Person:John Laydon (1)

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John Laydon
 
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Name[1] John Laydon
Gender Male
Marriage Abt 1609 Colony of Virginiato Anne Buras
Death? Colony of Virginia
References
  1. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
    1:75.

    ... Capt. [Christopher] Newport later made a third voyage to Virginia, and brought on this occasion (Oct. 1608) the first gentlewoman, Mrs Forrest, and Anne Buras, her maid. As was to have been expected, there occurred, shortly after, the first marriage in the colony which was of this same Ann Buras and John Laydon, a carpenter; and to them was born a year later a girl, Virginia Laydon — the first child of English parentage born in the first permanent English colony. ...