There exists an Historical Marker near Colonial Williamsburg, VA, marking the place Patrick Napier lived. This marker reads "Patrick Napier Colonial Surgeon. Nearby lived "Patrick Napier of Queens Creek in the County of Yorke chirurgeon," Born about 1634, and apprenticed to the surgeon general of the Scottish army defeated by Cromwell in 1650. Patrick Napier arrived here before 1655. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of Robert Booth, clerk of the York County Court and a member of the Howse of Burgesses. By horse and boat, Napier attended the sick, performed surgery, bled his patients, and despensed various remedied consistent with the pratice of medicine in the mid-17th century. He died in 1669. He was the progenitor of most of the Napiers in America. Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623 – 1666. Napier, Patrick, 1655, by Peter Ford, Gloucester Co., VA