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to i/oo. He left three sons George, Robert and Peter.

Ransone, Peter, father of Captain James Ransone, settled in Elizabeth City countw which he represented in the house of bur- gesses in 1652. • The same year he patented lands on Mobjack Bay in the present Mathews county. He had issue three sons James (q. v.). Cieorge and William.

Ravenscroft, Samuel, came to Boston from England in 1679, and served in the military of Massachusetts with the title of captain. He was a member of the church of l"2ngland. and on June 15. 1686, took steps, with others, to found King's Chapel in Boston and was later one of its wardens. He owned a sloop, which traded to V^ir- ginia. lie was a friend of Governor Andros and when that oiTficial was seized and im- ])risoned by the Boston authorities, the same fate befell Captain Ravenscroft. He was released, and came to X'irginia about the time (1692) when Andros became gov- ernor of that colony. He married Dyonisia. daughter of Captain Thomas Savage, and died about 1695. His widow married (sec- ondly) Thomas Hadley, superintendent of the building of the capitol in Williamsburg (1705)-

Ravenscroft, Thomas, son of Captain Samuel Ravenscroft, was born in Boston June 29, 1688; came to Virginia with his father in 1692. He was sheriff of James City county in 1722. but in 1723 removed to Prince George county, where he pur- chased a tract of land on James river origin- ally patented by Captain Samuel Maycox. killed by the Indians in the massacre of 1622. He was a burgess for Prince George

in the assembly of 1727- 1734, and in that o^ 1734-1740, dying, in the year 1736. He was father of John Ravenscroft, a justice of Prince George count}'. John Stark Ravens- croft, first bishop of North Carolina, was his great-grandson.

Read, Clement, was born in King and Queen county in 1707, was educated to the law, qualified as an attorn-ey in Goochland and Brunswick in 1733. In February, 1746, he became the first clerk of the new county of Lunenburg, which position he held for seventeen years ; burgess for that county in the assemblies of 1748-1749, i752'-i755, 1758 -1761 and 1761-1763; also county lieutenant, presiding magistrate, member of the ves- try. He died January 2, 1763, and was bur- ied at his seat called "Bushy Forest" in the present county of Charlotte.

Read, Clement, Jr., son of Colonel Clem- ent Read (q. v.), succeeded his father as burgess for Lunenl^urg in 1763 and contin- ued a burgess till the session of May, 1765, when he accepted the ol^ce of coroner. He was, however, burgess for the new county of Charlotte in October, 1765, and in 1766- 1768.

Read, Isaac, son of Clement Read (q. v.), was burgess for Charlotte county, succeed- ing his brother Clement in the assemblies of May, 1769 and 1769-1771, and later was a member of the conventions of August, 1774, and March and July. 1775, by which last body he was appointed lieutenant-colo- nel of the Fourth Virginia Regiment. Dur- ing the war he died from exposure, and was buried in Philadelphia.

Reynolds, Charles, is said to have lived ir Isle of Wight, for which he was a bur-