Dudley Digges Jr.

Dudley Digges (1694-1768) was a Virginia attorney, merchant, planter and politician who served in the House of Burgesses representing the newly created Goochland County. Possibly the least known of three related men of the same name who served in the Virginia legislature during the 18th century, this man was the son of Dudley Digges Sr. who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and bought the family's historic E.D. plantation in York County. This Dudley Digges married Mary Hubard, and none of their children had children. However, their daughter Maria Digges became stewardess of the College of William and Mary.[1][2] Thus, he may be the Dudley Digges who died of small-pox in February 1768, as did a mulatto man who belonged to the college, weeks before Governor Francis Fauquier.[3]

Dudley Digges Jr.
Member of the House of Burgesses for Goochland County, Colony of Virginia
In office
1730-1732
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byWilliam Randolph
Personal details
Born1694
E.D. plantation, York County, Virginia, Colony of Virginia
Died1768
Goochland County, Colony of Virginia
SpouseMary Hubard
Parent(s)Dudley Digges, Susannah Cole
RelativesCole Digges (burgess)(brother)
Occupationattorney, planter, politician

Possibly the most important of the three men of the same name was his lawyer nephew Dudley Digges (patriot), son of his Yorktown merchant brother Cole Digges (1691-1744), and who also represented York County (from 1752 until 1772).[4]

References
  1. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. I. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 223.
  2. Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p. 74
  3. William & Mary College Quarterly, vol.8 (1899) p. 29
  4. Tyler, Vol. 2 ,p. 9
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