Matthew Edloe, Jr.

Mathew Edloe or Edlowe (c. 1615 – 1668) was a planter and politician who served a term as burgess representing James City County in the House of Burgesses.

Early and family life

His father, also Mathew Edloe, had emigrated to the Virginia colony in 1618, and in 1629 served as one of the burgesses representing (the short-lived) "Plantation of the College" district alongside Thomas Osborne. This boy was probably born to his father's first wife, for his father did not marry Alice, the widow of Luke Boyse (who had represented "The Necke of Land" district in the House of Burgesses in both 1624 and 1625), for about a decade, and they jointly submitted an account of her late husband's estate in 1629. The elder Mathew Edloe died before 1635.

Personal life, death and controversy Edloe had died by 1668. Earlier, he had married a widow named Tabitha who had at least a previous daughter, and who bore a son John of this marriage (who was significantly younger than legal age at the time), as well as remarried again. Young John Edloe married and had children before dying circa 1705, and the land he owned came to be in Henrico County (which had been formed from then-vast Charles City County, whose records were destroyed in the Civil War).