1. Francis Taliaferro Brooke (1763–1851) was the brother of Robert Brooke, who became governor of Virginia in December 1794. Although Francis Brooke was married to a niece of George Washington, the president appointed Laurence Muse to the Tappahannock collectorship. A Revolutionary War veteran, Brooke represented Essex County in the House of Delegates, 1794–95. He was a state senator, 1800–1804, and later a judge in the state courts (Swem and Williams, Register description begins Earl G. Swem and John W. Williams, eds., A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776–1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions (Richmond, 1918). description ends , p. 351).