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Edward Chilton served as attorney general of Virginia and was the coauthor of
The Present State of Virginia, and the College (printed in 1727). He arrived in Virginia by 1682, when he served as a clerk for the governor’s Council and the General Assembly. He also acquired several thousand acres of land. In 1694 Chilton returned to England, where he became a barrister. He remained involved with Virginia affairs and testified before the Board of Trade about conditions in the colony in 1696. The following year Chilton, along with James Blair and Henry Hartwell, prepared a report on the colony titled
The Present State of Virginia, and the College. He requested and acquired the position of Barbados’s attorney general in 1699. He died in Portsmouth, England, in 1707.