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Along with the Byrds, Carters, Washingtons, Harrisons and others, these families were at the core of Virginia's plantocracy for centuries. First Families of Virginia were families in the British colony of Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. [1] They descend from European colonists who ...
Westover Plantation is a historic colonial tidewater plantation located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. Established in c. 1730–1750, it is the homestead of the Byrd family of Virginia. State Route 5, a scenic byway, runs east–west to the north of the plantation, connecting the independent cities of ...
William Fleming (1736–1824) was a man with distinguished Virginia heritage. His father, John Fleming, married in 1727 Mary Bolling, daughter of John Bolling and Mary Kennon, two scions of rich and powerful tidewater Virginia families. When William was 36 years old, in 1772, he became a member of the House of Burgesses for Virginia.
Maj. Lewis Burwell (1621–1653), [3] was baptized on 5 March 1621/22 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England.In 1650, the wealthy planter (who owned about 7000 acres of land) married Lucy Higginson, whose parents had likewise emigrated to the Virginia colony to escape the English Civil War, but whose father Robert, after leading the Middle Plantation militia and arranging a stockade to protect ...
Aberdeen is a historic plantation house located several miles north of Disputanta, in Prince George County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, temple form brick dwelling. Unlike most of the James River Plantations Aberdeen was built back from the River along the old river road (now Rte 10).
Colony of Virginia. The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
John Tayloe III. Col. John Tayloe III (September 2, 1770 – March 23, 1828), of Richmond County, Virginia, was the premier Virginia planter; a politician, businessman, and tidewater gentry scion. He was prominent in elite social circles. A highly successful planter and early Thoroughbred horse breeder, he was considered the "wealthiest man of ...
Henry Randolph I (1623-1673), born in Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, England, [2][3] immigrated to the colony of Virginia in 1642, [4] protege of Sir William Berkeley. [5] Randolph became clerk of the county court, and when Charles Norwood left the colony, Speaker Francis Moryson put forth Randoph's name for the position and the House of ...