Burwell was the daughter of Lewis Burwell (d. 1710) and Abigail Smith Burwell and was born on November 21, 1683, probably at Fairfield plantation on Carter's Creek in Gloucester County
The 1716 tomb of Lucy Burwell Berkeley engraved with a very interesting English Coat of Arms is one of the oldest tombs in the region. It is in a private graveyard on the Barn Elms property near Hartfield. Lucy was married to Edmund Berkely of Barn Elms. She was reportedly one of the most beautiful women in the colony. Before she married, Lucy attracted the romantic attention of a much older Virginia governor, Sir Francis Nicholson, who threatened to harm any man who married Lucy. The governor became so obsessed with Lucy that Queen Anne of England ordered him to return to Great Britain.
The 1716 tomb of Lucy Burwell Berkeley engraved with a very interesting English Coat of Arms is one of the oldest tombs in the region. It is in a private graveyard on the Barn Elms property near Hartfield. Lucy was married to Edmund Berkely of Barn Elms. She was reportedly one of the most beautiful women in the colony. Before she married, Lucy attracted the romantic attention of a much older Virginia governor, Sir Francis Nicholson, who threatened to harm any man who married Lucy. The governor became so obsessed with Lucy that Queen Anne of England ordered him to return to Great Britain.
Burwell was the daughter of Lewis Burwell (d. 1710) and Abigail Smith Burwell and was born on November 21, 1683, probably at Fairfield plantation on Carter's Creek in Gloucester County
The 1716 tomb of Lucy Burwell Berkeley engraved with a very interesting English Coat of Arms is one of the oldest tombs in the region. It is in a private graveyard on the Barn Elms property near Hartfield. Lucy was married to Edmund Berkely of Barn Elms. She was reportedly one of the most beautiful women in the colony. Before she married, Lucy attracted the romantic attention of a much older Virginia governor, Sir Francis Nicholson, who threatened to harm any man who married Lucy. The governor became so obsessed with Lucy that Queen Anne of England ordered him to return to Great Britain.
The 1716 tomb of Lucy Burwell Berkeley engraved with a very interesting English Coat of Arms is one of the oldest tombs in the region. It is in a private graveyard on the Barn Elms property near Hartfield. Lucy was married to Edmund Berkely of Barn Elms. She was reportedly one of the most beautiful women in the colony. Before she married, Lucy attracted the romantic attention of a much older Virginia governor, Sir Francis Nicholson, who threatened to harm any man who married Lucy. The governor became so obsessed with Lucy that Queen Anne of England ordered him to return to Great Britain.
Inscription
Here lyeth the Body of
LUCY BERKELEY, who Departed this
Life ye 16th day of December, 1716, in ye 33rd
Year of her Age, after she had been
Married 12 Years and 15 Days. She left
behind her 5 children, viz., 2 Boys and 3
Girls. I shall not pretend to give her full
Character; it would take two much room
for a Grave stone; shall only say that
She never neglected her duty to her
Creator in Publick or Private. She was
Charitable to the poor; a kind mistress
and indulgent mother & obedient wife.
She never in all the time she lived
with her Husband gave him so much
as once cause to be displeased with Her.
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