George Poindexter (ca. 1627-ca. 1693)

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George Poindexter (Poingdestre), a member of a prominent family on the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel, arrived in Virginia by the 1650s and settled at Middle Plantation, now Williamsburg. He acquired land in at least three counties, prospered as a tobacco planter, owned a number of enslaved African Americans, and controlled an interest in the merchant ship Planter's Adventure. In 1679 Poindexter was elected to the vestry of Bruton Parish. He and his wife, Susanna, moved to New Kent County in the 1680s. Their descendants owned several plantations in this area, including Cedar Lane, Criss Cross, and Moss Side.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

“The Poindexter Family,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 19 (April 1911), 215-218, and (July 1911), 326-329. John B. Poindexter, “A Poingdestre-Poindexter Genealogy” (1976). The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter’s Parish (1937) Lyon G. Tyler, “Bruton Church,” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 3 (January 1895), 179. Lyon G. Tyler, “Inscriptions on Old Tombs in Gloucester Co., Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 3 (July 1894), 37. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1681-1685 (1898), 142. Consultation with Barbara Vines Little, professional genealogist