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a Jamestown and plantations in Surry. He represented Surry county in the house of burgesses, 1703-1705. 1706, and his will dated January 9, 1722, was proved in Surry county. February 25. 1722. He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Harrison; (second) a daughter of Micajan Lowe, merchant, of Charles City. and nephew of Micajah Perry, of London.
Eggleston, Joseph, was a burgess for James City county in the assembly of 1727-1734. but he died in 1732. He was ancestor of the Egglestons of Amelia county. Eldridge, Thomas, son of Thomas Eldridge, an attorney-at-law, and Judith Kennon, his wife. He married (first) Martha Bolling, a descendant of Pocahontas; (second) Elizabeth Jones, daughter of James and Sarah (Howell) Jones, of Surry county. Py his first marriage he had Rolfe Eldridge. clerk of Buckingham county from 1770 to 1806.
Elligood, Jacob, probably descended from Elias La Guard. one of the French Vigmeron planters at Buck Roe, Elizabeth City county, in 1620; justice of Princess Anne county in 1730 and other years; burgess in the assemblies of 1736-1740, 1742-1747. 1748-1749 probably father of Colonel Jacob Elligood, who sided with Dunmore in 1775, and left the colony.
Ellyson (Ellison), Robert, came to Mary- land as "Barber Chirurgeon" before 1643. and after holding the office of high sheriff of St. Mary's county, emigrated to Jamestown, where he was high sheriff of James City county, and sergeant-at-arms of the house of burgesses in 1657-1658, and a leading burgess in 1656, 1660, 1661, 1663, with the rank of captain. He left a daughter Hannah, who married Anthony Armistead, and a son Gerard Robert Ellyson
Embry, Henry, was in 1727 captain of the Surry county militia. In 1732 he was a justice of the first court of Brunswick. He represented that county in the assembly in the sessions of 1736-1740 and in 1748-1749. In 1746 he was commander of the Lunen- burg militia. Died about 1758, and his widow Priscilla married William Hill. Embry, William, son of Henry Embry, was a burgess from Lunenburg county in the assemblies of 1754, 1755 and 1756-1758. He was an early vestryman of Cumberland parish, Lunenburg county. His will, dated in 1760, names sons William and Henry.
Emerson, William, was a burgess from Weyanoke in the assembly of 1632-33. Emerson, Rev. Arthur, was a son of John Emerson, of New Castle-on-Tyne; B. A. of Oxford University, 1733; went to Antigua in 1736, and in 1755 was member of Accomac. He left a son, Arthur, who was also a minister (q. v.).
Emerson, Rev. Arthur, son of Rev. Arthur Emerson, educated at William and Mary College, where he was assistant usher and usher to the grammar school (1762-1765) was ordained a minister in England and returned in 1768; rector of Meherrin parish, Greensville county, 1773-1776; afterwards rector in Nansemond county, where in 1785 he had a classical school; rector of Portsmouth parish, Norfolk county, from 1785 to 1801, when he died.
Emperor, Francis, probably son of Francis