christened in Chilham parish on 29 March 1620, Edward Digges was the fourth son of Sir Dudley Digges (1583–1638) and his wife Mary Kempe (1583–?). Sir...

the Virginia Company of London; his son Edward Digges would go on to be Governor of Virginia. Dudley Digges was responsible for the rebuilding of Chilham...

Burgesses. This Edward Digges was the firstborn son of the former Elizabeth Foliott Power and her planter and burgess husband Cole Digges. He was named...

son of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5), who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for two decades but died shortly before Bacon's Rebellion, Digges fled to...

patented in 1661, of the Digges Family, descendants of Edward Digges, who was Governor of Virginia from 1652 to 1668. Digges was an intimate friend of...

Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature. The third son born to the former Elizabeth Foliott Power and her husband Cole Digges, he...

postulate the "dark night sky paradox". Thomas Digges, born about 1546, was the son of Leonard Digges (c. 1515 – c. 1559), the mathematician and surveyor...

her death, Susanna bore sons Cole Digges, Edward Digges (who died in Woodford, England in 1711) and Dudley Digges, as well as a daughter Elizabeth. After...

Virginia colloquially named the "Cole Digges House." The eldest son of prominent planter and politician Dudley Digges(1665-1710) and his wife, the former...

Digges is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cole Digges (burgess) (1691-1744), colonial Virginia merchant, planter and politician Deborah...

Richard Kemp (1644–1645) Governor Richard Bennett (1652–1655) Governor Edward Digges (1655–1656) Governor Lt. Col. Samuel Mathews (1656–1660, died in office)...

Susannah married Dudley Digges and William's own second wife was Anne Digges, both of children of Edward Digges, cementing the Cole-Digges family of Virginia...

County. He was also descended from Virginia governor Edward Digges and his father, Dudley Digges. Knott studied at St. John's Literary Institute in Frederick...

counties). This Dudley Digges married Mary Hubard, and none of their children had children. However, their daughter Maria Digges became stewardess of the...

his Virginia office (the House of Burgesses electing fellow planter Edward Digges governor in his stead), and sailed for England to see Oliver Cromwell...

Assembly 1836-1838, alongside Elias Edmunds in 1836-37 and alongside Edward Digges in 1838; the pair succeeded William R. Smith and Absalom Hickerson (who...

English Civil Wars (during part of which Puritan-leaning Richard Bennett, Edward Digges and Samuel Mathews had replaced him as the colony's chief executive...

Digges Jr. and Dudley Digges Jr. advertised for sale between 600 and 800 acres near "New-Port-News", possibly Denbigh plantation. This William Digges...

Dudley Digges (born John Dudley Digges, 9 June 1879 – 24 October 1947) was an Irish actor, director and producer. Although he gained his initial theatre...

children". Constructed in 1760 by Dudley Digges, the structure has also been known as the Dudley Digges House and Bray-Digges House. Bought by Methodist missionaries...

house, the Governor's Council, and later that year when his predecessor Edward Digges traveled to England, became the Commonwealth Governor of Virginia, a...

13 – Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston (d. 1691) March 29 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1674)...

performance makes it dubious. Leonard Digges, born about 1515, was the only son of James Digges (born c.1473), esquire, of Digges Court and Broome in Barham, Kent...

Leonard Digges (/dɪɡz/; 1588 – 7 April 1635) was a Hispanist and minor poet, a younger son of the astronomer Thomas Digges (1545–95) and younger brother...

upon Pamunkey". West sold the 600 acres, along with adjoining land, to Edward Digges in 1650. It became known as the "E.D." plantation, renamed by later...

grandson of Cole Digges who helped found Yorktown. The other two related men of the same name were his uncle and father in law William Digges who represented...

were Sir Dudley Digges and Sir John Chicheley, making him an uncle by marriage to Commonwealth era Governor of Virginia, Edward Digges 1655-56, and Acting/Lt...

Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597) March 15 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1620)...

Maryland Colony. Bennett was followed by two more "Cromwellian" governors, Edward Digges and Samuel Matthews, although in fact all three of these men were not...

the 18th. Mary Digges was born in 1745 at her family's home of Mellwood Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, to Ignatius Digges and Elizabeth Parnham...