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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]
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).
Lawrence Pope was the son of Humphrey Pope who was a transported immigrant from England engaged by Major John Washington and Thomas Pope who received 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) on 5 September 1661, for transplanting 24 such persons, [27] 50 acres (200,000 m 2) per Headright.
Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800. Volume 1. Richmond, Virginia: Press of the Dietz Co., 1934. Price, David A. Love & Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas and the Start of a New Nation. New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2003. ISBN 978-1-4000-3172-6.
Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters (known as Cavaliers) in the Royal Colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration in the mid-17th century. They are today seen as a state symbol of Virginia and the basis of the founding Cavalier myth of the Old South.
William Farrar was born before April 28, 1583, [2] the date of his christening, in Croxton, Lincolnshire, England. [3] He was the 3rd son of John Farrar of Croxton [1] and London, Esquire, a wealthy merchant and landowner with various holdings in West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire, [4] and Cecily Kelke, an heiress [5] and direct descendant of Edward III of England. [6]
Samuel Jordan (died 1623) was an early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown.He arrived in Virginia around 1610, and served as a Burgess in the first representative legislative session in North America.
Col. William Tayloe (born 1599; also known as William Teylow) of King’s Creek Plantation, York County, Colony of Virginia, was an English-American immigrant, colonist and planter, from Gloucester, England, who emigrated to the British Colony of Virginia and resided in York County.