Philip LUDWELL
(1672-1727)

 

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Hannah HARRISON

Philip LUDWELL

  • Born: 1672
  • Marriage: Hannah HARRISON
  • Died: 1727 at age 55

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. LUDWELL, PHILLIP (1672-1727), auditor, member of and president of the Council, and rector of the College of William and Mary. ("Ludwell Family," )
[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/berkeley/public/Cbiodir.html]

father?
LUDWELL, PHILLIP (c. 1638-1717?), emigrated from England about 1660, rising to Council membership in 1675. He supported Governor Sir William Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion, and married Berkeley's widow, Frances, in 1677. He was a stormy character, fighting with governors, losing and winning back his Council seat on two occasions. He became agent for the proprietors of the Northern Neck in 1689 although he was rarely in the colony and employed deputies. He returned to England where he represented the House of Burgesses, later served as governor of Northern Carolina and of North and South Carolina, returning to England in 1700 where he lived seventeen more years. ("Ludwell Family" ; "Philip Ludwell's Account," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1(1893-1894):174-186; Davis, p. 41; and the Dictionary of American Biography)


Philip married Hannah HARRISON. (Hannah HARRISON was born in 1679 and died in Apr 1731 in James City County, VA.)



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