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Genealogies of Virginia Families Vol. I
Captain Thomas Purifoy, Purify, Purifie or Purfry, as the name is variously rendered, was principal commander of Elizabeth City county in 1628, and a commissioner, ( justice) of that county in the same year; Burgess for the lower part of Elizabeth City in 1629-30, and a member of the Council in 1631. A contemporary says of him: " He is a soldier and a man of open heart, hating, for ought I can perceive, all kinds of dissimulation and baseness." He named (according to a land patent) one of his estates (a thousand acre tract) " Drayton," doubtless after the place of that name in Leicestershire, which was one of the seats of the family of Purefoy, baronets, a title now extinct. There is among the Maryland records a deposition, dated 1640, of Lucy wife of Captain Thomas Purefoy, of Elizabeth City county, in which she states that she was then about forty-two years of age, and was born " infra Ranson," in Leicestershire. In 1656 a grant was made to W. Moore for land at Old Poquoson, which had been assigned to him by Lucy, relict of Captain Purifoy, and confirmed by Thomas Purifoy, his son and heir
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1598 - Bef 1656 (< 57 years)