  • Matthew Strother Maury (1686 - 1752)
    When Matthew Strother Maury was born on 18 September 1686, in Gascogne, France, his father, Abram Maury, was 26 and his mother, Marie Fouquereau, was 22. He married Mary Anne Fontaine on 20 October ...
  • Jacob Burrus, Sr. (1681 - 1755)
    Biography Jacob Burrus was the son of John Burrus, Jr. He spelled his name Burroughs and Burras {see will, below}, both accepted variations of the name. He was probably born in King William County in t...

For thousands of years before European contact, indigenous peoples of North America lived in the Tidewater area of present-day Virginia. At the time of the founding of Jamestown, 30 Virginia Native American tribes comprised the Powhatan paramountcy, numbering 14,000-21,000 people. The Algonquian-speaking Mattaponi Indian Tribe and Upper Mattaponi tribe, among the 11 tribes recognized by the state of Virginia, are located in the county. The Mattaponi are one of two Virginia Indian tribes who still occupy reservation land first allocated by the English under treaty in the 17th century.

One prominent family during Colonial Virginia times was that of William Aylett. The Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 established a tobacco inspection warehouse at Aylett's. Aylett's daughters intermarried with other Northern Neck families.

English colonists formed King William County in 1702 out of King and Queen County. The county is named for William of Orange, King of England. The courthouse, built in 1725, is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the United States.

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