Philip Ludwell (1638-1723) of Richneck Plantation in James City County, Virginia is best known for being the royal governor of the British Colony of Carolina from 1692 to 1693. James City County (formally the County of James City) is a county located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region of the The Province of Carolina from 1663 to 1712, was a North American British proprietary Colony, controlled by eight English noblemen From as base in the coastal port city of Charleston, he was governor of the entire Colony of Carolina. Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. (the northern and southern settlements were under a common government from 1691 until 1708.
Colonel Ludwell and his brother Thomas Ludwell, were both prominent citizens of Middle Plantation (which later became Williamsburg) in the Colony of Virginia. Middle Plantation in the Virginia Colony, was an unincorporated town originally established in 1632 Williamsburg is a city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia The Colony of Virginia (also known frequently as the Virginia Colony and occasionally as the Dominion and Colony of Virginia) was the English colony In 1676, he supported Virginia Governor William Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Sir William Berkeley (pronounced "bark-lee" ( Hanworth Manor, Middlesex 1605–Berkeley House Mayfair, London July 9, Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. Later, Ludwell married Berkeley's widow, Frances Culpeper Berkeley of Green Spring Plantation, [1], her third marriage. Green Spring Plantation in James City County about five miles (8 km west of Williamsburg, was the 17th century plantation of one of Colonial Virginia's Despite her remarriage, she never relinguished her title as Lady Berkeley until she died in the 1690s and was buried at Jamestown.
After serving in the Colony of Carolina, Colonel Ludwell return to England, where he died.
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