Samuel Brockman of King and Queen County, Va. must have been born by 1685. He was  probably son of Henry Brockman of Barbados, Maryland and Virginia, and wife Rebecca Salmon. 

He was living on Port Tobago Road, Drysdale Parish, King and Queen County in 1731. In 1732 he bought land in Spotsylvania (later Orange), where he moved and built a home naming it the "White House." 

His will, dated Nov. 3, 1762, was probated Sept. 25, 1766. Final disposition of his estate was made Jan. 15, 1776, when his widow died. His daughter Mary signed her name Mary M., so we assume her mother's maiden name began with M.