Peter Jenings

Peter Jenings
Member of the Governor's Council for the Colony of Virginia
In office
1670-1671
Member of the House of Burgesses for Gloster County Colony of Virginia
In office
1663-1670
Preceded byPeter Knight
Succeeded byAugustine Warner
In office
1660
Preceded byAugustine Warner
Succeeded byPeter Knight
Attorney General for the Virginia colony
In office
1670–1671
Preceded byunknown
Succeeded byGeorge Jordan
Personal details
Borncirca 1630
Silsden, Yorkshire, England
Died1671
Gloster County Colony of Virginia
SpouseCatherine Lunsford
ParentWilliam Jenings
RelativesEdmund Jenings
Occupationattorney, planter, politician

Peter Jenings (1630-1671) was a British attorney who emigrated to the Colony of Virginia, where he became a planter, served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and was the colony's attorney general. He twice represented Gloucester County in the House of Burgesses, as well as served on the Virginia Governor's Council probably for less than two years before his death.[1][2]

  1. ^ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. I. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 131–132, 205.
  2. ^ McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. OCLC 812189309.