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You wrote:
"In Mathews Cty. have lived for many years numerous representatives of the Digges name who are not placed within the above pedigree. They MAY be descendants of the unknown sons of Gov. Edward Digges. Or they may be OFFSHOOTS from the Maryland Digges.
This is a quotation from an article entitled "Pedigree of a Representative Virginia Planter, Edward Digges, Esq." which appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly in January 1893. The paragraph reads as follows:
"In Mathews Co. have lived for many years numerous representatives of the Digges name who are not placed within the above pedigree. They may be descendants of the unknown sons of Gov. Edward Digges. He had six and only two are known. Or they may be offshoots from the Maryland Digges, or the name may be a corruption of Degge or Degges. Dudley Degge or Degges was an old family name in the Degge family. I find in the records Degge sometimes written Diggs."
The article was written by the editor, Lyon G. Tyler, and was indeed signed and dated.
Four months later, in April 1893, Mr Tyler published an addendum in which he notes that "Further investigation shows that, when Elizabeth, wife of Edward Digges, died, there were only three children, out of the thirteen mentioned on his tombstone, surviving in 1691. Only one of the dead children had a living descendant. This was Mary (1655 - 1691), who m. Capt. Francis Page and left a daughter Elizabeth. A son living in 1692, not hitherto known, was Edward Digges."
Both these articles are online. See
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/schools/wmmary/quarterly/planter.txt and
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/schools/wmmary/quarterly/d2000000.txt
I believe that since those articles were written more has been learned about the ancestry of the Mathews County Diggses. A search in the relevant forums might be fruitful.
It's a mistake to assume that everyone with the surname Digges/Diggs/Degges is related.
HTH
James
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