Samuel Mathews (colonial Virginia governor)

He was born at his father's plantation Mathews Manor, (later known as Denbigh), which was located on the north side of the James River at the confluence of the Warwick River and Deep Creek (about 2 miles north of Blunt Poynt) in the area which later became Warwick County, Virginia (and which is now within the city limits of Newport News).

Frances Mary Grenville or Greville was one of four women who arrived at Jamestown from Bristol, England in September 1620 aboard the ship, Supply.

After West died several years later, Grenville married Abraham Peirsey, a wealthy man who had purchased Sir George Yeardley's Flowerdew Hundred Plantation after his death.

[6] In April 1658, mainly to signal their displeasure with Oliver Cromwell, the Burgesses ceremonially dismissed him and reelected him in a single Act.

[2] Thus, in the view of historian Robert Beverley, Jr. writing in 1705, Virginia colony "was the last of all the King's Dominions that submitted to the Usurpation, and afterwards the first that cast it off.

"[10] Colonial Williamsburg's Ivor Noel Hume in the 1960s supervised archeological studied on the site of Mathews Manor, now located within the independent city of Newport News, Virginia.