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  • Carter Braxton (1736–1797)
  • Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley (ca. 1695–1771)
  • Frances Culpeper Stephens Berkeley (1634–ca. 1695)
  • Francis Fauquier (bap. 1703–1768)
  • George Mason (1725–1792)
  • Hugh Drysdale (1672 or 1673–1726)
  • John Blair (ca. 1687–1771)
  • Landon Carter (1710–1778)
  • Lewis Burwell (1711 or 1712–1756)
  • Richard Bennett (bap. 1609–ca. 1675)
  • Richard Bucke (1581 or 1582–ca. 1624)
  • Robert Beverley (bap. 1635–1687)
  • Robert Bolling (1738–1775)
  • Robert Carter (1728–1804)
  • Samuel Argall (bap. 1580–1626)
  • Sir Henry Chicheley (1614 or 1615–1683)
  • Sir William Berkeley (1605–1677)
  • Thomas Hariot (ca. 1560–1621)
  • Virginia’s First Africans
  • William Byrd (ca. 1652–1704)
  • William Drummond (d. 1677)

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Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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