Edward Digges (1716-March 22, 1769) was a Virginia merchant, planter and politician who represented York County in the House of Burgesses.
His great uncle, William Digges, had served on the Maryland Proprietor's Council after representing York County in the Virginia House of Burgesses, then selling the E.D.
[2] York County voters elected him as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses in 1736 and re-elected him until 1752, when his youngest brother Dudley succeeded him.
[2] Because his brothers also named sons Cole, Thomas, Dudley and William, and Warwick and York Counties were depopulated after the Revolutionary War because of conflict-related damage as well as increasingly infertile land due to farming practices of the era, considerable genealogical confusion has resulted.
[2][6] His trustee (or the trustee of his son Edward Digges Jr.) Thomas Nelson Jr., in 1785 advertised for sale that part of the family's plantation in Warwick County containing 741 acres and 400 acres on the York River two miles from Yorktown, including his mansion house and part of the land producing the famous E.D.