[4] Probably reflecting his demise, in 1785, only Mariah, Beck and Metne were listed as owned by him in Warwick County (as well as untitheable, although a horse and two cattle were taxed).
[7] Digges experienced financial problems after the American Revolutionary War, particularly since his main plantations were near the final fighting at Yorktown in 1781, and probably worn out from years of nutrient intensive tobacco farming.
While residing at Mayfield Cottage upstream in Dinwiddie County in 1783 and 1784, Digges advertised for overseers to operate Denbigh Plantation.
According to the modern genealogist John Dorman, their firstborn son Cole Digges (1754–1817) served as a cavalry major in the Revolutionary War and member of the House of Delegates before moving westward to Hanover County, while his brother William remained in the Newport News area even after selling Denbigh plantation in 1787 following this man's death.
for the next century and a half it remained in the hands of Young descendants (who defended it against invading British troops in the War of 1812 and bought the rest of the property in 1813).
[12] Young descendants continued to operate it during the Civil War and the development of Newport News as a shipping terminal, although part had become a city farm by 1961 and in 1963, shortly after Warwick County was merged into the independent city, a redevelopment authority purchased Denbigh and developed as residential housing neighborhood after archeological excavations.