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Sir Richard Kemp was a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia. Kemp served as the Colony's Secretary and on the Governor's Council from 1634 to 1649. As the council's senior member,he also served as the acting Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1644 to 1645 during travels by Governor Sir William Berkeley. Kemp had also worked closely relation with Berkeley's predecessor,Sir John Harvey.
George Reade was a prominent landowner,military officer,judge,and politician who served as a member of the House of Burgesses and as Acting Governor of Virginia Colony. He is the great-great-grandfather of the first President of the United States,George Washington.
James Bray (ca.1630-1691) was a British merchant who also became an attorney,planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia,serving nearly a decade on the Virginia Governor's Council through Bacon's Rebellion (1670-1679),and later representing James City County in the House of Burgesses,although unseated when he refused to make a loyalty oath.
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- ↑ Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). . . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
- ↑ Charles E. Horton, Jr. and Charles E. Horton, M.D., "John Pott: America's First Physician-Governor and Revolutionary" Vol. 59, No. 7, p. 679, September 1983
- ↑ William Waller Hening, "The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia" Vol. 1, p. 145, R.&W.&G. Bartow, New-York, 1823.
- ↑ Charles E. Horton, Jr. and Charles E. Horton, M.D., "John Pott: America's First Physician-Governor and Revolutionary" Vol. 59, No. 7, p. 682, September 1983
