274:(d. 1760) were two of the earliest justices of the peace in Amelia County (the justices in that era collectively governing the county, as well as handled smaller judicial matters) and Edward, Richard, and Edward Booker Jr. would ultimately represent Amelia County in the House of Burgesses, as well as held other local offices. The other uncles were Richard Booker (1688-1743, named after a brother of the same name died as an infant, and who one genealogist believed remained near Williamsburg in York County) and John Booker (1690-?). Both this man's father and Edward Booker Sr. named one of their sons Edward, and other common names in the family were Richard, John, William and Frances, which complicated genealogies. In any event, this son received a private education appropriate to his class.
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Booker won his first election in 1749, to the vestry of
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Booker married three times. On May 17, 1746 he married Edith Marot Cobbs (1725-after 1765), who had been born in
Williamsburg but moved to Amelia County when her father Samuel Cobbs became the new county's first clerk of court. Before her death, she bore four sons and three daughters. Edmund's will
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Greenhill gave up his seat before 1765, when he became sheriff and was replaced by Robert Munford who continued to win re-election until 1768). Although merchant John Tabb and John Winn
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for Amelia County on June 26, 1760. He either did not stand for re-election, or was defeated, as was Winn, for voters replaced both seats in 1761. In 1761, during the
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won one of the two seats in 1787 and again in 1788. His cousin
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