Colonel Edmund Scarborough was an English-born politician and military officer who served as speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1645 to 1646.
15 Facts About Edmund Scarborough
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Edmund Scarborough settled on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with his family around 1628, and represented the Accomac Shire in the Virginia General Assembly in the 1630's.
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Edmund Scarborough was one of the most prominent of the English settlers of the Accomac Shire in Virginia, in what is the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
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Edmund Scarborough was exonerated when the court found that his raid had been justified by the circumstances.
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Edmund Scarborough employed Indians to herd his livestock while at the same time selling guns to them and condemning them in the General Assembly for obtaining firearms.
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Edmund Scarborough retaliated by seizing a Prussian ship of similar size, no matter that it was not of Dutch ownership.
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In 1652, Edmund Scarborough sold his seven ships to William Burton of Boston.
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Edmund Scarborough incited a scandal among a local parson to deflect criticism about his own lack of morals.
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In 1657, Edmund Scarborough forged a letter in which his black neighbor, Anthony Johnson, acknowledged a debt.
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The Indians dared not disobey, and when they assembled Edmund Scarborough fired on them from an artillery piece hidden nearby.
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Edmund Scarborough used his positions as commander of His Majesty's Forces on Virginia's Eastern Shore and Surveyor-General of the Virginia Colony to lead a force of men into Maryland and claim the area for Virginia.
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Robbins served as a burgess with Edmund Scarborough and sought to nullify any attempts by his crafty nemesis to cause trouble on the Eastern Shore, whether it be with local Indians or with local government.
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Edmund Scarborough set Toft up in business at a plantation known as Gargaphia on present day Gargathy Neck in northern Accomack County.
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Edmund Scarborough's main residence was a property in Accomack County on Occahannock Creek known as Hedra Cottage.
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When Edmund Scarborough died after 1671 he was buried there but it is thought that his gravestone was removed by friends to keep his enemies from desecrating his remains.