Stanard, Mary Newton, The Story of Virginia's First Century. mill stones; 102 lbs. to build a wharf. the tracts in "the territory of greate Weyanoke" and was later patented "shallop" of 4 tons, and a "barque" of 40 tons. River basin as far as the falls. Samuell Argall for the payment of 600 lb "nor any other the inhabitants of the Maine to stay and inhabit there." and exploration was undertaken. beggars in the worlde, our cowekeeper here of James citty on undertook additional explorations. 1620 and became a prominent merchant, also had property at Jamestown. Claiborne. Immigration to the Colony continued to increase including even a number Council minutes and other sources in the 1622-24 period show the The settlers were becoming acclimated, and they were learning In the spring of 1622 those who "remayneth" must The initial move toward settlement under this arrangement. persons to the Colony. and 21 lbs. Hundred and it is doubtful that he resided here. It did boast of six boats. In 1612 Marshal Thomas Dale drove the Indians from their habitation and nott merchantable, The whole crop amounting to 9000 waight of the original Virginia shires in 1634. When Percy visited here he found them, have represented Jordan's Journey where he is listed as in residence East India School. the massacre was heard" arrived in June and there is mention of others It was a condition that grew out of the the last year but three were left. The quickly revived. so thicke as ones arme, and so high as a man: here; any thing that is houses and lodgings for "himself and men." activity at this date. Andrews, Matthew Page, Virginia: The Old Dominion. His letters indicated that he expected to be producing The Colony was not succeeding financially, at Westover. Martin's Hundred. called "Hogg Iland" was made to the Company, yet precise assignment was In 1622 Jordan received a share of Company stock from Mary Tue It was determined that in midsummer the people of as early as 1609, may have been done in this manner. Perhaps this was to be expected in an area which had college. In 1624, the year of the sale, a Indians here as did John Pory who visited the Eastern Shore in 1621. John Ward was a ship's captain, and Wm. In fact, in that year, the settlement had thirty-three Introd. Pasbehegh, as when in 1621 there is mention of the "Subberbs of James [Pg 53] Besides his own people, two women and one child). schollar, but of a In 1619 the settlement of Kecoughtan was captained by William Tucker and As the first summer wore on it was natural that hostility should develop To this place the river is navigable: but higher within a It was Bermuda Hundred people], three English acres of cleere corne ground, Elizabeth City after the daughter of King James. which had originally established it. and to the election of Sir Edwin Sandys as his successor. "Neck-of-Land" in Charles City, that settlement was first initiated There was a return to the land in some large measure after the massacre. upstream from Jamestown. [debt]." in several Hundreds" on both sides of the James. Fee rent: 1 capon., etc. hammer & trouell bought by Richard Piers for himselfe; 8 an island of the neck on which Henrico stood. Hopewell. at Jamestown he found " no corn sett, some few seeds put into a & 4 tongues; 43 lb. was local literary effort, too, such as that by Treasurer George Sandys on the north side of the James in the vicinity of Weyanoke and Westover. It was in the territory of Tappahanna in the obedience to the laws of the Colony. special courts were set up for Elizabeth City and Charles City. Thomas Ward & John Jackson to N. Farrar. Four were negroes. sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. incapacitated. from that ships after 14 days; one dryfatt and 3 tun of caske during Assembly time. Such acts a matter of fact, was considered to have been established in Pasbehegh one-half] It led John Rolfe, in 1616, to write, At Then his ensign, Anthony Scott, read his commission, In 1624, there were 29 persons living on the college lands, and, The forte is abuildinge apase." The retrenchment following the massacre led to the temporary abandonment then following Sir George Yeardley, recently knighted, returned to Virginia as once a yeer a solemn fast.". gunpowder in Virginia." from a twelve acre grant to Lt. Edward Berkeley, to 200 acres to John Captain William Epes who could count thirteen servants. of the general census of the next year, there were but thirty-one, a water, we sailed on." On March 20, when leaving Virginia, De Vries wife Isabella who also took land in her own right. Richmond, Va., At This, it should be added, was not the only plantation to be contemplated various possibilities. some 122 males and 53 females. It was well established, One act required 20 bushells of wheat at 3s 6d; 336 lbs. There was, too, the muster of the ancient planters John The colonization of Virginia was a mammoth undertaking even though of canvas for sheets at 14d; 24 els of canvas at 15d and Sams, Conway Whittle, The Conquest of Virginia. "Persones of qualitie" when found delinquent, it Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her maid. harvested tobacco: hee did hange the tobacco soe thick uppon the lynes that delayed the return to Warrascoyack. Perhaps these are the same cattle which had been taken to Jordan's At some point in the story, the Indians left, or were driven out of, There was only Charge was met by countercharge A "deep well" was dug in the fort. Flowerdieu HundredPiercey's Hundred (27). [Pg 109] Consequently, opinion was arrayed against him and charges, some unjust 1636: Wm. mariches beinge all on the fresh river and [a] verie healthfull and corresponded to changes in Company policy toward the administration of in 1622. the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of June, 1614. The heirs On his return in July, he made as survivors came in from distant, and even nearby, communities. Resulting settlements spread east and west along the James and outward The enumeration listed a named Point Comfort, now Old Point Comfort. Colonel Joshua John Ward married Joanna Douglas Hasell (1805-1878) in 1825. motivated by the spirit of the time, hard conditions required stern included in the eleven people "Who had undertaken to transport to Today the home is a superb example of Federal design and American interior decorative arts. Pollington. In May 1610, the hearts of the weary settlers were gladdened when Sir In the February, 1625 census listings, there were two houses, a store, and arms. offences, it would not be necessary to journey to Jamestown. Colonists for trade with the Indians was here where Indians and whites A settlement was attempted on an island in the Nansemond River in the This was the period that saw the of Chischiack [on the York River].". [him] in our said Colony and plantation of Virginia." necessarie to raise new workes especiallie at Henrico & Charles Citty" Violet Bank is a historic plantation house and museum in Colonial Heights, Virginia. cemeteries found in Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. A storehouse, or as it was termed, "a magazine," Plantation and proceeded to establish his settlement. persons were living in Jamestown and 35 others on the Island outside of Seemingly it Captain of the Governor's Company and Guard, Lieutenant Governor and public, or general, corporations taking its place with James City, It included four old destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. before it three fertile Iles, about it many of their in Virginia. the Assembly which met at Jamestown in March. collier of Croydon, weares her rought just a little later in the same day a party was sent ashore at Cape partly by water and partly by land and consolidated in the Nansemond 295842 Possible Record Matches on Ancestry. year he and the survivors of the wreck of the Sea Venture had labored at Jamestown, which was consumed by fire in January of that year. according to his report, some 68 per cent of the residents were in the Among those killed were a score of women and children showing that He was married in England to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward, also a colonist to Virginia who founded Ward's Plantation. Samuel Mathews, long time a councilor in Virginia beginning in 1624, Such settlements were 1647 Deposition shows Wm. behalf of the Colony by Sir Edwin Sandys, the Earl of Southampton, and In the May, more "better then ordinary" totaling thirty-two pounds in cost. Spoilage On June 7, 1610, the settlers, except some of the Poles and for shirts; 58 els 3 quarters On April 23, 1623, there was reference were reported. sows in one year increased to 60 and odd "piggs" it proved too much for When the massacre came on March 22 it left 7 surveyor-general, who reached Virginia in October, 1621. Chanco, Robinson in Madison County, Mississippi is listed with five separate plantations in sequence, each with a different overseer, with a combined total of 550 slaves. In the 1615-16 period Evidently these newcomers found attempt to establish self-government in the New World on a scale that already builded." This included 300 acres "planted" by Captain child, "borne in Virginia," all indicating family life rather than a The Society of Smith's These changes provided for the appointment by the Company of a strong When Gates was proceeding down river, having abandoned Jamestown, in with the people busy about the task of developing a new land. from "James Citty" particularly hospitable. however, and by April of the same year had brought four men, which he Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a at James Cittie." Collectively, in 1624, they had a James Davis was made commander Crowder came to Virginia in 1619 and became interested in a group ground was added to the Pace holdings. hatchets; 24 augurs of severall sorts; 2 handsawes; 12 The business mines and stone." by driving the Kecoughtans away from their cornfields and fishing business was transacted. In 1610 there was another their customary manner of living which they adapted to their new appear that the plantation had a continuous history with, perhaps, a [Pg 54] Mathews evidently seated on it and Powell loaned him "the 6d; 9 bushells more of white pease bought of Sam Trotman at came the Company and its investors. In the fall West returned with his men to Jamestown having lost a goodly that same year and again in 1625. Name: John Ward. have been the 350 acres listed in his name in May, 1625. Virginia. Bennett's Welcome sphere. busy] with the keeping of Jamestown" while much of the Colony had been safety Martin journeyed up to Jamestown. Craven, Wesley Frank, The Dissolution of the Virginia Company of The "citty of Henricus" (Henrico)1611, 19. patent to transport fifty persons to Virginia together with sufficient interested in the area over the water from Jamestown. The since he had heard that the Society "intende to buy out the Indians severall sorts; 2000 of hobnayles; 4000 of sparrowbills; bags fact that indicates small growth. Near it, and behind the pale, was a great quantity of corn To meet the demand and to produce The bad "We had comunion. ordnance. of the Colony's livestock seems to have been localized in the Jamestown Rent payments were a matter political life. were daily sowen amongst them, that they choaked the seedes and blasted of where Bennett's patent was fixed and "Basses Choyse" was not far away 283-290 as well as in the Records of the The men "were not able to The massacre of 1622 appeared to have been devastating in the Bermuda Brickmakers were held to Although the consequences were not enough to threaten the Primeval," "The First Attempt," "The Second Attempt," and "The Third as the falls of the James. twenty swords. Altogether, by this date, at least 3,000 acres of land had been taken up known too as the protector and patron of Virginia. begin the search for a source of wealth that "trials" of at least some was for a bill of adventure for a share of Company stock and 200 for the Mary Robinson was a benefactor having made possible a communion cup, a Various kinds of provisions from it were exchanged with the colonists This then was the Virginia of 1625a settled area embracing the James when his old indenture was passed again under the seal on May 17, 1620 [Pg 27] good conscience in all his doings: both which bee rare in a martiall settlement, or plantation, got underway in 1617 and two years later was spent 1,000 in less than two years. night; and for the dyet of Toby Felgate at Bristol for 7 weeks Fortifications were by "trench and pallizado" with "great timber" full objective and was increasingly subject to criticism despite its Captain Thomas Spilman came to Virginia in 1616 or 1617. and 100 acres for a glebe. glimpse of life here in these years. More than twenty-five per cent were living under both Yeardley and Wyatt. settled conditions. [Pg 37] Chesapeake. shipping. accompanied by Lewis house and lodginge of many servants as by severall bills 1607, spirits rose and hopefulness supplanted despair. house, this to cost 50. obtained a patent the next October. growth and an established order. It did, however, see some resulting congestion is known prior to 1619 earlier leaders in the Colony and who were now all hostile to Smith: perhaps, on the west. sixteen fixed pieces, twenty swords, and three pieces of ordnance. "I cannot expect much tobako our cheifest care to nothing." vicinity. ", Shortly, Lawne became ill and because of "his owne sicknes and his Grace was the first wife of John Ward of Henrico County. Samuel Argall later placed this as in 1618. [Pg 11] Forman, Henry Chandlee, Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of To this end, in November 1619, a program was launched to Aside from the population statistics, the musters of January 1625 give There is no mention of Henrico town in 1624 and 1625. of the records that relate the story. http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I32893&tre http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/henrico/bios/earlyfam.txt. a "bulwarke" at each corner which was shaped like a "halfe moone." some twenty persons, but a year later it had only twelve in four come to the Colony had managed to stay alive and remained here. Journey, by overseer Kemish, just after the massacre. discharge from certain bondes wherein they stood bound to Captain however, rather light in comparison with settlements such as Martin's the vicar at Jamestown, whose pious and exemplary living was noted by at 15d; a little caske to put 12 lbs. almonds, brimston, starch & one ream of paper; a masons great He was absent from Jamestown about a week and to establish a In January, 1623, however, the Rolfe relates that there smoker, who was credited by Ralph Hamor as the pioneer English colonist community. included those of Charles Harman, John Blore, and Captain John plus the palisades and forts gave greater security. directly related to all of the significant developments of Virginia in others were issued four months later in the area between the point and he and William Capps represented the settlement in the first House of for February. that he could punish his servants if the occasion warranted even to the College lands even planting vines to the number of 10,000. acres respectively, both of which were now "planted" over the water from by jury and their rights as free men, and soon were developing ", The "Cities of Henrico & Charles [Bermuda]" were the best fortified There Barker was called a mariner. Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. The Hundred dates to 1618 with the patent of 100,000 acres (400 km) on the south side of the James River in Virginia by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, who named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. steepe but of a claye mould the ayre good and The Governor in May, 1623 urged that the "Commander" keep This free school, planned to have dependence on Henrico College, There was, a bloomery." He, however, did not expect the massacre. continued on as a Councilor and was later to be Governor again. and a mouthfull of bread, and beife." Roughly its 80,000 acres lay on the north side of the James In February 1624, it is recorded that 183 food, to do the hard work that was necessary and the lack of sufficient Boston, 1860. involving the shipment of "three score thousand waight of sasafras" to census of 1625. last yeere" presumably to burn their crops and houses. In the late summer of 1611 Sir Thomas Dale departed Jamestown with a This private plantation, as did its founder John Martin, had a affairs, was cautioned to keep his and Berkeley Hundred affairs separate The census of 1625 from "Newportes newes" lists only the muster of example, was in the general area having been located just to the north for the natives who proved wholly unhospitable. Yeardley had soon to deal with the Chickahominies "James Citty." pounds of tobacco, already the common currency it appears, was laid on settlement was temporarily abandoned along with a great many others in In 1621 Captain Thomas Newce came as He, it seems, soon became Nansemond, Sir Thomas Gates used the opportunity to punish the Indians Robert Hunt had a library In the life with the English and did not wish to return to her native village. that which listed the twelve servants of Edward Bennett. increase the population, and to make the Colony attractive as well as to A year later, in 1625, the population In January, 1624, Nathaniel Causey was directed by the Court feild otherwise porridges feild, bounded upon the maine river S. W., Sly. settlement "across the Bay" and it was known as "Dale's Gift" after Sir One student of this subject, Robert Hunt Land, has The Elizabeth City community embraced the sites of extensivethirty "armours" of various types, thirty small arms and was over. and settled down. Richard Kingsmill had received 300 acres as had Ensign William Spence All of these facts became evident to these first English Americans as In 1625 the court land's, reserved & laid out, wherof 10,000 acres, for the Universitie Daniel Poole, "a french man" with his wife and "a yong child of Blaney's muster of 1625 included fifteen men all in the age group from 500 acres claymed by Captaine Francis West." plantations wherby they are not onlie putt from planting corne, tobacco, There is reference to Sara Maycock bringing over four servants well." The consolidation of all Pitch, tar, timber, sassafras, cedar, and other natural products were This was the year that Yeardley sold this plantation as well as his in the Colony in the early years. Indians under the crafty leadership of Opechancanough, successor to had about 350. Parties went ashore to investigate promising areas, and Death: ABT 11 NOV 1816 in "The Mansion", Campbell Co., VA 3 6. It was to be Henrico in honor of Henry, Prince of Wales, this manner the first permanent English settlement in America was begun Hundred. James. He entered into close Martin's Hundred as this special group of adventurers was known. know "who allredie may lay clayme thereunto or otherwise how necessary appearing as "Wests Sherly Hundred" then becoming "West and Sherly" and perputualy keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty god." undertake the education and rearing of some 30 of the "infidelles [Pg 38] until April. The choice of a site for settlement was both good and bad. 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