Edward Dale (burgess)

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Edward Dale
Born
England
Diedcirca 1695
Virginia

Edward Dale was a member of the House of Burgesses in the Virginia General Assembly in the 1670s and 1680s.[1][2][3]

Dale was born in England. Dale emigrated from England to Virginia, as did his eventual brother-in-law, Grey Skipwith, 3rd Baronet of Prestwould.

"Between 1653 and 1695, Dale served at various times as the Westmoreland County clerk, a member of the Virginia General Assembly, and as the clerk, justice, high sheriff, “Collector of Publique and County Levies”, and “Commissioner of the Fort” for Lancaster County. The Dales’ children married into Carter, Harrison and Rogers families."[4]

"One recently discovered source at the Folger—a volume once owned by Edward Dale (1620-1695), who immigrated to Virginia in the 1650s—contains a list of the books he owned at his death, which included Shakespeare’s Second Folio (1632); this is now the earliest record of Shakespeare’s works owned in America."[5]

Dale died in Lancaster County, Virginia in the mid-1690s.[6]

Family[]

Dale married Diana Skipwith; it is unclear whether they married in England or Virginia.[6] They had at least two children, Mary and Elizabeth.[7]

Dale's older child, Katherine Dale (later Katherine Rogers), may have been the result of a marriage before Dale's marriage to Diana Skipwith.[8][9]

He gave his daughter, Katherine Dale, and son-in-law, Thomas Carter, land that included Barford, a dwelling noted by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Historic Resources.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Edward Dale". A History of the Virginia House of Delegates.
  2. ^ "Major Edward Dale: Lancaster County, Virginia, 1655-1694". The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 17.
  3. ^ Stanard, William G.; Stanard, Mary Newton (1902). The Colonial Virginia Register: A List of Governors, Councillors and Other Higher Officials, and Also of Members of the House of Burgesses, and the Revolutionary Conventions of the Colony of Virginia. Joel Munsell's Sons.
  4. ^ "Major Edward Dale". The Historical Marker Database.
  5. ^ Rothstein, Edward (28 June 2016). "'America's Shakespeare' Review: Our British Founding Father". The Wall Street Journal.
  6. ^ a b "Notes for Major Edward Dale". Penjacc Down Home News.
  7. ^ "Was Katherine (Dale) Carter the child of Diana (Skipwith) Dale, wife of Maj. Edward Dale, d. 1695, of Lancaster Co., VA?". Soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  8. ^ "Ancestry of Eleanor Roosevelt". FamousKin.com.
  9. ^ "Was Katherine (Dale) Carter the child of Diana (Skipwith) Dale, wife of Maj. Edward Dale, d. 1695, of Lancaster Co., VA?". Narkive Newsgroup Archive.
  10. ^ "Barford". The Historical Marker Database.


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