Joseph Bridger
General Joseph Bridger (April 29, 1631 – April 15, 1686) was a military and political figure in the Colony of Virginia. Some sources relate him as "Colonel" (Col.) Bridger.[1]
Born in Gloucester, England, in 1631, he was the son of Samuel Bridger, the auditor of the College of Gloucester.[2] Bridger served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Isle of Wight County, Virginia in the 1657-8 session, as well as in 1663. According to some sources, Bridger was later a co-acting Colonial Governor of Virginia in 1684, and 1685.[3]
During Bacon's Rebellion, Bridger was an adherent of Governor William Berkeley.[4]
Several of Bridger's descendants also served in the House of Burgesses.[5]
He died in 1686, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.[6] He was interred at St. Luke's Church, in Smithfield, Virginia.[7]
See also
Among Governor Bridger's descendants were:[8]
- Jim Bridger, mountain man and explorer of the American Northwest
- Robert Rufus Bridgers, North Carolina politician of the Civil War era
- Bridger family of Virginia
Further reading
- https://bridgerfamilyassociation.wordpress.com/bridger-family-association/
- http://tk-jk.net/Bridgers/Shaggy/fog0000000027.html
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Seventeenth_Century_Isle_of_Wight_County.html?id=Z2AAvycdC94C
References
- ↑ http://www.tk-jk.net/Bridgers/Shaggy/fog0000000027.html
- ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74617351
- ↑ http://www.bridgerfamilyassn.org/BOOK/bridger.pdf
- ↑ "Re: Col Joseph Bridger, IOW". genealogy.com. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography". vagenweb.org. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Joseph Bridger". wikitree.com. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Col Joseph Bridger (1628 - 1686)". findagrave.com. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ Fischer, David Hackett (1989). Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 633–639. ISBN 978-0-19-506905-1.