Hugh Drysdale , Lt. Governor of Virginia 1722-1726

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Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on April 22, 2016 at 17:08

https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/jamesriver/gentry.htm                                                                                  In early colonial Virginia ,.......  A network of familial connections defined the Virginia gentry. Since surviving spouses often remarried and had more children, an extended number of kinships existed across the colony. This was recognized by the British government when Virginia Governor Major Hugh Drysdale in 1724 recommended John Carter, the son of the most powerful man in the colony, Robert “King” Carter (1663-1732), to fill the office of Secretary of the Colony. The Secretary, after the Governor, was the second most important office in colonial Virginia, as the Secretary possessed the right to appoint all county clerks, and was keeper of the colonial seal. Drysdale wrote, “There is scare a qualified person in the Colony unattended with some such like inconvenience, for they are all incorporated either in blood or marriage.”