Dorothy Bedell^[1]

1591 - 1648  (56 years)

• Name	Dorothy Bedell
  Birth	9 Oct 1591	Harlington, Bedfordshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 Jul 1648	Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I44554	Master
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family	Edward Burwell,   b. 24 Aug 1579, Harlington, Bedfordshire, England d. 18 Oct 1626, Houghton Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England (Age 47 years)
  Children	+ 1. Lewis Burwell,   b. 5 Mar 1621, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England d. 19 Nov 1653, Fairfield, Gloucester, Virginia, USA (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F10221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 15 Jul 1648 - Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Dorothy Bedell Burwell Wingate Notes Dorothy Wingate, widow of Roger Wingate, Esq., gift of the quit rents, remaining due to her husband, to her "only and well beloved son, Lewis Burwell", dated 21st of July, 1648. Visitation of Bedfordshire (pub. by Harleian Society) shows that Edward Burwell's wife was Dorothy, daughter of William Bedell of Catworth, Huntingdonshire, and married, secondly, Roger Wingate, Esq. Dorothy’s family appears to have been of somewhat more prominence than that of her husbands. Two of her brothers, Gabriell and John Bedell, were members of the Virginia Company and went to Jamestown with the second supply in 1608. Their names are on the Second Charter, May 23, 1609. Gabriell Bedell is listed on a document of 1618/19 as one of the "Adventurers in Virginia", and both brothers are recorded in "A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia". Their last appearance in the colonial record is in 1623-1624. Letters of administration on her husband Edward Burwell's estate were issued to her on November 9, 1626. Dorothy and Edward had two daughters and three sons, and possibly two more sons. Dorothy and Roger had at least one daughter. Dorothy was a widow when she married Roger Wingate. Clayton Torrence writes: "Wingate, with his wife and family, returned to England in March, 1634. Roger, and his wife Dorothy, returned to Virginia, and he was Treasurer of the Colony from 1639-1641 and member of the Governor's Council, 1639." Roger Wingate and his wife Dorothy are mentioned in the will of Edward Kingswell, of London, Esquire (dated January 30, 1635/6; proved April 6, 1636), as 'My Brother and sister Mr. Roger Wingate and Dorothie, his wife.'" ROGER WINGATE: Roger was distinguished for his interest in colonial affairs. He was a partner with Edward Kingswell in a venture to plant a colony in Carolina in 1633. In October that year Kingswell and Wingate, with their families and forty persons, arrived at Jamestown in Virginia, on the way to make a settlement in Carolina, but, as no vessel was there to carry them to their destination, they waited in Virginia until the next spring, when the proposed colony seems to have been abandoned. The expedition was abandoned and Wingate returned to England in March 1634. When Kingswell died, his will was proved in 1636, and headrights passed on to Roger Wingate. Roger was made Treasurer of Virginia in 1639. He was a member of the Council.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.