Virginians at Oxford; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 2, No. 3 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Virginians at Oxford W. G. Stanard William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vo. 2, No. 3. (Jan., 1894), pp. 149-153. ---------- 149 VIRGINIANS AT OXFORD. __________ BY W. G. STANARD __________ (Continued from July No. 1893). MANN PAGE, son of Matthew, of Abingdon, Berks, Arm. matric. St. Johns College, July, 1709, aged 17. [Berks is an addition of Mr. Foster's. Mann Page was son of Matthew Page, Esq., of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia. He was b. 1691, and died January 24, 1730, while a member of the Council. According to Governor Page's autogiography, Mann Page was educated at Eaton, and Governor Spotswood, in a letter dated March 9, 1713 states that he had appointed to the Council, on February 6th, preceding, "Mr. Mann Page, a young gentleman of liberal education, good parts, and a very plentiful estate, and whose father and grand father had the honor of the same post." Spotswood Letters, II. 58] GEORGE PERCY, of Sussex, comitis fil.., admitted to Gloucester Hall, 11th January 1593-3, aged 13; student of the Middle Temple, 1597, as seventh son of Henry, and brother of Henry, late Earls of Northumberland; born 4th September, 1580, one of the adventurers for Virginia, 1620, (sic); died unmarried March, 1632. [George Percy came to Virginia with the first expedition in 1607, and succeeded John Smith as Governor in 1610.] BARTHOLOMEW YATES; p. ., matric. Brasenose College, 16th March, 1694-5; B. A. 1698. [He was son of Rev. Robert Yates, who came to Virginia in 1699, and was the highly esteemed Minister of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, until failing health compelled his return to England in 1703-4. B. Y. was b. 1677, and was Minister of Christ Church from 1703 until death, July 27, 1734. He was Professor of Divinity in William and Mary College, and President of the Virginia (clerical) Council in 1719. See Meade, where is a copy of epitaph on the tomb erected by his parishoners; and Hayden's "Virginia Genealogies," 121 and 122.] --------- 150 ROWLAND JONES, son of Rowland, of Kimbell, Bucks, Minister; matric. Merton College, 13th Nov., 1663, aged 19. [He was the first Minister of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, 1674-88. His epitaph in the churchyard states that he was a native of Swinebrook, near Burford, Oxfordshire, son of Rowland Jones, Clerk: an alumus of Merton College, and died April 23d, 1688, in his 48th year. His son, Orlando Jones, was maternal grand-father of Mrs. Martha Washington.] EMANUEL JONES, son of John, of Anglesea; p. p., matric. Oriel College 26th April, 1687, aged 19; B. A., 3d March 1691-2. [He came to Virginia in 1700, and was Minister of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester, from that year to his death in 1739. His tomb, with a mutilated coat of arms, is at the site of Petsworth Church. A biographical notice of him was published some years ago in the Southern Churchman. See, also, Perry's Collections.] THOMAS HINTON, of Wilts, Arm., matric. Queen's College, 15th October, 159?, aged 17; perhaps knighted 1st July, 1619; M. P. for Dounton 1621-2, and for Ludgershall 1635-6. [This was probably Sir Thomas Hinton. Doubtless Sir Thomas Hinton, of Chilton Filiot, Wilts, who was living in Virginia, and was a member of the Council in 1634. His daughter married Samuell Matthews, Governor of Virginia.] JOSHUA FRY, son of Joseph, Crewkerne, Somerset, plebs., matric. Wadham College 31st March, 1711, aged 18. [According to the accounts which have been preserved by his descendants, Joshua Fry was a native of Somerset, and a graduate of Oxford (See Slaughter's "St. Mark's Parish"). He came to Virginia before 1720, was Professor of Mathematics in William and Mary, one of the Virginia Commissioners for running the boundary line with North Carolina; made (with Peter Jefferson) a map of Virginia in 1749, and was commissioned Colonel of the regular Virginia regiment in 1754. Died May 31st, 1754. See Slaughter's "Memoirs of Col Joshua Fry."] HENRY CHICHELEY, son of Thomas, Whimple, County of Cambridge, militis; matric. University College 27th April, ---------- 1632, aged 17; B. A. 5th February, 1634-5. Stemmata Chichaleana, p. 13. [Sir Henry Chicheley, Knight (and Baronet, according to the Middlesex vestry book), cam to Virginia in 1650, after serving in the Royal army during the civil war. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from Lancaster County in 1656, appointed to the Council in 1674, and in the same year made Deputy Governor, holding the office until his death. He was several times Acting Governor. In a power of attorney, recorded 1662, in Rappahannock County, he styles himself "of Wimple, in the County of Cambridge" -- not then, probably, considering himself a permanent resident of Virginia. There is preserved in the English State Paper Office a letter (1682) from him to his father, Sir Thos. Chicheley, of Wimpole, who was a member of the English Privy Council. Sir Henry C. m. Agatha, widow of Ralph Wormeley, of "Rosegill," Middlesex County, and died at an advanced age at that place, February 5th, 1682.] SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY, 4th son of Maurice, of Bruton, Somerset, militis; matric, Queen's College 14th February, 1622-3, aged 17; B. A. from St. Edmund Hall 10th July, 1629; a student at the Middle Temple 1624, Governor of Virginia 1660-78 [sic], knighted at Berwich 27th July, 1639; died 9th July, 1677; buried at Twickenham. [He was Governor of Virginia 1641-1651, and 1660-1676.] FAIRFAX (THOMAS 6TH) BARON OF CAMERON, matric, Oriel College 24th January 1709-10; died 12th March, aged 90; buried in the chancel of the Parish Church in Winchester, Va. [Came to Virginia first in 1739, and again in 1745, when he remained until his death. He was succeeded by his brother Robert, and he in turn by his cousin, Rev. Bryan Fairfax, of Fairfax County, Virginia, as 8th Baron Cameron.] JOHN LEE, Armiger; matric. Queen's College 31st July, 1658; B. A. 1662. [Son of Col. Richard Lee, of Westmoreland County, Virginia. He presented to his college a cup, of ---------- 152 which an engraving is given in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.] JOHN WEST, born in Hampshire, Baronis fil., matric, Magdalen College 17th February, 1608-9, aged 18; B. A. 1st December, 1613; brother of Thomas, 3d Lord Delaware. [Captain John West was b. Dec. 14, 1590, was member of the Council from 1630 until his death (about 1659), and was Governor, May 1635 - January, 1637. He m. Anne -- and had one son, Col. John West, of "West Point," King William County, who has many descendants.] GEORGE SANDES [SANDYS]; son of (Edwin) Archbishop of York; matric. St. Mary's Hall, December 5, 1589, aged 11; of Caeswell, Oxon; born 2d March, 1577; student at the Middle Temple, 1597; the traveller; a gentleman of the Privy chamber to Charles I; buried 7th March, 1643, in the chancel of Boxley Church, Kent. [Treasurer of Virginia, and lived in the Colony from 1621-1624. While in Virginia he translated the last ten books of Ovid's Metamorphosis.] HAWTE WYAT, of Kent; gent., matric. Queen's College, 25th October, 1611, aged 17; student of Gray's Inn (a son of George, of Boxley, Kent, Esq.;) served Marston Chapel, 1630, and Vicar of Boxley, Kent, 1632; died 31st July 1638; buried at Boxley. [Was Minister of Jamestown, Virginia, during his brother's first administration. The English pedigrees state that his sons came to Virginia and left issue here.] SIR FRANCIS WYAT, of Kent, Arm., fil. nat. max; matric. St. Mary Hall 1st July, 1603, aged 15; of Boxley Abbey; student of Gray's Inn, 1604 (as son of George of Boxley, Kent, Esq.), Governor of Virginia; knighted 7th July, 1618; buried, at Boxley 24th August, 1644. THOMAS WEST, of Hants, militis fil., matric. Queen's College, 9th March, 1591-2, aged 15; created M. A. 30th August 1605, when 3d Lord Delaware. [Governor of Virginia February 28, 1610 - June, 1611, and died June 7, 1618, when again on his way to the Colony.] ---------- MUSGRAVE DAWSON, son of William, of Aspatria, Cumberland, plebs; matric. Queen's College 7th March, 1743-4; aged 20; B. A. 1747. [Minister of Raleigh Parish, Amelia County, Virginia in 1754, and of St. Mary's, Caroline, 1758, &c.] WILLIAM DAWSON, son of William of Aspatria, Cumberland, plebs; matric. Queen's College 11th March, 1719-20, aged 15; B. A. 22d February 1724-5; M. A. 1728, D. D. by diploma 10th February, 1746, the President of Williamsburg College in Virginia. [Was Professor of Moral Philosophy in William and Mary, 1729, and President from 1743 until his death, July 24, 1752.]