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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Virginia colloquially named the "Cole Digges House." The eldest son of prominent planter and politician Dudley Digges(1665-1710) and his wife, the former...
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Digges is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cole Digges (burgess) (1691-1744), colonial Virginia merchant, planter and politician Deborah...
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Richard Kemp (1644–1645) Governor Richard Bennett (1652–1655) Governor Edward Digges (1655–1656) Governor Lt. Col. Samuel Mathews (1656–1660, died in office)...
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Denbigh Plantation Site (section Digges Family)
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...
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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...
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counties). This Dudley Digges married Mary Hubard, and none of their children had children. However, their daughter Maria Digges became stewardess of the...
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his Virginia office (the House of Burgesses electing fellow planter Edward Digges governor in his stead), and sailed for England to see Oliver Cromwell...
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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...
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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...
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Digges Jr. and Dudley Digges Jr. advertised for sale between 600 and 800 acres near "New-Port-News", possibly Denbigh plantation. This William Digges...
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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...
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Williamsburg Bray School (redirect from Dudley Digges House)
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...
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house, the Governor's Council, and later that year when his predecessor Edward Digges traveled to England, became the Commonwealth Governor of Virginia, a...
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13 – Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston (d. 1691) March 29 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1674)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597) March 15 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1620)...
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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...
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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...
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