EDWARD NOTT.
Edward Nott, born in 1654, succeeded, August 15, 1705, as the
deputy of the Earl of Orkney, Francis Nicholson, in the resident government
of Virginia.
Governor Nott procured the passage, in October, 1705, by the assembly,
of an act for the building of a palace for the governor, with an appropriation
of £3,000, also an act establishing the general court, but
the last was disallowed by the British Board of Trade. During Governor
Nott's administration the College of William and Mary was destroyed
by fire. Governor Nott died, greatly lamented by the Colony,
August 23, 1706, and in the epitaph upon the handsome tomb to his
memory, still standing in the church yard of Old Bruton Church, in
Williamsburg, the regard in which he was held is thus testified: "In
his private character he was a good Christian, and in his public a good
Governor. He was a lover of mankind and bountiful to his friends.
By the prudence and justice of his administration he was universally
esteemed a public blessing while he lived, and when he died it was a
public calamity. * * * In grateful remembrance of whose many
virtues, the General Assembly of this Colony have erected this monument."
