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John Stith (fl. 1631–1694) [1] [2] was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses [3] ... Before Stith's death, Drury received his third of the estate, which ...
C. George Carew (diplomat) Margaret Carwood; Francesco Cavazzoni; Patricio Caxés; Chattox; Pieter Claeissens the Younger; Christopher Clavius; Richard Clayton (dean of Peterborough)
The younger of two sons born to the former Alice Townley (1675–1710) of Gloucester County and her husband John Grymes (1660–1709). He had an elder brother also John Grymes (1691–1749) and sisters Anne (1689–1730; who never married) and Elizabeth Lucy Grymes (1692–1750) who married John Holcomb, and whose son (also John Holcombe) would twice serve in the Virginia House of Delegates ...
Charles E. Hatch Jr., and Thurlow Gates Gregory, "The First American Blast Furnace, 1619–1622," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (July 1962): 259–97. Records of the Virginia Company of London. John S. Salmon, "Ironworks on the Frontier: Virginia's Iron Industry, 1607–1783," Virginia Cavalcade (Spring 1986): 184–91.
William Byrd II is considered the founder of Richmond. The Byrd family, which includes Harry F. Byrd, has been central to Virginia's history since its founding.. After the first permanent English-speaking settlement was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in April 1607, Captain Christopher Newport led explorers northwest up the James River to an inhabited area in the Powhatan Nation. [17]
In Virginia, the spelling Byrd became standard. On October 27, 1673, he was granted 1,200 acres (5 km 2) on the James River. Byrd became a well-connected fur trader in what would later become the Richmond, Virginia area. Some of Byrd's landholdings became (after his death) part of the site of modern-day Richmond, Virginia.
From 1612 to 1617 West was the Commandant of Jamestown. [6] From July 30 through August 4, 1619, based on his position on the Governor's Council, West served in what would later become the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly, although he was not listed as one of the elected burgesses in Jamestown's first Legislative Assembly. [7]
William Spence came to Virginia in the First Supply mission to Jamestown in 1608. [1] He is sometimes shown in modern printed lists of passengers as both a "gentleman" and a "labourer," not only a double listing, but in seemingly inconsistent categories. [4]