Humphrey Harwood
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Humphrey Harwood | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Burgesses for Warwick County | |
| In office 1693 Serving with William Cary | |
| Preceded by | Robert Hubbard |
| Succeeded by | William Roscow |
| Member of the House of Burgesses for Warwick County | |
| In office 1685-1686 Serving with Richard Whittaker | |
| Preceded by | Miles Cary II |
| Succeeded by | Miles Cary II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1649 |
| Died | ca. 1700 |
| Spouse | Anne Needler |
| Children | Humphrey Jr., William, Thomas, John |
| Parent(s) | Anne and Thomas Harwood |
| Relatives | William Jr.(grandson) Edward Harwood (Virginia politician)(great grandson) |
| Occupation | planter, politician |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | Virginia militia |
| Rank | Major |
Humphrey Harwood (ca. 1649 – 1700) was a soldier, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia.[1][2]
The son and heir of planter and former speaker of the House of Burgesses Thomas Harwood was a young boy when his father died, so William Whitaker became guardian for him and his two sisters.[3][4] His father and great uncle William Harwood had both arrived in the earliest days of the Virginia colony, and became political leaders as well as major planters. Humphrey Harwood (for whom this man would name his heir) had arrived in the Virginia colony in 1621 to become "governor" of the Martin's Hundred plantation and survived the massacre of 1622 as well as served on the Governor's Council until he was recalled to England in 1635. In that year, still long before this boy's birth, his man's father sailed to Britain to present colonists' complaints against the colony's unpopular governor, Sir John Harvey, who was recalled. This boy and his two sisters were born to Thomas Harwood's second wife, Anne, and no record exists of any surviving children of their father and his first wife, Grace, who had emigrated to the colony with her husband. Ann was likely a daughter or granddaughter of William Peirce who had emigrated to the colony in 1609, since this boy's sister (also Grace) inherited from Capt. Thomas Peirce in 1665 and after her death her former husband Thomas Iken lived at Capt. William Peirce's dwellinghouse. In any event, his widowed mother Ann remarried within a year, to a local physician, Dr. Henry Blagrave, who likely oversaw this boy's education, although his guardian protected the boy's inheritance by noting that Ann deeded her share of Thomas Harwood's estate to these three children before her remarriage.[5]