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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]
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.
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.
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]
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 .
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Ellyson's origins are disputed. He may have been born between 1615 and 1620 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, although this has not been confirmed. [1] [2] Ellyson's descendant, Elizabeth Allison Ervin, claimed in her family bible in the late 18th century that he was the son of Robert Allison and Sarah (née Spence) Allison, although this claim has been questioned.
Major Joseph Croshaw (c. 1610-12–1667) was a planter living near Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia.He was the son of Captain Raleigh Croshaw.He became a planter and lived a few miles from present-day Williamsburg, Virginia.