Colonel Nathaniel CLAIBORNE

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• Fact: Son of Capt. Thomas Claiborne and Ann Fox

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He was Justice of the Peace and Sheriff of King William County and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for King William County in 1768 and 1769. Colonel Claiborne was the owner of Sweet Hall Plantation during his lifetime.

Nathaniel married Jane COLE in 1735 in Boldrup Plantation, Wawick, Virginia. Jane was born in 1719 in Boldrup Plantation, Warwick, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Cole CLAIBORNE was born on 7 Mar 1737/8 in Sweet Hall Plantation, Old New Kent, Virginia; died on 10 Nov 1771 in Elsing Green Plantation, King William, Virginia.
2. Anne CLAIBORNE was born in 1746 in Sweet Hall Plantation, Old New Kent, Virginia; died on 21 Oct 1821 in Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts.
3. Colonel William CLAIBORNE was born on 22 Jul 1748 in Sweet Hall Plantation, Old New Kent, Virginia; died on 29 Sep 1809 in Richmond, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.

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• Fact: So of Lt. Colonel Thomas Claiborne and Sarah Fenn

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He was captain of dragoons in the King William County militia in 1702. He held 1,000 acres in the county in 1704 and received a patent for the 1,800 acres included in his plantation as "Sweet Hall" on 5 Sep 1723. Thomas was the grandson of Governor William Claiborne of Crayford Parish, co. Kent, who arrived in Jamestown on the ship "George" in Oct 1621. Elizabeth Butler, wife of Governor Claiborne, was of royal and noble ancestry. Governor William Clayborne/Claiborne was an English pioneer, surveyor and an early settler in Virginia and Maryland, who became a wealthy planter, trader and a major figure in the politics of the colony. "William Claiborne may have been the most consistently influential politician in Virginia throughout the whole of the pre-Restoration period," wrote historian Robert Brenner.

Thomas married Ann FOX in 1701 in King William, Virginia. Ann (daughter of Henry FOX, Gent and Ann WEST) was born on 20 May 1684 in King William, Virginia; died on 4 May 1733 in Puddlecoke Manse, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John Fox

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He was a vestryman and warden of st. John's Episcopal Church and justice of King and Queen County (1698-99). John was first sheriff of King William County in 1702 and senior presiding justice, who owned 2,000 acres there in 1704. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1710-12 and resided in Huntington (on the Mattaponi river), King William County. The Fox family kept in close touch with England for several generations. Henry Fox went there and his grandson was educated there. Henry arrived in London in May 1655 in the "Thomas and Mary", John fox commander. Henry's father John arrived at Jamestown in the fall of 1625 (at age 19). John Fox commanded several trading vessels that sailed the Atlantic between Virginia and London. he was ordered to command "The White Horse and Curry Comb" on a voyage to Virginia in 1650 and was master of the "Resurrection" in 1662 when his brother, Stephen Fox, a passenger on John's vessel, made his will remembering his four other brothers and sister.

Henry was the grandson of Thomas Fox, who was a member of the Virginia Company of London in 1609. Thomas died in England while his son John Fox was at sea on his way to Jamestown. John bought 200 acres of land in Gloucester County, Virginia about 1682. His son and heir, Henry, granted a patent for the land which his father had purchased from Thomas Hanks, and also for an additional 100 acres.

Henry married Ann WEST in 1673 in West Point Plantation, King William, Virginia. Ann (daughter of Col. John WEST and Unity CROSHAW) was born in 1655 in West Point Plantation, King William, Virginia; died in 1708 in Jamestown, Jamestown City, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: 15 Nov 1689, Date of Will

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Col. John West, served as captain, major and lieutenant colonel of militia, 1652-73, loyal to Governor Berkeley during Bacon's rebellion; member House of Burgesses, died testate (will dated 15 Nov 1689).

He is purported to be the first white child born on the York River, and in consideration of this fact, was granted land at West Point which was entailed for several generations. (Note: His will of 15 Nov. 1689 was probated about 1691/2. it was destroyed along with the other County records in a fire in 1787.) Colonel John West acquired land in the seventeenth century, where he built a fine, small brick Jacobean lodge before 1690, the East dependency of the manor house. It became known as the Elsing Green plantation. Colonel West's son, Captain Nathaniel West, inherited Elsing Green upon his father's death in 1692.

John married Unity CROSHAW before 4 Nov 1664. Unity was born on 8 Feb 1635/6 in West Point Plantation, King William, Virginia; died on 20 Apr 1669 in New Kent, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the daughter of Major Joseph Crowshaw, who was an attorney. Joseph was a burgess in 1677, justice in 1659, sheriff in 1656 and a member of the Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg.