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299:, and left a plantation nearby. Richard's widow twice claimed Francis as a headright in 1650. Another brother, Robert Moryson, also later commanded the fort, as would Robert's son Charles Moryson after this man returned to England. In 1654 Francis Moryson bought 24 acres near Jamestown, and the following year leased 120 acres on the James River.
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had grounded again in the James River, Berkeley had ordered a search for
Moryson's party, possibly because they may have carried a payment of 1000 pounds from Edmund Custis. Moryson may have also stayed with relatives, for his brother Richard, who died in 1648, had for a decade served as commander of
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Jamestown, the assembly having purchased a house there from Governor Berkeley as a residence for their Speaker. They also voted Moryson 6,000 pounds of tobacco for the time and care he was devoting to the public business. As Speaker, Moryson wrote a
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began his second term in 1660, Moryson received an appointment to the
Governor's Council, which the king's commission approved by July. Two years later he became the commander of the fort at Point Comfort, the post his brothers had previously held. Moryson also became the colony's acting Governor
351:(London 1662), which had a provision which proved problematic that allowed parish vestries to fill their own vacancies rather than allow such to be chosen by parishioners. Before leaving to England in March 1663, Moryson also donated a silver communion service to the church at Jamestown.
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