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George Jordan (1620-1679) was a British attorney who also became a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia.He twice served as the colony's attorney general (before and after Bacon's Rebellion) and at various times represented James City County (before the creation of Surry County for land on the south bank of the James River) and Surry County in the House of Burgesses, and may have ...
John Clayton (c. 1666 – November 28, 1737) was a British lawyer who emigrated to the colony of Virginia where he served at Attorney General as well as in the House of Burgesses, representing variously Jamestown, James City County and Williamsburg. [1] [2]
James Bray (ca.1630-1691) was a British merchant who also became an attorney, planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia, serving nearly a decade on the Virginia Governor's Council through Bacon's Rebellion (1670-1679), and later representing James City County in the House of Burgesses, although unseated when he refused to make a loyalty oath.
Sherwood invested and speculated in real estate, including in James City County, as well as New Kent County and Stafford County to the north and west. In 1696, Sherwood sold two parcels totalling 2770 acres of land in Stafford County Virginia to George Mason. The property included Dogue's Island, and a further recording was required in 1699 ...
James City County police said a man has been charged with kidnapping after he impersonated a police officer and detained two juveniles. In a news release, police said 30-year-old Cody Hardin ...
County/Independent City State's Attorney Allegany: James Elliott (R) Anne Arundel: Anne Colt Leitness (D) Baltimore City: Ivan Bates (D) Baltimore County: Scott Shellenberger (D) Calvert: Robert Harvey (R) Caroline: Sloane Franklin (R) Carroll: Haven Shoemaker (R) Cecil: James Dellmyer (R) Charles: Anthony Covington (D) Dorchester: Amanda Rae ...
JAMES CITY — Police arrested an Army serviceman who is accused of shooting a victim multiple times in a home in James City County on Sunday. Officers responded to the 1300 block of Queens ...
In the 1786 Williamsburg City tax list, Innes owned seven adult slaves and eight slaves under 16 years of age, three horses, a cow and a 2-wheeled carriage. [ 8 ] Voters also elected James Innes to the Virginia Ratification Convention of 1788, at which he supported the new federal Constitution, though his brother was a supporter of Patrick ...