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John West (December 14, 1590 – ca. 1659) was acting from 1635 to 1637, the third West brother to serve as governor.

Marriage 1: 1757

Marriage 2: Virginia, USA.

He was the fifth son and twelfth child of , and was born at in . He came to Virginia in 1618. He was a member of the House of Children of Deborah Barbara Fox and Collingsworth are:

Burgesses (1628–30). In 1630, the decision was made to plant a settlement on the York River, “…for the securing & taking in xcviii. , b. 19 Dec 1757, Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, USA, d. 11 Apr 1837, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA.

of a tract of Land called ye fforest bordering uppon the cheife residence of ye Pamunkey King the most dangerous head of the xcix.

Edmond Fox Collinsworth (Jr.)

Indian enemy…” John West received one of the first grants issued for this purpose, 600 acres “on the east side of Felgates”.

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b. 1750, Culpepper, VA*

“Felgates” refers to Robert Felgate’s 1632 grant of “350 acres lying at Kiskeyacke upon Pamunkey”. West sold the 600 acres, ci.

m. Elizabeth ? in 1779 in Culpepper, VA. Lived in KY and TN.

along with adjoining land, to in 1650;. It became known as the “E.D.” plantation, renamed by later owners as “Belfield”.West cii.

Served with Washington at Valley Forge and with Jackson at Battle of New Orleans. Appears in DAR records. Sold

subsequently patented 3300 acres at the fork of York River, at the site which eventually developed into the present-day town bounty land from three years’ service in Daniel Trigg’s Militia (1781). Captured during Revolution. Private. From

of West Point. After his death the land passed to his son and then to his grandson and to his great-grandson Charles West.

Culpepper, VA

Charles West had no issue. His will (dated 28 September 1734) left the West Point estate to his mother, and after her death to ciii.

*Please not that this makes no sense, if father David Edward immigrated to America in 1760. Also, why is he called his first cousin Thomas West (son of his father’s brother Thomas) “and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, for ever…”

“Junior” if his father’s name was David?

The entail was broken in November 1761, when a trust was established to enable 1000 acres of the land to be sold in order to civ.

William Collinsworth

purchase slaves. [5]West patented a further 1550 acres in 1651, and 1000 acres in Gloucester County in 1654.In 1635, after cv.

b. 1793, VA

the “thrusting out” of , John West was chosen as temporary replacement., and served until 1637 when Harvey was restored cvi.

m. Rachel Suthards

to his position. In 1640 West was ordered to England, along with three other “thrusters”, to answer charges in the . All four cvii.

Edward Edmund Luther Collinsworth

were eventually cleared, and returned to Virginia.John West married Anne Claiborne. The couple had one son, , who married cviii.

b. 1832, TN

.According to information gleaned from - John West married - Anne PERCY who was born in 1608 at Jamestown, Virginia.

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m. Franky Southwood, b. 1834, d. 1873

Her father was George PERCY -and he was married to Anne FLOYD 1607, Virginia Who was born: 4 Sep 1580, England and cx.

Sampson Collinsworth

died in Mar 1632, England. other than this, little is known of Anne FLOYD. West’s 3000-acre land grant on the York River cxi.

b. 1869

became the location of the present town of . He died by March 1659/1660, when the Virginia Assembly passed the following act cxii.

m. Diancey Combs, daughter of William Benton Combs and Susannah Campbell

in recognition of his family’s services to the colonial enterprise:

cxiii.