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John West (December 14, 1590 – ca. 1659) was acting colonial Governor of Virginia from 1635 to 1637, the third West brother to serve as governor. ==Biography== He was the fifth son and twelfth child of Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr, and was born at Testwood in Hampshire. He came to Virginia in 1618. He was a member of the House of Burgesses (1628–30). In 1630, the decision was made to plant a settlement on the York River, "...for the securing & taking in of a tract of Land called ye fforest bordering uppon the cheife residence of ye Pamunkey King the most dangerous head of the Indian enemy..." John West received one of the first grants issued for this purpose, 600 acres "on the east side of Felgates".〔"Extracts from the Records of York County", ''The William and Mary Quarterly,'' Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jul., 1917), pp. 27-37.〕 "Felgates" refers to Robert Felgate's 1632 grant of "350 acres lying at Kiskeyacke upon Pamunkey".〔Virginia Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 105〕 West sold the 600 acres, along with adjoining land, to Edward Digges in 1650;.〔Land Office Patents No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 316〕 It became known as the "E.D." plantation, renamed by later owners as "Belfield". West subsequently patented 3300 acres at the fork of York River, at the site which eventually developed into the present-day town of West Point.〔Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 290〕 After his death the land passed to his son John West and then to his grandson John West III and to his great-grandson Charles West. Charles West had no issue. His will (dated 28 September 1734) left the West Point estate to his mother, and after her death to his first cousin Thomas West (son of his father's brother Thomas) "and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, for ever..." The entail was broken in November 1761, when a trust was established to enable 1000 acres of the land to be sold in order to purchase slaves.〔(Hering's Statutes at Large, Vol. 7, Acts of Assembly Nov 1761 )〕 West patented a further 1550 acres in 1651,〔Land Office Patents Bk 2, p.213〕 and 1000 acres in Gloucester County in 1654.〔Land Office Patents Bk 3, p.10〕 In 1635, after the "thrusting out" of Governor Sir John Harvey, John West was chosen as temporary replacement.,〔Thornton, J Mills, "The Thrusting out of Governor Harvey: A Seventeenth-Century Rebellion", ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 11-26〕 and served until 1637 when Harvey was restored to his position. In 1640 West was ordered to England, along with three other "thrusters", to answer charges in the Star Chamber. All four were eventually cleared, and returned to Virginia. 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「John West (governor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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