[1] He first arrived in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia about 1642, brought by Cornelius Lloyd, and settled on land called 'Shepbush'.
[6][7] Some 40 of his descendants fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy.
[2] For example Gus Dorsey was present when Jeb Stuart died.
His descendant in the ninth generation, a different Augustus Dorsey, of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, was a sergeant in the 18th PA Cavalry, fought at Gettysburg, and survived nearly a year's captivity at Andersonville Prisoner of War camp.
[8] Another of his many descendants was Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, wife of King Edward VIII.