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Beverley; his brother Henry Robinson (1718-1758) married Mary Waring. Robert Robinson (b. 1711) became Captain of the East Indiaman and would be buried at Gravesend in England. The youngest son,
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Councilor, John Custis), Governor Gooch returned ashore to convene a special session of the Governor's Council, which designated Councilor
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Governor's Council (rising to become its President). He may be best known either for the final weeks of his life, when he was acting Governor of Virginia, or as the father of
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Churchill assumed their father's merchant connection with Jeffreys of London and managed the boys' lands til they came of age in 1701 and 1703.
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