Robert Beasley (burgess)

Robert Beasley
Member Virginia House of Burgesses
In office 1655–1656
Personal details
Occupation	Planter, Politician

Robert Beasley^[1] was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower house of the colonial Virginia General Assembly, from Isle of Wight County, in 1655 and 1656.^[2][3][4]

Upon the petition of Beasley and the other burgesses from Isle of Wight County (Major John Bond and Nicholas Smith), a Commission was established which resulted in Ragged Island and Terascoe Neck being transferred from Nansemond County (then Upper Norfolk County) to Isle of Wight County in 1656.^[5]

A descendant of Robert Beasley, Dr. Robert Sanford Beazley (1821–1910), was a member of the Virginia State Convention of 1867–1868, which adopted the Underwood Constitution following the American Civil War.^[6] Dr. Beazley also served as a Virginia state senator from Albermarle County and Greene County for four years in 1874–1877.^[7]

See also

• House of Burgesses
• List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses

Notes

1. Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1973. ISBN 978-0-8063-0559-2. p. 102 shows his name as Job Beazley. "Job. Beazley" is found in: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses, Henry Read McIlwaine, John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-[1776]. Richmond, VA: Colonial Press, E. Waddey Company, 1915. OCLC 2941728. p. 90. Other sources show this spelling or other combinations of Robert or Job and Beasley or Beazley. Early, Ruth Hairston. The Family of Early: Which Settled Upon the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Its Connection with Other Families Lynchburg, VA: Brown-Morrison, 1920. OCLC 9510197. p. 40.
2. Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902. OCLC 253261475, Retrieved July 15, 2011. p. 72.
3. Stanard spells the name as "Beazley."
4. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. OCLC 229136302. Retrieved February 16, 2013. p. 184.
5. Morrison, Col. E. M. History of Isle of Wight County 1608-1907. "A Brief History of Isle of Wight County". July 21, 2001. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
6. Brenaman, Jacob Neff. A History of Virginia Conventions, Volume 62. J.L. Hill Printing Company, 1902. p. 75.
7. Early, Ruth Hairston. The Family of Early: Which Settled Upon the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Its Connection with Other Families Lynchburg, VA: Brown-Morrison, 1920. OCLC 9510197. p. 40.; Virginia State Library. Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 13-15. Richmond: Virginia State Library, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1917. OCLC 7912944. pp. 196, 198.

References

• Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1973. ISBN 978-0-8063-0559-2.
• Brenaman, Jacob Neff. A History of Virginia Conventions, Volume 62. J.L. Hill Printing Company, 1902.
• Early, Ruth Hairston. The Family of Early: Which Settled Upon the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Its Connection with Other Families Lynchburg, VA: Brown-Morrison, 1920. OCLC 9510197.
• Morrison, Col. E. M. History of Isle of Wight County 1608-1907. "A Brief History of Isle of Wight County". July 21, 2001. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
• Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902. OCLC 253261475, Retrieved July 15, 2011.
• Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. 'Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. OCLC 229136302. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
• Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses, Henry Read McIlwaine, John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-[1776]. Richmond, VA: Colonial Press, E. Waddey Company, 1915. OCLC 2941728.
• Virginia State Library. Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 13-15. Richmond: Virginia State Library, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1917. OCLC 7912944.