postlethwayt

Updated: May 17, 2025

Thus William Pearce, who came over in the days of the Company as a poor settler, was a Councilor in 1632, and was before his death one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the colony. In 1635 we find in the Council John Brewer, formerly a grocer of London. Malachy Postlethwayt, a writer of several treaties on commerce, states that even criminals often became leading men in Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker - Patrician and Plebeian: Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion