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This is a list of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1619 to 1775 from the references listed at the end of the article. The members of the first assembly in 1619, the members of the last assembly in 1775 and the Speakers of the House are designated by footnotes.
Captain, sergeant-major Lion: Thomas Whittingham ️ Cape merchant (treasurer) [80] Sea Venture → pinnace (ship's boat) Lost at sea (or killed by Native Americans) after sailing a pinnace (with Henry Ravens) for help after marooning on Bermuda, 1609 [80] Thomas Wood [81] Captain Unitie: George Yeardley: Captain of the guard for Thomas Gates ...
William Farrar was born before April 28, 1583, [2] the date of his christening, in Croxton, Lincolnshire, England. [3] He was the 3rd son of John Farrar of Croxton [1] and London, Esquire, a wealthy merchant and landowner with various holdings in West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire, [4] and Cecily Kelke, an heiress [5] and direct descendant of Edward III of England. [6]
Thomas Todd (January 23, 1765 – February 7, 1826) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia , he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky , where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice.
Several years after this man's death, in 1655, Thomas Peirce lived on Mulberry Island in Warwick County, who may have been the same Thomas Peirce who in March 1676 patented 1655 acres on Mulberry Island. This William Peirce had patented land on Mulberry Island in 1619, but three years later Thomas Peirce who had been the sergeant at arms of the ...
William Powell (b. before 1586 – d. January 1623), was an early Virginia colonist, landowner, militia officer and legislator. Considered an ancient planter for living in the Virginia colony during its first decade, he was one of two representatives from what became James City County, Virginia in the first Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619.
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In November, Powhatan ambushed and killed Captain John Ratcliffe and 32 other colonists, who had gone to Orapax to buy corn, and the colonists began to starve to death. [5] After being shipwrecked on Bermuda for nearly a year, Thomas Gates finally arrived in late May 1610 with meager and insufficient supplies. Gates saw the state that the ...