William Digges

Colonel William Digges (c. 1651—24 July 1697) was a prominent planter, soldier and politician in the Colony of Virginia and Province of Maryland.

The eldest son of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5), who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for two decades but died shortly before Bacon's Rebellion, Digges fled to Maryland where he married Lord Calvert's stepdaughter and served on the Maryland Proprietary Council until losing his office in 1689 during the Protestant Revolution, when a Puritan revolt upset the Calvert Proprietorship.

His eldest son Edward sold his primary Virginia plantation to his uncle (this man's younger brother) Dudley Digges.

He married Elizabeth Sewall, widow of Dr. Jesse Wharton and a stepdaughter of Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, the Proprietor of Maryland.

Digges received extensive land and property grants in Maryland, and became the "Lord of Warburton Manor" in Prince George County on the Potomac River.

"[10] William Digges married Elizabeth (Sewall) Wharton, with whom he had ten children:[5][4] William Digges wrote his last will and testament in 1694, bequeathing his Belfield plantation to his firstborn son, with proceeds of his agricultural and milling operations to support his daughters until grown or married, as well as dividing slaves and livestock among his six sons.