Plantation-Enslaver, Soldier, Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
Spouse(s)
Eliza Carter
(m. 1748; died 1760)
Mary Willing
Children
15, including Charles Willing Byrd
Parent(s)
William Byrd II Maria Taylor Byrd
Relatives
William Byrd I (grandfather)
Military career
Allegiance
British America
Service/branch
Second Virginia Regiment
Rank
Colonel
Battles/wars
French and Indian War
Colonel William Byrd III (September 6, 1728 – January 1 or January 2, 1777) was an American planter, politician and military officer who was a member of the House of Burgesses.[1]
^Evans, Emory G. "William Byrd (1728–1777)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
Colonel WilliamByrdIII (September 6, 1728 – January 1 or January 2, 1777) was an American planter, politician and military officer who was a member of...
WilliamByrd II (March 28, 1674 – August 26, 1744) was a Virginian planter, slave owner, lawyer, surveyor and writer. Born in the English colony of Virginia...
Virginia beginning her second year of marriage. Together Byrd and her husband, WilliamByrdIII, had ten more children before he committed suicide in 1777...
during his periods of absence. During their lifetimes, WilliamByrdIII and Maria Taylor Byrd's holdings increased to 179,423 acres of land and hundreds...
George Washington; Second Virginia Regiment, Colonel WilliamByrdIII. 1759–1762 Colonel WilliamByrdIII. 1762–1763 Colonel Adam Stephen. Source: When the...
a student quarter because of its high college student population. WilliamByrdIII established a rural estate on the property in 1758. Wealthy heiress...
organize a slave congregation, the Bluestone Church, on the plantation of WilliamByrdIII, which may have been the first independently functioning African American...
squandered during the 18th century by WilliamByrdIII through gambling and bad investments, descendant Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr. became wealthy as an apple grower...
Mary Byrd may refer to: Mary E. Byrd (1849–1934), American educator Mary Willing Byrd (1740–1814), second wife of Colonel WilliamByrdIII Mary Bird (disambiguation)...
Robert was two years old at the time. Despondent and nearly broke, WilliamByrdIII of Westover Plantation committed suicide in 1777. Wood notes that "Few...
McCulloch v. Maryland. Byrd was the son of Colonel WilliamByrdIII and Mary Willing Byrd. He was also the grandson of WilliamByrd II, who is considered...
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United...
Westover Plantation, built in the mid-18th century as the residence of WilliamByrdIII, the son of the founder of the Richmond, Virginia. An elaborate doorway...
Regiment, Colonel George Washington. Second Virginia Regiment, Colonel WilliamByrdIII. After the fall of Fort Duquesne, the Assembly voted in 1759 to fill...
burned during this time. After the death of WilliamByrdIII's widow in 1814, Westover was sold out of the Byrd family. Since then, Westover has had three...
Indigenous Peoples. A second Virginia regiment was raised under Colonel WilliamByrdIII and also allocated to the expedition. Some descendants of West Ford...
The Byrd machine, or Byrd organization, was a political machine of the Democratic Party led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd (1887–1966)...
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