Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Seventeenth Century

By: John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-163914-574-4. This book being the standard history of Isle of Wight County begins with a brief chapter on the native inhabitants and moves quickly to describe early white settlers, including the Cavaliers and the Quakers. Edward Bennett, "Elder of the Ancient Church and merchant of London", was among the earliest settlers; he received a patent for land in Virginia in 1621 "conditioned on the settling of 200 immigra