Category:People from colonial Virginia
Appearance
This category includes people who were notable in the Colony of Virginia prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765.
People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of Virginia in the American Revolution, instead of this category.
Subcategories
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Pages in category "People from colonial Virginia"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 486 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- John Abbot (entomologist)
- Robert Abrahall
- Jonathan Alder
- Robert Alexander (Virginia patriot)
- John Allen (soldier)
- Elanor Allerton
- Isaac Allerton Jr.
- Mary Cary Ambler
- William Anderson (Pennsylvania politician)
- Matthew Arbuckle Sr.
- Hannah Archer Till
- Gabriel Archer
- John Ariss
- Anthony Armistead
- John Arnway
- Arthur Allen II
- Matthew Ashby
B
- Anne Bailey
- Charles Baker (surveyor)
- Lawrence Baker (burgess)
- Thomas Ballard
- Alexander Balmain
- John Banister (lawyer)
- James Barbour (burgess)
- Mordecai Barbour
- Thomas Barbour (Virginia politician)
- James Barron
- Burwell Bassett
- Burwell Bassett Sr.
- Robert Beasley (burgess)
- Edward Bennett (colonist)
- Benoni Buck
- Frances Culpeper Berkeley
- Richard Scott Blackburn
- Thomas Blackburn (burgess)
- Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley
- Archibald Blair (burgess)
- James Blair (clergyman)
- Jimmy Blair (soldier)
- John Blair Jr.
- Theodorick Bland (surveyor)
- Anthony Bledsoe
- Daniel Morgan Boone
- Jonathan Boucher
- Abraham Bowman
- George Bowman (pioneer)
- Isaac Bowman
- Jacob Bowman
- John Bowman (pioneer)
- Joseph Bowman
- James Bray Jr.
- James Bray (councillor)
- George Brent (politician)
- James Brenton (soldier)
- Charles Bridges (painter)
- Lydia Broadnax
- John Brown (Kentucky politician, born 1757)
- William Browne (burgess)
- John Buchanan (Virginia colonist)
- Richard Buck (chaplain)
- William Buckland (architect)
- John Buckner (burgess)
- Mordecai Buckner
- Richard Buckner (burgess)
- Cuthbert Bullitt
- Thomas Bullitt
- Anne Burras
- Elzy Burroughs
- Lewis Burwell (colonist)
- Maria Taylor Byrd
C
- Samuel Jordan Cabell
- William Cabell (American Revolution)
- William H. Cabell
- James Caldwell (clergyman)
- Patrick Calhoun (immigrant)
- William Overton Callis
- John Camm (Anglican priest)
- Arthur Campbell (Virginia soldier)
- Christiana Burdett Campbell
- William Capps
- Dabney Carr
- Dabney Carr (Virginia assemblyman)
- Peter Carr (Virginia politician)
- Samuel Carr (politician)
- Arianna Carter
- Landon Carter
- Robert Carter III
- Miles Cary
- Wilson Miles Cary
- John Casor
- James Caudy
- William Hunter Cavendish
- John Champe (soldier)
- Edward Chilton (attorney)
- John Chiswell
- Annie Henry Christian
- Israel Christian
- William Churchill (burgess)
- Thomas Claiborne (1749–1812)
- William Claiborne
- Josiah Clapham
- Christopher H. Clark
- George Rogers Clark
- William Clark
- John Clayton (d. 1737)
- William Clayton (burgess)
- Abel Clemmons
- Richard Cocke
- William Cocke
- St. Leger Codd
- William Cole (burgess)
- William Cole (councillor)
- William Cole (immigrant)
- John E. Colhoun
- Zachariah Connell
- Laetitia Corbin Lee
- Gawin Corbin (burgess)
- Gawin Corbin Sr.
- Gawin Corbin Jr.
- Richard Corbin
- Elijah Craig
- Toliver Craig Sr.
- Thomas B. Craighead (minister)
- James Craik
- David Crawford (colonel)
- William Crawford (soldier)
- Nicholas Cresswell
- Joseph Croshaw
- Raleigh Croshaw
- Unity Croshaw
- Benjamin Crowley
D
- Richard Dale
- Frances Jones Dandridge
- John Dandridge
- Virginia Dare
- James Davis (mariner)
- Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
- William Dering
- Elisha C. Dick
- John Dickins
- Dudley Digges (burgess)
- Dudley Digges (patriot)
- William Digges
- William Digges (burgess)
- Robert Dinwiddie
- Ambrose Dixon
- John Donelson
- George Donne
- Emanuel Driggus
- Sarah Drummond
- Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia
- John Durand (painter)
- Peter Durrett
F
G
- David George (Baptist)
- John George (Virginia colonist)
- Thomas Gibson (American politician)
- William Branch Giles
- George Gilmer Sr.
- Nathaniel Gist
- Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet
- Samuel Goode (American politician)
- Daniel Gookin
- Bartholomew Gosnold
- William Grayson
- Daniel Greathouse
- Thomas M. Green Sr.
- Thomas M. Green Jr.
- Cyrus Griffin
- Elizabeth Key Grinstead
- Charles Grymes
- John Grymes (burgess)
- James Gunn (Georgia politician)