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This is a list of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1619 to 1775 from the references listed at the end of the article. The members of the first assembly in 1619, the members of the last assembly in 1775 and the Speakers of the House are designated by footnotes.
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.
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.
Captain William Crispin III (October 3, 1627 – October 4, 1681) born the son of William Crispin II (1602-1645) and wife Elizabeth (ne. Harrison) (1604-1645). Crispin was one of five Commissioners appointed by William Penn for settling the colony of Pennsylvania, September 30, 1681. He had served in the army under Cromwell. Crispin was also ...
b) She was born c1618, per her age in the 1624 Census/Muster of the Colony. So she would have been only 13 years old when Joseph Croshaw started having children with his first unknown wife in 1631. Croshaw's children by his first wife (all dates estimated / presumed, none supported by any sources) were: Mary Croshaw (c1631-1687), married 1.
Richard Lee I (c. 1618 – 1 March 1664) was an English-born merchant, planter and politician who was the first member of the Lee family to live in America. Poor when he arrived in the colony of Virginia in 1639, Lee may have been both the colony's wealthiest inhabitant and as its largest landholder by the time of his death, owning 15,000 acres (23 sq mi) in Virginia and Maryland.
Adm. William H. McRaven is collaborating with daughter Kelly McRaven on a follow-up to his bestselling “Skipper the Seal” picture book that draws upon his onetime passion for being a superhero.
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.