"Virginia's Descendants" compiles information on Virginia immigrants from many different sources into one file, using the Family Tree Maker 2006 genealogy program. We do not compile mere lists of names and dates, but include all the interesting material we locate on the immigrant and his descendants. The information we gather includes court cases; residences; employment; education; deeds; descriptions of homes; physical traits; personalities; transcriptions of wills; personal correspondence; and even contemporary reports of gossip circulating about individuals during their lifetimes. And we offer this colorful genealogy file to the descendants of Virginia immigrants for a fraction of what it would cost them to obtain the material on their own.

Governor Richard Bennett, a Quaker and a merchant, emigrated from his native England to Virginia before March 29, 1628 when he deposed in a James City Court that he was aged 20 years. He left Virginia for Maryland in 1648, returning in 1651. He resided at "Bennett's Plantation," Warascoyak County, Virginia, later Nansemond County, with his wife, Mary Anne (surname unknown) and raised a family. He died in Nansemond County in 1676, leaving a will.

Of the 557 surnames included, other than Bennett those appearing ten or more times: Alexander, Batte, Beverley, Bland, Brooke, Brown, Bruce, Bryan, Callendar, Carmichael, Carter, Corbin, Corse, Dade, Dudley, DuVal, Evans, Fitzhugh, Fleming, Gilmer, Grinnan, Hill, Johnston, Kennon, Lee, Lowe, Marshall, Mayo, Minetree, Munford, Newton, Page, Peyton, Poythress, Randolph, Reid, Richardson, Ruffin, Russell, Scarborough, Shafer, Sherman, Shields, Sinclair, Sloan, Smith, Sowers, Thom, Thornton, Trigg, Tucker, White, Whittle, Williams, and Woodward.

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