Burwell family.

Members of the Burwell family lived in Warren, Vance, and Granville counties, N.C., and Mecklenburg County, Va., and members of the Williams family lived in Warren County, N.C. Prominent Burwell family members were Armistead (d. 1819), Lewis (fl.1792-1848), and Spotswood (1785-1855), all tobacco and cotton farmers in Mecklenburg County, Va.; Spotwood's children, William Armistead (1809-1887), tobacco and cotton farmer of North Carolina, Lewis D.(1813-1874), Blair (1815-1848), Armistead Ravenscroft (1820-1867), George Washington (1823-1873), Robert Randolph (1829-1892), and Mary Anne Spotswood (1825-1874), who married Dr. Otis Frederick Manson; andWilliam Armistead's son William Henry (1835-1917), also a tobacco and cotton farmer in North Carolina and Virginia.

From the description of Burwell family papers, 1745-1997 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 22485882