William Digges
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Warwick County, Virginia
In office
1800 -1794
Preceded byRichard Cary
Succeeded byJohn Jones
In office
1789-1794
Preceded byJohn Scarsbrooke Langhorne
Succeeded byIsaac Avery
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for York County, Virginia
In office
October 7-December 21, 1776
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byThomas Nelson Jr.
Personal details
BornDecember 29, 1742
E.D. plantation, York County, Virginia, Colony of Virginia
Died1804
Elizabeth City County, Virginia
SpouseElizabeth Digges (cousin)
Children4 daughters
Parent(s)Edward Digges (burgess), Anne Harrison
RelativesCole Digges (cousin); William Digges (uncle and father-in-law), Cole Digges (grandfather)
Residence(s)Denbigh plantation, Warwick County, Virginia
EducationCollege of William and Mary
Occupationplanter, military officer, politician

William Digges (December 29, 1742 – 1804) was a Virginia planter and politician who represented now-defunct Warwick County, in the Virginia House of Delegates (1778-1784) and during the Virginia Ratification Convention of 1788. Although genealogists disagree as to his father, he was the grandson of Cole Digges who helped found Yorktown.[1][2][3][4] The other two related men of the same name were his uncle and father in law William Digges who represented Warwick County for decades before the Revolutionary War, and great uncle William Digges who represented York County before moving to Maryland and serving in both house of that province's legislature. Because this man married his cousin, and the naming conventions of the day did not restrict "Jr" to a son (but could be used for a younger relative of the same name), this man appears to be the William Digges Jr. who represented York County in the final Virginia Convention alongside his uncle Dudley Digges, and then in the first session of the Virginia House of Delegates where he joined Corbin Griffin, before his Warwick County inheritance.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 180.
  2. ↑ Tyler, Lyon G., "Pedigree of a Representative Virginia Planter", William & Mary Quarterly Jan. 1893 also in Genealogies of Virginia Families: From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.) 1982) vol. II, pp. 173-174, 185
  3. ↑ John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004)) vol. 1, p. 841-842
  4. ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly pp. 181, 185, 189, 193, 221, 225, 229, 233, 237
  5. ↑ Leonard pp. 121 and 123
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