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Gloucester County were their local agents by 1685. In 1668, Middlesex county had 65 blacks and 334 white servants. In 1685 alone, the Royal African Company took delivery of 200 Africans, and another 220 Africans in 1687. By 1700, the county's population had grown and more land was under
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Colonial Virginia Register: A List of Governors, Councillors and Other Higher Officials, and Also of Members of the House of Burgesses, and the Revolutionary Conventions of the Colony of Virginia
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Robinson married first, Agatha Obert (1649-1686), daughter of
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