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Updated: May 8, 2025

Evidently he was a tobacco planter, for when he died, a year later, he left "a hundred gilders which was ten pounde sterlinge for to make the most of his tobacco." It appears to have been in the summer of 1619 that Captain Francis West laid out the site of Westover plantation.

Charles E. Hatch - The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624