This Digges received a private education appropriate to his class, including studies at the College of William and Mary.
[2] His father and elder sister Mary (who had married Nathaniel Harrison of Brandon plantation in Prince George County) both died in 1744.
In that year Digges became colonel of horse and foot, the local militia which included cavalry and infantry.
Digges repeatedly won re-election until the last Virginia colonial governor, Lord Dunmore, dismissed the assembly in 1776.
[10] By 1773, Digges was a member of the committee of correspondence between the Virginia legislature and those of other counties, alongside Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Peyton Randolph, Benjamin Harrison, Dabney Carr, Edmund Pendleton, Archibald Cary, Richard Bland, Robert Nicholas and Richard Henry Lee.
[13] By 1787 he also owned 36 adult slaves, 41 enslaved teenagers, 9 horses and 62 cattle in still-developing Louisa County, Virginia.
[14] According to various accounts, Digges died in Yorktown, Virginia on May 13, 1790[15][8] or the town of Williamsburg on June 3, 1790 (which now seems likely a memorial service).