Burgesses

• Thomas Adams
  Thomas Adams (politician)
  Thomas Adams was a politician and businessman from Virginia.Adams was born in New Kent County in 1730. His first political position was as a clerk of Henrico County, and later a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses...
  
  
• Isaac Allerton Jr.
  Isaac Allerton Jr.
  Isaac Allerton Jr , the son of Mayflower Pilgrim Isaac Allerton and Fear Brewster, and was a Colonel, Merchant, and trader in Colonial America. He was first in business with his father in New England, and after his father's death, in Virginia...
  
  
• Lt. Col. Walter Aston
  Walter Aston
  Lieutenant Colonel Walter Aston was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in the first half of the 17th century....
  
  
• Thomas Barbour
  Thomas Barbour (Virginia)
  Thomas Barbour was a prominent landowner and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Barbour was the father of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton Barbour Thomas Barbour (1735 – May 16, 1825) was a prominent landowner and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Barbour was the father of...
  
  
• Richard Bennett
  Richard Bennett (Governor)
  Richard Bennett was an English Governor of the Colony of Virginia.Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Bennett served as governor from 30 April 1652, until 2 March 1655...
  
  
• John Blair Jr.
• Peregrine Bland
  Peregrine Bland
  Peregrine Bland was an early settler of the Virginia Colony and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.Bland was born in England and entered Emmanuel College on February 26, 1613. In about 1635 he was transported to Virginia...
  
  
• Richard Bland
  Richard Bland
  Richard Bland , sometimes referred to as Richard Bland II or Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was an American planter and statesman from Virginia...
  
  
• Theodorick Bland of Westover
• Colonel Robert Bolling
  Robert Bolling
  Colonel Robert Bolling was a wealthy early American settler planter and merchant.- Ancestry and Early Life :...
  
  
• John Bolling
  John Bolling
  Major John Fairfax Bolling was a colonist, farmer, and politician in the Virginia Colony. He was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane Bolling...
  
  
• Carter Braxton
  Carter Braxton
  Carter Braxton was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a planter, and a representative of Virginia....
  
  
• William Byrd
  William Byrd III
  William Byrd III was the son of William Byrd II and the grandson of William Byrd I. He inherited his family's land in Virginia and continued their planter prestige as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.He chose to fight in the French and Indian War rather than spend much time in Richmond...
  
  
• Richard Callaway
  Richard Callaway
  Richard Callaway was an early settler of Kentucky. Born in Caroline County, Virginia, Callaway joined Daniel Boone in 1775 in marking the Wilderness Road into central Kentucky, becoming one of the founders of Boonesborough, Kentucky...
  
  
• Archibald Cary
  Archibald Cary
  Archibald Cary was a public figure from the colony of Virginia.-Life:Cary was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1756 to 1776...
  
  
• Lt. Walter Chiles
  Walter Chiles
  Lieutenant Colonel Walter Chiles was a Virginia politician and merchant. He moved to Virginia around 1638, and served as a burgess off and on from 1642 to 1653, representing Charles City County and later James City County. He also served on the Governor's council in 1651, but was removed the...
  
  
• Col. David Crawford
  David Crawford (colonel)
  Colonel David Crawford was a member of the House of Burgesses and an early plantation owner in Virginia.David Crawford was born circa 1625, in Scotland, emigrating to the Virginia Colony with his father, John Crawford around 1643...
  
  
• Thomas Dew
  Thomas Dew (politician)
  Thomas Dew was a Virginia landowner and politician. He settled in the vicinity of the Nansemond River by 1634, and represented Upper Norfolk County in the General Assembly of 1642...
  
  
• Capt. Robert Ellyson
• John Fleming
• Col. John George
• Lt. John Gibbs
• Edwin Gray
  Edwin Gray
  Edwin Gray was an 18th century and 19th century politician and lawyer from Virginia.Born in Southampton County, Virginia, Gray attended the College of William and Mary and later served in the House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775...
  
  
• Ambrose Harmer
  Ambrose Harmer
  Ambrose Harmer was a Virginia landowner and politician. An opponent of Governor Sir John Harvey, he served on the Council 1639–41 under his successor, Sir Francis Wyatt. He served in the House of Burgesses 1645–46, and was Speaker in the 1646 session.-References:...
  
  
• Benjamin Harrison
  Benjamin Harrison V
  Benjamin Harrison V was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia. He earned his higher education at the College of William and Mary, and he was perhaps the first figure in the Harrison family to gain national attention...
  
  
• Thomas Harwood
  Thomas Harwood
  Captain Thomas Harwood was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician. He served multiple terms as a burgess in the 1630s and 1640s, and was "one of the chieff of the Mutinous Burgesses" who expelled Governor Sir John Harvey in 1635. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1647–49, and...
  
  
• Patrick Henry
  Patrick Henry
  Patrick Henry was an orator and politician who led the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779 and subsequently, from 1784 to 1786...
  
  
• Edward Hill
  Edward Hill (politician)
  Colonel Edward Hill was a Virginia farmer, soldier and politician. He was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses three different times . He declared himself acting governor of Maryland while leading an expedition to put down Richard Ingle's 1646 rebellion, ceding to the proper governor,...
  
  
• Col. Edward Hill
  Edward Hill (politician)
  Colonel Edward Hill was a Virginia farmer, soldier and politician. He was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses three different times . He declared himself acting governor of Maryland while leading an expedition to put down Richard Ingle's 1646 rebellion, ceding to the proper governor,...
  
  
• John Holloway
• Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
  
  
• Francis Lightfoot Lee
  Francis Lightfoot Lee
  Francis Lightfoot Lee was a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia. As an active protester of issues such as the Stamp Act, Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental Congress...
  
  
• Richard Henry Lee
  Richard Henry Lee
  Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States...
  
  
• Thomas Lee
  Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)
  Thomas Lee was a leading political figure of colonial Virginia. He was a member of the Lee family, a political dynasty which included many figures from the pre-American Revolutionary War era until the late 20th century. Lee became involved in politics in 1710 and he became the resident manager of...
  
  
• Thomas Ludwell Lee
  Thomas Ludwell Lee
  Thomas Ludwell Lee, Sr. was an editor of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. He was the older brother of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, William Lee, and Arthur Lee. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1758-1765, but refused to enter into national politics...
  
  
• Charles Lynch
• Gideon Macon
  Gideon Macon
  Gideon Macon was an early American settler.Gideon Macon's parents were from Loire, France, but Gideon had to have either been born in England or have become an English citizen to have been permitted to come to Virginia since only English citizens could live in the colony at the time...
  
  
• Edward Major
  Edward Major
  Lieutenant Colonel Edward Major was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician.- Life :Major was born in England around 1615. He moved to Virginia in 1635 and became a prominent farmer and militia leader in Nansemond County. He was a Burgess from Upper Norfolk Co...
  
  
• David Mason
  David Mason
  David Mason was an English orchestral, solo and session trumpet player. He played the flugelhorn for the premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's ninth symphony and the piccolo trumpet solo on The Beatles' song "Penny Lane"....
  
  
• Samuel Matthews
  Samuel Matthews
  Captain Samuel Matthews was an English Colonial Governor of Virginia. Matthews came to Virginia Colony in 1622 and was chosen as governor by the House of Burgesses in 1656. In April 1658, mainly to signal their displeasure with Oliver Cromwell, the Burgesses ceremonially dismissed him and...
  
  
• Gov. Samuel Mathews
  Samuel Mathews (Governor)
  Samuel Mathews , of Warwick County in the British Colony of Virginia, was a member of the House of Burgesses, the Governor's Council, and served as Royal Governor of Virginia from 1656 to 1660.-Biography:...
  
  
• George Mercer
  George Mercer (military officer)
  George Mercer was an American surveyor, military officer, and politician from Virginia....
  
  
• James Mercer
  James Mercer (jurist)
  James Mercer , also known as William James Mercer, was born in Virginia at Malborough plantation on February 26, 1736. He was the son of John Mercer and Catherine Mason Mercer...
  
  
• Francis Moryson
  Francis Moryson
  Francis Moryson was an English soldier and Virginia colonial official. A Royalist in the English Civil War, Moryson emigrated to Virginia in 1649, surviving a shipwreck en route. He served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1656, and was on Governor Sir William Berkeley's Council...
  
  
• Robert Carter Nicholas, Sr.
  Robert Carter Nicholas, Sr.
  Robert Carter Nicholas was the son of Dr. George Nicholas and Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas of Williamsburg, Virginia. His father migrated to Virginia; his mother was the daughter of wealthy Virginia landowner, Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman. Born January 28, 1728/9, both parents were dead...
  
  
• John Page
  John Page (Middle Plantation)
  Colonel John Page , a merchant in Middle Plantation on the Virginia Peninsula, was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Council of the Virginia Colony. A wealthy landowner, Page donated land and funds for the first brick Bruton Parish Church. Col...
  
  
• Capt. William Powell
  William Powell (Virginia colonist)
  William Powell , was an early Virginia colonist, landowner, militia officer and member of the first Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619...
  
  
• John Randolph
  Sir John Randolph
  Sir John Randolph of Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg was a Speaker of the House of Burgesses, an Attorney General for the Colony of Virginia, and the youngest son of William Randolph and Mary Isham.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peyton Randolph
  Peyton Randolph
  Peyton Randolph was a planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia. He served as speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, chairman of the Virginia Conventions, and the first President of the Continental Congress.-Early life:Randolph was born in Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia...
  
  
• William Randolph
  William Randolph
  William Randolph was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and government of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He moved to Virginia sometime between 1669 and 1673, and married Mary Isham a few years later...
  
  
• John Robinson
  John Robinson (Virginia)
  John Robinson, Jr. was a politician and landowner in the British colony of Virginia. Robinson served as Speaker of the House of Burgesses from 1738 until his death, the longest tenure in the history of that office.-Career:...
  
  
• Edmund Scarborough
  Edmund Scarborough
  Colonel Edmund Scarborough was an influential early settler of Virginia and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1642 to 1671.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• John Smith
  John Smith (Virginia burgess)
  John Smith , also known as Francis Dade , was a Virginia politician and landowner. He was an English Royalist who emigrated to Virginia some time after the death of Charles I, possibly after involvement in some plot against Oliver Cromwell. In Virginia he adopted the name "John Smith"...
  
  
• Meriwether Smith
  Meriwether Smith
  Meriwether Smith was an American planter from Essex County, Virginia.Smith was first elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1770. He was a vocal opponent of the 1765 Stamp Act, and a representative in the revolutionary conventions that replaced the burgesses in 1775 and 1776...
  
  
• Henry Soane
  Henry Soane
  Henry Soane was a Virginia politician and landowner. He emigrated to Virginia around 1651, settling in James City County along the Chickahominy River. He served in the House of Burgesses 1652–55, 1658, and 1660–61, and was its Speaker in 1661. He is also the great-great grandfather of...
  
  
• Nicholas Spencer
  Nicholas Spencer
  Col. Nicholas Spencer was a London merchant who emigrated to Westmoreland County, Virginia, where he became a planter and which he represented in the Virginia House of Burgesses...
  
  
• Thomas Stegg
  Thomas Stegg
  Thomas Stegg was a Virginia merchant and politician. He was the first Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in the 1643 session, when the Burgesses first met as a separate lower house of the Virginia General Assembly.-References:...
  
  
• Henry Tazewell
  Henry Tazewell
  Henry Tazewell was an American politician who was instrumental in the early government of the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1795.He was the father of Littleton Tazewell...
  
  
• Ensign Washer
  Ensign Washer
  Ensign Washer or Ensign Thos Washer was an early Virginia colonist who settled in the area that became Isle of Wight County, Virginia...
  
  
• George Washington
  George Washington
  George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
  
  
• John Washington
  John Washington
  John Washington was an English Virginia planter and politician. He was the immigrant ancestor and great-grandfather of George Washington, first president of the United States of America.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• Capt. Nathaniel West
  Nathaniel West (captain)
  Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel West of Poplar Neck was a resident and the member for King William County in the House of Burgesses of the US Colony and Dominion of Virginia...
  
  
• William Whitby
  William Whitby
  William Whitby was a Virginia politician and landowner. He served as a burgess 1642–44, in the early stages of the English Civil War, and again from 1652–55, after Virginia surrendered to Parliamentary control. During the 1640s he was a justice of the Warwick County court...
  
  
• Robert Wynne
  Robert Wynne (Virginia politician)
  Robert Wynne was a Virginia politician and landowner. He served in the House of Burgesses 1658 and 1660–74, and was its Speaker 1662–74, the second longest tenure of any Speaker....
  
  
• George Yeardley
  George Yeardley
  Sir George Yeardley was a plantation owner and three time colonial Governor of the British Colony of Virginia. A survivor of the Virginia Company of London's ill-fated Third Supply Mission, whose flagship, the Sea Venture, was shipwrecked on Bermuda for 10 months in 1609-10, he is best remembered...