Peter Montague, of Boveny, Buckinghamshire, England, reached Virginia with his wife Ellenor Allen aboard the Charles in 1621 and shown at age 21 in the muster of 1625 to be among the men of Captain Samuel Matthews at James City.

            On 22 August 1642 he patented 150 acres in the Upper County of New Norfolk, an entitlement for transporting three persons to Virginia.  He was granted a second patent for 150 acres on December 1645 in the same area, which he assigned to another individual, John Thomas.  On 3 November 1647 he is shown receiving an additional grant of 100 acres in the same general area.

             Peter Montague served in the House of Burgesses for Nansemond County in 1652 and 1653.  Several years after the Indian massacre of 1644 Governor Berkeley opened the Northern Neck to settlers and at this time many of his former neighbors moved up there. Thus around 1655 he followed them up to that area.

            In 1657 he was listed as commissioner for Lancaster County, and the following year was a Burgess for Lancaster County.  In September 1658 he had been nominated for appointment as sheriff.  In January 1659 he patented two parcels of land in that county south of the Rappahannock River.

            His will dated in 1659 named his sons Peter and William, his daughter Ellen, wife of William Thompson, and the daughter of his late daughter Anne. These children were by his first wife, dates and name unknown.  A court order in 1660 named his second wife, Cicely Montague, and her stepson, Peter Montague, as executors of the estate.

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 April 2010