Robert Beverley (1740-1800)

He was born on the Blandfield Plantation in Virginia. He was educated in England at Wakefield in Yorkshire before entering Trinity College, Cambridge. Back in Virginia, he was a magistrate and in 1780 was elected to the Virginia Legislature but never took his seat. In 1763, at Sabine Hall, he married Maria Carter, grand-daughter of Robert "King" Carter. Between 1769 and 1773 he built Blandfield. He and his wife were the parents of 16-children of whom thirteen (listed above) survived to adulthood.