Robert Beverley Jr. was a historian of early colonial Virginia,as well as a planter and politician.
Richard Corbin was a Virginia planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Governor's Council. Although a noted Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,he considered himself a Virginian and two of his descendants of the same name also served in the Virginia General Assembly following the conflict.
Col. Landon Carter,I was an American planter and burgess for Richmond County,Virginia. Although one of the most popular patriotic writers and pamphleters of pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary-era Virginia,he may today be perhaps best known for his journal,which described colonial life leading up the American War of Independence,The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter.
John Thomson Mason was an American lawyer and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806.
Col. John Tayloe II was the premier Virginia planter;a politician,and colonial Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Virginia. He served in public office including the Virginia Governor's Council,also known as the Virginia Council of State.
Rosegill is a historic plantation house and farm complex located near Urbanna,Middlesex County,Virginia. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
Christopher Robinson was a planter,merchant and politician in the British colony of Virginia. Robinson held several public offices in Colonial Virginia and is the patriarch in America for one of the First Families of Virginia.
Christopher Robinson was a Virginia-born planter and politician who followed the path of his merchant and emigrant father,Col. Christopher Robinson,the patriarch of the Robinson family of Virginia.
Charles Hill Carter was a Virginia planter who represented Lancaster County in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1758–1775) and all five of the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions,and also sat on the first Council of State in 1776.
Robert Wormeley Carter was a Virginia planter and patriot who served in the House of Burgesses,all five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions,and briefly in the Virginia House of Delegates,all representing his native Richmond County.
Sir Henry Chicheley was a lieutenant governor of Virginia Colony who also served as Acting Governor during multiple periods in the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion. Having first visited the Virginia colony as a Royalist in exile,where he served in the House of Burgesses in violation of his probation,Lt. Gov. Chicheley wielded power during a period of sociopolitical turmoil and change,and later in his career was increasingly troubled by England's growing aggression and control over the colony.
Ralph Wormeley emigrated to the Virginia colony,where he became a planter and politician who represented York County in the House of Burgesses and developed Rosegill plantation in what became Middlesex County after his death.
Ralph Wormeley Jr. (1651-1701) was a planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses before being elevated to the Virginia Governor's Council and serving as the colony's secretary and briefly as its acting governor. He further developed his father's Rosegill plantation,now on the National Register for Historic Places,as well as operated several plantations in adjoining Tidewater counties using enslaved labor.
Ralph Wormeley was a Virginia planter who served as a member of the Governor's Advisory Council (1771-1775),was suspected of being a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,and after the conflict represented Middlesex County,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates (1788-1791) as well as at the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788,where he voted in favor of ratification of the federal Constitution.
Gawin Corbin Jr.,although trained as a lawyer in England,became a Virginia planter,loyalist militia officer,customs collector and politician who served in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly as had his father Richard Corbin.
Gawin Corbin (1669-1745) was a Virginia planter,militia officer,customs collector and politician who served in the House of Burgesses representing at various times Middlesex and King and Queen County. Two descendants of the same name would also serve in the House of Burgesses,Gawin Corbin Sr. and Gawin Corbin Jr.
William Churchill (1649–1710) emigrated from England and became a Virginia merchant,planter and politician who twice briefly served in the House of Burgesses representing Middlesex County,Virginia,and on the Virginia Governor's Council (1705–1710).
John Tayloe Corbin was a Virginia planter and politician who represented King and Queen County in the House of Burgesses. The son of powerful planter Richard Corbin,a member of the Governor's Council,he was likewise a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,but remained in Virginia. He was named after his maternal grandfather John Tayloe I.
Christopher Wormeley was a British military officer who served as governor of Tortuga before becoming the secretary of state for the Virginia Colony (1635-1649) as well as captain of the fort at Old Point Comfort beginning in 1638. He also served on the Virginia Governor's Council (1637-1642),as would his younger brother Ralph Wormeley Sr. and son Christopher Wormeley Jr.
Dudley Digges was a Virginia attorney,planter,military officer and politician who served in the House of Burgesses (1752-1776) and all the Virginia Revolutionary conventions representing York County. Possibly the most famous of three related men of the same name who served in the Virginia legislature during the 18th century,this man was the third son of Yorktown merchant Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature.
