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Name
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The Christians in Virginia
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Description
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The Christians settled in New Kent County, Virginia. They farmed. They served. They did what the Christians had done on Mann for two and a half centuries: they governed. Robert Christian of Cedar Grove became Chief Magistrate of New Kent County — Washington's devoted friend. His son William became a Colonel, chairman of the Fincastle Resolutions committee, served in the Virginia Senate alongside Jefferson and Madison, sat on the Committee of Safety, and was killed in 1786 in Kentucky. His niece Letitia — granddaughter of the Chief Magistrate — married John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. A Manx family that had produced Deemsters on a small island in the Irish Sea had, within four generations, produced a First Lady of the American republic.
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Date
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1655–present
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Type
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Diaspora Community
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Source
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Christians of Virginia, Manx Note Book (1885)
