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  2. Surry County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Surry County is a county in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,561. [1] In 1652, Surry County was formed from the portion of James City County south of the James River. For more than 350 years it has depended on an agricultural economy.

  3. Lawrence Baker (burgess) - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence Baker (ca.1620–1681) was a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia who immigrated from England and represented Surry County in the House of Burgesses (1666–1676). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 50 He is best known for suppressing America's first tax strike, a predecessor to Bacon's Rebellion .

  4. William Spencer (burgess) - Wikipedia

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    A 1635 deed of 550 acres in Surry County, Virginia to William Spencer indicated he was a justice of the county. ... land transfer records, show that Spencer died on ...

  5. Richard Pace (planter) - Wikipedia

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    Historical marker in Surry County, Virginia, near the location of the Pace's Paines plantation. Quitrent of one shilling per 50 acres is specified in both these patents. Since ancient planters who had paid their own passage were to receive the land free of quitrent, this shows that Richard and Isabella Pace did not pay their own passage but ...

  6. Richard Cocke - Wikipedia

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    By the time Richard Cocke died he was in possession of 10,916 acres of land spread over three sites named, 'Bremo" (his home site), 'Malvern Hill' and 'Curles'. He is also known to have owned property in present-day Surry County, Virginia where he first resided in the early 1630s. [8]

  7. George Jordan (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. William Powell (Virginia colonist) - Wikipedia

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    William Powell (b. before 1586 – d. January 1623), was an early Virginia colonist, landowner, militia officer and legislator. Considered an ancient planter for living in the Virginia colony during its first decade, he was one of two representatives from what became James City County, Virginia in the first Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619.

  9. Surry, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Surry (formerly Cross Roads, McIntosh's Cross Roads, McIntoshs Cross Roads, Scuffletown, Smithville, Surry Court House, and The Crossroads) [5] is an incorporated town in Surry County, Virginia, United States. The population was 244 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Surry County. [6]

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