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violence towards him. i'eirce was one of those who was ordered by the King to be sent to England to answer Harvey's charges but who were never actually prosecuted. He was also one of those to whom the privy council directed the reinstated governor to restore the property he had taken from them. Peirce returned to Virginia on a sort of parole and though once more summoned to England, never went there, as the civil war intervened. He was present in council in 1639 and it seems probable that some other influence had been brought to bear upon the King as he was included in the last royal commission of councillors before the war, dated Aug. 9, 1641. The last mention we have of the councillor is of his being pres- ent in council, Feb., 1644-45. His daughter ter Jane became the third wife of John Rolfe.

West, John, (lej)uty governor of \'irginia (q. v.).

Harvey, Sir John, governor of \ irginia. (q. v.).

Bullock, Hugh, first appears as a councillor in Dec, 1631. He went to England in the fol- lowing spring, Init was back in Virginia and present in the council, in J^eb., 1632-33, and in February and March of the next year. In 1637 ho was one of the members of the coun- cil whom the King directed should be retained, but it is likely that he soon after removed finally to England, and never lived in \'ir- ginia again. On March 12, 1634, "Captain Hugh lUilIocke" received a grant of 2,550 acres on the Pocosin river, in what is now York county. By deed dated Jtily 8, 1637, and recorded in York, "Hugh Bullock of Lon- don, gentleman," conveyed to his son, "Wil- liam Bullock of London, gentleman," his corn- mill, saw-mill and plantation in Virginia. His

wife r^Iary joined in the deed. There can be no doubt that this William Bullock, son of the Councillor, was the author of the rare pam- phlet on \'irginia. In it he states that his father owned land in the colony. In the gen- eral court records, under date of April, 1672, is to be found an entry list of a suit by Robert Bollock, son and heir of William Bullock, ver- sus Col. Peter Jennings, guardian of John Mathews, orphan of Col. Mathews, deceased, in regard to a parcel of land in Warwick county, containing 5,500 acres.

Brewer, John, "citizen and grocer of Lon- don" was a son of Thomas Brewer, probably of the same city, and came to Virginia prior to the 1629. He was a member of the house of burgesses from Warwick county in 1629- 30, and as "John Brewer, gent.," was appointed one of the commissioners (justices) for holding monthly courts in that county in Feb., 1631-32. He was a member of the coun- cil of state from 1632 until his death in 1635. All that is known of Brewer's wife is that her name was Mary, and that in 1636 she consoled herself for his death by becoming the wife of the Rev. Thomas Butler, "Pastor of Denby." The children of John and Mary Brewer were ; John, Roger and Margaret. Councillor Brewer owned a plantation called "Stawley (or Stan- ley) Hundred, otherwise Bruer's Borough," in Warwick county, and not long before his death had obtained rights of 1,000 acres, which his wife and her second husband located and ob- tained a grant for, at what is still called "Brewer's Neck," between Brewer's and Chuckatuck Creeks, in Isle of Weight county. His will, dated Sept. 4, 1631, and proved in London, May 13, 1636, was published in "Waters' Gleanings."

Perry, William, came to Virginia in 161 1.