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 which is identified in an illustrious degree with the subsequent history of England either in a social or political way. The following is the list: Micajah Perry, Thomas Lane, James Dryden, Jonathan Mathews, Richard Cox, Samuel Groom, Anthony Stratton, John Cary, Josiah Bacon, John Blackall, John Browne, Edward Littlepage, Robert Bristow, James Wagstaffe, John Taillor, Robert Ruddle, Arthur Bayley, Robert Bristow, Jr., Timothy Keyser, John Cooper, George Richards, Daniel Parker, Christopher Morgan, Sr., Peter Paggin. See British State Papers, America and West Indies, No. 512; McDonald Papers, vol. VII, pp. 251, 252, Va. State Library. Among the other English merchants who were engaged in the trade with Virginia were the following: York County&#8212;Stephen Duport, Peregrine Browne, John Lee, Joseph Hunter, Joseph Francis, Daniel Jenkins, Samuel Dean, Richard Starkey, Thomas Walsh; Lower Norfolk&#8212;William Bird of Bristol, Nathan Stainesmore, William Atterbury of London, Francis Wells, Thomas Meriwether, Joseph Knott, John Munyon, John Kick, Isaac Merritt, James Harris (some of these merchants refer to themselves now as of England, and now as of Lower Norfolk); Accomac&#8212;Thomas Willbourne of York, Francis Lee of London; Rappahannock&#8212;David Griffin of London, George Daly of Plymouth, John Nuttall, Thomas Griffith, Francis Benton, William Jenkins, Richard Gower; Middlesex&#8212;William Twigg of Dublin, Daniel Stoodeley of London, Francis Moore of Dublin, George Lee, Roger Burrough, Gawin Corbin, Edward Hill, John Bowles, Perient Trott, Richard Wilson, John Jeffreys, James Cary, William Crisp, all of London; Richard Lonnon of Dublin, Henry Ashton of Liverpool, John Goodwin, Jonathan Mathews, John Taylor; Lancaster&#8212;Thomas Ellis, Edward Harper, both of London; William Jennings, Anthony Cock of Bristol, John Hinde, Philip Taylor, Mathew Pitt, Philip Whistler of London, Thomas City, Francis Febran, Thomas Chitwood, Robert Hooper, John Fish, Thomas Booth, John Drake, all of London; Thomas Cooper, Joseph Hunt, and John Jayne of Bristol; Northampton&#8212;Nicholas Jackson, Thomas Heeman, Isaac Foxcroft, Ralph Allen, Thomas Buckner, Richard Corkhill of Biddeford, Henry Scarborough, John Martyn, John Bryce, Edward Prescott of London, Joseph Hunt of Bristol. The estates of many of these merchants at their deaths were inventoried in Virginia, showing that they were property holders if not residents at onetime of the Colony. Thomas Chitwood is referred to sometimes as of Lancaster, and sometimes as of England. &#8220;Some from being wool hoppers and of meaner employment in England,&#8221; remarks the author of Leah and Rachel, &#8220;have in Virginia become great merchants and attained to the most eminent advancement the Country afforded.&#8221; p. 20, Force&#8217;s Historical Tracts, vol. III.