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Captain Curtis's ship 'Guinea', and obtained Virginia's peaceful surrender on 12 March 1652. However, Stegg sailed with Captain Dennis and died aboard the 'John' after having written his last will and testament dated 6 October 1651, which was admitted to probate in July 1652. His widow married burgess
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252:(the Colony's secretary) escape from Virginia in 1640, three years before he became a burgess. Although Stegg was on the Virginia Governor's Council in 1642 (the upper body of the Virginia General Assembly), he resigned, and became one of the three men representing
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