Family:William Moseley and Susannah Burnet (1)

Familiesl of Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties. Moseley Familyof Lower Norfolk County.

Arms of Moseley in Virginia: Quarterly 1st and 4th Sa. a chev.between three battle axes Ar, 2d and third Or. a fesse between threeeagles displayed sa.

Crest: An eagle displayed sa. Motto: Mos Legem regit.

The family of Moseley came to America in the last year of the reign ofCharles I, 1649, with grants of land in Lynnhaven Paris, on Broadcreek, in Lower Norfolk county, Virginia. Here they built "Rolleston," named for the family seat of the Moseleys. "Rolleston Hall," in Staffordshire, England. The patents were highly valued in the familyand descended under the entail from father to son until the warbetween the States, after which they coud not be found. The firstemigrant also brought the coat of arms, a Court "Callender," andfamily portraits, one of them painted as far back as Henry II, A.D.1154-89; four of the pictures were supposed to be by Van Dyck.Information from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,Published Quarterly by the Virginia Historical Society for the YearEnding June, 1898, Volume V, Richmond, VA: House of the Society, No.707 East Franklin St., Moseley Family, p. 327-328.

1. ↑ Barlow, Lundie W. Corker of Virginia, in Dorman, John Frederick, ed. The Virginia Genealogist. (Washington, District of Columbia: Dorman, John Frederick)
   9(1965):3-8.

   p. 6: 'Susanna (Blackmore) Corker's mother, Susanna (Burnet) Blackmore, married as her second husband, about 1633-34, William Moseley, Steward of the English House at Rotterdam in 1643, and merchant of Lower Norfolk Co., Va., from 1649 until his death in 1655.'