My 9-greats grandfather (father's side) was the first governor in the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, VA....Alexander Spotswood. We had four VA governors and multiple House of Burgesses members on that side of the family after the first family member arrived in Jamestown VA in 1609.
Capt Thomas Collier, who served in the Revolution in Brannocks Campaign and was awarded 30,000 acres of land in Kentucky, lived on Portobello Plantation - now Camp Peary (highly secure CIA property) in Williamsburg, VA. His wife Martha Frances Dabney was the maker of a quilt that passed down through the women of my family and was gifted by me to the Colonial Williamsburg Textile Museum. The staff there has dated it as made in 1780 or earlier.
The aunt for whom I was named, on Mother's side of the family, owned Oliver Wendall Holmes's former house near Boston, MA, when she died in the 1960s.
Jan in VA