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NOTES

  In 1628, a William Lucas of Cornwall, England, a merchant, was recorded as owner of the Supply, which sailed to Virginia in 1625\6.

  On August 16, 1644, provision was made by the Virginia Council for a William Lucas and his family.

  It is probably this same William Lucas who was granted 800 acres in Lower Norfolk County in 1647 after his marriage to the widow of Caesar Hugget.

The identified generations of our Lucas family are as follows:

William Lucas (1629 - 1659) of Surry County who married Anne _______(c. 1630-bef. 1688). Their children were: William; a daughter who married Abraham Evans; and a daughter who married John Harris.

The second William Lucas (c.1654 - 1717) married Grace Beckwith (?-1719/1720), the daughter of Marmaduke Beckwith and his wife Maudlin Creed of Surry County. The children of William and Grace were Elizabeth, William, Ann, Grace, Hannah, Mary, and Charles.

Elizabeth Lucas (? - 1744) married Henry Briggs ( 1662 - 1739). This marriage was probably not one of which her mother approved. In her will, Grace left the major portion of her estate to be divided among her son William and ..."my daughters Ann, Grace, Hannah and Elizabeth if she recovers of the present fit of sickness she laboreth under, but if she does not recover then Henry Briggs is to have no part of my estate". Elizabeth had already inherited one cow from her god-mother, Elizabeth Beckwith in 1687.