[3][4] Voters from Shirley Hundred Island elected Hooe to represent them in the Virginia General Assembly in 1632–1633 (when it was a single house body).
In 1639, Hooe received his final major land grant, 300 acres for transporting 6 people to James City County.
Either Rhys Hooe, or his son or grandson of the same anglicized name, moved north in the Tidewater region to what is now called the Northern Neck, where they operated plantations using enslaved labor.
[2] By the early 18th century, the Hooe family operated an important sailboat ferry across the Potomac River linking Pope's Creek on the Virginia shore with Mathias Point near Port Tobacco, Maryland, for which multi-term burgess William Fitzhugh had secured a legislative charter in 1699.
[10] Either Rice Hooe II (1640–1694) or (more likely) Rice Hooe III (b. in Charles City County circa 1660, d. after 1715) served in the House of Burgesses representing then vast Stafford County, together with George Mason I in 1699 (Rev.
While not immediately re-elected, Hooe again won election to the House of Delegates and served alongside Richard Fossaker in the Assembly of 1703–1705.
[9] The third Rice Hooe married three times: first to the widow Mary Dade Massey in 1691, then in 1695 to Anne Howson (the daughter of Welsh sea captain Robert Howson, who had patented 6000 acres in 1669 which later became Alexandria, Virginia for bringing 120 people to the Virginia colony, and sold the land to Stafford County merchant and surveyor John Alexander, who would become the city's namesake), and finally to the widow Frances Townsend Withers.