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William Whitlaker," his name appears in a list of members present, Nov. 29, 1659. He died sometime between March 18, 1662, the date of the last grant of land to him, and Oct. 2S, 1666, when "^Ir. Richards Whittaker" was granted 135 acres in James City county, 100 acres of which had been given him by "^lajor William Whittaker, his deceased father."' He was probably a near relative of Rev. Alex- ander Whitaker. He left numerous descend- ants.

Hammond, Mainwaring, who had been an officer in the royal army during the civil war, came to Virginia early in the year 1650. Col. Henry Norwood, also a cavalier officer, says in his "\"oyage to Virginia." that when he landed in York county, Feb. 13, 1650, he found that Capt. Wormeley, of his majesty's council, had "guests at his house feasting and carousing that were lately come from Eng- bnd," and that most of them were of the writer's "intimate acquaintance." These guests were Sir Thomas Lunsford, Sir Henry Chicheley, Col. Philip Honeywood, afterward Sir Philip, and Col. Hammond. So far as the records show, Col. Hammond held no public office until Gov. Berkeley was restored to power in 1660. Soon after his arrival in Vir- ginia, however, he acquired by patent a large tract of land. On March 15, 1649 (probably 1650) "Manwaring Hammond Esq.," was granted "3,760 acres on York River, on the south side called Fort Royall, 600 acres of which he purchased from Captain Marshall, and the remainder of which was due for the transportation of sixty persons to Virginia." On Nov. II, 1659, as "Col. Mainwaring Ham- mond," he was granted 600 acres adjoining the above. As soon as Sir William Berkeley was reelected governor, Hammond, who seems

t'.^ have been one of his favorites, w^as brought into the public service. At the session of March, 1659-60, the assembly ordered that "Collonell ]\Iannering Hammond, according to the desire of Sir William Berkeley, Kn't., Gov- ernor and Capt. Generall of Virginia, be con- stituted, authorized and made Major General of Virginia." In Oct., 1660, the governor and assembly employed Maj. Gen. Hammond and Col. Guy ^Molesworth, another distinguish- ed cavalier officer, to go to England and pro- cure from the King pardon for the Vir- ginians for submitting to the parliamentary authority. In their lack of knowledge as to what might be the policy of the restored royal government, this was no act of mere syco- phancy on the part of the colonists, but may have been necessary to secure them from fines or other legal penalties. It was ordered that the two agents should be paid 11,000 pounds of tobacco apiece out of the levies of that year and 11,000 more the next year. It was in 1660 also that Gen. Hammond was ap- pointed to the council, but few references to his services as a member of that body have come down to us. On Feb. 3, 1661, he and Col. Edward Hill sat with the court of Charles City county as itinerant judges, and, on Nov. 6, of the same year, he was present as a councillor. It is likely that he soon after sailed for England and never returned to Vir- ginia. He had a brother in Virginia named Francis Hammond.

Ludwell, Thomas, was son of Thomas Ludwell, of Bruton, in Somersetshire, Eng- land, and Jane Cottington, his wife, daughter of James Cottington and niece of Philip, Lord Cottington. His father was church w^arden of Eruton and steward of the Sexey Hospital in that town. He was born January 25, 1628-