William Beverley was an 18th-century legislator, civil servant, planter and landowner in the Colony of Virginia.
15 Facts About William Beverley
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William Beverley was the nephew of Peter Beverley, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and the grandson of wealthy Virginia planter William Byrd I of Westover Plantation.
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William Beverley's mother died shortly before her 17th birthday, and he was sent to England.
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William Beverley inherited a large estate after his father's death in 1722, amassing significant landholdings throughout Virginia from which he received revenue from tobacco production and rent from 119 tenants.
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William Beverley was commissioned by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, for an expedition with Peter Jefferson to establish the Fairfax Line of the Northern Neck Proprietary.
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William Beverley was born in 1696, the only child of Robert William Beverley, Jr.
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William Beverley was the Clerk of Court for Essex County for 29 years, when the first Essex County courthouse was on Beverley's Blandfield estate.
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William Beverley was an Essex County judge from 1720 to 1740.
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William Beverley was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, elected to represent Orange and Essex Counties.
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William Beverley represented Essex County with James Ganett until 1747, after which he served with William Daingerfield until 1749.
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William Beverley inherited a large estate after his father's death in 1722, and continued speculating in land.
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William Beverley received income from tobacco production and rent from tenant farmers.
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William Beverley owned and operated a tavern at Caroline Court House in Caroline County, and participated in trade with the West Indies.
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William Beverley sold Barbadian salt in Virginia and shipped Virginia maize to Barbados.
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In 1746 William Beverley was commissioned by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to represent him in an expedition with Peter Jefferson through western Virginia to mark the Fairfax Line of the Northern Neck Proprietary, supervising the work of Jefferson and the other surveyors.