Alexander Spotswood

(Wikipedia) - Alexander Spotswood (c. 1676 - 1740-06-06) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and a noted Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
... In 1710, Alexander was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, under the nominal governorship of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney. He was the first to occupy the new Governors Mansion, which many citizens thought overly extravagant (its 20th-century reconstruction is now one of the principal landmarks in Colonial Williamsburg). A Tobacco Act requiring the inspection of all tobacco intended for export or for use as legal tender was passed in 1713. The next year, he founded the First Germanna Colony, and regulated trade with native Americans. In 1715, he bought 3229 acres (13 km²) at Germanna.
In 1716 he led the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition up the Rappahannock River valley and across the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap into the Shenandoah Valley to expedite settlement.
... It was in the fall of 1718 when Spotswood engaged in a clandestine expedition by privately hiring two sloops, Jane and Ranger, and a number of Royal Navy men to seek out the pirate Blackbeard, or Edward Teach. On 1718-11-18, Lt. Robert Maynard sailed from Hampton, Virginia to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. On 1718-11-22, Maynard and his men defeated Blackbeard and the pirates. On 1718-11-24, two days after Blackbeard's death, Spotswood issued a proclamation at the Assembly in Williamsburg offering reward for any who brought Teach and the other pirates to justice.
... He served as Deputy Postmaster General from 1730 to 1739, and died on 1740-06-06 at Annapolis, Ann Arundel, Maryland (MD). Link