FLOOD
John
Flood sailed to America
aboard the Swan in
1610, when he was a boy of ten. In 1616 he
was in the service of the Reverend Alexander Whitaker at Charles City.
John was probably a kinsman of Walter Flood whose will, proved in London
in 1636, left an estate in Virginia.
John Flood represented
Flowerdew Hundred in the Assembly in 1630. In 1632, he also represented
Weyanoke and Wakefield. In 1638, for 42 headrights, he was able to patent
2,100 acres in Surry County .
By 1642, he was a member of the Assembly for James City County and, in
1652 and 1655, he was ele cted
to represent Surry County. By 1650 Flood
had sold or otherwise disposed of 1,000 of his acres. Many of these acres
went to Arthur Jordan or Arthur's brother George.
By 1622, John was married to
Margaret _______ Finch ,
a widow .
There were four children of this marriage:
William , John, Thomas, and Jane. After
the death of his first wife, Flood married their sister, Fortune Jordan.
Of this marriage there were two children:
Jane and Walter.
The second John
Flood received
a portion of his father's 1,100 acres
and was married to Mary Creed
.
Elizabeth
Flood (?-bef. 1676), the daughter
of John and Mary Flood, married
first Thomas King, and then Nicholas Smith.