The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . ,at Little Chelsea, in Kensington, Middlesex, the adminis-tration being carried on by his deputy, Francis Nicholson; 151 but he was In Virginia long enough to earn a very badreputation. He died In England, 30 March, 1695, ^^^was buried six days later from St. Giless In the Fields,London. By his first wife he left three sons and threedaughters. Campbell, the historian of Virginia, writes of him: Effingham, no l
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . ,at Little Chelsea, in Kensington, Middlesex, the adminis-tration being carried on by his deputy, Francis Nicholson; 151 but he was In Virginia long enough to earn a very badreputation. He died In England, 30 March, 1695, ^^^was buried six days later from St. Giless In the Fields,London. By his first wife he left three sons and threedaughters. Campbell, the historian of Virginia, writes of him: Effingham, no less avaricious and unscrupulous than his prede-cessor Culpeper, by his extortions and usurpations aroused a generalspirit of Indignation. He prorogued and dissolved the assembly;he erected a new court of chancery, making himself a petty lordchancellor; he multiplied fees, and stooped to share them with theclerks, and silenced the victims of his extortions by arbitrary Im-prisonment. During administrations like that of Howard, the loveof liberty became an inextinguishable element in the Amer-ican character. To be let alone by England came to bepart of the creed of a Virginian. 152. FRANCIS, LORD HOWARD of Effingham1643-1695 (153) THE vriv yoRKPUBLIC LIBRARY TfLDEN FOUNftAriQNS j Edward Jaquelin was born In County Kent, in theyear 1668, the son of John and Elizabeth (Craddock)Jaquelin, French Huguenots, who had sought refuge inEngland. He came over to Virginia about the year 1697,a young man of education and some means. He married,first, Rachel, widow of William Sherwood, a prominentlawyer of Surry County, Virginia, who had died in thatyear; and by his marriage to the widow, and by purchase,Jaquelin acquired a large estate on Jamestown had been attorney general of Virginia in Jaquelin married, second, in 1706, Martha, daughterof William and Martha (Scarbrook) Cary, a granddaugh-ter of Colonel Miles Cary, of Warwick County; she Issaid to have been a beauti
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