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make friends and the case good against him. Sir John Harvey had so carried himself in \'irginia that if he returned he would be pistolled or shot. Harwood appears, from a land grant to his son llumph.rey. to have died in 1652. He patented large tracts of land in Warwick countv, some portion of which is still owned by his c'escendants in the male line.

Mathews, Samuel Jr., was a son of Sam- uel -MathLW.-. giAcruDr of X'irginia. The younger Mathews was, like his father, a sol- dier, and is mentioned in the old records as "Lieutenant Colonel Mathews." He was a burgess for Warwick River county in A])ril. 1652, and again in Nov.. 1654, and was a jus- tice for the same county in 1652. On March 31, 1654-55. he was elected a councillor. His death occurred in or before 1670, and was survived by a son John, then under age.

Perry, Henry, son of Capt. William i'erry. of Charles City county, was a burgess for Charles City in Xov., 1652, and in Xov.. 1654. In Jan., 1655. he was granted a commission allowing him to go with any volunteers who might offer themselves to discover the moun- tains. On March 31, of the year before, he had been elected a member of the council, and on April i, 1658. he was elected again, and was present at meetings held in March. 1659- 60, and on April 4, 1661. Perry married the daughter and heiress of George Mcnifie, Esq., o^ "Ruckland," Charles City county, and ac- quired with her the estate which still bears that name that was late the property of Mr. Wilcox. He had two daughters and co-heiresses, Eliz- abeth, who married John Coggs, of Rainsliff, Middlesex, England, and Mary, who married Thomas Mercer, citizen and stationer of Lon- don.

hill, Edward Sr., is supposed to have been tl:e son of "Master Edward Hill," of Eliza- beth City county, buried there in 1622, who distinguished himself by a brave and success- ful defense of his house against the Indians. Our tirst acquaintance with Col. h^dwanl Hill, the subject of this sketch, is in 1630, when we tind liim living at the famous old X'irginia liome, "Shirle}-," and representing Charles City county in the house of burgesses. Men- tion is again made of him as a burgess for Charles City in 1642. as burgess for Charles City and sjjeaker of the house in Oct., 1644, and in the following year. In March, 1645- 4(j, the assembly ordered Capt. Hill and Capt. Th.omas \\"illoughby to go Maryland and de- mand the return of certain X'irginians who 1;::(1 remained there without permission. W 1 i!c in Maryland. Hill was chosen governor bv the insurrectionist party, and stayed there ill that office for some months. He held a commission from the council of Maryland, dated July 30, 1646, under the name of Gov. Calvert, but it cannot be proved that Calvert really signed it. On Jan. 18, 1646, Edward Hill wrote from Chicacone, Xorthumber- land county, to Leonard Calvert, asking pay- ment of his "sallary in that unhappy service." Gov. Thomas Green answered, promising that his demands should be satisfied. Xear the end ol the year. Gov. Calvert, in command of a small body of troops, entered the Maryland capital and reinstated himself in the govern- ment, whereupon Hill surrendered and re- turned to \'irgmia. In August of the follow- ing, Mr. Broadhurst was charged with saying that "there is now no governor in Maryland, for Captain Hill is governor, and him only he acknowledged." At a meeting of the Mary- land council held June 10, 1648, Capt. Hill demanded from the governor and council "the