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1729 Lunsford Lomax married Mary Edwards on June 14. [1]

1735 Lunsford Lomax, Esq was a precinct magistrate in Caroline County, Virginia. [2]

1740 A deed of gift from Elizabeth Lomax widow to Lunsford Lomax Gent. was proved by Thomas Turner Gent., Abraham Wilson and Eliza. Wilson in the Caroline County, Virginia court. Dated February 8, 1739/40. [3]

1740 On the petition of Lunsford Lomax Gent., certificate is granted him for obtaining letters of administration of the estate of his late mother Elizabeth Lomax, who with John Taliaferro Gent., by his security, acknowledged bond. Ordered that William Taliaferro, Richard Taliaferro, John Taliaferro and Oliver Towles Gent. appraise the estate of Elizabeth Lomax. Dated May 9. [4]

1743 Suit in chancery. William Beverley, Gent., executor of the last will and testament of Robert Beverley Esq. agt. Lunsford Lomax Gent., administrator of Eliza. Lomax. The respondent confessed the substance of the complainant's bill to be true so far as relates to himself. The court decree the respodent pay £3.11.6 sterling. Dated April 8. [5]

1745 Lunsford Lomax was on the Fairfield County court on March 8, 1744/45. [6]

1752 "commissions and instructions were given to Messrs Joshua Fry, Lunsford Lomax, and James Patten, to treat with the Six United Nations on the River Ohio, ... which I find was signed by seven of their Chiefs." Dated in April. [7]

1752-56 Lunsford Lomax was burgess for Caroline County, Virginia. [8]

1762 A petition by Lunsford Lomax, gentleman was made to the Virginia House of Burgesses praying for compensation for tobacco taken from Roy's Warehouse in the county of Caroline. [9]


Footnotes:

[1] "Register of St. James Northam Parish," William and Mary College Quarterly 15 (1906-1907), 24-35, at 80, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[2] Thomas Elliott Campbell, Colonial Caroline: A History of Caroline County, Virginia (Richmond, Virginia: 1954), county map, [GoogleBooks].

[3] John Frederick Dorman, Caroline County, Virginia Order Book, 1732-1740, Part Three 1737-40/5 (Washington: 1967), 78.

[4] John Frederick Dorman, Caroline County, Virginia Order Book, 1732-1740, Part Three 1737-40/5 (Washington: 1967), 88.

[5] John Frederick Dorman, Caroline County, Virginia Order Book, 1740-1746, Part Two 1742-46 (Washington: 1971), 6.

[6] John Frederick Dorman, Caroline County, Virginia Order Book, 1740-1746, Part Three 1744-46 (Washington:), 7.

[7] John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1761-1765 (Richmond, Virginia: 1907), xiv, [InternetArchive].

[8] Thomas Elliott Campbell, Colonial Caroline: A History of Caroline County, Virginia (Richmond, Virginia: 1954), 343, [GoogleBooks].

[9] John Pendleton Kennedy, Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1761-1765 (Richmond, Virginia: 1907), 135, [InternetArchive].