Category:People from colonial Virginia
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 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Pages in category "People from colonial Virginia"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 459 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- 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.
- Anthony Bledsoe
- 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)
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- Samuel Jordan Cabell
- William H. Cabell
- James Caldwell (clergyman)
- William Overton Callis
- John Camm (Anglican priest)
- Arthur Campbell (Virginia soldier)
- Christiana Burdett Campbell
- William Capps
- John Carlyle (merchant)
- Dabney Carr
- Dabney Carr (Virginia assemblyman)
- Peter Carr (Virginia politician)
- Samuel Carr (politician)
- Miles Cary (immigrant)
- Wilson Miles Cary
- John Casor
- James Caudy
- 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
- John Coalter
- 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
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- Richard Dale
- Frances Jones Dandridge
- Virginia Dare
- James Davis (mariner)
- Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
- William Dering
- Elisha C. Dick
- John Dickins
- Cole Digges (burgess)
- Dudley Digges (burgess)
- Dudley Digges (patriot)
- Dudley Digges Jr.
- William Digges
- William Digges (burgess)
- Ambrose Dixon
- George Donne
- Emanuel Driggus
- Sarah Drummond
- Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia
- John Durand (painter)
- Peter Durrett
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- David George (Baptist)
- John George (Virginia colonist)
- Thomas Gibson (American politician)
- William Branch Giles
- Nathaniel Gist
- Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet
- Samuel Goode (American politician)
- John Goodrich (Loyalist)
- 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)
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- George Hairston
- Robert Hairston
- Thomas Hall (minister at Leghorn)
- Lewis Hallam
- Phillip Hamman
- Samuel Hammond
- Ralph Hamor
- Thomas Hannan (Virginia settler)
- William Hardin
- William Harding (Virginia witch trials)
- Samuel Hardy
- Benjamin Harrison I
- Henry Hartwell
- John Harvie
- Edward Harwood (Virginia politician)
- Humphrey Harwood
- Thomas Harwood
- William Harwood (burgess)
- William Harwood (councillor)
- William Harwood, Jr.
- Thomas Haynes (burgess)
- John Heath (politician)
- Betty Hemings
- James Hemings
- Sarah Winston Syme Henry