Footeball Quarter Creek Plantation

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Thomas Kirby, a former carpenter's helper who arrived in Virginia by the 1630s, purchased this 450-acre plantation in 1642. Successful as a tobacco planter, he attained the status of gentleman by 1660. At that time he entered into an unusual contract with physician Peter Plovier for lifetime medical care in exchange for 100 acres of his plantation. At his death in 1668, Kirby left a wife, Mary, and a son, Robert. Late in the 20th century, descendant James L. Kirby Jr. sponsored an extensive archaeological investigation of this site that revealed evidence of the original house, outbuildings, stockades, and palisades.

Department of Historic Resources, 2016

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Eve Gregory, “From Thomas Kirbye—1642 to Kirby Park—1996” (1996). Eve Gregory, Unpublished manuscript, chapters 1 and 2. Weisiger, Benjamin B., York County, Virginia, Records, 1659-1662 (Richmond, 1989), 62. Weisiger, Benjamin B., York County, Virginia, Records, 1665-1672 (Richmond, 1989), 85, 103. Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, 1:77, 156. Noel Currer-Briggs, Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers (Baltimore, 1970), 401.