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Philip Ludwell Jr.

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48: 287: 306:, whose nephew had led and then died during the rebellion. The thrice-married Lady Berkeley was the richest person in the colony (with lands in both Virginia and what later became North Carolina) and a formidable force. She died by 1695, without children from any of her husbands, so Philip Ludlow Sr. inherited her vast lands, which he ultimately left to his only son, though he also permanently moved to England by about 1700. 325:
In 1694, Philip Ludwell Jr. reached legal age, and his widowed father soon entrusted all the Virginia plantations he had inherited from his brother and from his second wife to young Philip, and ultimately permanently returned to England, after Lady Berkeley's death and establishing his son.
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appointed Ludwell deputy auditor general for the Virginia colony. However, the relationship between the two grew strained, and Spotswood alleged that Ludwell had encroached upon the Governor's Land (which his father had leased long before).
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and also secured a patent for a house lot in the colonial capital, Jamestown. In May 1702 he was named to the Council of State and continued in that position for decades, basically until his death.
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The younger Philip Ludwell was born in the Virginia colony to the formerly widowed Lucy Higginson Burwell; his immigrant father becoming her second husband. He was a boy when the family fled
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In 1697, Philip Ludwell Jr. married Hannah Harrison, daughter of Benjamin Harrison, who like his father was a member of the Virginia Council of state. They had three children, including
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In 1715, Philip Ludwell became the James City County lieutenant as well as a justice of the county court. He also won election to the
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of Westover plantation were commissioned to draw the boundary line between Virginia and Carolina. The following year, 1710, Lt. Gov.
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Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Public Officials, Minorities and Native Leaders
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This article is about the Virginia burgess. For his father the first governor of
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1727) was a Virginia planter and politician who served several terms in the
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Philip Ludwell died on January 11, 1727, with his 11-year-old son
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Carolina
Philip Ludwell
Philip Ludwell III

Virginia Governor's Council
Virginia House of Burgesses
Jamestown
Virginia House of Burgesses
James City County
Gloucester County
Colony of Virginia
James City County
Colony of Virginia
Philip Ludwell III
Virginia House of Burgesses
Williamsburg
College of William & Mary
Philip Ludwell
Philip Ludwell III
Virginia Governor's Council

Bacon's Rebellion
Rich Neck plantation
William Berkeley
Philip Ludwell III
Hannah Ludwell
Jamestown County
House of Burgesses
Green Spring Plantation
William Byrd II

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