Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » JOHN KNOLLYS (VA) WEST (1590-1659)

Personal data JOHN KNOLLYS (VA) WEST 

  • He was born on December 14, 1590.
  • He died in the year 1659, he was 68 years old.
  • A child of Thomas Leighton West and Anne Knollys
  • This information was last updated on April 30, 2024.

Household of JOHN KNOLLYS (VA) WEST

He is married to ANN CLAIBORNE.

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. John Claiborne West  1632-???? 


Notes about JOHN KNOLLYS (VA) WEST


John West
Birth: 14 Dec 1590 Hampshire, England
Death: 1 Mar 1659 (aged 68) West Point, King William County, Virginia, USA
Burial: Burial Details Unknown

Memorial #: 152517278
Bio: John West was born on 14 December 1590 in Hampshire, England, the fifth son of Sir Thomas West, second Baron De La Warr and Lady Anne Knollys, a cousin of Elizabeth I. A graduate of Magdalene College Oxford, he was one of four brothers who came to Virginia. These included Thomas West, Lord De la Warr, who was Virginia's first governor, and Francis West who was a later governor. John West arrived on the Bony Bess (sic) in 1618. After the massacre in March 1622 he commanded a company in attacks against the Indians.

He was elected to the House of Burgesses in the years 1628 to 1630, and then when lands became available upon the York River in 1630 he patented 600 acres at Chiskiack, east of Felgate's Creek, which land was later known as Bellfield, selling it after he left in 1650 to Edward Digges. He then moved to the area of the current city of West Point, Virginia, where in 1652 he patented 850 acres, subsequently in 1654 enlarging the patent to 3000 acres. Other patents included 1550 acres in 1651 along the south fork of the York River and 1000 acres on the northeast side of the Mattaponi River.

Very much a leader in the colony, he was a member of the council from 1631 to 1659, and a justice of York County in 1634. After the famous incident in which Governor Harvey was "thrust out" and sent back to England, John West being the senior member of the council was selected by the others and served as acting governor from May 1635 to January 1637. In 1637 together with four others he was ordered back to London to answer to the King for these activities but was cleared and in 1642 with Governor Berkeley's arrival was appointed at the king's direction to be Virginia's Muster?Master. He married Ann (unknown) and they had a son named John born in 1632. In 1659 John West died at West Point, and the following year the House of Burgesses passed a resolution in honor of John West and the noble West family, ordering that the heir, his only child, young John West, be exempt from paying all levies during his lifetime.

References:
1. "Adventurers of Purse and Person", 3rd Edition, revised and edited by Virginia M Meyer and John Frederick Dorman; Order of the First Families of Virginia, 1987
2. "The Noble Lineage of the Delaware?West Family of Virginia", by Ann Woodard Fox; SeeBode Printing Service, Memphis, Tennessee, 1958
3. "Colonial Virginia", by Richard L. Morton; University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1960, pp 123?125, 139

Family Members
Parents
Thomas West1556-1602
Lady Anne Knollys West1555-1608
Spouse
Anne Claiborne Percy West1600-1667
Siblings
Lucy West1572-1572
Lady Elizabeth West Pelham1573-1633
Robert West1575-1594
Sir Thomas West1577-1618
Walsingham West1579-1579
Penelope West Pelham1582-1619
Catherine West Barlowe1583-1650
Governor Francis West1586-1634
Helena West Savage1587-1637
Anne West Lechford1588-Unknown
Lieut. Col. Nathaniel West1592-1623
Children
LTC John West II1632-1691
Created by: Kaaren Crail Vining (11705756)
Added: 2015-09-19T15:00:41.000Z
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152517278/john_west
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152517278/john-west: accessed April 30, 2024), memorial page for John West (14 Dec 1590œ1 Mar 1659), Find a Grave Memorial ID 152517278; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Kaaren Crail Vining (contributor 11705756).

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Ancestors (and descendant) of JOHN KNOLLYS (VA) WEST

Anne Knollys
1555-????

JOHN KNOLLYS (VA) WEST
1590-1659


ANN CLAIBORNE
1600-1667

John Claiborne West
1632-????

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Historical events

Birthday December 14, 1590

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1590: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
    • March 14 » Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
    • May 17 » Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
    • August 30 » Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
    • September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
    • October 24 » John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.


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