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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families (Continued), in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
25 (1917):85-98.
- Col. William Bernard was a very prominent man in the early history of Virginia. He was born about 1598 and came to Virginia in the ship America in 1625. He was a son of Francis Bernard Esq. of Kingsthorpe Northamptonshire, and a brother of Sir Robert Bernard, Bart., of Brampton, Huntingdonshire.
He settled in Isle of Wight County. He was a member of the Council of Virginia almost uninterruptedly between 1642 and 1660. Col. Bernard was greatly interested in introducing silk culture into the colony. He received a grant of 1200 acres of land Aug. 10, 1642 in Isle of Wight "due for his own adventure into the Colony four times and for the transportation of 20 persons." He is usually referred to in the records as Col. William Bernard.
He married about 1652 or 1653, as her second husband, Lucy, the daughter of Capt. Robert Higginson and the widow of Major Lewis Bunvell of Carter's Creek, Gloucester.
There are several York County deeds proving this marriage, the earliest being one from William Bernard, Esq. and Lucy his wife, to George Reade of a tract which had been purchased by Capt. Robert Hinggison Jan. 9, 1648. (Encyclopaedia of Virginia Biographv; ed. Lyon Gardiner Tyler; 1915. I; 117-8).
The will of Col. William Bernard's brother. Sir Robert Bernard, Bart., of Brampton Hall, Huntington, dated Dec. 5, 1665 and proved May 15, 1666, recites that his brother William Bernard of Virginia died Dec. 31, 1665, and shows that the latter's son was then with Sir Robert in England. (Va. Mag. 6; 408-9).
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The date of the death of William Bernard as given above was Dec. 31, 1665. The York County records show that his widow was the wife of Philip Ludwell Nov. 25, 1667. ...
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