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Jabez Whitaker (b. 1596, d. Aft. 1626)

Jabez Whitaker (son of Dr. William Whitaker and Susan Culverwell) was born 1596 in England, and died Aft. 1626. He married Mary Bouchier, daughter of Sir John Bouchier and Elizabeth UNKNOWN.

Notes for Jabez Whitaker:
Jabez was in VA by 1621

Letter, dated May [16], 1621, from Jabez Whittaker, in Virginia, sent to Sir Edwin Sandys, London, on the departing Bona Nova. (S.M. Kingsbury, "Records of the Virginia Company", 1933, v.III, page 297),

COMMISSION TO GOVERNOR HARVEY AND THE COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA. March 22, 1627/8. Commission reciting a previous commission of 26 Aug., 22. Jac. I. (which see) to Sir George Yeardley and appointing John Harvey, Esq., Governor of Virginia, to execute the same as fully as any Governor resident there within the space of three years last past, and Francis West, George Sandys, John Pott, Roger Smyth, Ralph Hamor, Samuel Mathews, Abraham Piersey, Will. Claybourne, Will. Tucker, Jabes Whitaker, Edward Blany and Will. Ferrar, the Council-and William Claybourne, the secretary of State in the colony, with this mem: "This is only the renewing of a former commission to sir George Yeardley, deceased, and others, with this alteration, that the said John Harvey is herein nominated to be Governor in the room of Sir George Yeardley. (Sign Manual Charles I, Vol. 6, No. 66.)

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~virginiahuddlestons/captain_john_huddleston_of_the_b.htm?o_xid=0030660188&o_lid=0030660188&o_xt=30660188

Children of Jabez Whitaker and Mary Bouchier are:

+William Whitaker, b. 1618, England, d. date unknown, VA.

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