• Henry Fitzhugh (January 15, 1706 – December 6, 1742) was an American planter and soldier who served two terms in the House of Burgesses representing then-vast...
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  • York Henry FitzHugh (MP), for Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency) Henry Fitzhugh (burgess) (1706–1742), Virginia planter, burgess Henry Fitzhugh (sheriff)...
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  • Henry Fitzhugh (January 15, 1686 – December 12, 1758) was an American planter who served a term in the House of Burgesses and whose portrait was painted...
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  • 1358–1425) Henry Fitzhugh (sheriff) (1686–1758), American planter Henry Fitzhugh (burgess) (1706–1742), American planter and soldier Henry Fitzhugh (assemblyman)...
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    decades after Fitzhugh's death). His cousin Col. Henry Fitzhugh (1723–1783; son of Burgess Henry Fitzhugh who died in 1745) having died, Fitzhugh acquired...
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    William Henry Fitzhugh (March 9, 1792 – May 21, 1830) was Virginia planter and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as...
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  • Fellgate) Henry Field, Jr. (sometimes spelled Feild, Jr.) Henry Filmer George Fitzhugh Henry Fitzhugh Henry Fitzhugh (Major) John Fitzhugh William Fitzhugh William...
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  • Edward Barradall (category Fitzhugh family of Virginia)
    daughter and granddaughter of planters named William FitzHugh, and sister of Burgess William Fitzhugh. They had a son, Edward Barradall, Jr., orphaned as...
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    In this way, Fitzhugh contended that "Slavery protects the infants, the aged and the sick," along with the healthy and the strong. Fitzhugh declared that...
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    Company and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), signers of the American Declaration...
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  • George Mason I (category House of Burgesses members)
    only William Fitzhugh for several years. In 1680, the House of Burgesses was expanded, and voters elected Mason to serve alongside Fitzhugh, though Mason...
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    married William Fitzhugh Sr. (1730). (According to some sources, Lee had four children with Mary Bland: John, Richard, Lettice/Letitia, and Henry.) Some sources...
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    Dent Sr. (1660–1705). Ann Lee (1683–1732), who married 1) Hon. William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1679–1713) of "Eagle's Nest" in King George County and 2) Capt. Daniel...
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  • political influence grew in the colony, as he came to chair the House of Burgess' Committee for Elections and Privileges, and also held a high-ranking seat...
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    given a place to live and be nursed at the home of an uncle, William Henry Fitzhugh, the Fairfax County plantation of Ravensworth. Anne Hill Carter Lee...
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  • 1742). His grandfather, also Henry Fitzhugh, had represented then-vast Stafford County, Virginia in the House of Burgesses several times before his death...
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    owned by the Brown family, descendants of the Rusts through Henry's daughter Elizabeth Fitzhugh Rust Brown. The Federal style house has a central hall, single...
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    Thomas Cromwell (category People executed under Henry VIII)
    Commons as a burgess, though the constituency he represented has not been identified with certainty. He prepared a daring speech against King Henry's declared...
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    Washington Parke Custis who left it in his will to his grandson, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee through his daughter, Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee who had married...
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    plantation. Henry married Judith, the daughter of speaker of the House of Burgesses Henry Soane, with whom they had a son, Captain Henry Randolph. Henry Randolph...
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    Road and Burgess Mill near the end of the Confederate line where he picked up the two brigades of Brigadier Generals Matt Ransom and William Henry Wallace...
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    Vincent, Nicholas, eds. (2007). Henry II: New Interpretations. Boydell Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6. Wace (2004). Burgess, Glyn S. (ed.). The History...
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    Side Railroad. Anderson left a small force behind and left Burgess Mill to join Fitzhugh Lee at about 6:30 p.m. Anderson arrived about 2:00 a.m. on April...
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    infantry and cavalry under Major General George Pickett and Major General Fitzhugh Lee. Sheridan's men gave way at various locations during the day but fought...
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  • Thomas Ludwell Lee (category House of Burgesses members)
    Richard Henry Lee, won his first of what would be many terms in the House of Burgesses. Moreover, Francis Lightfoot Lee won his first term as Burgess from...
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  • George Mason II (category House of Burgesses members)
    Thorogood, in 1688. The couple had the following children: Ann Fowke Mason Fitzhugh Darrell Smith Elizabeth Mason Roy George Mason III (1690–March 5, 1735)...
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    John Custis (category House of Burgesses members)
    politician, government official and military officer who sat in the House of Burgesses from 1705 to 1706 and 1718 to 1719, representing Northampton County, Virginia...
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    Madeline recorded a song titled "The Legend of the Bell Witch" in 2014. Pat Fitzhugh and Mike Richards released an Americana folk song "The Bell Witch (Let...
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    Charles Carter (of Cleve) (category House of Burgesses members)
    County in the House of Burgesses from 1736 until his death in 1764. He served alongside fellow planters Thomas Turner and Henry Turner for many years,...
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    William Randolph (category Speakers of the Virginia House of Burgesses)
    Randolph, the eighth Governor of Virginia and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh. Henry Randolph (born between 1681 and 1686) did not marry. Mary Randolph...
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