Henry Fitzhugh
(1706-1742)
BIRTH
January 15, 1706
PLACE
Stafford County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
December 6, 1742
PLACE
Unknown
FAMILY
FATHER
William Fitzhugh
(1741-1809)
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Henry Fitzhugh of Eagle’s Nest was a Virginia planter and burgess, born around 1706 and educated in England. Westminster School records his admission in 1720 and later study at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by legal training at the Middle Temple. Back in Virginia, he represented Stafford County in the House of Burgesses and served as a militia lieutenant colonel. He married Lucy Carter and died in 1742. He is distinct from Henry Fitzhugh of Bedford, an older relative.
EARLY LIFE
Henry Fitzhugh was born on January 15, 1706, in Stafford County, Virginia, into the Fitzhugh family, whose members had been landowners and officeholders along the Potomac River since the late seventeenth century.
Fitzhugh entered colonial politics in Stafford County and was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1736. He sat among the Potomac Valley planters who dominated the assembly's northern county delegations.
He died on December 6, 1742, at about age thirty-six.
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DEATH
Westminster School records his admission in 1720 and later study at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by legal training at the Middle Temple. Back in Virginia, he represented Stafford County in the House of Burgesses and served as a militia lieutenant colonel. Henry Fitzhugh married Lucy Carter and died in 1742. Fitzhugh entered colonial politics in Stafford County and was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1736. He sat among the Potomac Valley planters who dominated the assembly's northern county delegations. He died on December 6, 1742, at about age thirty-six. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Henry Fitzhugh of Eagle’s Nest (1706–1742), the Stafford County burgess, distinct from the other Henry Fitzhughs. Davis’s letters concern his earlier family. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members — Cynthia Miller Leonard (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I — Lyon Gardiner Tyler (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World, 1676–1701: The Fitzhugh Letters and Other Documents — Richard Beale Davis (editor). [Related primary family correspondence] Find on Amazon
4. They Called Stafford Home: The Development of Stafford County, Virginia, from 1600 until 1865 — Jerrilynn Eby. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. Some Prominent Virginia Families — Louise Pecquet du Bellet. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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