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A few corrections:
Edward Digges and Elizabeth Page had six sons and seven daughters, according to his tombstone. By 1669 when he wrote his will, only eight of the children were still alive: four daughters and four sons.
By 1691, when his wife died, only three of the children were still alive: William, Dudley, and Edward. All of the seven daughters were dead. Five of the daughters died without issue and their names are not known. Very likely they died in infancy as it seems clear there must have been an inherited condition afflicting this family to cause so many tragedies.
The two daughters who survived long enough to marry and have children were Mary (m. her cousin Francis Page and left one surviving daughter, Elizabeth) and Ann (m. as his 2nd wife William Cole and had two children, both of whom died in childhood.)
So you see, the children whose names are known are William, Dudley, Edward, Mary and Anne. And none of the children are unaccounted for. The settlement of Elizabeth Page Digges' personal estate shows that all the unidentified children had died without issue by 1691. Their names are not recorded in the historical record. Whoever William Herndon's wife might have been (if indeed he had a wife), she was not a daughter of Gov. Edward Digges.
In the library, as on the internet, you can't believe everything you read. Fortunately, the surviving documents relating to the Digges family have been well studied and analyzed. Anyone wishing to know about the Digges family might like to consult "Adventurers of Purse and Person", Vol. 1, 4th edition, where the facts are clearly laid out and scrupulously documented. The editor of "Adventurers of Purse and Person" is John Frederick Dorman, one of the most respected genealogists in this country, genealogist to the Order of the First Families of Virginia.
HTH
James
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