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The House of Burgesses (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ə s ɪ z /) was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the United States when Virginia was a British colony .
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.
Richard Buckner (born after 1662, died in late 1733 or early 1734) was a Virginia attorney and land speculator who served many years as the clerk of Essex County and for three years served as clerk of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1712–1715).
The palace was funded by the House of Burgesses in 1706 at the behest of Lt. Governor Edward Nott. [3] [4] It was built from 1706 onward.In 1710, its first official resident was Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood who served as acting governor; the governor proper, George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, was absentee and is not known to have visited Virginia.
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).
In 1694 Thomas Buckner received a legacy in the will of Virginia resident Edward Porteous (possibly a relative of Robert Porteous who served on the Governor's Council in 1715 when Thomas and his brother John Jr. both served as Gloucester County's burgesses and their brother Richard was the Clerk of the House of Burgesses). [6] [7]
The son of the former Hannah Ellyson and burgess Anthony Armistead (who had helped try rebels after Bacon's Rebellion), William was born into what had become one of the First Families of Virginia and received an education appropriate to his class.
Middlesex County voters twice elected Churchill as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses: 50, 62 After the death of the large multi-county landowner Ralph Wormeley in 1702, Churchill courted and married the widowed Elizabeth Armistead Wormeley (1667-1716). Churchill signed a prenuptual agreement protecting her children's ...