Articles from the Dictionary of Virginia Biography


Adams, Pauline (1874–1957)


Aggie, Mary (fl. 1728–1731)


Aiken, Archibald Murphey (1888–1971)


Alfriend, Edward M. (1837–1901)


Allan, Edgar (1842–1904)


Allan, William (1837–1889)


Allen, Arthur (1608–1669)


Allen, Arthur (ca. 1652–1710)


Ambler, James M. (1848–1881)


Amherst, Sir Jeffery (1717–1797)


Anderson, Joseph Reid (1813–1892)


Andrews, V. C. (1923–1986)


Andros, Sir Edmund (1637–ca. 1714)


Ann (fl. 1706–1712)


Archer, Fletcher H. (1817–1902)


Argall, Samuel (bap. 1580–1626)


Ashuaquid (fl. 1607)


Atwell, Joseph Sandiford (1831–1881)


Aulick, John H. (ca. 1791–1873)


Babcock, Lemuel E. (1809–1897)


Bacon, Nathaniel (1647–1676)


Bacon, Nathaniel (bap. 1620–1692)


Bagby, George William (1828–1883)


Bailey, Odessa Pittard (1906–1994)


Baldwin, John Brown (1820–1873)


Banister, John (1649 or 1650–1692)


Banks, William Lester (1911–1986)


Barrett, James D. (1833–1903)


Barron, Samuel (1809–1888)


Basse, Nathaniel (bap. 1589–1654)


Batte, Thomas (fl. 1630s–1690s)


Beale, R. L. T. (1819–1893)


Beall, John Y. (1835–1865)


Bennett, Richard (bap. 1609–ca. 1675)


Berkeley, Frances Culpeper Stephens (1634–ca. 1695)


Berkeley, John (ca. 1560–1622)


Berkeley, Norborne, baron de Botetourt (1717–1770)


Berkeley, Sir William (1605–1677)


Berry, Sir John (baptized 1636–1690)


Beverley, Robert (bap. 1635–1687)


Beverley, Robert (d. 1722)


Billy (fl. 1770s–1780s)


Black, Leonard A. (1820–1883)


Blackford, W. W. (1831–1905)


Blackwell, James Heyward (ca. 1864–1931)


Blaikley, Catherine Kaidyee (ca. 1695–1771)


Blair, Francis Simpson (1839–1899)


Blair, James (ca. 1655–1743)


Blair, John (ca. 1687–1771)


Bland, Anna Bennett (d. 1687)


Bland, Edward (bap. 1614–1652)


Bland, Richard (1710–1776)


Bohun, Lawrence (d. 1621)


Boland, Robert J. (1850–1918)


Bolling, Robert (1738–1775)


Bolling, Stith (1835–1916)


Borden, Benjamin (1675–1743)


Bouldin, Powhatan (1830–1907)


Bowden, Thomas Russell (1841–1893)


Bowser, Rosa L. Dixon (1855–1931)


Bragg, George Freeman (1863–1940)


Branch, Tazewell (1828–1925)


Braxton, A. Caperton (1862–1914)


Braxton, Carter (1736–1797)


Braxton, Carter Moore (1836–1898)


Breckinridge, Cary (1839–1918)


Breedlove, William (ca. 1820–1871)


Brent, George (ca. 1640–by 1700)


Brent, Giles (ca. 1652–1679)


Bridges, Charles (bap. 1672–1747)


Brock, Sarah Ann (1831–1911)


Brooks, Albert Royal (c. 1817–1881)


Brooks, Robert Peel (1853–1882)


Brown, Edward Wellington (d. 1929)


Brown, George O. (1852–1910)


Brown, Goodman (1840–1929)


Brown, Henry Box (1815 or 1816–after February 26, 1889)


Brown, Thomas Henry (1864–1952)


Browne, William Washington (1849–1897)


Bryan, Corbin Braxton (1852–1922)


Bryan, Daniel (ca. 1789–1866)


Bryan, John Stewart (1871–1944)


Bryan, Joseph III (1904–1993)


Buck, Carrie Elizabeth (1906–1983)


Bucke, Richard (1581 or 1582–ca. 1624)


Burch, Thomas Granville (1869–1951)


Burnham, Horace Blois (1824–1894)


Burns, Anthony (1834–1862)


Burwell, Lewis (1651 or 1652–1710)


Burwell, Lewis (1711 or 1712–1756)


Burwell, Lewis (bap. 1622–ca. 1652)


Burwell, Lewis (d. 1743)


Burwell, Lucy (1683–1716)


Burwell, Nathaniel (1750–1814)


Butt, Israel LaFayette (1848–1916)


Butt, Martha Haines (1833–1871)


Byrd, William (ca. 1652–1704)


Cabell, James Branch (1879–1958)


Cameron, William Evelyn (1842–1927)


Camm, John (bap. 1717–1779)


Campbell, Preston White (1874–1954)


Canada, David (fl. 1867–1869)


Carlile, John S. (1817–1878)


Carpenter, Miles Burkholder (1889–1985)


Carr, David Green (1809–1883)


Carr, Peter (1770–1815)


Carter, Edward (d. by 1682)


Carter, James B. (ca. 1816–1870)


Carter, John (1695 or 1696–1742)


Carter, John (ca. 1613–1670)


Carter, Landon (1710–1778)


Carter, Robert (1728–1804)


Carter, Robert (ca. 1664–1732)


Carter, Robert Randolph (1825–1888)


Carter, William Richard (1833–1864)


Caruthers, William Alexander (1802–1846)


Carver, William (d. 1676)


Cary, Miles (bap. 1623–1667)


Chalmers, Anna Maria Mead (1809–1891)


Chaloner, John Armstrong (1862–1935)


Chamberlaine, William W. (1836–1923)


Charity, Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood (1924–1996)


Chauco (fl. 1622–1623)


Cheesman, Edmund (d. 1677)


Chicheley, Sir Henry (1614 or 1615–1683)


Chiles, Walter (1609–after July 6, 1653)


Christian, William S. (1830–1910)


Claiborne, William (1600–1679)


Clark, Matt (ca. 1844–after 1892)


Clayton, John (1656 or 1657–1725)


Clayton, John (1695–1773)


Clements, James H. (1831–1900)


Cline, Patsy (1932–1963)


Cockacoeske (d. by July 1, 1686)


Cocke, Edmund R. (1841–1922)


Cocke, Philip St. George (1809–1861)


Cocke, William (1672–1720)


Coleman, Asa (d. after February 24, 1893)


Colston, Raleigh Edward(1825–1896)


Commodore, Aaron (1819 or 1820–1892)


Connor, Miles (d. 1893)


Cook, Fields (ca. 1817–1897)


Cook, George Major (1860–1930)


Cooke, Giles Buckner (1838–1937)


Cooke, John Esten (1830–1886)


Cooke, Philip Pendleton (1816–1850)


Cooke, Philip St. George (1809–1895)


Cooper, Susannah Sanders (d. after June 9, 1751)


Copeland, Joseph (d. after April 22, 1691)


Copeland, Walter Scott (1856–1928)


Corbyn, Henry (1628 or 1629–ca. 1676)


Cornish, Richard alias Richard Williams (d. after January 3, 1625)


Cotton, Ann (fl. 1650s–1670s)


Cotton, John (d. after October 24, 1683)


Cox, Earnest Sevier (1880–1966)


Cox, Lucy Ann White (d. 1891)


Craford, William (d. by April 15, 1762)


Crewes, James (1622 or 1623–1677)


Cromwell, John Wesley (1846–1927)


Crutchfield, Stapleton (1835–1865)


Culpeper, Thomas, second baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1635–1689)


Curtiss, Gaston G. (1819–1872)


Custalow, George F. Thunder Cloud (1865–1949)


Custis, Daniel Parke (1711–1757)


Custis, John (1678–1749)


Dabbs, Isaac (ca. 1848–after 1910)


Dabney, John (ca. 1824–1900)


Dabney, Robert Lewis (1820–1898)


Dabney, Virginius (1901–1995)


Dale, Sir Thomas (d. 1619)


Daniel, John Warwick (1842–1910)


Daniel, Raleigh Travers (1805–1877)


Daniel, Wilbur Clarence Dan (1914–1988)


Daniels, Edward Dwight (1828–1916)


Davies, Samuel (1723–1761)


Dawson, Thomas (1715–1760)


Dean, Jennie Serepta (1848–1913)


Digges, Edward (1621–1675)


Dinwiddie, Emily Wayland (1879–1949)


Drummond, William (d. 1677)


Drysdale, Hugh (1672 or 1673–1726)


Duncan, Pauline Adelaide Haislip (1888–1973)


Dyer, Carrie Victoria (1839–1921)


Fauquier, Francis (bap. 1703–1768)


Fay, Lydia Mary (ca. 1804–1878)


Keppel, William Anne, second earl of Albemarle (1702–1754)