- Source: John Withers (burgess)
Captain John Withers was a justice of Stafford County, Virginia, and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1696-1697. He was born in Arkholme-with-Cawood, Melling-with-Wrayton, Lancaster, Lancashire, England in 1634 and died at St. Paul’s Parish, Stafford County, Virginia c. 1699. Circa 1654, he married Frances, daughter of Colonel Robert Townsend and widow of Francis Dade. John Withers had two daughters: Sarah, who married Christopher Conway and Elizabeth, who married Captain Richard Fossaker.
References
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1998). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 362.
Stanard, William G. and Mary N., ed. (1965). The Colonial Virginia Register. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 91.
Leonard, Cynthia Miller, ed. (1978). The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978, A Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Virginia State Library. p. 57.
"Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties". 2019-03-10. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
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