Sir Francis Wyatt 
Francis was born in 1588. Francis' father was Sir George Wyatt and his mother was Lady Jane Finch. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Wyatt and Jane Hawte; his maternal grandparents were Thomas Finch and Catherine Moyle. He had a sister named Isabel. He was the older of the two children. He died at the age of 56 in 1644.General Notes
Sir Francis Wyatt was the English colonial governor of Virginia. He became governor in 1621, shortly after his arrival in October, taking with him the first written constitution for an English colony. In 1622 he rallied the defense of Jamestown which was attacked by Native Americans, during which the lives of some 400 settlers had been lost.
Virginia became a royal colony in 1624, but Sir Francis, at the request of the crown, remained on as governor until 1626, when Sir George Yeardley, whom he had succeeded, resumed the office. He was appointed governor again from 1639 until 1642, and was then succeeded by Sir William Berkeley.
Sir Francis's wife was named Margaret; she was the niece of George Sandys, the Treasurer of Jamestown until Sir Francis. His Grandfather Thomas Wyatt (poet) was the brother-in-law of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley.
Although Sir Francis left no direct descendants in what would later become the United States of America, his brother, the Reverend Haute Wyatt, is considered the common ancestor to those who claim kinship to the pre-1700 Wyatt family in the Americas.
Sir Francis Wyatt organized the General Assembly which had been called in 1619. This was the first legislative body in America. Sir Francis caused its privileges to be embodied in a written constitution, the first of its kind in the new world.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1428 in South Haigh Mexborough, Yorkshire, England d.1478 in Kent, England
- b.1460 d.~10 Nov 1536 in Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, England
- b.1503 in Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, England d.11 Oct 1542
- b.1446 d.1470
- b.~ 1486 in Reigate, Surrey, England
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- b.1521 in Allington Castle, Middlesex, England d.11 Apr 1554 in London, England
- b.> 1446 d.~09 Mar 1511
- b.< 1481 d.19 Jul 1529
- b.< 1476 d.30 Sep 1506 in Cobham, Kent, England
- b.~ 1503 in Cobham, Kent, England d.~ 1560
- b.~ 1550 in Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, England d.01 Sep 1623 in Ireland
- b.~ 1522 in Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, England
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- b.1588 d.1644
- d.1443 in Netherfield, Sussex, England
- d.1494 in Icklesham, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1419
- d.1553
- b.~ 1430 d. in near Canterbury
- b.~ 1450
- b.~ 1525 in Eastwell, Kent, England d.19 Mar 1563 in enroute to Le Havre
- b.~ 1423 d.04 Jul 1450 in The Mile End, London, England
- b.1448 d.~ 1502
- b.~ 1425
- b.~ 1475
- d.1464
- b.~ 1450
- b.~ 1432
- b.~ 1560 in Eastwell, Kent, England d.27 Mar 1644 in Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, England
- b. in Kent, England
- b.~ 1435 in Cornwall, England d.16 Dec 1501
- b. in Stevenstone, Devon, England
- b.< 1500 in Chilham, Kent, England d.02 Oct 1560
- b.~ 1417 in Malden, Essex, England d.02 Nov 1469
- b.~ 1467 in Malden, Essex, England d.> 1502 in Chilham, Kent, England
- b.~ 1529 in Eastwell, Kent, England
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Individual Additional Information
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Associated external link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wyatt