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president of the Virginia Society for Pro- moting Useful Knowledge, 1773, and author of "Flora Virginica." He was for fifty years clerk of Gloucester county, and had a botanical garden at his estate, "Windsor," in that county. He married, January 2, 1723, Elizabeth Whiting, of Gloucester. He had several sons-Captain Jasper Clayton, of Gloucester county ; Arthur Clayton, clerk of one of the "upper counties," and it is be- lieved Colonel William Clayton, of New Kent county.
Clayton, John, was son of Sir John Clay- ton, of London and Parson's Green, Fulham, Middlesex county, England, and of the Inner Temple, who was knighted 1664, and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, of Denham, Bucks, baronet. He was brother of Lieutenant-General Jasper Clay- ton, of the British army, who was killed at Dettingen in 1743. His grandfather was Sir Jasper Clayton, of St. Edmunds, Lombard Manor, who was knighted at Guildhall, July 5. 1660. He was born in 1665; studied at one of the universities of England ; was ad- mitted to the Inner Temple, June 6, 1682; was called to the bar, and coming to Vir- ginia in 1705, was appointed attorney-gen- eral of the colony in 1714. In 1724 he was also appointed judge of the admiralty court. He represented James City county in the house of burgesses in 1720-22, 1723-26, 1727- 28; recorder of Williamsburg from 1723. He died November 18, 1737. He was father ot Jolin Clayton, the botanist.
Clayton, Jasper, son of John Clayton, the botanist, resided at "Windsor," on the Panketank river, and was clerk of the county committee of safety of Gloucester county in 1725. He married Courtney,
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daughter of Colonel John . Baylor, of New Market, Caroline county.
Clayton, Thomas, M. D., son of John Clayton, the attorney-general of Virginia ; educated at Pembroke College. Cambridge, and afterwards completed his medical studies in London ; married Isabella Lewis, of Warner Hall, Gloucester county, Vir- ginia, and died October 17, 1730, aged thirty- eight. He had an only child, who died in infancy. His armorial tomb is at "Warner Hall." Gloucester county.
Clayton, Thomas, was a lawyer ; resided at Jamestown, which he represented in the house of burgesses in 1683.
Clayton, Colonel William, of New Kent county, was probably a son of John Clay- ton, the botanist. He was Jasper Clayton's executor in 1779. From 1766 to 1772 he was member of the house of burgesses for New Kent county, and was a member of the state conventions of 1776 and 1788. In 1774 he was member of the county committee of safety and subsequently served as clerk of New Kent. He died 1797.
Clements, Francis, son of Francis Clem- ents, lived in Surry county, which he repre- sented as a burgess in 1692-93. He was a justice, captain of militia, etc. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Meri- wether, and left issue.
Clinch, William, was a burgess from Surry county in March, 1756, and September, 1756. In the session of April 30. 1757, Benjamin Cocke represented Surry in place of Wil- liam Clinch, expelled April 26. He was member of the county committee of safety in 1776.
Clopton, William, ancestor of the Virginia family of that name, was descended from the Cloptons of Warwick and Suffolk, Eng- land. He was born in 1655, emigrated to Virginia at an early age, settled in York county and married, about 1680, Ann Booth, widow of Thomas Dennett, and daughter of Robert Booth, clerk of York county. Wil- liam Clopton moved after 1683 to New Kent county, where the Clopton family was resi- dent for many years later. He died before 1733.
Cobbs, Samuel, was descended from Am- brose Cobbs, who on July 25, 1639, patented 350 acres upon the Appomattox river. He removed from York county to Amelia, which he represented in the house of burgesses during the general assemblies of 1742-1747 and 1748-1749. In 1717 he married Edith Marot, daughter of Jean Marot, a French Huguenot innkeeper of Williamsburg. He died in 1757, leaving issue.
Cocke, Colonel Allen, son of Benjamin Cocke, represented Surry county in the house of burgesses, 1772-1774, and in all the constitutional conventions of 1774, 1775 and 1776: member of the Surry county commit- tee of safety in 1775. He married Nancy Kennon, daughter of Colonel Richard Ken- non, of Charles City county. His will, recorded in Surry, is dated November 20, 1780.
Cocke, Benjamin, son of Richard Cocke, and great-grandson of Richard Cocke, of "Bremo." was born about 1710. He moved to Goochland county, which he represented il. the house of burgesses in the assembly of 1742-1747. He married Catherine Aller., daughter of Arthur Allen, of "Bacon's Castle," in Surry county, and represented
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Surry county in the house of burgesses in in 1696 and 1699; clerk of Henrico county 1756 and 1758. He was father of Colonel from 1692 to 1707. He died about 1721. Allen Cocke.
Cocke, Bowler, son of Richard Cocke, of "Bremo," and Ann Bowler, daughter of Colonel Thomas Bowler, of Rappahannock. He was brother of Benjamin and Richard Cocke, of Surry. He was member of the house of burgesses for Henrico from 1752 to 1763. He married (first) Sarah -. (second) Elizabeth Hill, daughter of John Carter. After the last marriage he lived at "Shirley," in Charles City county. He died in 1771.
Cocke, Bowler, Jr., son of Bowler Cocke. was member of the house of burgesses for Henrico county from 1763 to 1769. He was born in 1726 and died in 1772, a few months after his father. He married Elizabeth, widow of Harry Turner, of King George county, and daughter of Colonel Nicholas Smith.
Cocke, Hartwell, was son of Richard Cocke and Elizabeth Hartwell, daughter of John Hartwell, of Surry. He lived at "Mount Pleasant," on James river, and rep- resented Surry county in the house of bur- gesses from 1758 to 1773. He married Anne Ruffin, daughter of John Ruffin. His will, dated May 29, 1772, was proved in Surry, August 25, 1772. He was father of John Hartwell Cocke, of Surry, who was member of the state convention of 1788.
Cocke, James, son of Thomas Cocke, was born about 1666; married Elizabeth Pleas- ants, daughter of John and Jane Pleasants, by which marriage he acquired the estate of "Curls," on James river, in Henrico county ; member of the house of burgesses
Cocke, Richard, son of Richard Cocke, and great-grandson of Richard Cocke, of "Bremo," in Henrico county, settled in Surry county, where he married (first) Eliz- abeth Hartwell, daughter of John Hartwell, (second) Elizabeth Ruffin. He represented the county in the house of burgesses in 1744. 1745. 1746 and 1747. His will, dated September 13, 1771, was proved in Surry, April 21, 1772.
Cocke, Richard, the emigrant settler. was born about 1600. He married twice. Name of first wife not known, but his second was Mary Aston, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Aston. He obtained large grants of land, and settled at "Bremo," on James river, in Henrico county. He was lieutenant- colonel of his county, and was a member of the house of burgesses in 1632 from Weyanke, and in 1644 and 1654 from Hen- rico county. He died in 1665, leaving issue -five sons and one daughter-Thomas, Richard, John, William, Richard, "the younger," and Elizabeth.
Cocke, Captain Thomas, son of Thomas Cocke, and brother of James Cocke, was 1.orn about 1662. He married (first) Mary Brasier, (second) Frances --. He rep- resented Henrico in the house of burgesses in 1696, in 1698, 1699, 1700-1702; sheriff in 1699. He left six children : Thomas, James Powell, Henry, Brasier, Mary, Elizabeth. He died in 1707.
Cocke, Thomas, of "Malvern Hill," Hen- rico county, was son of Richard Cocke, of "Bremo." He was a justice of Henrico in 1678, 1680. He was also sheriff and coroner,
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and represented Henrico in the house of Quarters (now in Warwick county) in 1629. burgesses in 1677.
Cocke, William, was a burgess from Hen- rico in the assembly of 1646. He was son of Richard Cocke, the immigrant.
Cockeram, Captain William, was a bur- gess from Surry county in the session of September 10, 1663. Justice of the peace in 1660. He died in 1669, leaving issue-two sons-William and Thomas.
Codd, Colonel St. Leger, son of William Codd, of Pelicans, Kent, England, esquire, who married, in 1632, Mary, daugliter of Sir Warham St. Leger, of Ulcombe, Kent. In 1671 he was one of the commissioners to superintend the building of a fort on Poto- mac river ; presiding justice of Northumber- land county, Virginia, in 1680; member of the house of burgesses, 1680, 1682. About 1688 he removed to Maryland and was a member of the legislature from Cecil county in 1694 and 1702. He was married twice. By his first marriage he had James and Berkeley Codd, and by his second, with Anna, widow of Theodorick Bland and daughter of Governor Richard Bennett, Cap- tain St. Leger Codd, of Maryland.
Coke, John, goldsmith of Williamsburg, son of Richard Coke, of "Trusley," in Derby- shire, England, a descendant of Sir Francis Coke, was born April 6, 1704; emigrated to Virginia in 1724 and settled in Williams- burg. Ancestor of Richard Coke, United States Senator from Texas. He died in 1767.
Cole, Rev. Samuel, in 1657 served as min- ister of Lancaster county. He died before September 28. 1659.
Cole, William, was a burgess for Nutmeg
He may have been father of Colonel Wil- liam Cole, of the council.
Cole, William, was son of Colonel William Cole, of the council of state, and Martha Lear, his wife. He was born about 1692, and was a member of the house of burgesses for Warwick county in 1715, 1718, 1720, 1723, 1726. In 1721 he was deputy receiver- general and colonel of the militia. He mar- ried Mary Roscow, and made his will in 1729. In the latter part of his life he ap- pears to have lived in Charles City county.
Coleman, Francis, burgess for Caroline county in May, 1769. His daughter Anne married Colonel William Green.
Coleman, Henry, came to Virginia, and in 1635 patented lands in Elizabeth City county, near Thomas Eaton. On October 7, 1634 he was excommunicated for forty days for "using scornful speeches and put- ting on his hat in church."
Collclough, George, was a burgess from Northumberland county in the assembly of 1658-59. He was brother of Thomas Coll- clough, a prominent merchant of London. He married (first) Ursula Bysshe, (second) Elizabeth Thorowgood. He died in 1662.
Colville, John, son of John Colville, of New Castle, England, baker and brewer, and first cousin of Camilla Colville, who married Henry Bennett, earl of Tankerville ; was a burgess for Prince William county in 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747. He was colonel of the militia, and died in Fairfax county in 1756, leaving bequests to the earl's son and to his brother, Thomas Colville, of Fairfax county.
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Coles, John, a native of Enniscorthy, Ire- militia. From him descended a numerous land, was a merchant of Henrico, Vir- offspring in King William, New Kent and Charles City counties. ginia, where he accumulated a large estate. His will was proved in Henrico, March, 1748, and his legatees were his wife Mary, sons Walter. Isaac and John, and brother William. Among his descendants were Ed- ward Coles, governor of Illinois, and Isaac and Walter Coles, members of congress from Virginia.
Coles, Walter, son of John Coles, a mer- chant of Richmond, who emigrated from "Enniscorthy," Ireland, by his wife Mary, daughter of Isaac Winston, of Hanover county, Virginia, was born November 14, 1739, in Hanover county ; was colonel of the militia and burgess for Halifax county in 1765. 1766-1769 and 1769-1771. He married, February 28. 1767, Mildred Lightfoot, daughter of William Lightfoot and his wife, Mildred Howell. He died in Halifax county, November 7, 1780.
Collier, Isaac, came to Virginia about 1660 and settled in York county. He mar- ried a sister of Edward and John Lockey, two London merchants, the former of whom settled in York county and died without issue. Isaac Collier died in 1671.
Collier, Samuel, was a boy who came in the First Supply in January, 1608. He was shortly after left by John Smith with the Warascoyack Indians to learn their lan- guage. He became useful as an interpreter. Il: 1622 he was living at Elizabeth, where he was killed accidentally by a sentinel.
Collier, William, citizen and weaver of London, came to York county in 1670, and finally settled in New Kent county, where in 1675 he was lieutenant-colonel of the
Colston, William, son of a great merchant and warm royalist, William Colston, sheriff of Bristol ; came to Virginia about the mid- dle of the seventeenth century. He had a son William who married Anne Gooch, widow of Captain Thomas Beale, and was a burgess in 1692 and 1699. The family is numerously represented.
Comrie, Dr. William, resided in Henrico county in 1739. His wife was Margaret Baintone, daughter of Josias Baintone, one of the six clerks in chancery in England, and niece of Thomas Pratt, one of the masters in chancery.
Coney, Henry, gentleman, lived at "Coney borough," and was a burgess for Archer's Hope and the Glebe Land in 1629-30, 1632 and 1632-33.
Conway, Edwin, son of Edwin Conway and Sarah Walker, daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel John Walker, was born in 1682, was lieutenant-colonel of the militia of Lancas- ter county and a burgess from 1710 to 1758; vestryman of Christ Church and St. Mary's White Chapel. He died October 3, 1763, leaving issue, Peter and other children.
Conway, Major Peter, was the son of Colonel Edwin Conway and his wife, Anne Ball. He married (first) Elizabeth Spann, of Northumberland; (second) Elizabeth Lee, of the same county. He was a justice of Lancaster county in 1742 ; burgess from I ancaster in the assembly of 1748-1749. He died in 1753.
Cooke, Giles, son of Mordecai Cooke, the
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immigrant to Virginia, was tobacco agent 11! 1714, and was burgess for Gloucester county in the assembly of 1723-1726.
Cooke, John, came from Youghall in the county of Cork, Ireland, and settled in Overwharton parish, Stafford county, Vir- ginia, early in the eighteenth century. He married Elizabeth Travers, daughter of Raleigh Travers and his wife, Hannah Ball, half sister of Mary Ball, mother of Wash- ington. He had issue, a son, Traverse, and three daughters Ann, Hannah and Million.
Cooke, Mordecai, ancestor of a well- known family in Virginia, patented October 2, 1650, 1,174 acres in Mobjack Bay, which he called "Mordecai's Mount." He had issue Mordecai, Thomas, Giles, John, Mary mar- ried Thomas Booth; Frances married Gab- riel Throckmorton, and Susannah married Henry Fitzhugh. He used the same arms as the Cookes of Whitefield, county Suffolk, England. (See Descendants of Mordecai Cooke of Mordecai's Mount," Gloucester county, Virginia, by Dr. William Carter Stubbs).
Cooke, Mordecai, Jr., son of Mordecai Cooke, patented land in 1703, was sheriff of Gloucester county in 1703 and burgess in 1696, 1699, 1700-1702 and 1712-1714.
Cooper, Sampson, of Ripon, Yorkshire, England, alderman, had extensive dealings with Virginia and Maryland, died in North- umberland county in 1659, and was buried at Colonel John Trussell's. He directed that his son Samuel should be sent back to Eng- land and bound out to Samuel Coke, silk- man in London. To son Jonathan, meadow land at Maidstone in Kent ; wife Bridget.
Copeland, John, a Quaker, who suffered much at the hands of the New England Puritans. When Thomas Story, the Quaker, visited him in Isle of Wight county in 1699, he showed him his right ear mutilated by the Puritans.
Cooper, George, a justice of Northumber- land county, colonel of the militia, and bur- gess in 1692, 1699 and 1700-1702. His will dated November 13, 1708, was proved July 18, 1711. Made liberal gifts of land to the churches of his county and for the support of the aged and needful of St. Stephen's parish.
Corbin, Gawin, of Middlesex county, son of Henry Corbin, of the colonial council, was naval officer of the Rappahannock in 1705. He was burgess for Middlesex county in 1698, 1699, 1700-1702, 1703-1705, 1718-1720 and for King and Queen county in 1715. He was county lieutenant. He married three times : (first) Catherine Wor- meley ; (second) Jane Lane, widow of Wil- lis Wilson of Elizabeth City county, and daughter of John Lane of King and Queen, and (third) Martha Bassett. He died Jan- uary I, 1745, and was father of: 1. Richard Corbin, of "Laneville." 2. John Corbin, of "Portobago," Essex county. 3. Gawin Cor- bin, of "Pecatone."
Corbin, Gawin, son of Gawin Corbin and Jane Lane, his wife, lived at "Pekatone," Westmoreland county, and at "Laneville." King and Queen county. He was burgess for King and Queen county in 1736-1740 and for Middlesex county in 1742-1747. He mar- ried Hannah Lee, daughter of Thomas Lee, of "Stratford," Westmoreland county, Vir- ginia, and his will was proved in Westmore- land county January 29, 1760.
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Corbin, John Tayloe, son of Colonel Rich- ard Corbin, of "Laneville," King and Queen county, member of the council, was a bur- gess for King and Queen county 1769-1772, 1772-1774, 1775; did not approve of sepa- ration from Great Britain ; he married Maria Waller, daughter of Judge Benjamin Wal- ler, of Williamsburg; grandfather of Gen- eral Richard Corbin, of the confederate army.
Corker, John, was burgess for Passbehay in the assembly of September 4, 1632, and for Passbehay, James City and Chickahom- iny in that of February, 1633. He was clerk of the house of burgesses in 1645 and was still clerk in 1653. He married Dorcas, born in 1601, and was father of William Corker (q. v.).
Corker, William, son of John Corker (q. 1.) and Dorcas, his wife, was burgess for James City in 1655-1656, and captain of the militia. He married Lucy, daughter of Captain John White. He left three daugh- ters, Susanna, who married George Branch, Judith who married - Clay, and Lucy who married - Jordan. His will was proved in Surry county September 4, 1677.
Corprew, Joshua, was a burgess from Norfolk in the assembly of 1756-1758.
Cotton, Anne, wife of John Cotton of Queen's Creek, York county, Virginia. She wrote an account of Bacon's rebellion en- titled "Our Late Troubles in Virginia. written in 1676 by Mrs. An. Cotton of Q. Creeke" (Force's Tracts I. No. ix). In- ternal evidence shows that she was also the author of "A Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia in the years 1675 and 1676" (Force's Tracts I. No. xi).
Cotton, Rev. William, was minister of Accomac, and brother-in-law of William Stone, first Protestant governor of Mary- land. His mother Joane Cotton in 1640 was living at Bunbury in Cheshire, England. He died in 1640.
Covington, Richard, was a burgess for Essex county in the assembly of 1703-1705, and was justice of the peace and lieutenant- colonel of the militia.
Cowles, Thomas, was burgess for James City county in 1698; sheriff in 1700. He was ancestor of a well-known family in James City county.
Coxe, Richard, was a burgess from Wey- apoke in the assembly of 1632.
Crabb, John, settled in Westmoreland county, Virginia, was a successful merchant and married about 1673 Temperance, daugh- ter of Dr. Thomas Gerrard, and widow of Daniel Hutt, of the same county. He left sons Osman and Thomas Crabb. His brother, Osman Crabb, of Brislington, alias Busselton, Somerset, England, died about 1695, leaving the bulk of his estate to his brother John, of Virginia.
Craddock, Lieutenant William, had charge in 1614 of the first salt works in Virginia on Smith's Island, near Cape Charles. In 1618 he was provost marshal of Bermuda City and of all the hundreds thereto belonging. He died before 1625.
Crashaw, Raleigh (Rawley), member of the Virginia Company of London, came to Virginia in 1608, was prominent in the early adventures, went on a trading expedition up the Potomac at the time of the massacre in 1622, and so escaped death ; member of
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the house of burgesses in 1623; was prob- ably a near relative of Rev. William and his son, the poet, Crashaw.
Crawford (Craford, Crafford), William, was a burgess from Lower Norfolk in the assembly of 1688, and from Norfolk in the assembly of 1696, and in the session of November 16, 1714, and in the assemblies of 1716, 1718, 1720-22, 1723-26, 1736-1740, and 1742-1747.
Crawley, Thomas, son of Robert and Margaret Crawley, was baptized in the par- ish of St. Margaret's, Bristol, August 27, 1637. He resided in Rappahannock county, Virginia, and left issue.
Crew, Randall, was a burgess from Upper Norfolk in the assemblies of 1639, and 1642- 43. and from Warwick in the assemblies of 1645, and 1646.
Crews, Captain James, of Turkey Island, Henrico county, was one of Nathaniel Bacon's most active friends. He was cap- tured by Sir William Berkeley, and hanged. As he never married, his property went to his nephew and niece in England, Matthew Crews, son of Francis Crews, deceased, and Sarah Whittingham, daughter of Edward Crews, deceased.
Cripps, Zachariah, came to Virginia in 1621, burgess for Warwick River, October, 1629, commissioned justice of Warwick River 1631; burgess for Stanley Hundred, 1632-33, and 1639; patented in 1628 100 acres at the end of Mulberry Island, adjoin- ing the land of Gilbert Peppet, deceased.
Croshaw, Joseph, was justice of the peace of York county in 1655; and in subsequent years major of the militia ; and burgess for
York county in 1656, 1659, and 1660. His estate in York county was called "Poplar Neck." In 1687 Colonel John West and Unity his wife, daughter of Major Joseph Croshaw, sold "Poplar Neck" to Edmund Jennings, Esq., who called it "Ripon Hall," after Ripon in Yorkshire, wlience he came.
Crump, Sergeant Thonias, was burgess for James City, February, 1631-32, for Neck of Land, September, 1632. It is probable that he married Elizabeth, a daughter of Rev. Richard Buck.
Culpeper, Captain Alexander, whose father lost "life, liberty and estate in the King's service" was appointed surveyor general of Virginia in 1672, and again in the first year of James II. He appears to have had an interest with Lord Culpeper in the lands in the Northern Neck. He was brother of Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Sir William Berkeley.
Curle, Nicholas, was son of Pasco Curle, of Elizabeth City county, and nephew of Thomas Curle, which last was born in St. Michael's parish, Lewes, county Sussex, England, November 24, 1640 and died in Elizabeth City county May 30, 1700. Nich- olas Curle was member of the liouse of bur- gesses in 1710-1712 and died August 15, 1714. He was grandfather of William Ros- cow Wilson Curle.
Currie, David, a native of Scotland, came to Virginia about 1743 and was minister of Lancaster county till his death in 1792. He came of a good family, and had doubtless received a university education. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Ellyson Armistead, of York county, and Jane An- derson, his wife, and had issue, with other
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children, Ellyson Currie, a distinguished lawyer of Lancaster county, who died in 1829.
Curtis, John, was a burgess from Lancas- ter county in the assembly of 1659-1660. He was son of Major Thomas Curtis and Aver- illa, his wife.
Curtis, Rice, son of Rice Curtis, of Mid- dlesex county, was a magistrate of Spott- sylvania county, major in the militia, and burgess in the assemblies of 1736-1740, 1748- 1749. 1752-1755. 1756-1758. He resigned in 1756 to accept the office of sheriff. His will dated August 8, 1763, names son Rice. and daughters Mary Vass, Martha Pendleton, Elizabeth Waller, Frances Carter and Jane Curtis.
Custis, Hancock, a burgess for Accomac county in 1710-1712.
Dade, Francis, son of William Dade, Esq., of Tannington, county Suffolk, England, came to Virginia about 1650. He was doubtless involved in some royalist plot, for he was for many years, known as John Smith. He married Behethland Bernard, daughter of Captain Thomas Bernard, bur- gess for Warwick county. He died at sea in 1662. He was a major in the militia of Westmoreland county. His widow married Major Andrew Gilson.
Daingerfield, William, son of John Dain- gerfield and Anne Walker, his wife, daugh- ter of Colonel Jolin Walker, of the council, he was burgess for Essex county in 1718, 1723-1726, and 1727-1734. He married Elizabeth Bathurst, daughter of Lancelot Pathurst, attorney-at-law (q. v.). His will was proved in Essex county, November 18. 1735.
Daingerfield, William, Jr., son of William Daingerfield and Elizabeth Bathurst, his wife, was burgess for Essex county in 1754, 1755 and 1756-1758. He married Apphia Fauntleroy, daughter of Colonel Griffin Fauntleroy, of Northumberland county. He died in Essex. April 29, 1769. "at an ad- vanced age," and left issue.
Dalby, Thomas, was burgess from North- ampton county in the assembly of 1761- 1765.
Dale, Edward, a royalist, came to Vir- ginia about 1650. His wife was Diana Skip- with, daughter of Sir Henry Skipwith, of Prestwould, in Lancashire, England. Dale was justice of the peace for Lancaster county, Virginia, from 1669 to 1684; sheriff in 1670, 1671, 1679 and 1680 ; burgess in 1677 and 1682; major of militia in 1680; and clerk of the county from 1655 to 1674. He died February 2, 1695. His daughter Kath- erine married Captain Thomas Carter, of Lancaster county.
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