The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-14

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There Is no family III Virginia more
Interesting In It's connection. antiquity
and achievement than the Burwells.
Comparatively few virginian fnmi-
lies have made connection in England
yet. but Lewis Burwell, the emigrant
To Virginia. descended from Edward
Burwell. of Harrington. Bcdfordshire.
whose father was also Edward.
The second Lewis Burwell OF Vir
GINA. married Abigail Smith. niece
and heiress of Nathaniel Bacon. thu,
elder. and first cousin OF Nathaniel
Bacon. the rebel Through Abigail
Smith the Burwells of Virginia are de-
seconded from eleven English kings,
even to Alfred the Great and Igbert.
King of Wessex- Bretwada. over Eng
land Moreover. they came through
the same source from the Kings of
Navarro and Dukes of Gascony and
earlier still from Chilperic. King OF the
Bursundians.
The mother of Lewis Burwell. after
the death of Edward Burwell married
Roger Winsate who subsequently, be-
came treasurer of Virginia. The Win
gates lived in London until after 1887.
II the visitation of BSdfordshlre VIC
find that Roger Wingate married Dor
cthy Bedell. widow OF Edward Bur
Well. of Harrington. Dorothy's line
can be traced to John Bedell. Of VOL
laston. Northampt snshire, who died in
liSa.
In Blayde's "Genealogia Bedford
iensls" Edward Burwell. "gentleman."
Is recorded to have had six children.
The first Edward was born at "Hougl-
ton Conquest, and buried at AnDt-
hill. The rest were all born at Ampt-
hill. Lewis, who came to Virginia
with the Wingates. was born March s..
l62l. The grandfather of this emf
grant Lewis was most probably the
Edward Burwell who is named In the
charter. dated May 80, 1903. common
~ called the second charter to tbs
Virginia Company
Tho Burwells became with their con-
aections. SO powerful politically in CO.
lonial Virginia that Governor Spots
wood complained that ''tile council
embraced too many of one familv."e
adding in March OF 1913. the greater
part of the present council are re-
lated to the family of the Burwells.
II Mr.. Bassett and Mr.. Berkeley
should take their places. there will be
no less than seven SO near related that
they will go off the bench whenever
a cause of the Burwells comes to be
tryed."
Lewis Burweil, the emigrant. settled
in Gloucester county. Va. Hear the
York River. upon Carter's Creek. Tie
great plantations of the lower York
in the eighteenth century were Tim
Der Neck. Fairfield and Roosevelt Later
Shelley was cut from Roosevelt. Tim
Der Neck was settled by John Mann.
Descendants of John Mann and Lewis
Rurwell still own it. Roosevelt. now
magnificent ruin. was the home of the
Pages. and at Fairfield lived Lewis
Burwell in unusual state. Fairfield.
when it passed from the Burwells,
was called Carriers Creek.
The Fairfield mansion was one of
the most unusual in Virginia, 1t was
like some medieval castle, or fortress,
and 1t stood staunch and time-worn
until few years ago, when 1t was
burned to the ground. When the Bur-
wells left Carter's Creek about the be-
ginning OF the nineteenth century 1t
passed through many successive own
ers. and when 1t was burned negroes
occupied it. The tombs at Carter's
Creek are fit for princes. hut unhap-
PLY now crumbling to decay.
The communion silver now used at old
Abingdon. the Parish church of Fair
field, on Carter's Creek. was presented
by Lewis Burwell, and has l.. Is. In
scribed upon it.
The Burwells. who went from Glou-
cester established handsome seats" in
other parts of Virginia, notably THE
Grove" near Williamsburg. Va; Car
ter Hall" in Clarke county: stone
land in Mecklenburg; Kings Creek
and others.
Robert Walpole. Earl Of Oxford, pre-
mier of England. and Horatio, Lord
Nelson, We're descendants of the Bur
wells through female lines. The anti
quarian. Cole, says the family settled
first in Cotton Hall, in Buddington.
Hoxon Hundred. by marriage with
Duseboush, and afterwards moved to
RouEham, Theodsteo Hundred, later to
Harrington. The earliest mention of
the Burwell family in connection with
the colony of Virginia is Edward Bur
We'll, who was one of the grantees
under the charter of 1907 from James L.
The names of Minion and William Bur-
we'll also appear in the list Of adven-
turers for Virginia.
The ancestor of the family In Vir-
sinia was Major Lewis Burwell. who
settled about 1910 on Carriers Creek, in
Gloucester county, Va. In 1916 he was
a member of The reputation sent to IN
vite Charles u. to come to Virginia.
He married Lucy. daughter of the val
liant Captain Higginson, one of the
first commanders who suhdued the
country of Virginia, from the power of
the heathen." He died November ~,
1858, aged thirty-th three years, and was
buried at his seat Fairfield, Glouces-
ter county. Va. Mow and for many
years called Carriers Creek. The house
was of brick and In the old family
#buryiag ground are the tomhs Of Major
Burwell, his wife. and of many others
Of the family After. his death his
widow married second Colonel William
Barnard. of the Kings Council IN Vtr-
ginia, and third. Philip Ludwell, She
died November &c. 1915.
OF tho issue OF Major Lewis Bur-
kt~-a fl t