Elizabeth Christian, recorded in Charles City County, Virginia, in 1662, of the Manx Christian connection in the colony.

The family had been there since the middle 1650s. In 1655 two brothers, William and Jonathan Christian of Maughold, went out to Virginia, and a family of Cottiers from Lezayre went with them, the two families intermarrying afterwards. The Christians acquired considerable tracts of land in the colony and their descendants came to be possessed of an ample fortune.