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Ralph Northam (born 1959) – 73rd Governor of Virginia; Johnny Newman (born 1963) – University of Richmond and NBA basketball player; Tommy Newsom (1929–2007) – saxophone player, bandleader; Wayne Newton (born 1942) – singer, entertainer, actor; Nick Novak § (born 1981) – placekicker for San Diego Chargers
George Mason's coat of arms. Mason was born in present-day Fairfax County, in the Colony of Virginia, in British America, on December 11, 1725. [1] [2] [3] Mason's parents owned property in Mason Neck, Virginia and a second property across the Potomac River in Maryland, which had been inherited by his mother.
C. Domingo Cabello y Robles; Jean-Jacques Caffieri; Guido Calcagnini; Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani; José António Caldas; David Caldwell (North Carolina minister)
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 ...
Architect John Ariss (sometimes spelled Ayres) (1725–1799) was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia to a family long settled in the Old Dominion. [1] [2] Several houses now considered National Historic Landmarks have been attributed to him.
Isham Randolph (born August 18, 1724), married Sarah Hargreaves in 1749, in Philadelphia. [4] Mary Randolph (born October 15, 1725, in Colonial Williamsburg), [6] who married Colonel Charles Lewis of Buck Island and had eight children, including Charles Lilburn Lewis, one of the founders of Milton, Virginia. [7] [8] Elizabeth Randolph (born ...
His father having died in 1744, this Gawin Corbin was one of the original investors in the first Ohio Company of Virginia, organized in 1748 by Thomas Lee, with his sons Philip Ludwell Lee and Thomas Ludwell Lee., as well as prominent planters John Tayloe, Lawrence and Augustine Washington, Robert Carter II and George Fairfax. [2]
Robert Carter I (c. 1664 – 4 August 1732) was an American planter, merchant, and colonial administrator who served as the acting governor of Virginia from 1726 to 1727. . An agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary, Carter emerged as the wealthiest settler in the British colony of Virginia and received the sobriquet "King" from his contemporaries connoting his autocratic approach and ...