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Lord Baltimore's factor in the tobacco trade. Gerrard was banished from ]\Iary- hmd for taking part in the rebellion of Josias Fendall. He settled at Machodick, Westmoreland county, and his will dated February i, 1672, was proved November 19, 1673.

Gibbes, Lieutenant, was a burgess from Captain Ward's plantation in the assembly of 1619.

Gibson, Jonathan, was burgess from Caroline county in the assembly of 1736- 1740.

Giles (Gyles), John, was burgess from Isle of Wight county in the assembly of 1696-97, 1698, 1699.

Giles (Gyles) Thomas, was a burgess from Isle of Wight county in the sessions of May 13, and June 18, 1702. In 1694 he was one of the justices of Isle of Wight county.

Gill, Captain Stephen, a chirurgeon, pat- ented in 1636 100 acres in Charles River county (York) on account of the personal adventure of his now wife, Ann Gill, and her late husband, Henry Toppin. He was a justice of York in 1652 and burgess in 1653. His will was proved August 2, 1653.

Glassell, Andrew, son of Robert Glassell, of Rucan, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, who lived "near Torthorwald, the castle of the Douglass," was born in Galloway, Scotland, October 8, 1738, emigrated to Madison county, Virginia, in 1756. He built a splen- did mansion upon the Upper Robinson river and called it "Torthorwald." He married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Erasmus Taylor, great-uncle of President Zachary Taylor. He died in Virginia, July 24, 1827,

leaving issue. His brother, John Glassell, was a merchant in Fredericksburg, who acquired a large fortune. On the breaking out of the American revolution he returned to Scotland and resided on his estate, Long Nidry, sixteen miles from Edinburgh. His only daughter and heiress, Joanna, married April 17. 1820, John, seventh Duke of Argyle

Godfrey, Matthew, was a burgess from Norfolk in the sessions of December 5, 1700, May 13, and June 18, 1702. He was son of John Godfrey, whose will was proved in Norfolk county. May 15, 1710.

Godwin, Joseph, burgess for Isle of W'ight county in 1710-1712, 1712-1714, 1723-1726, 1727-1734. He was son of Colonel Thomas Godwin and Martha Bridger, his wife.

Godwin, Rev. Morgan, entered Oxford in 1661 and March 16, 1665, received the Bach- elor of Arts degree. He came to Virginia soon after and took charge of Marston par- ish, York county. He resided for a short time at Jamestown, and after visiting the West Indies returned to England. In 1680 he published a pamphlet against slavery called "The Negroes' and Indians' Advo- cate" and five years later preached a sermon in Westminster Abbey against the evils of the slave trade, thus preceding Wilberforce and Clarkson by more than a century. His father. Rev. Morgan Godwin, was arch- deacon of Shropshire, his grandfather bishop of Hereford, and his great-grandfather, Thomas Godwin, was bishop of Bath and Wells.

Godwin, Thomas, first of the family in Virginia, was burgess for Nansemond county in 1654 and 1655. In 1674 "Capt. Thomas Godwin is referred to as an 'antient'