Established Rosegill in Middlesex County, Virginia
References
The Eltonhead family in the Chesapeake, in Stevenson , J. Court and Karen Sundberg. Historical shoreline configurations at Cove Point from original patents and later shoreline surveys 50-62, 1997.
[contains genealogy and detailed information about the family's land holdings in Maryland]
- one of the wealthiest men in mid-seventeenth century Virginia - by 1649, he had patented more than 3,000 acres in Lancaster county - built a plantation house at the mouth of Rosegil Creek