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Lewis Burwell
Lewis Burwell may refer to: * The Burwell Family of Virginia named four of its prominent members Lewis Burwell, in the 17th and 18th century * Lewis Burwell, a Virginia politician and colonist * Lewis Burwell (Upper Canada), left the nascent USA and fought against the US, with his brother Mahlon Burwell {{hndis, Burwell, Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burwell Family Of Virginia
The Burwells (known as the Burls among Virginians) were among the First Families of Virginia First Families of Virginia (FFV) were those families in Colonial Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. They descended from English colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown, Williamsburg ... in the Colony of Virginia. John Quincy Adams once described the Burwells as typical Virginia aristocrats of their period: forthright, bland, somewhat imperious and politically simplistic by Adams' standards. In 1713, so many Burwells had intermarried with the Virginia political elite that Alexander Spotswood, Governor Spotswood complained that " the greater part of the present Council are related to the Family of Burwells...there will be no less than seven so near related that they will go off the Bench whenever a Cause of the Burwells come to be tried." The family was closely associated with the Fairfield Plantation (Gloucester County, Virgin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Burwell (colonist)
Lewis Burwell (1711/1712–1756) was an American colonist and politician who served as a member of the Virginia Governor's Council and as acting Governor of Virginia. Early life and Education Burwell was born in either 1711 or 1712 at Fairfield, the plantation of his parents, Elizabeth Carter Burwell and her first husband, Nathaniel Burwell. In accordance with his father's will, Burwell's guardian, Robert "King" Carter I, sent him to England to be educated. From 1722 to 1729 he attended Eton College, and upon the age of seventeen he matriculated at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University. Burwell would remain there for four years. He did not receive a degree (which was not considered unusual at the time) but he may have perhaps studied law in London at the Inner Temple in February 1733, just a few months before he returned to Virginia after receiving news of the death of King Carter. Career Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch noticed that Burwell returned to Vir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
