Burgesses of Lancaster CountyAuthor(s): Lyon G. TylerSource: The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1897), pp. 260-261Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914931 .

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260 WMLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY.

BURGESSES OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

COMPMED FROM THE COUNTY RECORDS BY THE EDITOR.

Capt. [Moore] ffauntleroy, 1651. Capt. [Moore] ffauntleroy, 1656. Peter Montague, 1658. Coll. John Carter, 1658, 1660. Mr. Henry Corbin, 1659. Mr. [John] Curtis, Nov. 1660.- Mr. Rawleigh Travers, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1666, 1667, 1668,

1669, 1670 (8 days). Mr. Wyllis, 1667. Williamson Ball, 1670, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1677. Capt. David Fox, 1677, 1680. Major [Edwardj Dale, 1677, 1682-'3 (one session). Capt. Ball, 1682-'3 (2 sessions). William Ball, 1686. Capt. William Ball, 1688 (32 days), 1690 (43 days),

1692. Capt. John Pinkard, 1688 (32 days). Mr. Robert Carter, 1690, 1692, 1697, 1698. John Stretchley, 1694 (45 days). Capt. Joseph Ball, 1694 (44 days), 1698. Mr. George Heale, 1694 (44 days). Mr. Heale, 1697. Col. Robert Carter, 1699. Capt. Alexander Swan, 1699. Col. Jos. Ball, 1701. Capt. Wm. Fox, 1701. Lt. Coll. Joseph Ball, 1702. Capt. Fox, 1702. Mr. Jno. Turberville, 1704. Capt. Wi. Ball, 1704. Major Lister, 1705. Capt. Ball, 1705. Major Win. Lister, 1706. Capt. William Ball, 1706. Mr. Edwin Conway, 1711, 1712, 1713, 1719. Major Edwin Conway, 1715, 1718. Wm. Ball, 1711. Major Wm. Ball, 1712, 1713, 1715.

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CHRISTAN F1mmy. 261

Mr. James Ball, 1715, 1718, 1719. Capt. Edwin Conway, 1728. Mr. Chas. Burgess, 1728, 1732. Edwin Conway, 1732, 1734. Capt. James Ball, 1734, 1740. Coll. Edwin Conway, 1740.

CHRISTIAN FAMILY.

Owing to the destruction of the New Kent county records, and the partial destruction of the Charles City county records, it is difficult to connect this family with any of the English families of the same name in the Isle of Man and other places. Investiga- tions in British wills and other records on the other side of the ocean may some day supply the loss.

We know that the Virginia progenitor of the familywas 1, THOMAS'

CHRISTIAN. As "Mr. Thomas Christian" he patented, Oct. 21, 1687, 1080 acres in Charles City county. While the family did not assume in the eighteenth century the important position it has enjoyed in the nineteenth; the term "iMr.," accorded to the im- migrant, is indicatiue of social standing. In 1694 "Thomas Christian, Sen." got a patent for 193 acres south of Chickaho- miny Swamp. The "Sen." here shows that there was another Thomas Christian, who was probably a son of the elder Thomas and already of age. Then we find 2, Thomas2 Christian, of

Charles City county," patenting land (1712 and 1727) in the forks of Beaver Dam Creek in that part of Henrico called Gooch- land; 3, Charles I Christian, of " Charles City," locating lands in same vicinity (1714,1727); 4, James 2 Christian in same vicinity, bounding on Thomas Christian's line (1719); 5, John' Christian, of " Charles City," in same vicinity (1724).

All this furnishes strong presumptive evidence, in the absence of any other Christians mentioned in the records of Charles City and New Kent, that 2, 3, 4 and 5 were sons of 1, Thomas' Christian, Sen., the immigrant.

2, THOMAS2 CHRISTIAN's will was proved in Goochland county in 1736. He married Rebecca - (perhaps the daughter of Drury Stith, near whom, in Charles City, Thomas Christian patented 1320 acres on Dec. 16, 1714), and had issue: 6, Thomas 3; 7, Robert3; 8, Villiam.' of Albemarle county, living in 1756; 9,

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