Elizabeth, b 1610 England, to VA 1623 on the SOUTHAMPTON; md 1) ca 1628 Richard Stephens, member of the House of Burgesses in 1623, and a member of the Council in 1629.  Not long after his arrival in VA, he took part in the first duel in the English Colonies, wounding his antagonist, George Harrison.

Elizabeth Peirsey Stephens md 2) by 1638, Governor Sir John Harvey

Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents (409):  Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens, 1000 acres in the County of Charles City, called Flowerdeu Hundred, extending from Flowerdeu Hundred Creek, down the main river to the Spring Swamp and over against Weyanake.  Due by descent from her father, Abraham Parsy, late of Virginia, as part of her share as co-heir from her said father, to whom it was due by purchase from Sir George Yardley, Knight, by deed of sale dated 5 Oct 1624 (VA Hist Mag,
Vol 5,  p 458).
 
 
 
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