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George Fawdon (ca 1600 – ca 1654/1655), also spelled in various sources as George Fawden, George Fawder, George Fadoin, George Faudon, George Fawdoune, George Faudown, George Fawdowne, and George Fowden,〔More than one spelling of the name sometimes may be found in a single one of the sources shown in the references. See for example Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. ('Encyclopedia of Virginia biography' ). Volume 1. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. . Retrieved August 14, 2012. p. 233.〕 was an early Virginia colonist, landowner, militia officer, county court clerk, county clerk justice and legislative representative (politician). He served at least two terms as a burgess in the Virginia House of Burgesses in the 1640s and 1650s representing Isle of Wight County, Virginia. ==Early life== George Fawdon was probably born in England about 1600.〔Grant, Marty. (Marvin A. Grant, Jr.) (''Major George Fawdon (d 1655) and Ann Smith of Isle of Wight County, Virginia'' ). Retrieved August 14, 2012.〕 No definitive information about Fawdon's early life has been found.〔One author states that: On November 1, 1624 George Fawdon (Fedam, Shedam) notified the General Court that he had assisted George Phillmore with writing his will and that the testator had bequeathed him a pig. McCartney, Martha W. ('Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary' ). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8063-1774-8. p. 292. This conclusion would place Fawdon in Jamestown or its vicinity as early as 1624. John Bennett Boddie refers to the same incident with respect to testimony concerning a missing will. He gives the name of the person assisting George Phillmore as George Fadom and gives no alternate spelling as Fawdon. This and the lack of other references raises doubt about whether Fawdon and Fadom were in fact the same person, as McCartney thinks. Boddie, John Bennett. (''Southside Virginia Families, Volume 1'' ). Originally published 1955. Reprint: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. ISBN 0-8063-0040-X. p. 51. Dorman, John Frederick ('Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P' ). Fourth Edition, Volume 2. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8063-1763-2. p. 819 is in accord with Boddie in only giving the name as Fadom.〕〔Boddie, John Bennett, in Boddie, John Bennett. ''Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia''. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. . Retrieved August 14, 2012. p. 51 states that Fawdon was a Cavalier who fled England and that he died without heirs. George family biographer Marty Grant, Jr., points out that Fawdon was in Virginia long before the English Civil War and could not have been a Cavalier. Also, since many sources state that Fawdon had a daughter Hester who married a son of John George, and Fawdon gave 1,000 acres of land to Isaac George in 1654, the Boddie statement about Fawdon dying without heirs also seems dubious. Grant, Retrieved August 14, 2012.〕 The earliest definite official record of George Fawdon's presence in the Virginia colony is from a court in James City, Virginia on February 8, 1627 (/1628) which ordered "that George Fawdon, Thomas Sawyer & Wassell Weblin shall have leave to goe & live at Warosquoyacke."〔Stanard, William Glover, ed. ('The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 29' ) Minutes of the Council, 1622–1629. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1921. . Retrieved August 14, 2012. p. 297.〕〔The first letter of Fawdon was written "ff", apparently a stylized capital "F".〕 Warrosquoyacke was one of the several spellings of the area that became Isle of Wight County, Virginia in 1637.〔Boddie, John Bennett. ''Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia''. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. . Retrieved August 14, 2012. p. 95.〕 Warwicksqueake is another. On September 29, 1629, Justinian Cooper and wife deeded land there to Wassall Weblin and George Fawdon.〔〔Several spellings of Weblin's first name also are given in the few records or references that contain his name.〕〔Boddie, 1938, p. 530.〕 Weblin and Fawdon assigned the land to Robert Sabine on February 25, 1630.〔 Because of later grants of land abutting Fawdon's land along the Nansemond River, another grant of land to Fawdon was made but no abstract of the transaction was found in the references. Several sources state that George Fawdon's daughter, Hester, married John George's son, Isaac.〔 This suggests that Fawdon was married in or about 1630 since Isaac and Hester were married in 1654.〔 Since no record or mention of Fawdon's first wife has been found, direct support for this earlier marriage for Fawdon and for the fact that Isaac George's wife was his daughter can be found only through a gift of land from Fawdon to Isaac George in 1654.〔〔Boddie, 1938, p. 528.〕 Fawdon's name, variously spelled, appears in several Virginia land patents: Grant to Richard Bennett of 2000 acres on the Nansemond River adjoining George Fawdon, June 26, 1635;〔Nugent, Nell Marion. ''Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623–1800''. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents 1623–1666, Volume 1. Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Company, 1934. p. 23. . Virginia Land Patents Book 1, page 186.〕 Grant to William Clark of 250 acres of land in Warrosquoyacke County, Virginia, on the south side of Nansemond River, adjoining George Fawder (Fawdon);〔Nugent, 1934, p. 24. Virginia Land Patents Book I, page 195.〕 Grant to Thomas Butler of 1,000 acres of land in Warrosquoyacke County on the Small River, falling into Nansemond Bay, on the back side of land of George Fawdon and John Parrott on July 11, 1635;〔Nugent, 1934, p. 26. Virginia Land Patents Book I, page 222.〕 Grant of 150 acres on the south side of the Nansemond River adjacent to the land of George Fawdon, July 14, 1635.〔Nugent, 1934, p. 36. Virginia Land Patents Book I, page 329.〕 George Fawdon received a 200 acre patent for land on the south branch of the Elizabeth River adjoining John Yates on June 6, 1639.〔Nugent, 1934, p. 111. Virginia Land Patents Book I, Part II, page 660.〕 Viewers of tobacco from Red Point to the head of Pagan Point Creek appointed in 1639-1640 were Joseph Salmon, John Miles and George Fawdon.〔Boddie, 1938, p. 172.〕 George Fawdon and Thomas Carter witnessed a deed from Justinian Cooper to John George on March 16, 1642.〔Boddie, 1938, p. 529.〕 On June 10, 1647, George Fawdon, Anthony Jones, and Thomas Wombrell witnessed a deed from James Roche to Henry Pitt in Chuckatuck, Isle of Wight County.〔Boddie, 1938, p. 513.〕 George Fawdon, William Underwood and James Taylor, were appointed overseers of the will of Captain John Upton.〔Boddie, 1938, p. 519.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Fawdon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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