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 BURGESSES AXD OTHER PROMINENT PERSONS

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Bermuda from October, 1O23. to January 13, 1626; served in the expedition to the I^le of Rhe and Rochelle, 1627-28; was mas- ter of the muster of Suffolk county. Eng- land : in i3i was promised by Kin^- Charles the governorshij) of \irginia. He owned six shares of land in Hamilton Tribe, Ber- muda, which he gave to his son llenrv. who settled in X'irginia.

Woodhouse, Henry, son of Captain Henry W'oodhouse, governor of Bermuda. He was born in 1607. came to \Trginia in 1637 and settled in Lower Norfolk county (now Prin- cess Anne). He was justice of the county 1042-43 : member of the house of burgesses 1647 'i"<i 1652, and died in 1655, leaving sev- eial daughters and four sons. Henry. Horatio. John and \\'illiam. who have nu- merous descendants.

Woodhouse, Horatio, son of Henry W'ood- house, of I'rincess Anne county, who died in 1688; was captain of the militia and bur-

gess for Princess Anne in

He was

grandson of Henry Woodhouse, the immi- grant to \ irginia.

Woodlief, Captain John, first went to \'ir- ginia in 1608 and remained eleven years; interested with Richard Berkeley. John Smyth, of Nibley. George Thorpe and Wil- li? m Tracy and other Gloucestershire men ir^ the settlement of Berkeley Hundred, in \ irginia. On December 4. 1619, the Mar- garet arri\ed from Bristol at Jamestown, bringing about thirty-eight passengers, under the command of Woodlief as gov- ernor, but his authority was soon rescinded. In 1626 he owned 550 acres below Jordan's Point, on the south side of James river. The Woodliefs who appear in the records of that region are doubtless his descendants.

Woodson, Colonel John, a descendant of Dr. John \\ Hodscm. who came from Dorset- shire. England, to X'irginia in 1619 with Sir (ieorge Vardley. and lived in Henrico county. He was vestryman of the parish of St. James Northam, and lieutenant-colonel of the (joochland militia. From 1769 to 1775, inclusive, he represented the county in the house of burgesses and was member of the conventions of 1775. 1776. He mar- ried Dorothea Randolph, aunt of President Jeft'erson. He died December 2, 1789, leav- ii!g issue.

Woodward, Christopher, Westover in 1629.

a buriress for

Woodward, Christopher, born 1594, came to \ irginia in 1620, and was burgess for Westover, 1629. Probably he was ancestor of Samuel Woodward, of Charles City county, who married Sarah, daughter of Robert Hallam, and died in 1680, having a son Samuel Woodward, who settled in Mas- sachusetts.

Woodward, Thomas, assayer of the mint in London and a royalist, was dismissed by the parliamentary authorities in 1649, and came to Virginia. At the restoration he and his son John were appointed assay masters, but Thomas remained in Virginia, and was appointed first surveyor-general of Carolina. He patented large tracts of land in Isle of Wight county, Virginia. He had two sons, John, above named, and Thomas, who left descendants in the south.

Woory, Joseph, nephew of Sir John Yea- mans, baronet, was a merchant in Isle of Wight county, and died there in 1694.

Worleigh, George, was a burgess for Charles River county (York) in 1641.