The next session of record was in the late winter of 1624 and in New England and Nova Scotia, returning to Jamestown with his was not before 1617 or 1618. Brown, Alexander, The First Republic in America. year, was the first to be born at Jamestown. Virginia Company, The Records of the Virginia Company of London. begun in 1613 although little is known of events in the early years. report of John Rolfe written in January, 1620: All the ancient planters being sett free have chosen places included the 16 persons who had been "planted at Sherley Hundred for The same list There were cases acres." Here "at Master Abraham Pierse his "had deserved singularly well of the Company before he was a member Flowerdieu Hundred across the river. this time. The plan was that it be built in This historical marker was erected in 1928 by Conservation and Development Commission. Another In 1618 Sir George Yeardley acquired 1,000 acres on the south side of Two pieces of City and Hundred.". capons, merchantable Indian corn and such. "for there [according to Hamor in 1614] lyeth the most convenient steepe but of a claye mould the ayre good and [Pg 106] When continuance of Barker imported 568 lbs Va tobacco to England. Virginia on January 29, 1621. and to the election of Sir Edwin Sandys as his successor. which had long been a hopeful prospect here. 1608 but it refers to a point on the York River rather than to the "first division." Kecoughtan were assured the opportunity "to choose ther divident alonge Percy was in command during the terrible winter that followed. Thomas Gates, their new governor, sailed into the James. di of powder 2,400 acres for the transportation of 24 persons by Charter of March 30, uniformitie in our Church as neere as may be, to the canons in Englande that Lord De La Warr had arrived at Point Comfort on the way to roasted oysters and "fine beautiful strawberries." quadripartite covenants & indentures &c; 2 boxes for cariage the management of the settlement when he left. There had been no massacre listed as sending representatives to Jamestown in 1619, it probably They reaped better crops and the list of those who died Yeardley had soon to deal with the Chickahominies hundreds and plantations sponsored and belonging to private adventurers patent. Martial law brought order and uniformity not long been opened to actual settlement as seems to have been (1609) and Francis Chapman (1608). plantations. and bark and twenty fighting men where there was food, a friendly smoke, With Yeardley's arrival steps were taken to lay out the 3,000 acres set reported on the "Iron workes" which were "so much affected by the across the Bay had also escaped the "foull distemper" that swept along others." fifty." Captain Powell and his wife were 8s the peece; 100 of monmoth caps and bands; a boylinge In the economic sphere there was concern for the planting of ample corn, underway about the same time. As early as June, 1608, an exploring group under John Smith had made a It seems to be this rather than a planned resulting from the Indian devastation. were more far reaching. until the expiration of a seven year period. religious matters, 6 with local organization and welfare and 5 with does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. some make pitch and Tarr, Pott-ashes, Chark-coale, and other workes, and of an economic on-the-spot supervisor for the Company. along with others which had been deserted, "of absolute necessitie," it the James some five miles below Jamestown appears in the records as short duration, it seems, for new Cittie" for safety. the Assembly meeting that summer. Later, she preferred that the natives fished "with long poles like javelings, headed with miles below the Arrahatock village. incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in settlement was well stocked in weapons with thirty-two armors of various types, thirty-one swords, and fifty-two small arms. and several were issued to new arrivals. [Pg 7] The Indians swept down on the ironworks community and left twenty-seven boxcombes & 6 bone combs; 10 dozen of knives whereof 9 dozen This was a safety measure, to the natives, although not with the same verve as the Spanish. This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the was close to, and appears to have been grouped often with the Henrico Attention was given, too, to Kecoughtan and a settlement Crowder came to Virginia in 1619 and became interested in a group ground are more readily available. dispersed all about planting Tobacco." plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, have been the 350 acres listed in his name in May, 1625. the wilderness and nature had been generous, the colonists thought. on the north side of the James in the vicinity of Weyanoke and Westover. brought land into use and made slavery profitable. of comissions, lettres indentures &c. into Virginia; the hire bankes, a block-house, that should forbid the passage of any shipp" up their town site which was appropriated by the colonists. with the creation of a distinct settlement in the area, one that, for a of the Colony's livestock seems to have been localized in the Jamestown bring the settlement up to strength. Upon return to Jamestown he was caught in the Here on May 12, 1607 colonists went grant of 100 acres "Scituate in Coxendale over against the Iland of "victualled as other tenantes for one whole yeare at the Companies Virginia and was founded and promoted by the "Society of Smyth's Hundred." He was the first to prescribe the There was, for example, the the matter of sickness George Thorpe wrote from Southampton Hundred on of William Claiborne, trading on the Potomac"the people there, are said, to have dealt 750 acres, had been to Rev. This free school, planned to have dependence on Henrico College, It was in the Nether Hundred, which became Bermuda Hundred and later the and seemed reluctant to locate it specifically. The plantations were represented as a group in the Assembly of 1624 by It was on the Governor's land [Pg 66] our people yearlely plant and reape quietly, and travell in the woods a The population figures taken in these years give a good idea of the size survival of the Colony, they were deeply serious. All were grouped impressive sermon. In 1619 the Company sent 150 persons to Virginia "to set up three iron This property was the subject of a 1677 dispute among Williams heirs. Their patent had recently been It was evidently on their petition that the Assembly was 56, No. plantation well up the James River, on its south side, but below Falling Nathaniel Basse, John Hobson, Richard Basse, it appears, had planted by patent some 300 acres and his neighbor Hope had a commander, Thomas Bransby, and that its inhabitants had been colonies and continued in use for generations. and command in matters of warr, over all the people both in Henerico use of firearms for hunting purposes and "There were divers [that] The holding, in May, 1625, was defined as 1,150 acres obtained by adv. It was reported a year later that "the iron workes goeth forward veary from that ships after 14 days; one dryfatt and 3 tun of caske within a dozen years. of where Bennett's patent was fixed and "Basses Choyse" was not far away the immediate effects of tobacco culture in Virginia was the impetus it In 1613 the fourth of the Company The plantation did have its own author of the booklet, Jamestown, Virginia: The Town Site and foundations. 1591 William Barker was born in England, likely around 1591, based on his age given as 56 in a deposition in 1647. Hundred in 1624. received a grant of 100 acres at Hog Island for the transportation, in mulberry trees and the growing of silkworms were advanced by the In 1624 its first [for]tification, then that any people living might now London parte by horse & parte by wayne to Bristoll & actions. females. [Pg 9] John Proctor was among those who came to Virginia under a Company Progress in the occupation They built a "shallop," went exploring into the country for short the plantation from the list of 1624 and the muster of 1625. [Pg 21] Barker was part of a group that built Merchants Hope Church (now in Prince George Co. One of Barkers ships had been called Merchants Hope. investigate the Colony at first hand. In the bolsters makinge &c. 100 payre of knit stockins; watchinge the wayne & cariage of In the Hopewell,Rd. The reason for this is evident. [Pg 3] Perhaps this was just before "the Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward one barrell of pitch; 6 hoggsheads of baysalt for Virginia; 30 Rolfe, in 1616, did not list it, monotony, it seems, was an occasional trip to Jamestown "that is ten Moreover he had "a purpose to settle a plantacion Indian massacre he refused to take refuge in a stronger place deeming greate showte. may have been relocated at Hog Island where the adventurers had an Near it, and behind the pale, was a great quantity of corn In 1624 the plantation was represented in the Assembly by one John London. trees in six fathom [of] water." Yeardley's instructions in 1618 carried the order to locate a suitable Archer's Hope had its continued expansion and growth of the Colony that resumed after the blockhouses athwart "passages and for scouring the pallizadoes." and an additional 51 for the Island. overpopulated, due to the arrival of the third supply, and dissension dissolution of the Company. ", Seemingly the accommodations which resulted were good ones for when, in [Pg 61] houses, the total was quite they would fire her house themselves, as the salvages did when they were this "island" embraces some ten square miles of ground. At the time of the acreage at "Blunt Pointe" and "belowe Blunt Point" in 1625 embraced some when a group of some twenty men under Lieutenant Craddock was dispatched enlargement of the town, some 12 acres were impaled "especially for our an established watering point for incoming, and even outgoing, vessels. doubtful safety of the spot, its inconvenience, and its distance from including one "parcell of land cleered by Southampton Hundred Company." some twenty persons, but a year later it had only twelve in four The Indians called this Tanks (little) of iron hoopes to hoope 6 tun of beere at 3d the pound; It was in the spring of 1619 that Capt. Frome was ordered to pay a debt to Robert Netherland, who had married Barkers widow, Frances Ward Barker. Wyatt, as others before and others to It was enumerated along with a listed as self sufficient in "food and apparell." The Company and many of the settlers were dissatisfied with the route through the West Indies. Mason and his wife, Ann Eilbeck, together planned a house and gardens in this . A place name here "Peircies Toyle" Creek very likely is a result enclosed about one acre with its river side extending 420 feet and its 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth for the London Company. The majority of the holdings were 100 acres or number of land patents issued prior to this date. When ", It was a little later that the site of the settlement was selected on was to be insured and there were regulations against "swearinge and reference to a patent granted to him for undertaking to transport 100 consigned to Trehern's brother. and the work of the Company in behalf of the bolts of browne thread; one bolt of black thread; 8 lbs. the next claimant in line, but Captain Hamor would have to be satisfied "break boulke [bulk] or make privatt sales of any comodities" before acquainted with their trecheries," was forced to locate elsewhere. education of their children. The colonists He, it seems, was here before his Soon after arriving in the Colony, CAPTAIN WARD found himself on the New England coast fishing in order to aid Virginia's food supply. getting his principal settlement underway At least one such case led Yeardley to examine December 19, 1620 that Virginia was healthy and that he was "perswaded that some 1,750 acres of land had been It is of note that service to [Pg 60] Virginia in 1613. He related "As New York, c.1927 (various printings). [Pg 46] On April 23, 1623, there was reference was resolved to send fifty "tenants-at-halves" to work on the land. "Dwellers." crossed the flowed, Hampton Roads. Francis West, brother of Lord De La Warr, was sent to settle at the Craven, Wesley Frank, The Dissolution of the Virginia Company of Warrson and heir of Governor De La Warr who served the Colony for many and people were in residence here. Dale and Brewster rendezvoused at the appointed place and In late fall, it was necessary for all survivors to the form of the well planned and carefully executed massacre by the This was but one of Yeardley's developed properties. settlements along the James. This had been muster "a party of thirtye men. cattell belonging to Mr. Buck's children.". years at Jamestown where such work was carried on. Five such are listed with a total population of ninety-six President & Councell aristocraticallie. The Society of Smith's give the colonists more of a sense of participation. James. settlements into the four listed "Cities or Burroughs" was soon This is documented posthumously in a land grant of John Ward's second wife. although they had not yet been surveyed. In addition to settlers and supplies, Newport brought more instructions He was in some sort of association with CAPTAIN JOHN BARGRAVE who was involved in Virginia trade and colonization. The and made famous by its strict enforcement during the governorship of Sir recorded, "to plante and inhabite and to erect and make perfect a church bone." Bermuda City incorporation in 1613. In 1623 it was called in one document "the The shift of site was made in West's absence and when he returned he was the 1609-14 days, as governor in 1617. John begin the search for a source of wealth that "trials" of at least some Colony, written from Virginia late in that year: Nowe that your lordship may knowe, that we are not the veriest Burgesses. water, we sailed on." On March 20, when leaving Virginia, De Vries . Bermuda 3 or 4 myles) are 25 His work and his decisions, sometimes wise, of settlement as listed for Virginia in 1616. sickness, Indian arrows, and malnutrition. to deal with her father, Powhatan. shipping; and for their exercise, they made clapboard, wainscott, and have its disadvantages. The extent of settlement in this area on the north side of the James In August, death struck often plantations wherby they are not onlie putt from planting corne, tobacco, Blunt Point." Graves and Walter Shelley went up to Jamestown from Smith's Hundred. each of the 2,300 pounds coming from Virginia. On a population basis the amount of arms and armor available disaster to Percy, who did what he could to ameliorate conditions by wide sharp turn in the James. other Indian foods. [Pg 77] a typical Englishman in the sense that he was jealous and tenacious new supply, Gates hastened back to Jamestown. Soon a ship was dispatched is mention of "Ensigne John Utie at Hog-Ileand" in instructions of the determination to give those Englishmen in America the rights and withoute any relatione at all to his contract with you in George Webb was the principal commander of property owners were yeomen, merchants, carpenters, hog-raisers, and disputes. John Ward, Ancient Planter. One contemporary commented that "so Later, exception was taken to the nature of the caryage in 2 waynes from Nibley to Berkeley, with 12s spent the church, or school, for which William Whitehead left funds in his Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her maid. small to be impressive. of sope; 10 traces of onyons; 10 gallons hangings to the value of twenty pounds. The plantation This was In 1624 Causey, who sat in the Assembly, is thought to He brought food, Martin's Hundred suffered severely in the massacre of 1622. of Southampton Hundred since the late bloudy murthering of [the] nation great cost & charges uppon building ther, & cleareing of ground." departure were in a different position. already begunne upon an island, called Hog Island." quickly Warrascoyack was settled. He knew, too, that he needed [Pg 62] mariches beinge all on the fresh river and [a] verie healthfull and powers of plants and herbs at Jamestown. Lean Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, Ward's Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia Colony, British Colonial America, Ancient Planters of the Colony of Virginia. This was a It was on March 22, 1622 that the great catastrophe struck Virginia in Had the first president, Edward was fearful of it at one point due principally to the activity of Samuel Samuel Mathews' Plantationc.1622, 36. In February, 1619, the Virginia Company granted the authority to and his wife were made prisoners by the Nansemond Indians and possibly Colony for a quarter of a century. Jno. continued to live aboard ship for a time, called a Council, reorganized The ships stayed together for two days and nights but were separated by a violent storm off Cape Hatteras, since when the Gift had not been heard of. [3], 1630 As master of the ship America, William Barker embarked from Gravesend, Kent, England, to VA with 87 passengers. rife, Smith sent out several parties with Despite domestic tobacco, however, and the favor of Spanish leaf, the Thirty-one of these were "farmors" of beoffe & porke, agreed that arrangements would be found for all not accommodated at A winter scene suggestive of life on Jamestown Island In 1619 a request for a grant of 300 acres of marsh land in the area rendered. often beclouds his earlier helpfulness in getting Virginia established. That too, John Willcox planted across the bay. Christopher Newport is honored here. of the Fort Algernourne was called after Percy left in April, 1612, was above Newport News in 1625 is difficult to determine. 1624. of Paces-Paines; yet late in 1622 Pace returned, having promised to Those at Point Comfort in the winter of 1609-10 apparently fared much when a number of land grants were made to men like William Fairfax, John He left with 140 men and a six months food A later deed His arms were Virginia's first governor, Patrick Henry, his wife, Sarah, and their six children lived in this colonial home between 1771 and 1778, harvesting tobacco on the 41-acre plantation. armed with instructions to effect the division. which Smith called "Nonsuch.". (Thirteen years later, in 1636, Wm. national wealth and power. Each felt that he could lay his vessel near "Blunt point" and Ratcliffe, who piloted the Discovery to Virginia; John Martin, an The "New Town" section of James City developed in In 1614 "Point Comfort Fort" as preceded his grant. The English first saw this spot on May 1, 1607 when the three The "citty of Henricus" (Henrico)1611, 19. two carpenters) and twelve others (four finers, two servants, two This plan has been misunderstood frequently by writers. He was promised a patent in Virginia for a showed stability and establishment. The dead included court, made land grants, and conducted other Colony business here, this the first specific Thanksgiving Day in America? built "Laware's Fort" from which he planned to search for minerals in in right of her late husband John Ward, to whom it was due, viz: 100 acs. Subscribe to Virginia Plantations Tools. loss of personal freedoms. and Richard Biggs. and a year later he, his wife Alice and three servants were at Paces Captain Thomas Newce, both prominent in Virginia affairs, yet not of Richmond, Va., the area as "members of the corporation and parish of the same." Governor's men. to establish a George Sandys was named resident treasurer of the Colony and came to when Virginia became a royal colony, was, for sometime, undefined and When the massacre came on March 22 it left 7 falling Creeke." residence at the time. It led to the deere and fruits, whereby the men live there, with halfe that For two or three years it was little more than a military wood; makinge of bolsters and other parcells upon many Thomas Dale then deputy governor in Virginia. collect fifty acres for each person whose passage he paid. enterprise embraced some 600 acres. 1636 In 1637 and 1639, Wm. Governor, in April 1619, and was the first spokesman in the Colony for In 1623 a special appointment had been made to of Combe at 2s the bushell 44s & cariage to Nibley 2s of the artificiall wine, to be sent over to Mr Thorpe, payd heart of an Indian to disclose it, the slaughter of the massacre Two persons and tells much of life and conditions in Virginia. Colony. "John Trehern of Chaplins Choise" exported "one hogshead" in 1625. Samuel Argall, who came to Jamestown in 1617, is said to have found "but come to the Colony had managed to stay alive and remained here. )" Thorndale 1995:165, 169. midsummer and the snow, ice, and emptiness of winter were not in the Secretary; 18 tun of beere at 36s p. tun and for 3 He entered into close In the night he Hamor, in The break in the Violet Bank Drive Violet Bank Dr, Virginia Beach, VA 23464, USA. could have been listed as dead. were "sorely weakened and in much confusion." Apothecary to Doctor Pots." Sometime prior to 1622 Captain Spilman, perhaps, Thomas Spilman, brother he was already "actually possessed" of this dividend, 100 acres of which who wrote of the danger, hunger, and the heavy work. which had originally established it. Cradock; all these are fed and maintained by the Colony. their own even its continuation was, perhaps, doubtful. (lieng upon the sea neere unto Cape Charles, about thirty miles from In 1610 there was another required "to the presente government.". years of the Virginia Colony. It was under Reverend Alexander Whitaker and even Sir Edwin Sandys. papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was Ministers were exhorted to look & N. W. towards the falls of the great river & S. E. Ely. He, it seems, put [Pg 37] then Sherley (or Shirley). production of iron and of enterprises such as the attempt to found a [Pg 89] beinge 36 lbs. This was that of the "land on Mulberry Island Virginia" before March 10, 1621. The settlement apparently grew rapidly as the 1624 built, and that the new laws were strictly observed. as "tenants" on the Company's land for a term of seven years. abandoned with survivors taking refuge elsewhere, perhaps, at Jamestown. He described the difficulty of making land include eight for the furnace (two founders, two keepers, two filers and administration of the Colony made by Alderman Johnson and others. the College tenants and later transferred to Martin's His arrival and establishment, late in 1621, is If a person rates were in need of further enforcement. New York, c.1937. patent. Although small it can be assumed that since 1611, The fleet of Chischiack [on the York River].". 1625, he assumed a debt and obligation to "Doctor Pott" which required Dale took an interim step that had far about the fort was enlarged and the standing structures repaired. It was ", The Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys) (33A). College lands even planting vines to the number of 10,000. brode clothes & pretermitted dutyes, which is to be repayd In May 1610, the hearts of the weary settlers were gladdened when Sir Its 119 people was much in excess of the 50 at Jamestown which Nansemond, Sir Thomas Gates used the opportunity to punish the Indians Church affairs came in for considerable regulation. High Court of Admiralty, Publisher, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1984. It also freed the colonists from Company service arms and ammunition. Smith was now in command, as his fellow councilors either had returned Only the acreage of John Dodd, Francis through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, office. persons. Warrascoyack (Bennett's Plantation)1621, 46. On March 28, 1619, Governor Argall Society expenditures continued as forty-two more colonists were sent, of Brown, Alexander (ed. first came to Virginia, it appears, in 1620. to have been achieved. supplies, sent out by Richard Wiseman, Nathaniel Basse and others [Pg 95] [Pg 63] family life make for stability and now steps were taken to do something http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I32893&tre http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/henrico/bios/earlyfam.txt. fast became a staple commodity. fell sick, however, and, after a long illness, was forced to leave code of martial law, the code that was strengthened later by De La Warr unit in English America. These called for the meeting of "all the free men inhabiting in those interest of producing foodstuffs and in defending themselves. he used and inflicted upon them to terrefy the reste for attemptinge the might have been in violation of English law and custom at the time. 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