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General Joseph Bridger (before 28 Apr 1631 – before 8 May 1686) was a military and political figure in the Colony of Virginia. Some sources relate him as "Colonel" (Col.) Bridger.
Born in
General Joseph Bridger (before 28 Apr 1631 – before 8 May 1686) was a military and political figure in the Colony of Virginia. Some sources relate him as "Colonel" (Col.) Bridger.
Born in Gloucester, England
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east of ...
, in 1631, he was the son of Samuel Bridger, the auditor of the College of Gloucester. Bridger served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia. With the creation of the House of Burgesses in 1642, the General Assembly, which had been established ...
from Isle of Wight County, Virginia
Isle of Wight County is a county located in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It was named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2020 census, ...
in the 1657-8 session, as well as in 1663. According to some sources, Bridger was later a co-acting Colonial Governor of Virginia in 1684, and 1685.
During Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American ...
, Bridger was an adherent of Governor William Berkeley.
Several of Bridger's descendants also served in the House of Burgesses.
He died in 1686, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. He was interred at St. Luke's Church, in Smithfield, Virginia
Smithfield is a town in Isle of Wight County, in the South Hampton Roads subregion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The population was 8,089 at the 2010 census.
The town is most famous for the curing and productio ...
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Family
Joseph Bridger married ca. 1654 Hester Pitt, daughter of Colonel Robert Pitt of Isle of Wight Co., Va. The children of Joseph Bridger and Hester Pitt were: * Capt. Joseph II (ca. 1654 - by 1713/4) who married Elizabeth Norsworthy * Martha (ca. 1658 - 1714), married Thomas Godwin * Col. Samuel (ca. 1663 - by 1713), married Elizabeth Godwin * Col. William (ca. 1668 -1730), married Elizabeth Allen * Elizabeth (ca. 1665 - 1717), married Thomas Lear * Mary (ca 1667 - ), married Capt. Richard Tibboth * Hester (1665 - ca. 1722), married George WilliamsonSee also
Among Governor Bridger's descendants were: *Jim Bridger
James Felix "Jim" Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old ...
, mountain man and explorer of the American Northwest
* Robert Rufus Bridgers, North Carolina politician of the Civil War era
* Bridger family of Virginia
References
External links
* https://bridgerfamilyassociation.wordpress.com/bridger-family-association/ * http://tk-jk.net/Bridgers/Shaggy/fog0000000027.html * https://books.google.com/books/about/Seventeenth_Century_Isle_of_Wight_County.html?id=Z2AAvycdC94C 1631 births 1684 in the Thirteen Colonies 1685 in the Thirteen Colonies 1686 deaths 17th century in Virginia 17th-century Anglicans English Anglicans American Anglicans Bridger family Colonial American generals Colonial governors of Virginia House of Burgesses members English emigrants Military history of the Thirteen Colonies People from Gloucester People from Isle of Wight County, Virginia Christians from Virginia {{US-mil-hist-stub