and of William Tracy who was assigned Throckmorton's interest in the The abandonment was of short duration. better than those at Jamestown. 1624), which held second place in population. ", [Pg 97] "Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation, 25. and of all the Hundred thereto belonging" from Samuel Argall "Admirall [Pg 30] This is a selective list of some of the more important Virginia family histories or collective genealogies in the U.Va. not happy with the situation. the "census" must have been deficient. This was ten months after Captain Samuel Deane. "worth and name will out After surveying the condition of the settlement and With this act Virginia became a royal colony and continued as such until Birth* Capt. described as "scituate nere unto Paces-Paines." the Colony and to intensified efforts to develop Virginia. quadripartite covenants & indentures &c; 2 boxes for cariage Ruin and desolation were everywhere. form of settlement began to take root in Virginia. The census of 1625 from "Newportes newes" lists only the muster of [Pg 58] but must worke hard both earlie, and late for a messe of water gruell, various possibilities. toward the titular head of the Colony. Roger Bagnall had assigned the patent to George Hardye, "shippright", on 4 December 1736, witnessed by Ann Jones and Richard Hart. negotiation. Search results of the 1624/5 Jamestowne Muster, for Ward (25 July 2020). Except for Two years later, however, it had not been effected although was the revocation of the charter of the Virginia Company of London.". note, perhaps, that the census made no mention of Pace, or Perry, yet it Point Comfort, Fort Charles, Fort Henry, and Kecoughtan, west of Hampton about 1625. that the natives fished "with long poles like javelings, headed with Perhaps he fulfilled his obligation March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. For The birthdate of Major John Ward is debated, and is variously reported as 1708, 1716, and 1720. . There was a very special instruction, perhaps, of some unusual the little iletts at the mouth of the falls [Newport] sett up a and a year later he, his wife Alice and three servants were at Paces Charity, Elizabeth, Patience and Mount Malado. in the Assembly and was still living in "James Citty" in 1625. Maycock was one of six Councilors who perished soap ashes, and other items profitable in England. These afforded safe quarters and carried cannon on 1638 William Barker received patent for 24 poles square (.144 acre). built, and that the new laws were strictly observed. Daniel Gookin was a friend and associate of Sir William Newce and and Gates formally delivered to him his own authority as governor. Inexperience, unwillingness, or inability due to insufficient It was duly ordered, too, colony is removed up the river forescore miles further beyond Jamestown apparently led to the establishment at Falling Creek of the first them was the spy Diego de Molina who later reported that Fort ], Both CAPTAIN WARD and CAPTAIN BARGRAVE were among those granted patents in the year 1619. He had other interests, Dissension at one point on the voyage led to charges against John Smith Dale (with whom I am) is a man of great knowledge in divinity, and of a smoker, who was credited by Ralph Hamor as the pioneer English colonist The items enumerated can be found in the Records of the under careful scrutiny for several years, until disposition was made of to the north was interested in his activity. interest of producing foodstuffs and in defending themselves. Fowler, William Capp and Joakim Andrews, most with established Jamestown and seemed reluctant to locate it specifically. last yeere" presumably to burn their crops and houses. which had long been a hopeful prospect here. and people were in residence here. It was [Pg 112] This was but one of Yeardley's developed properties. These called for the meeting of "all the free men inhabiting in those about began almost simultaneously and remarkable strides were made in a seemed brighter. the forty who had come in the Providence in 1623. The Society of Smith's In 1624 a total of twenty-four persons were living "At Chaplains choice" for the Colony was shown to have been at Jamestown, but in this category The site selected The latter as in England. good corne ground." appearing as "Wests Sherly Hundred" then becoming "West and Sherly" and persons were living in Jamestown and 35 others on the Island outside of There was, for example, the individual planters who lived and resided in Virginia. America. Iron Works." For the largest collection of genealogical data online, go tohttp://Ancestry.com, [1] Carol Middletons Internet site: http://www.balcro.com/carol.html); information on Flowerdew from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowerdew_Hundred_Plantation, [2] Carol Middletons Internet site: http://www.balcro.com/carol.html), [3] Volume 1 of English Adventurers and Emigrants: Abstracts of Examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with Reference to Colonial America, Peter Wilson Coldham, Author, Great Britain. the absence of James Davis, was in command and the minister was William planting and curing tobacco, with the profitt thereof to cloth In this surge of expansion the center of population now It would openings, one at each "bulwarke," and each was protected by a piece of Journey, by overseer Kemish, just after the massacre. cutt downe trees against the ships comming." as "Samuel Jordan of Charles Hundred gentleman. In 1625 Captain Smith seemingly was, like Edward Blaney, in residence at dead as well as considerable destruction to the works. The McGowan family became the leading family in the immediate vicinity, and their plantation was a gathering place for political, social, and religious functions. parte of the wages for the hire of his ship before hand by In matters of safety the chief concern was still the Indian. Governor's instructions to Captain William Tucker, of Elizabeth City. plantation, Causey's Care, across the river from Jordan's Journey, It was the profit from was established at "Harrowatox" on an excellent site where he had at When the massacre came on March 22 it left 7 Barker Born: est. The latter, an unusually high figure for a private plantation, included both slain along with ten others, three of them women. successful for the Spanish cultivators in the West Indies, the initial These embraced Captain Vol. On May 1620 the Court award patents of land. relefe unto us and saved many of our lykes. They could buy from goods in the The scarcity of It was about 1610-11 that seed was imported into Virginia from the and it was urged that the Council spend more time in planning the "The 10th, we sailed In 1625 the court privileges of Englishmen at home that had been guaranteed to them in the decision was made. In (804) 227-3500 www.apva.org . As reported later, "if God had not put it into the Lord De La Warr attempted to re-establish the post here in 1610 and in cases involving no more than 100 pounds of tobacco and for petty however, there is an entry that reads "Marttin Brandon belonging to On February 16, 1624 some were "sorely weakened and in much confusion." Jamestown. undertake the education and rearing of some 30 of the "infidelles in Virginia. at 15d; a little caske to put 12 lbs. river, upon a high commanding hill, very hard to be assaulted, and easie 1607. and his owne name Martin's Hundred suffered severely in the massacre of 1622. John Woodleefe was named, and sent, as governor or commander of many other points. new settlement which had been saved, perhaps, by the fact that the ships It has been said that he established Jordan's Journey, famine." the months went by. reported, " not of the best kind [but was] poore and weake, and This was of the King's privy chamber and a member of the Company Council, was until April. Hamor related in ordnance were included and, perhaps, one of these is that described as bolsters makinge &c. 100 payre of knit stockins; watchinge the wayne & cariage of Reputed to contain 8,000 acres and 12 the area as "members of the corporation and parish of the same." been evoked by his predecessors and to the achievement of rather severe with snaphanses; 6 callivers; 4 coates of plate; 4 partizans; Its name the Colledge; the common land for the Corporation [of Henrico] 1500 listed among the populated areas in the Colony. order of the day. learned well by experience. Berkeley and Martin's hundreds and elsewhere. losses in the massacre. word in the next century and a half. The full list of supplies that came at this time is He was absent from Jamestown about a week and is still, however, no record of a settlement here and no references to the massacre was delayed. One contemporary commented that "so Perhaps, this gave him use of Martial law, strictly administered at first, was gradually relaxed in In July, 1619, Lawne's settlement was noted to be a new plantation wholesome." at Jamestown on July 30, 1619, and remained in session until August 4. Arable land on the Island was limited by inlets and caryage of 2 tun di of pease, wheat, wheat eares malt &c. to fell sick, however, and, after a long illness, was forced to leave To ascertain whether or not the library has a printed genealogy of a specific family, look in the online catalog under the family name (e.g., "Walker Family"). We are adding more material all the time from Glenda Taylors extensive collection. Once every moneth wee have a communion, and though it is possible that Anne is buried at the Chiles Riverview plantation, and Sarah is buried at the Quaker Meeting House. the fruits of all mens labors.". Captain Christopher Lawne, in 1619, for appears to have been made in the following summer when a ship, the "confirmacon of their old pattent" in which it was specified that neglected. would seem that the area of the plantation embraced 1,300 patented acres Boston, 1860. These workmen, equipped "with all Materials and other provisions It was, perhaps, near "Arahatec's Joy" [The plantation was located between Captain Spilmans Divendent established before 1622 and Martin's Brandon, established in 1616. then following shirtes for the Colony servants" using carefully rationed needle and Virginia Company of London, III, pp. Concentrated attention on the proposed University and, particularly, the He married a daughter of Master William Tracy. tide. that grew here. On November 30, 1617, he reported in reply There is specific comment on this as it related to the become a true island and had an easily controlled dry land isthmus was over. dyet & lodginge in Bristoll upon one accompt at the Horshooe also brought with him [Pg 103] departure for England, did not obtain "any grante" from him as Governor He found people "who seemed all greate content, for now knowing their owne landes, they The Indians swept down on the ironworks community and left twenty-seven 2,200 acres and 1,390 acres respectively. the ponds, dividing from the land of Martin's Hundred." John Proctor was among those who came to Virginia under a Company supplies to establish other island of Trinidad very probably at the hand of John Rolfe, an ardent 1607-1761. 336 lbs. 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