_Ludwell: Lunsford: Kemp._--Inscription on a tombstone in the graveyard of
the old church at Williamsburgh:
"Under this marble lyeth the body of Thomas Ludwell, Esq., Secretary of
Virginia, who was born at Burton, in the county of Somerset, in the
kingdom of England, and departed this life in the year 1698: and near
this place lie the bodies of Richard Kemp, Esq., {374} his predecessor
in the secretary's office, and Sir Thomas Lunsford, Knt., in memory of
whom this marble is here placed by Philip Ludwell, Esq., son of the
said Thomas Ludwell, Esq., in the year 1727."
Information is respectfully asked as to the persons and families mentioned
in the foregoing inscription. Sir Thomas Lunsford is said to have come from
Surrey, and to have served during the civil wars.