Col. William "The Immigrant" Fitzhugh

  Notes and Events:

• Note: Minutes of Board of Trade and Plantations, 14 Jun 1682. The addresses of the Assembly and the Governor of Virginia, and several speeches of Mr. Fitzhugh were read, showing the people are extremely desirous of a cessation of planting tobacco."

• Letter: He describes his dwelling house, 22 Apr 1686. "Upon this same land is my own dwelling house, furnished with all accommodations for comfortable and gentle living, with rooms in it, four of the best of them hung [with tapestry], nine of them plentifully furnished with all things necessary and convenient, and all houses for use, furnished with brick chimneys, four good cellars, a dairy, dove cot, stable, barn, henhouse, kitchen and all other conveniencys, and all in a manner new, a large orchard of about 2,500 apple trees, m st grafted, well fenced with a locust fence, which is as durable as most brick walls, a garden a hundred foot square, well paled in, a yard wherein is most of the aforesaid necessary houses pallisadoed in with locus puncheons, which is a good as is if it were walled in, and more lasting than any of our bricks."

• Relationship: g8 grandfather.

William married Sarah Tucker.