The longest-surviving of five sons of
William Fitzhugh of Bedford plantation in
King George County, Virginia and his wife Mary, daughter of John Tucker of
Westmoreland County, was named after his English grandfather and born into the
First Families of Virginia. His birth family also included brothers William, Thomas, George and John Fitzhugh, as well as a sister, Rosamund. His brothers George Fitzhugh (who married the daughter of fellow planter
George Mason II and had two sons before his death in 1722) and Major John Fitzhugh (who married the daughter of
Daniel McCarthy, speaker of the House of Burgesses and who died in 1733) also served terms in the House of Burgesses. In 1718 this Henry Fitzhugh married Susannah Cooke, daughter of planter Mordecai Cooke of Gloucester County. Their son, also Henry Fitzhugh (1723–1783), would become colonel of the local militia and have several sons who fought Britain in the American Revolutionary War. ==Career==