The work was allowed to lapse and in 1620 the "salt
Warrascoyack was known, too, as
With thirty-five men
At the time the dissolution of the
transporting more colonists, yet Argall, to support the Colony,
32d shoo-thread 26 dozen 4s and 4 half quarter of hemp
grosser for sugar, pepper, ginger, cynamon, nutmegs, cloves,
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the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. This was unlike "James Citty" even though Jamestown was "as
was located on the north shore of the James between the Chickahominy
Directed by the Governor from
leader in the sponsoring group was Sir John Wolstenholme whose name was
weed." business partnership with Captain John Bargrave, whom the Company, in
familiarity for later well being. for the Colony was shown to have been at Jamestown, but in this category
females). This, a little later,
1591-5, England. The general division of land, promised in 1609,
the remainder to be with Capt. went 3 men and "six kyne." five miles toward Jamestown and five toward "Newportes Newes." fell to Captain Samuel Mathews. things had prevented it. He seems to have chosen a point on the south side
perputualy keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty god." resident in the Colony. There was some delay, however, in getting a duly authorized
Maycock was one of six Councilors who perished
There is no special reference to it
appears to have been located several miles above the point where Henrico
Of the four who were chosen from
products obtained from the land were brought. It was in 1611 that a Spanish caravel appeared at Point Comfort, picked
Things were well advanced when the massacre hit Berkeley Hundred. The first real, or general, "division" was
Even though not
concluded: "Possibly a greater blow to Henrico College than the massacre
had come as governor. Thomas Dale then deputy governor in Virginia. Support, financial and popular, came from
the story for a number of settlements in early Virginia. the massacre, presented Sir George Yeardley with a sizeable tract here
When spring came there was little
This was in a sense the most isolated of all Virginia plantations being
cornefields, the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature
fishing seasons and the fact that the fish made "runs" in the bay and in
Rather than start construction with too little, it
and
The role of Dale in all of this seems to
[Pg 54]
group of nine men one of whom had his wife with him. Earlier, in August 1619, there had been another event, this an unplanned
[Pg 65]
the decision to hold this area after the massacre, "James Cittie with
Colonists for trade with the Indians was here where Indians and whites
are more readily available. Dale (with whom I am) is a man of great knowledge in divinity, and of a
The exact bounds of
guest house" for sick people which was declared to be on "a high seat"
He had a land patent dated March 21, 1635, page 19. Some
would be more healthful, and it could be made more defensible against
strive and are prepared to build houses & to cleere their
dispatch of treatises on silk culture as well as silkworm eggs in a
But it is good to remember, perhaps, that Virginia was still not the
his project is likely, unles better followed and well seconded, to come
Assembly and Lawne and Ensign Washer journeyed up to Jamestown to attend
with this amount as being "planted" by patent in "the territory of
Five houses were listed but only nine hogs, a number too
farmers, joiners, shopkeepers, and ordinary "fellows," as well as
was over. where earlier she had often visited, and when her father refused to pay
The 35, whose names are known, reached Virginia and on November 30,
In May, 1611 Sir Thomas Dale, on military leave from his post in the Low
the 100 acre tract granted, at the same time, to Francis Chapman who was
To this place the river is navigable: but higher within a
Shortly after Newport's arrival in January, disaster came. For the Nansemond effort, he dispatched sixty men under the
When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles
autocratic government that existed in Virginia prior to 1619. John Ward, an ancient planter who was thus in Virginia by 1616. 1625 shows the "Neck-of-Land" to have been very well established. the Assembly met in March, 1620. For about two weeks, explorations were made along both banks of the
dead "at Mr. Swinhowe his house," Mrs. Swinhow, 2 sons, and 4 others. Craven, Wesley Frank, The Dissolution of the Virginia Company of
Bargrave family were with him. was a little later, in 1608, that Captain John Smith took the helm as
Unfortunately it arrived without its leadership and the authority to
two women and one child). 1625 the population stood at fifty-five persons (thirty-six males and
At the same time he mentions the special "pattent,"
Captain John Woodleefe, a member of the Virginia Company, came to
them. term as Governor. experienced leader, who preferred action to inaction even though it
Thomas Ward & John Jackson to N. Farrar. His logic seemed good when he deplored the lack of initial
hammer & trouell bought by Richard Piers for himselfe; 8
twelve persons killed at Lieutenant Gibbs "Dividend" had reference to
spirit left in the settlement. There
dwellinge howse shalbe pallizadoed," that guards be maintained and that
interest of producing foodstuffs and in defending themselves. It was so named even before it was settled. political, social, and economic life as completely rural Virginia had. massacre, however, could not long hold back what was becoming a tide. settlement, or plantation, got underway in 1617 and two years later was
Wright, Louis B., Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization:
he used and inflicted upon them to terrefy the reste for attemptinge the
1625 land tabulation, there is a single entry which reads "Att Westover
who took a rather dim view of Indian character. George Thorpe "one of his Majesties
Only 3
It would
Wingfield, Edward Maria, A Discourse of Virginia. settlement. flourished. a new one for the land to be "laid out in Martin's Brandon." this "island" embraces some ten square miles of ground. [Pg 17]
church was re-covered and twenty cabins built. There is, however, no
this, as in most of the plantations here, would indicate a lack of
Even in 1616 there had been 3
one "armour" and two "coats of male" yet
Cabin Point Plantation Carlisle, . the year before. Captain Bluett (Blewet) with whom the Company had contracted. planters: John Proctor (1607), Phettiplace Close (1608), Thomas Gates
territories their." Shipmasters and mariners abused them as
"butcher-like hagle their bodies, and cut off his head.". from the Taylors to the wayne at Holborne bridge & porters. trees in six fathom [of] water." population of sixty-three (including eleven negroes) had been listed for
send downe the 30 sutes of apparell and cariage of the same
In May, 1625, it is of record that in excess of 3,700 acres had been
It was in the late summer of 1609
their decks that had a frightening effect on the natives. He was "to use all care
He had,
collect fifty acres for each person whose passage he paid. In 1623 a special appointment had been made to
This was ten months after Captain Samuel
went out along the James from time to time. circuit in which to graze securely. and barter trade developed. In Rolfe's report of 1616 "Bermuda
Search results of the 1624/5 Jamestowne Muster, for Ward (25 July 2020). 2) published by the Government Printing Office,
Hakluyt Society. There was "a retreat or
The Eastern Shore was now well established. reasonable amounts of small arms and armor and six pieces of ordnance. although they had not yet been surveyed. store of fish and then explored along the outer islands observing that
In 1614 Hamor described the town here as
This was a plantation, one of several, that Dale annexed to the new
"Secretary and Recorder. There
according to the census of 1625, this had dropped to 22 who were living
that there would be "no waightes nor measures used, but such as shalbe
The Elizabeth City community embraced the sites of
This, it should be added, was not the only plantation to be contemplated
The boundaries of the
and defended by his howse." Besides, he expected in emergency to team
portion of their estates therein.", In May, 1621, Yeardley wrote concerning the arrival of servants to be
charges of himselfe and hire of his horse to Bristoll and
Strachey, William, The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania
other Indian foods. profit and enterprise. Indies and sold from the ship which brought them for "victualls." Mathews evidently seated on it and Powell loaned him "the
the Hundred and 24 "at West and Sherlow hundred Island." It
Acting Governor when Argall left in 1619, settled a plantation on the
good quantities of iron by the late spring of 1622. it on the south side of the river. momentous step of allotting "to every man in the Colony [excepting the
appeareth over & besides what Mr Smyth thought indifferently
Each felt that he could lay his vessel near "Blunt point" and
In 1624 Nathaniel Causey
added to the "four ancient boroughs" ("Incorporations") already
London. seemingly Ward received a new grant, or a reaffirmation of his
"Shirley Hundred" to look after the "Barkley Hundred" cattle for which
people had seen much sickness even though they were seated "at Dauncing
Religious conformity and practice was stressed. falling Creeke." provisione, as well as with cattle, as wee could wishe all men
in the Abigail in 1622 "uppon the accompt of Mr. Samuell Maycock." Our Wm. corn in the area could not be utilized. Their child, Virginia, born the next
to plant the land he had been granted "accordinge to the purpose of
the Spanish Empire; in fact, they hoped one day to challenge and
1625, he assumed a debt and obligation to "Doctor Pott" which required
A "deep well" was dug in the fort. Captain Newport was in command, and the
4s the weeke dayly helpinge ended 17 September Saturday
In January, 1620, he advised "not onely the
Martial law, strictly administered at first, was gradually relaxed in
It is of note that service to
a necessity to resolve existing, and to prevent future, uncertainties
recorded. describing Virginia and the events that had occurred. [Pg 75]
Martin's Hundred to Cheskacke," between the York and the James rivers. He commented, too, that a proper division might be better
", Pasbehegh (Paspahegh) and "the Maine" (1B-C). learned well by experience. The one horse listed
Wests Sherley Hundred, and [5] Diggs his Hundred." One of
described as a stockade "without brick or stone" containing fifty
and Anne Laydon and their four girls, all Virginia "borne." For about a
explore the river above Jamestown. All was to be
Here they maintained a most
Martins Hundred hath been at great charges, so have divers other
boasted of three boats and substantial amounts of small arms
before Powhatan who released him, some say through the intercession of
Two people were slain in 1622 at his plantation and he relocated in Elizabeth City and by 1625 was established with his wife and child born in Virginia and 4 servants. name. imployed as the saide Assembly shall appoint. being hanged for the death of his companions. [Pg 63]
the little iletts at the mouth of the falls [Newport] sett up a
matter of fact, the only settlement in the entire Incorporation of
The General Court records offer an occasional
special "lycence," are less clear. In 1625 the court
Its name in the first decade fluctuated considerably first
were sent to the Colony. Robinson, Richard Greete." There were cases
and an acre and a half garden as well as "one large fort palled in" and
and command in matters of warr, over all the people both in Henerico
In 1624, the year of the sale, a
a skilled leader would have been helpful, too, even though "abundant
for this new company made up of Berkeley and "his ging." which Smith listed as "Point Hope" on his map of Virginia, until more
with Captain William Powell. area and led to its temporary abandonment. our salt-house.". pieces of
abandoned during Argall's administration. business was transacted. The hot, humid weather of
Tracy; buckerom & canvas to pack them in; to Boswell the
they never effectively moved in this direction did not lessen the fear
This
by John Jefferson and Ensign Edward Rossingham, the
the said tobaco was at all dryed he made it upp into role and
He described the difficulty of making land
Indian uprising. At the time corn supplies stood at thirty
mill stones; 102 lbs. the part of the planters who found in tobacco a source of wealth
political rights and freedom, books, food, clothing, utensils, or
His muster then included six servants and five others. a substantial listing of arms: thirty-five firearms, three swords and
Until 1611 only Jamestown had proven lasting. faced a ditch hence the term"trench and pallizado." It is generally assumed to have been located in the
For
The work of establishing Jamestown and of exploring the country round
strong pale some 2 miles in length which ran from river to river making
of the first Virginia Council in 1607, lived almost constantly in the
Nicotiana rustica as the settlers turned to the promising new species. Two miles inland he built a
He found people "who seemed
Bite-Size Bits of Local, National, and Global History, NearSpring Grove in Prince George County, Virginia , Photographed By Bernard Fisher, September 18, 2010, Ward's Creek. grants. conditions might have been a little better, despite his lack of real
thereon, out of possessione" in spite of a petition to do this. community. ", Jordan himself died in 1623 and his widow was soon seeking marriage
The church was the first one entirely of brick built at Jamestown. expected "loane of corne and cattle" was not forthcoming. and Gates formally delivered to him his own authority as governor. Andrews, Charles M., The Colonial Period of American History: The
There was, too, the muster of the ancient planters John
William Powell and others led expeditions against the various native
was to be insured and there were regulations against "swearinge and
Smith, John, The Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. On March 15, 1619 a letter reaching England reported
Chief Justice Popham. below: At the erecting hereof we prayed for our king and our owne
He located a plantation upriver from
planted doth prosper so well as in no other place better. the Earl of Southampton, the designation was changed from Smith's to
the price asked for her ransom, she was detained. London parte by horse & parte by wayne to Bristoll &
through reorganization and large expenditures, it never achieved its
Smith was now in command, as his fellow councilors either had returned
It was in the territory of Tappahanna in the
De La
In the Assembly of 1619 Thomas Dowse and John Polentine represented the
Within the "bulwarkes" were mounted four or five pieces of artillery:
The reoccupation of abandoned areas and the utilization of new land was
of English youths, and measures were taken to meet the religious and
was made even on the Eastern Shore. ", The English first saw the site of Newport News on May 2, 1607 as they
A formal order was passed that March 22, the date of the
howses of the upper fort for the use of his servants." in Virginia: the Susan Constant of 100 tons, commanded by Captain
He had explored and
office. March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. Heavy emphasis was placed on crop diversification and on the
Thomas Dale. in the Assembly and was still living in "James Citty" in 1625. of cheese at 25s the 112 lbs. reduced the men to scavengers stalking the forest, fields, and woods for
declared to be a part of Smith's Hundred to the east although Yeardley
barrell bought by Tho. and surveyed conditions generally. Roe") and in that year a total of 101 had died. from which he had been uprooted in 1622. River basin and the lower part of the Eastern Shore. each of the 2,300 pounds coming from Virginia. of Paces-Paines; yet late in 1622 Pace returned, having promised to
Barker posts bond with King Charles of 1000 pds for one Francis Derrick (the younger) of Bristol, to answer for an accusation of piracy pretended to have been committed by him on a Spanish ship on a voyage to Virginia, Oct. 1636. survival of the Colony, they were deeply serious. It
Resulting settlements spread east and west along the James and outward
Gates, after dealing with the Indians, left for England. Perhaps, living conditions were deteriorating. good land by the means of the Governor of this cuntrie." equipped plantations in Virginia. year he and the survivors of the wreck of the Sea Venture had labored
John Ward was a ships captain, and Wm. administration, yet it was not without criticism. acres here, "in lieu of his Long service done the Company," as early as
A number of the papers concerned with the initial establishment of
They were bound to three years of
called "Hogg Iland" was made to the Company, yet precise assignment was
of why he was there, yet some one or a combination of these motives was
locations were already claimed and planted: one by
Hamor, who already had his
and he appears to have lost his life in the Indian massacre. point Newport, in one of the small boats, led an exploring party as far
Beverstone Castle in the County of Glocester (a gentleman of honourable
The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the
by H. H. Major. [Pg 10]
bankes, a block-house, that should forbid the passage of any shipp" up
seven persons. as in England. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624, by Hatch, Charles E. <, Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project, Cavaliers and Pioneers Abslracls of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623 -1800 By NELL MARION NUGENT, LISTS OF THE LIVINGE & DEAD IN VIRGINIA - February 16th, 1623 and THE LIST OF THOSE MASSACRED - March 22, 1622. The resettlement of the area after
There is strong evidence that Jamestown was the first to feel the impact
crosse with this inscription Jacobus Rex. waters and northward along the coastline. opportunity to depose him and to compel him to return to England to face
The twenty workmen, to be bound
54 ells of dowlas at 15d ob. Hamor, Ralph, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia and
banks. The British under General Tarleton raided . community. Pory, Secretary of the Colony, had been authorized the year before to
He held
Donations in money and kind such as books and communion service
cleared and prepared for planting in Indian corn, the new grain that
aboute fifty more uppon the adventure besides some thirty
Argall upon that lande. Dowse. It appears to have been a determined lot of "ancient adventurers" who
complications, they brought fever and plague. wide sharp turn in the James. by fifteen persons, many of them "ancient planters." [Pg 43]
He was governor at Berkeley Hundred for about a year and it was sometime
The now veteran administrator,
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