EARLY SETTLERS

Gloucester County, Virginia

... SETTLERS AND THEIR ROLES IN EARLY VIRGINIA

King's Council
Members of the King's Council, the upper house of the Virginia colony's General Assembly. Members were appointed by the Crown on recommendation of Virginia's Royal Governor. The Council was both a legislative body and the General Court.
1657George Reade
1660Augustine Warner I
1670John Pate
1677Augustine Warner II (Warner Hall)
1681Mathew Kemp
1688John Armistead
1690Henry Whiting
1699Mathew Page (Timberneck)
1702Lewis Burwell (Carter's Creek)
1704John Smith
1704John Lewis I (Warner Hall)
1713Robert Porteus (Newbottle)
1714Mann Page (Rosewell)
1719Peter Beverley
1744Lewis Burwell (Carter's Creek)
1768John Lewis II (Warner Hall)
1768John Page (North End)
1773John Page II (Rosewell)
Twelve Virginia Counties, John H. Gwalthmey (The Dietz Press, 1937)

 
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the lower house of the colonial legislature.
1652Hugh Gwinne, Francis Willis
1653Abraham Iversonn, Richard Pate
1654Thomas Breman, Wingfield Webb
1655-56Thomas Ramsey
1657-58Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Elliott, Captain Thomas Ramsey
1658-59Captain Francis Willis, Captain Augustine Warner
1659-60Captain Francis Willis, Captain Peter Jenings, Peter Knight, David Cant
1663Captain Peter Jennings, Captain Thomas Walker
1666Adjutant-General Peter Jenyngs, Captain Thomas Walker
1676Augustine Warner (speaker)
1685Colonel John Armistead
1693Captain James Ransom, John Baylor
1696-97James Ransone, Mordecai Cooke
1702Peter Beverley (speaker), Mordecai Cooke
1706Peter Beverley (speaker)
1710Peter Beverley, Nathaniel Burwell, Ambrose Dudley
1714Peter Peverley, Ambrose Cooke
1718Henry Willis, Thomas Buckner
1720-22Henry Willis, Nathaniel Burwell
1722Giles Cook
1723-26Giles Cook, Henry Willis
1727-36Francis Willis, Lawrence Smith
1740Beverley Whiting, Francis Willis
1742Beverley Whiting, Lewis Burwell
1744Beverley Whiting, Samuel Buckner
1745-49Beverley Whiting, Francis Willis
1752-54Beverley Whiting, John Page
1755-68John Page, Thomas Whiting
1769-75Thomas Whiting, Lewis Burwell
Twelve Virginia Counties, John H. Gwalthmey (The Dietz Press, 1937)

 
Conventions of 1775 and 1776
Gloucester's representatives to the conventions that resulted in the Declaration of Independence.
1775Thomas Whiting, Lewis Burwell
1776Thomas Whiting, Lewis Burwell
Twelve Virginia Counties, John H. Gwalthmey (The Dietz Press, 1937)

Last modified: March 30, 2002
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