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In January 2019, to mark the 400th anniversary of the House of Burgesses, the Virginia House of Representatives Clerk's Office announced a new Database of House Members called "DOME" that "[chronicles] the 9,700-plus men and women who served as burgesses or delegates in the Virginia General Assembly over the past four centuries." [44] [45] [46]
The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978, A Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, 1978. ISBN 978-0-88490-008-5. Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902.
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Along with Samuel Jordan, he represented Charles City as a burgess in the first general assembly of the Virginia House of Burgesses in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. [2] He was a representative for Westover, an incorporation of Charles City, in the 1623/24 assembly and signed a letter along with several burgesses at the time of that assembly.
House of Burgesses, Henry Read McIlwaine, John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-[1776]. Richmond, VA: Colonial Press, E. Waddey Company, 1915. OCLC 2941728. Virginia State Library. Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 13-15. Richmond: Virginia State Library, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1917.
Hugh Innes (August 12, 1729 – March 22, 1797) (sometimes spelled Innis) was an American patriot, attorney, real estate investor and politician who represented Pittsylvania County, Virginia in the House of Burgesses and first Virginia Revolutionary Convention, but whose home was located in Henry County by 1783 (during which he served as delegate for one term alongside the county's namesake ...
William Sharpe should not be confused with Samuel Sharpe, another early Virginia colonist, soldier, and ancient planter who settled in Charles City, Virginia and was a burgess in the first general assembly of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619 with whom he is sometimes erroneously conflated. [1] [2] [3]
The second son born to the former Elizabeth Foliott Power and her planter and burgess husband Cole Digges, was born to the First Families of Virginia.His father would serve for decades on the Virginia Governor's Council (following service in the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly, the House of Burgesses, where many ancestors and cousins had served).