Nathaniel West (captain)

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Captain Nathaniel West (1665-1723) was the member for King William County in the House of Burgesses of the US Colony and Dominion of Virginia. He was the oldest son of Colonel John West of West Point, Virginia and Unity Croshaw.

West was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for King William County, Virginia 1703-1705. The House of Burgess was the representative assembly in colonial Virginia; the First elective governing body in a British overseas possession. The assembly was one division of the legislature established by Governor George Yeardley at Jamestown July 30, 1619; the other included the governor himself and a council, all appointed by the colonial proprietor (the Virginia Company). Because each Virginia settlement was entitled to elect two burgess, the original membership of the House of Burgess was 22.

In late 1699, he married his cousin Martha Woodard, daughter of William Woodard. They lived at Popular Neck, Virginia and had the following children:

  • Francis West
  • Unity West (1702-1753), married Colonel William Dandridge of Elsing Green, who was Martha Washington's uncle.

Nathaniel died in 1723. In the winter of 1724 his widow married Gideon Macon who died soon afterwards, and she then was married in 1727 to a Scotchman named Mr. Bigger.

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  • "Middle Peninsula Historic Marker "Cockacoeske"
  • "The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Rountree, Helen C., University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
  • "Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey: Diplomat and Suzeraine." W. Martha W. McCartney.
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  • "Tax Rolls, March 1660. 3 March 1659. 1
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