Member of House of Burgesses, legal guardian of George Washington's mother. Kidnapped in Wales as a boy, and "sold as a servant in Virginia." (1)
Note: Erskine is a Scottish/Northern English surname. It is uncertain if this man was really Welsh. Mintz does not cite his source.
(1) Steven Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004), 38.