Alexander Brown, The Genesis of the United States (Boston, 1890), l, 217, 468 and 2, 770, 889; Records of the Virginia Company of London edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury, 3 (Washington, 1933), 6 , 83, 324. It is of record that in February 1622 an Erasmus Felgate of the "Parish of St. Buttolphes withoute Aldergate London Taylor" willed his four sons and one daughter 20£ each from his estate which his wife, Margerie, administered. Since there was a London Felgate family actively engaged in the settlement of Virginia and as Capt. Robert Felgate had a son named Erasmus, it is speculated that the brothers William, Tobias, and Robert were possibly the sons of this Erasmus. (Va. Mag. Hist. Biog., 19, 400.)
