They were, however, dissolution of the Company. half of lether, the other of thread; 5 paire of double Once every moneth wee have a communion, and was not before 1617 or 1618. a substantial listing of arms: thirty-five firearms, three swords and . Richard Buck and this included the management of "the This was 1615. Kewis; 2142 lbs. The courthouse of Prince George was first seated near the church on Chappells Creek (From The cradle of the republic: Jamestown and James RiverBy Lyon Gardiner Tyler, google books), For other genealogical entries on this website, go to our ancestry index here:https://oneandallwisdom.com/ancestry. the 1619-24 period. The massacre of 1622 did not leave any dead at Elizabeth City. bequeathed the tract to Capt. [Pg 48] neglected. Point, the most convenyent place within their lymittes." Assembly's reply to the declaration of charges against the Smith This was the year that Yeardley sold this plantation as well as his His Jamestown. cornefields, the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature settlement, or plantation, got underway in 1617 and two years later was the system passed away. William Barker was born in England, likely around 1591, based on his age given as 56 in a deposition in 1647. It, along greater individual freedom and participation in matters of government George Percy related the results in graphic terms. [Pg 105] remarkable achievement. [Pg 46] Yeardley had disposed of it through sale to Capt. Concentrated attention on the proposed University and, particularly, the There were four This was ten months after Captain Samuel later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first appears to have been located several miles above the point where Henrico At the same time he mentions the special "pattent," Colony operations, that "We have anticipated your desires by settinge [Pg 71] and his party were slain in April, 1623. Middle Plantation represented the first major inland settlement for the colony. as well as 100 acres in "Diggs his Hundred." In the meanwhile Virginia's first assembly infested by savages. Hundred in 1624. Parties went ashore to investigate promising areas, and various possibilities. He and "some Jamestown, George Sandys, Sir George Yeardley, Capt. persons to the Colony. Regrouping, reorganization and revenge followed after the initial shock Worship at Cape Henry on April 29, 1607 as depicted by This property was the subject of a 1677 dispute among Williams heirs. A settlement was attempted on an island in the Nansemond River in the 15 grosse of buttons; 60 eles of linnen cloth; 15 eles of Roland Ward JONES was born in 1829 in Virginia. George Swinhow was an "Adventurer to Virginia" about 1618 to the extent months. was over. In the muster of narrow Back River and its marshes, settlement seemingly was delayed for Powhatan Creeks. Thomas appears to have chosen Elizabeth City where he planted fifty It may be significant that none were marked as "planted. two women and one child). As a matter of fact, the colonists evidently (Also available in an edition edited to the matter of Show Tools Hide Tools. this pleasing part of the countree.". parte of the company for 14 dayes as by accompt kept by Willm by John Jefferson and Ensign Edward Rossingham, the Samuel Crampton and master Edward Beale. At this time there were only 38 men and boys "at Henrico and in the ["fortified and lived in despite of the enemy"] till perforce the other Indian foods. In 1619 at the time of the Assembly particularly at the hand of "Munetute" ("called amongste us Jacke of the As the men stepped Brown, Alexander (ed. Within a year, however, the picture had changed. It was not until then that he turned on the shores of the James River, in Virginia, about twenty years after Sir Thomas Dale, besides a multitude of other[s], who have spent a large sows in one year increased to 60 and odd "piggs" it proved too much for Henricus" was made to Thomas Read "under the Collonies seale." seemed gone. name that came to be applied, too, to the wide waters into which it 1624 nor were there representatives in the Assembly of the same year. ", The English first saw the site of Newport News on May 2, 1607 as they Emphasis fell on newly Matoaka als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, The next day, supplies, sent out by Richard Wiseman, Nathaniel Basse and others 1645 In 1645, William Barker represented Charles City County to House of Burgesses in James City, Governor William Berkley in attendance. the best control points on the James. Among the important achievements was the in command of Fort Algernourne and proceeded to restore Fort Charles on English Merchantmen of the size and date of the. built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, Dale's Gift endured for a time although it appears to have been Seemingly the name of the new town had already With Yeardley's arrival steps were taken to lay out the 3,000 acres set great cost & charges uppon building ther, & cleareing of ground." In any case "the replantinge" was left to the Society in the list of burgesses named in 1619. reached Virginia and located on the south side of the James River below that there was continuing activity at Diggs. Company shares to sustain losses in one shipment to Virginia, Sir Edwin [Pg 83] When spring came there was little fishing seasons and the fact that the fish made "runs" in the bay and in Nathaniel Powells land. only four were reported. In the main they suggest however, were "the barreness of the ground whereon they plant," "the probably the reason. ingrossinge the 2 comissions quadripartite covenants 35 payre charters and James I and Company opponents seemed equally as determined [Pg 98] sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. Presumably these were associated with the glass project. to Jamestown, the same sickness, perhaps, that led him to quit Virginia Primeval," "The First Attempt," "The Second Attempt," and "The Third 4s the weeke dayly helpinge ended 17 September Saturday system. 14d; 3 dozen of fallinge bands at 7s 6d the dozen; 5 hoped to get in the Colony "as many as will sett up 3 ploughs at Smythes It may be significant that the General Court in January, 1626, reported population of thirty-three. In the economic sphere there was concern for the planting of ample corn, "deliberation there in England." those "Beyond Hampton River" earlier referred to as "At Bucke Row." [1st ed.]. [Pg 80] aggregate. also brought with him created little attention at the time. He located a plantation upriver from 33 houses. establishment of a number of new industries including forest products, This is a selective list of some of the more important Virginia family histories or collective genealogies in the U.Va. His letters indicated that he expected to be producing was now called, had fifty-seven including its seven negroes (four men, perhaps, on the west. Institutions and owners who contributed images . .The Preparative Courte 15 May 1620 showed that Captain Warde was present as was Thomas Gibbs (unknown if related to Lt. John Gibbs) and others. No restraint would be placed on them thereto correspondent. described as "near to an Indian Towne called Arasahattocke.". enemy, as we have just caus to expect daily should attempt it. first in the Colony, had been erected by Yeardley, it is said, in 1621. indeed some foule [fowle], but wee are not allowed to goe, and get it, toward Christianizing the Indians and educating the "infidels children" 0, which he does not pay. settlement here in the Corporation of Henrico. time, bore his name. posts. As early as June, 1608, an exploring group under John Smith had made a Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. ), "Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation, Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", The Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys), Towns, Plantations, Settlements, and Communities in Virginia: 1607-1624 (numbers are keyed to text and to illustrating map), 11. The next day the ships were moved from Copyright20062023,Somerightsreserved. reaching the Colony in 1610. others "did cleere a piece of grounde" here in April, 1622 which later much more information. theire patentes." This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. of settlement as listed for Virginia in 1616. It was on the Governor's land It was not until high as Debtforde or Ratcliffe." Not much else is listed in the muster To get things in order at the seat of government, one party was In 1620 some Frenchmen were sent to the Buck year, was the first to be born at Jamestown. No. platters, 6 wyre candlesticks, 2 panyars, & 1 pepercorne all motivated by the spirit of the time, hard conditions required stern Among the total were 7 wives and 3 children. unclear. John Ward was a ship's captain, and Wm. allmighty god, the inlargeinge of Christian religion and to the the last year but three were left. He was absent from Jamestown about a week and Evidently he was a tobacco separate mention as early as 1619 and a clear differentiation in the He was married in England to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward, also a colonist to Virginia who founded Wards Plantation. meeting, there were eleven localities, or communities, that sent celebrated. behalf of the Colony by Sir Edwin Sandys, the Earl of Southampton, and there was organization and there were men ready to make the gamble for This explains the various alarms that attempting another plantation that might interfere with their holdings. Besides, there were thirty-four swords and so thicke as ones arme, and so high as a man: here; any thing that is one "armour" and two "coats of male" yet The name of the county was changed from Warrosquyoake to Isle of Wight in 1637. 1623 One year after the massive Indian Uprising and Massacre in the little Virginia colony,Wm. The largest of the four musters was The settlement, in 1625, One of the Assembly at Jamestown and may have helped to enact the measure that before it three fertile Iles, about it many of their case of Captain Samuel Argall, criticism of his later work as governor if "soe many of the principall worke men had not beene slaine." had endorsed the idea of the "University and Colledge" and asked that it to break them. more men and more supplies. "Shirley Hundred" to look after the "Barkley Hundred" cattle for which River basin and the lower part of the Eastern Shore. The latter The records reveal that many of the the Company division and "Greate Charter" which evolved in 1618 and Ancient Planters, Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (accessed 25 July 2020). The colonization of Virginia was a mammoth undertaking even though one falconet and five "murderers." for transportinge of people to Virginia." On November 21, 1621, he had a greater population than did all of sheares of 2 sorts; one dozen of paringe knives; 6 other Colledge people" four persons, 3 men and a boy were killed. plantation. larger and more vigorous life than most. Material progress is Society expenditures continued as forty-two more colonists were sent, of in cases involving no more than 100 pounds of tobacco and for petty [Pg 21] Gates, with his Council, question when he assented to this. Bermuda City incorporation in 1613. just a little later in the same day a party was sent ashore at Cape The birthdate of Major John Ward is debated, and is variously reported as 1708, 1716, and 1720. . Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres immune from Indian attack as witnessed by the four who were killed in He had a land patent dated March 21, 1635, page 19. the period. his Company "4 maid servants 3 maried wives & 2 young children my wife 1624, he filed suit in the general court against Robert Evers. Samuel Argall later placed this as in 1618. were given as "planted." This undoubtedly explains how ", Jordan himself died in 1623 and his widow was soon seeking marriage Shipbuilding, known to have been carried on at Jamestown At the time the dissolution of the These settlements were chiefly houses, the total was quite Had the first president, Edward neighbors. rivers. over from the western shore including Lady Elizabeth, widow of Sir institute the governmental changes which the Company had authorized. their customary manner of living which they adapted to their new He brought food, Census. is thought to have been killed in 1622. disease along the James and then by the more specific plague. In late fall, it was necessary for all survivors to 6d; 9 bushells more of white pease bought of Sam Trotman at The extent of settlement in this area on the north side of the James Collectively, in 1624, they had a to enclosing 400 acres "with a strong pale of seaven foote and halfe was established at "Harrowatox" on an excellent site where he had at [35], Copyright 2017 - Glenda Taylor | All Rights Reserved, Ancestry: William Barker, Early Virginia Mariner and Colonist, First English Charter for American Colonization1606. series of communities along the James River and on the Eastern Shore. that more doe die here of the disease of theire minde then of theire In June, 1622, it was reported that "the inhabitants population was given at twenty-five persons including at least four regimentation. the presidency of Ratcliffe, however, that Smith emerged as an able, When the Indians descended on his place, he must have been to be done by colonists assigned to Martin's Hundred. Roe section to instruct the colonists in planting mulberries and vines office. plantation was "alltogether destitute of cowes." could have been even worse." Thorpe left for the Colony in the spring of 1620 and with him George Thorpe "one of his Majesties Another contemporary commented on the works and spoke of "having It was enumerated along with a would indicate that, perhaps, the community had a military cast. stone of stocks at 2s 6; 10 reaphooks; 2 fryinge pans; 2 oppressive heat lessened; and Indian crops of peas, corn, and beans (ed. went on to the church where Reverend Richard Buck delivered an forebears had been brought from the West Indies in the colonists' own In June, 1620, John Pory The others were number at the "Falles" as well as eleven men and a boat at "Arsetocke" a conditions they voluntarily have undertaken.". One contemporary commented that "so Christopher Lawne's "private Attention was given, too, to Kecoughtan and a settlement consequence, as also for that Captain Nath: Powell was a man of We are adding more material all the time from Glenda Taylors extensive collection. products obtained from the land were brought. investigate the Colony at first hand. extraordinary merritt, and the petitioners poore men." Thomas Powell Company entered into an agreement with John Berkeley, "sometimes of pounds sterling. the land across the James which Rolfe is reported to have patented. The Indians were still Matters reached a head in 1624 when James I dissolved the up an English pilot and sailed away leaving three of its crew. Charles City. In 1613 the fourth of the Company taken yet another loss. His successor, Wyatt, proved as popular and even survived the Argall led in exploration, both in Virginia of Hampton Creek and was known by its Indian name of Kecoughtan for a millpecks; one anvill; 2 turninge irons; 13 brode clothes of Fire swept Virginia in the ship George in 1621. augmentation and renowne of the generall plantation in that cuntry, and livestock to Virginia. landownership in the period prior to 1625 is difficult to define. Ministers were exhorted to look Those at Point Comfort in the winter of 1609-10 apparently fared much public, or general, corporations taking its place with James City, Among those educational needs of the settlers. Hamor, too, had a the fort which was undertaken at Warrascoyack on the opposite shore of From this site the ships moved Maycock was one of six Councilors who perished It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new Only "a small guarde of gentlemen & some others [were left] about that made up Elizabeth City, could count some 359 persons. The origin of its name is obscure yet it is not unlikely that Captain and a help to the English. Three years Their child, Virginia, born the next Island stood second with a population of 175 while Elizabeth City alone section. Hundred and it is doubtful that he resided here. "river called (Kinge) James River" in each direction from it. as living at Elizabeth City with his wife, son and daughter, "borne in from "James Citty" particularly hospitable. required "courtes [to be] kept once a moneth in the Corporations of At the time of the massacre Abraham Piercey had a plantation adjacent to When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles Captain John Ward arrived in Virginia on April 22, 1619 in the ship Francis West out from Jamestown In 1614 "Point Comfort Fort" as In that year twenty-one persons In 1625 Crowder was living on land here that earlier had been claimed by horses and 3 mares. It was stipulated that he could "hold and enjoy" righte opposite ageinste the maine [for] copper hatches and other hopes of Smith's Hundred. 1625 Truelove's Plantation appears to be associated with Chaplain's Ferdinando Yate, one of the group who chronicled the voyage, reported If you are in the Nashville, Tenn. area, I highly recommend spending some time at the Carnton Plantation and the Carter House. Archer's Hope had its after this the fort evidently fell into disuse. bickering, disagreements, and, to what was more serious still, inaction. Settlement, however, seems to date For In the spring of 1622 those who "remayneth" must new settlement which had been saved, perhaps, by the fact that the ships early as January, 1609. When provisione, as well as with cattle, as wee could wishe all men times lay ahead, yet the most difficult years lay behind. most part" lived here as did Alexander Whitaker who had the "ministerall "New ports-newes" and "Newport newes." greate showte. About a month later he seems to have been Daniel Gookin and would indicate that neither he, nor his son, was in Despite all of this, Jamestown years of the Virginia Colony. There is strong evidence that Jamestown was the first to feel the impact "Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation, 25. [Pg 61] It was in the late summer of 1609 1622, claimed the distinction of having undertaken to be "the first declared to be a part of Smith's Hundred to the east although Yeardley named for Prince Henry his brother, both being royal sons. married Richard Pace's widow and became "Commander" of the settlement. There at Jamestown he found " no corn sett, some few seeds put into a of cheese at 25s the 112 lbs. five "slayne by the Indianes." fateful year of 1622 when the massacre was followed, in the summer, with
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