Captain Hugh Norvell

Hugh Norvell (1669–1719) was an American landowner and elected representative in Virginia. He was called "Captain Hugh Norvell" because of his service in the colonial war. He served as a vestryman at Bruton Parish Church in colonial Williamsburg.

Norvell was on the Vestry of Bruton Parish Church from 1694 to 1710. While serving in that capacity, he was one of a committee designated by the Vestry to welcome the Rev. Dr. James Blair, President of the College of William and Mary. On December 5, 1710, the Vestry voted to call Blair as their Rector. Hugh Norvell was chairman of this committee. The Rev. Dr. Blair accepted the Vestry's invitation. Norvell was also a member of the committee appointed to oversee the building of the new church.

Pew No. 7 in Bruton Parish Church has a plaque honoring Hugh Norvell, Vestryman, 1710-1715, George Norvell, vestryman, and William Norvell, vestryman, 1775. A historical plaque names Hugh Norvell as one of the members of the vestry who erected the church building from 1710-1715.

Norvell was named as a trustee of the land on which Williamsburg was to be built, under an "Act Directing the Building of the Capitol and the City of Williamsburg" passed by The General Assembly of Virginia on June 7, 1699. One of the clauses of this Act appointed Lewis Burwell, Phil Ludwell, Junr., Benjamin Harrison, Junr., James Waley, Hugh Norwell [Norvell], and Mongo Ingles, Gentleman-Feofees or Trustees for land appropriated to the uses of the City. These gentlemen sold the half-acre lots into which the city had been laid out. Hugh Norwell [Norvell] was still a Feofee or Trustee in 1705 when the Act Directing the Building of the Capitol and the City of Williamsburg with additions was passed.

In 1703 he served on the Grand Jury of the Virginia Admiralty Court and later became a county officer. He is mentioned as a juror in a 1710 trial involving eight Tuscarora Indians. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses about 1719.

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