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William Kidd (c. 1645 – 23 May 1701), also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life, but he was likely born in Dundee and later settled in New York City .
After burgess William Cockerham retired in 1665, Surry County voters elected Baker as his successor, and he served the remainder of what later became known as the "Grand Assembly of 1661-1676". [3] In 1671, the General Court ordered Baker to audit some accounts. [2] The Grand Assembly ended with Bacon's Rebellion.
Lawrence Washington (1718 – July 26, 1752) was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia.As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County, Virginia, he founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749.
William, his wife and his young daughter, Sara, or Sarah, avoided the Indian massacre of 1622, but Spence and his wife were reported "lost" at the census of February 16, 1624. [4] Their daughter was placed with a guardian by the General Court at Jamestown by early 1625.
Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert Hyde-Lees (1865–1909), of the Manchester Regiment, [3] and Edith Ellen (1868–1942) known as "Nelly", daughter of barrister and manufacturer Montagu Woodmass, JP, [4] [5] Georgie was born in Fleet, Hampshire on 16 October 1892.
His first wife, Margaret Debton (d. 1646) bore 2 sons (both of whom died young in England) and a daughter, but only Susanna (1640-1660) reached adulthood. She died eight months and 22 days after marrying Captain William Marriott of Surry County , so childbirth complications may have been the cause.
Captain William Death was an 18th-century privateer from Middlesex, England [1] who died in battle in December 1756, in the first year of the Seven Years' War. Captain Death was in command of the Terrible , a ship equipped with twenty-six carriage guns, and manned with 200 sailors. [ 2 ]
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (5 September 1664 – 17 February 1718), formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his best known mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland.