Cole Digges (burgess)

One of the three cousins died young circa 1769, the other in 1777 and the last, Cole Digges (patriot) became not only a significant politician like his grandfather and a Revolutionary War officer, but also built the other of the two historic houses in Virginia colloquially named the "Cole Digges House."

The eldest son of prominent planter and politician Dudley Digges(1665-1710) and his wife, the former Susanna Cole (1674-1708).

She was the daughter of Captain William Cole, who had a plantation in Warwick County called Denbigh.

The National Park Service restored the Yorktown property he bought in 1713 during the 1960s, but further archeological studies four decades later showed it had been constructed during this man's ownership, and so it is now named the "Cole Digges House" and the business place of Mobjack Bay Coffee Roasters (which also has an outdoor cafe for customers).

[9] Also in the 1960s, archeological excavations were undertaken at the former Denbigh and Boldrup plantation before residential and industrial development in what had become Newport News, Virginia.