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Sir Robert Beverley was chr. 6 Jan 1643 at St. Marys, Ludgate, Yorkshire, England, died 19 Mar 1687 in Jamestown, Virginia. He was the son of Peter Beverley who died September of 1650 at his estate in Hull, Yorkshire and his wife, Susannah Hollis whom he was married to at Yorkshire in 1634."In the estate of Major Robert Beverley, the elder, the inventory being filed in 1687, the value of the men (slaves) ranged from twenty-six to twenty-eight pounds sterling."The senior Beverley was an ally of the royal governor, Sir William Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion of 1675 to 1676. He was clerk of the House of Burgesses and found himself in the middle of a contentious relationship between the House and succeeding governors. In 1682, when Middle Peninsula quot;malecontents" destroyed planted tobacco to boost prices in what was known as the plant-cutter riots. Beverley was blamed as being a principal instigator and was jailed. Beverley died in 1687 and left his heirs some 50,000 acres and forty-two slaves. Robert Beverley had the following children:
"The furniture in the dining-room of Robert Beverley, Sr., one of the wealthiest men in the Colony, consisted of an oval and a folding table, a small table and a leather couch, two chests of drawers and fifteen Russian leather chairs, the whole valued at 9 pds 9 shillings." Note: The contents of the whole house were appraised at over 200 pounds. His real estate was valued at 3700 pounds.
- Thomas Beverley who died 20 September 1686 at Blandford in Middlesex County, Virginia, buried at the Lower Chapel Christ Church.
- John Beverley.
- Christopher Beverley, chr. 19 Mar 1686 at Blandford in Middlesex County, Virginia.
- Harry Beverley (1669 to 1730/31), St. George Parish, Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
- Robert Beverley, born 1673 at Jamestown, Virginia, died 21 April 1722 Beverley Park, King and Queen County, Virginia. Robert Beverley Jr. was born in Virginia about 1667 or 1668, the eldest child of Major Robert Beverley (b. 1635 d. 1687) and his second wife, Mary Keeble Beverley. Beverley Jr. was educated in England and returned to Virginia before 1690 and settled at Jamestown where his brother Peter was a clerk. Beverley purchased property in Jamestown and worked there through the 1690s. He also came into 6,000 acres in King and Queen County on the Mattaponi River. Affluent enough to be suitable as a husband for the daughter of William Byrd I, he was married to Ursula Byrd in 1697, who was sixteen years of age, however she died that same year, after the birth of their only son, William Beverley.
- William Beverley, chr. 4 Jan 1680 at Blandford, died Jul 1702 in Middlesex County, Virginia.
