They took control over matters of public funds in the House of the Burgesses, is the right answer.
Explanation:
Those families in Colonial Virginia who were culturally famous and prosperous, but not significantly the pioneer immigrants, is known as the First Families of Virginia.
They descended from English settlers who originally resided at Williamsburg, Jamestown, The Northern Neck and adjacent the James River and other traversable rivers in Virginia throughout the 17th century. Those elite families frequently coupled within their cultural group for many ages and, as a consequence, most cognomens of First Families date to the colonial era. Their role in southern politics was that they took control over matters of public funds in the House of the Burgesses.
