Edward Major

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Edward Major
6th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses
In office 1652–1652
Preceded by	Thomas Harwood
Succeeded by	Thomas Dew
Personal details
Born	1615 England
Died	c. 1655 Nansemond County, Virginia
Residence	Nansemond County, Virginia
Occupation	Farmer

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Major (1615 – c. 1655) was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician.

Life

Major was born in England around 1615. He moved to Virginia in 1635 and became a prominent farmer and militia leader in Nansemond County. He was a Burgess from Upper Norfolk Co. in 1645.^[1]

Major was closely associated with Puritan settlers in the colony, and was elected Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1652, just after Virginia acceeded to the authority of Parliament following the execution of King Charles I.^[2]

Notes

↑ New England Historical and Geneaological Register, Vol. 42, Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, page 394
↑ Kukla, pp. 46-47

References

Kukla, Jon (1981). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0-88490-075-4.

v t e Speakers of the Virginia House of Burgesses

Stegg Hill Sr. Scarborough Harmer Harwood Major Dew Chiles Whitby Hill Sr. Moryson Smith Hill Sr. Bland Soane Wynne Warner Godwin Warner Travers Kemp Ballard Hill Jr. Kendall Allen Milner Ludwell Carter W. Randolph Carter Beverley Harrison Beverley McCarty Holloway J. Randolph Robinson P. Randolph

Persondata
Name	Major, Edward
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	1615
Place of birth	England
Date of death	1655
Place of death	Nansemond County, Virginia

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