Ancestry: Bedford, England.  Parents were Henry Fitzhugh (1614-1664) and Mary King.  He left Bedford in about 1670 .  Many details: Fitzhugh Family History and Annandale History.  William was an attorney, tobacco plantation owner, burgess, and militia officer in Stafford County, Virginia.

Descendants:  His descendants intermarried into many fine families including Washington, Lee, and Mason.  Many fine homes were built by his descendants on his lands: Fitzhugh Homes and Homesites    See also Family Tree DNA

Descent:  William Fitzhugh (1651-1701) m. Sarah Tucker (1663-1703)
                   Henry Fitzhugh (1686/87) m. Susannah Cooke (1693-1749)
                      Anne Fitzhugh (1720/21-1789) m. Robert Rose (1703/04-1751)
                                  See Robert Rose

References:
     William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World, 1676-1701.  The Fitzhugh Letters and other
         Documents.  Virginia Historical Society.  Richard Beale Davis (ed.).  1963.
     The History of the Fitzhugh Family, Volumes One (to 1639 by Terrick V. H. FitzHugh) and
        Two (from 1614 to 1986 by Henry Antonie Fitzhugh).  Privately published by H. A.
        Fitzhugh, 1999.
     First Fitzhughs of Virginia.  A Colonial Dynasty Painted by John Hesselius.  1997.
        by William Rasmussen.  American Art Review IX(2):80-85.  Color illustrations of
        portraits by Hesselius of Henry Fitzhugh (of England), William Fitzhugh, Captain Henry
        Fitzhugh and his son Major Henry Fitzhugh and wife Sarah Battaile Fitzhugh, and
        Major Henry's son Henry and his wife Elizabeth Stith Fitzhugh.
     Lee, Elizabeth Nuckols. 1995. The Fitzhugh Family of King George County Virginia.
         The Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh Family. Anundsen Publ. Co.
     Mallory, D. W., T. J. Wright, & M. G. Wright. 1998. Some Known Descendants of
         William Fitzhugh.

See also:     Fitzhugh China