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On August 14, 1624, the General Court ordered John Johnson, who had property on Jamestown Island and at Archer's Hope, to put a roof on the house and repair the fence of Ensign William Spence, Johnson's recently deceased neighbor. [10] After 3 months, the court also ordered Sara Spence's "guardians" to have her property at Archer's Hope ...
Joseph Croshaw died on April 10, 1667, the same day his will was written and recorded [5] in York County, Virginia. The inventory of his estate was substantial and included numerous household objects made of both pewter and silver. One large silver tankard was valued at four pounds sterling (equivalent to about £330 in 2017).
Cavaliers and Pioneers: 1666-1695, page 404, states that the Abrahall mentioned in a 1691 patent on page 360 is the same Robert Abrahall who had patented land in 1654, according to a patent abstracted on page 30. [8]
Samuel Jordan died sometime before mid-February 1623, [note 3] as his name does not appear among living at Jordan's Journey in a list submitted to the Virginia Company that month. [ 13 ] : 171 Soon after his burial, his widow Cecily Jordan became involved in the first breach-of-promise dispute in North America .
Thomas Mathew (died 1706) was an English merchant who became a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia.He owned property in Northumberland County and was one of the first burgesses representing Stafford County in the House of Burgesses when it was formed.
The other respect in which the triumph of the Roundheads in England affected Virginia was that it caused a small number of Cavaliers to emigrate from England to the colony, bolstering the Cavalier elite led by Berkeley; whose political power was disproportionate to their number (estimated at approximately 10% of the population of Virginia.) [2] [3]
William Harris ... one of several London Merchants that purchased Berkeley Hundred by deed, which was recorded February 9, 1636. Following is the transcription from Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume I, page 55 - By Nell Marion Nugent of the Virginia Land Office, Richmond, Virginia - Published by Genealogical Publishing Compan, Inc. 1983.
Abraham Iverson, shown in some records, including land patents, as Abraham Iveson [1] was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower house of the colonial Virginia General Assembly, from Gloucester County, in 1653.