Philip Lightfoot

1643 - 1708  (65 years)

• Name	Philip Lightfoot  [1]
  Birth	1643	London, London, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 May 1708	, Gloucester, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I19044	Master
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2012

  
  

  Father	Capt John Lightfoot,   b. 1622, London, London, England d. 1686, Surinam, Saint Joseph, Barbados (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Tayloe,   b. 1622, Stepney, London, England d. 1686, , Northamptonshire, England (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F4781	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Corbin,   b. 14 Feb 1659, Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, USA d. 1713, , Charles City, Virginia, USA (Age 53 years)
  Children	1. Francis Lightfoot,   b. 1686, , James City, Virginia, USA d. 7 Jan 1726, , , Virginia, USA (Age 40 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural] + 2. Major General Philip Lightfoot,   b. 1689, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA d. 30 May 1748, Sandy Point, Charles City, Virginia, USA (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F4785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1643 - London, London, England Death - 30 May 1708 - , Gloucester, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Phillip Lightfoot came to the colony of Virginia before 1670 from England, possibly with his brother John. He served as a Lt. Col of Militia and Justice of Gloucester Co in 1680; Justice of James City Co 1694-99; Collector of Customs for Upper James River and Surveyor General. He registered his will in 1708 and died thereafter (1708-1710). His tomb is without date and bears arms "Lightfoot Impaling Corbin." The coats of arms of both the Lightfoot and Corbin families are displayed side-by-side. Phillip purchased three tracts of land at Sandy Point along the Chickahominy River, most of which he willed to his sons Francis and then Philip. Source: Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, VA. Call number 2330. From Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, VA, 1958: p. 69 The Lightfoots were among the earliest colonists in Virginia. They seem to have settled originally in Gloucester and James City when the latter embraced what is now Charles City County. Col Philip Lightfoot was a vestryman of Petsworth Parish as early as 1683. By his last will he devised his lands to his eldest son Francis, remainder to his son Philip. Francis devised his lands to his daughter Elizabeth, who married Peter Randolph of Henrico; remainder to his brother Philip Lightfoot. The entail was docked by the House of Burgesses in 1740, and by agreement between the parties these lands were vested in Philip Lightfoot. At Sandy Point there were at one time portraits of the old Lightfoots. There were three William Lightfoots in succession at Sandy Point, and their tombs are still there. The first died in 1727, the second in 1809, and the third in 1810. Tedington was one of the four farms which composed the splendid estate of Sandy Point, between the James and the Chickahominy Rivers. In 1726 we find the name of Major Goodrich Lightfoot as a member of the vestry of St. George's Parish, Spotsylvania, when that parish and county embraced what was afterwards the parish of St. Mark's and the county of Culpeper. He was one of the lay readers at the Germanna Church, and he and Robert Slaughter were appointed to count all the tobacco plants from the mouth of the Rapidan to the north of Mountain Run, and up Mountain Run and across to the mouth of the Robinson River, in obedience to the Act of the Assembly limiting the number of plants to be cultivated by each planter. Major Goodrich Lightfoot was chosen a vestryman for the first vestry at St. Mark's, for his home was within the limits of the new parish. He served as vestryman and churchwarden until his death in 1738, and was succeeded by Capt Goodrich Lightfoot in 1741, who served until he left the parish in 1771. William Lightfoot was also a vestrymann from 1752-1758, when he moved out of the parish.

  
  

• Sources

  [S521] National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, Parish Register of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex Co Va 1653-1812, (National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia). Marriage date: 23 Sep 1679 Marriage place: Christ Church, Virginia