St.Legar Codd

St.Leger Codd (circa 1630-1707) was a militia officer, lawyer, planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia and the Colony of Maryland who sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly (being nominated by Lord Baltimore but not confirmed by the London Board of Trade for the upper house). Early and family life The eldest son of William Codd (d. 1652) of Watringbury Parish in Kent, England and his wife Mary St. Leger. He received a private education appropriate to his class, including attendance at Gray's Inn in London, one of the Inns of Court. He first married, Anne, the widow of David Fox, who bore sons James Codd and Berkeley Codd but by May 1670 her children by Fox were suing him for the way he was handling their inheritance. She had died by 1679, when Codd married Anna, the widow of Theodorick Bland of Westover, a major planter and politician who had served as speaker of the House of Burgesses. They had a son, also St. Leger Codd. After her death, he married the widow Anne Hynson Wickes, the daughter of Thomas Hynson, a prominent lawyer, planter and officeholder of Kent County, Maryland. Virginia career Codd sailed to the Virginia colony after his father's death and began acquiring land. He acquired a plantation near the border between Northumberland and Lancaster Counties on a branch of the Corotoman River. He was directed to establish forts along the Potomac River. In 1678 he paid taxes on 8 tithables in Lancaster County.