Virginia and Virginians eminent Virginians, executives of the colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore. Executives of the state of Virginia, from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh Lee. Sketches of Gens. Ambrose Powel Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson, Commodore Maury |
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EXECUTIVES.
| 1606, | —Sir Thomas Smyth, or Smith, first President of the Council of the London Company, and its Treasurer. |
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| 1607, | April | 26 | —Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, President of the Council in Virginia. |
| 1607, | Sept. | 10 | —Captain John Ratcliffe, President of the Council in Virginia. |
| 1608, | Sept. | 7 | —Captain John Smith, President of the Council in Virginia. |
| (1609, | May | 23 | —Sir Thomas West, Earl De La Warr, or Delaware, appointed "Governor and Captain General;" did not reach the Colony until June 10th, 1610, the resident executives in the interim being as follows:) |
| 1609, | August | —Captain George Percy, President of the Council in Virginia. |
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| 1610, | May | 23 | —Sir Thomas Gates, Lieutenant-General and Deputy Governor. |
| 1610, | June | 10 | —Earl De La Warr, Governor and Captain General. |
| 1611, | Mar. | 28 | —Captain George Percy, President of the Council. |
| 1611, | May | 19 | —Sir Thomas Dale, "High Marshall" and Acting Governor. |
| 1611, | August | —Sir Thomas Gates, Acting Governor. | |
| 1613, | March | —Sir Thomas Dale, Acting Governor. | |
| 1616, | April | —Captain George Yeardley, Deputy or Lieutenant-Governor. | |
| 1617, | May | 15 | —Captain Samuel Argall, Deputy or Lieutenant-Governor. |
| 1619, | April | 9 | —Captain Nathaniel Powell, President of the Council in Virginia. |
| 1619, | April | 19 | —Sir George Yeardley, who had been knighted and appointed Governor and Captain General, Nov. 18, 1618, arrived in the Colony. |
| 1621, | Nov. | 8 | —Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor and Captain General. |
| 1626, | May | 17 | —Sir George Yeardley (commissioned March 4th), Governor and Captain General. Died November, 1627. |
| 1627, | Nov. | 14 | —Captain Francis West, President of the Council. |
| (1628, | Mar. | 26 | —Sir John Harvey, appointed Governor and Captain General, but did not arrive until later. In the interim, as follows:) |
| 1629, | Mar. | 5 | —Doctor John Pott, President of the Council. |
| 1630, | March | —Sir John Harvey, Governor and Captain General, "thrust out of his government" by the people, but re-commissioned by King Charles I., January 11, 1635. Until his arrival April 2, 1636, the executive was: |
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| 1635, | April | 28 | —Captain John West, President of the Council. |
| 1636, | April | 2 | —Sir John Harvey, Governor and Captain General. |
| 1639, | Nov. | —Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor and Captain General. | |
| 1642, | Feb. | —Sir William Berkeley, who had been commissioned Aug. 9, 1641, arrived as Governor and Captain General. |
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| 1644, | June | —Richard Kempe, President of the Council, Acting Governor during the absence of Sir Wm. Berkeley in England. |
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| 1645, | June | —Sir William Berkeley, Governor. | |
| 1652, | April | 30 | —Richard Bennet, Acting Governor under the Commonwealth of Cromwell. |
| 1655, | March | —Edward Digges, President of the Council under the Commonwealth of Cromwell. |
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| 1658, | Mar. | 13 | —Captain Samuel Matthews, President of the Council under the Commonwealth of Cromwell until January, 1660, from which time the Colony was without a Governor until the election, by the Assembly, |
| 1660, | Mar. | 23 | —Of Sir William Berkeley, as Governor. He was commissioned as such by Charles II., July 31, 1660. |
| 1661, | April | 30 | —Col. Francis Morryson, Deputy or Lieutenant-Governor. |
| 1662, | fall of, | —Sir William Berkeley, Governor. | |
| (1675, | July | 8 | —Thomas Lord Culpeper appointed Governor and Captain General for life—died in 1719. Until his arrival:) |
| 1677, | April | 27 | —Herbert Jeffreys, appointed Governor Oct. 9, 1676, (with Captain Robert Walter as his Deputy, who died Oct. 10, 1676); commissioned Lieutenant-Governor Nov. 11, 1676. Died Dec., 1678. |
| 1678, | Dec. | 30 | —Sir Henry Chicheley, Deputy Governor. |
| 1680, | May | 10 | —Thomas Lord Culpeper, Governor and Captain General. |
| 1683, | Sept. | 17 | —Nicholas Spencer, President of the Council. |
| 1684, | April | 16 | —Francis Lord Howard, Baron Effingham, Lieutenant-Governor; commissioned Sept 28, 1683. |
| 1688, | Oct. | 20 | —Nathaniel Bacon, President of the Council. |
| 1690, | Sir Lionel Copley, Governor. | ||
| 1690, | Oct. | 16 | —Col. Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor. |
| 1693, | Oct. | 16 | —Sir Edmund Andros, who had been commissioned Governor March 1, 1693. |
| 1698, | Dec. | 9 | —Col. Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor; commissioned July 20th, 1698. |
| (1704, | —George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney, commissioned Governor-in-Chief; never came to Virginia; died July 29th, 1737.) |
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| 1705, | Aug. | 15 | —Edward Nott, Lieutenant-Governor; died Aug., 1706. |
| 1706, | August | —Edmund Jenings, President of the Council. | |
| (1707, | April | 4 | —Col. Robert Hunter, commissioned as Lieutenant-Governor, but being captured by the French on his voyage for Virginia, and conveyed to France, never acted.) |
| 1710, | June | 23 | —Col. Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor. |
| 1722, | Sept. | 27 | —Hugh Drysdale; died July 22, 1726. |
| 1726, | July | 22 | —Robert Carter, President of the Council. |
| 1727, | Oct. | 23 | —William Gooch (subsequently knighted), Lieutenant-Governor. |
| (1737, | —William Anne Keppel, Second Earl of Albemarle; appointed Governor-in-Chief Sept. 6, 1737; died Dec. 23, 1754.) |
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| 1740, | —Between Sept. 16th and Dec. 5th, as indicated by land patents, signed respectively by Sir Wm. Gooch and James Blair, D. D., the latter, as President of the Council, was Acting Governor during the absence of Sir Wm. Gooch in command of the expedition against Carthagena. The last patent signed by James Blair was on July 25, 1741. |
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| 1741, | July | —Sir William Gooch, Lieutenant-Governor. | |
| 1749, | June | 20 | —John Robinson, President of the Council. |
| 1749, | Sept. | 5 | —Thomas Lee, President of the Council; died 1751. |
| 1751, | Feb. | 12 | —Lewis Burwell, President of the Council. |
| 1751, | Nov. | 20 | —Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor. |
| (1756, | July | —John Campbell, Earl of Loudon, appointed Governor-in-Chief, and though he came to New York, was never in Virginia.) |
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| 1758, | January | —John Blair, President of the Council. | |
| 1758, | June | 7 | —Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant-Governor; appointed Feb. 10, 1758. |
| (1763, | —Sir Jeffrey Amherst appointed Governor-in-Chief.) | ||
| 1767, | Sept. | 11 | —John Blair, President of the Council. |
| 1768, | Oct. | 28 | —Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor-in-Chief; died Oct. 15, 1770. |
| 1770, | Oct. | 15 | —William Nelson, President of the Council. |
| 1771, | August | —John Murray, Earl Dunmore, Governor-in-Chief; appointed July, 1771; fled, June, 1775, from the seat of Government. |
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