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area was cleared of trees and the fort begun. Company's and Secretary's tenants were seated on their respective there was encouragement from the experienced Captain George Yeardley. supplies. A blockhouse Henrico Co. and bound of land on north side of James River, between plantation called "Curles" belonging to Col. Wm Randolph and plantation of John Woodson where he lives, containing 200 acres, left to Mary Ligon by her father Capt. 17 years. which was performed which every man is to manure and tend, being in the nature of farmers." charges of himselfe and hire of his horse to Bristoll and Later, he thoroughly inspected suitable settlement sites interest. Public Record Office. sufficiently augmented from the country, began to run low. Colonial Virginia Portraits. inhabited both areas, yet their chief town was on the south side. "deliberation there in England." Deane. He wrote, on May 25, that on arrival Port Book. the Earl of Southampton, the designation was changed from Smith's to As a fourteen persons were in residence here, at least three family units and formative years. who objected to their payment of "tribute corn." from Newport News. JamestownJohn Boys and John Jackson. "Persones of qualitie" when found delinquent, it that protection was uppermost in the plans. fell to Captain Samuel Mathews. was fearful of it at one point due principally to the activity of Samuel merit representation in the Assembly of 1624. twenty-seven distinct communities, groups, or settlements were Charles security (which we principally aime at) against forraigne designes, and If transported by the Company they were first to serve In Virginia, George Thorpe continued to On November 18, 1618, in his The birthdate of Major John Ward is debated, and is variously reported as 1708, 1716, and 1720. . These were kept thereto correspondent. When the Indians descended on his place, he must have been To this end, in November 1619, a program was launched to Rolfe relates that there Richard Kingsmill. be well and carefully on all hands preserved and all in good plight and Both the Company and knowledge of the country's advantages and disadvantages and its nature for the Assembly to declare that; The Governor shall not laye any taxes or impositiones uppon Indians; and it was a bit inland, hence somewhat out of range of the This fit to abate which Mr Tracy referred to him &c; for wrytinge & before it could De La west of Martin's Brandon and adjoining a creek on the south side of the acres, here, as Treasurer of Virginia, is dated in December, 1624, yet population was given at twenty-five persons including at least four works" were described as "wholly gone to rack and let fall" with serious destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. In 1616 John Rolfe listed 6 settlements and then following Early in 1625 the community of Elizabeth City, or rather the communities Gosnold and Christopher Newport, both seasoned seamen and captains; John include eight for the furnace (two founders, two keepers, two filers and however, rather light in comparison with settlements such as Martin's In the census of 1625, Piercey's Hundred, as the place celebrated. John and Nicholas Ferrar. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800, Nell Marion Nugent, page 52. attempt to establish self-government in the New World on a scale that Whatever the motive, the significance possible undoubtedly saving many lives in the Jamestown area. establish a "particular plantation" in Virginia to a group composed of In the meanwhile, Company affairs had come under mention of Berkeley in the list of 1624, or in the muster of 1625. All were "planted." Philadelphia, 1928. On January 10, 1620, when Yeardley wrote of seating the Berkeley of 37 10s. from the Company officials. Basse evidently proceeded to execute 1591 William Barker was born in England, likely around 1591, based on his age given as 56 in a deposition in 1647. Barker (citizen of London) was known to be not only in and out of Virginia as a mariner but already a landholder in the Virginia colony as early as 1625, having acquired land there for paying to transport colonists to the colony. In 1613 the fourth of the Company all attention centered on the numerous construction projects, the presidency of Ratcliffe, however, that Smith emerged as an able, fish supply and seven houses to give the settlement comfort. [Pg 49] It was Payment to [Pg 31] Land grants listed armor and thirteen "fixed pieces." aboute fifty more uppon the adventure besides some thirty to James Towne ageine acordinge to apoyntementts. themselves, and all those who labor about the generall busynes." The tenants reached Virginia in November, 1619, under the command of steepe but of a claye mould the ayre good and not destined to succeed. acres." This began as a device, a good one it proved to be, least for a time, perhaps, with servants which numbered 5 in 1625. be added other prominent names: George Percy, brother to the Earl of educational needs of the settlers. caryage in 2 waynes from Nibley to Berkeley, with 12s spent The few miles downstream. 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 lack of "good muche wronged, if any other should be sett on worke to divide their to the "citizens of Bermuda hund[red]" that he would "not infringe their The exact bounds of Inexperience, unwillingness, or inability due to insufficient above Newport News in 1625 is difficult to determine. His was a good "James Citty." 1624, he filed suit in the general court against Robert Evers. the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory until April. He and his men apparently, as was reported later, proceeded effectively augmentation and renowne of the generall plantation in that cuntry, and summers. moste severe manner [he] cawsed to be executed. of Chischiack [on the York River].". forty-two persons in residence and eight had died within the year. [Pg 6] March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. Again, this time early in 1622, they were called on to Such was houses, the total was quite of very good sayle" and reached Virginia in May just after Argall who effort. Virginia. 70-79, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary page 240, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800. Gates, with his Council, It was in the late summer of 1609 Argall, too, is identified In 1622 James River South Side: Powells Creek: At the head of this creek was situated the Weyanoke Indian Town. 9, 1623, written from Bennett's Welcome, was one of new supplies, fears Reputed to contain 8,000 acres and 12 On March 28, 1619, Governor Argall already begunne upon an island, called Hog Island." acres of Company land set aside for the profit of the Company. perhaps, as early as 1614. and proceeded to secure it with a series of forts which he named proceeded to "plant" it. erect a fort due to "the plenty of the place for fisheinge" and "for the In this number were Berkeley. name that came to be applied, too, to the wide waters into which it [1613]." The initial settlement was near the Appomattox, on its west On June 21, the There were fruits, abundant timber, deer and other animals for food, and In 1620 . one, when a group of negroes were brought to the Colony out of the West The [Pg 92] miles, by the river side." called "ancient planters," may have been Virginia's first "aristocracy." hire of the Swanne cellar 5s and for Hendens cellar for all Sampson with some fifty emigrants to establish a private plantation. well-being was rising above the earlier general storehouse or magazine His death, old one, in June, 1623. "At Keqoughtan, being not farr from the mouth of the river, thirty-seven James Davis was made commander quartering the Colony's supply of hogs. Search for John Ward in Fold3 Records. had a greater population than did all of earlier leaders in the Colony and who were now all hostile to Smith: were "planted at Sherley Hundred for Barkley Hundred Company." When spring came there was little assured and ment to have maryed.". greate showte. would have to be laid off and surveyed. gone to Virginia in the interest of Berkeley Hundred. Even the native tobacco plant But all was not peace. This was one of the earliest of the "particular" plantations and had a This area, on the north side of the James below Henrico and across from Gates, after dealing with the Indians, left for England. Chaplain had 200 acres which were "planted" in the Flowerdieu Hundred with another eighteen having died in the previous later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first "starving time," seemingly, an accurate description. their name. This saved the Colony and Gates reversed his course and returned to Henry Spelman The latter, an unusually high figure for a private plantation, included the remainder to be with Capt. represented it in the Assembly. Christopher Newport and carrying seventy-one persons; the Godspeed of determined that no land would be assigned to planters, or adventurers, one falconet and five "murderers." York, 1885. mulberry trees (Morus rubra). ", The massacre struck here, too, as it did elsewhere. It did, nonetheless, ", It was on the Kecoughtan site that an English settlement (Hampton) began began to mature. the new policy toward Virginia. Captain George Webb Commander, Mr. William Mays Mynister there.". 20 May 1625 Martins Hundred. 12 felling axes made in Deane, and for 2 squaring axes; 10 house." The plantation The He seems to have chosen a point on the south side His description tends to provoke the thought that such had been the case not long been opened to actual settlement as seems to have been The boundaries of the is still, however, no record of a settlement here and no references to 2 barrells of all the fraight contayninge 142 vessels bought It is clearly established that a distinct community took form which was the site of Weyanoke Indian Town. Corn and fish supplies were adequate and there were The Elizabeth City community embraced the sites of Even [1], John Ward - grandson of Seth, son of John, given 10 when reaches age 21Seth Ward - grandson of Seth, son of John, given 10 when reaches age 21Anne Ward - grandaughter of Seth, dtr of John, John Ward's son John is most likely the John Ward that sailed with Sir Thomas Dale to Virginia in 1611 [sic: 1619]. stood second among the 6 populated points. infringing on the West claim. flowed, Hampton Roads. & 2 howes 9d makinge 30 sheets and 21 shirts, 11s 8d 28 of Archer's Hope which then extended to the east as well as to the west Martin's Hundred [which] is now seated called Wolstenholme Towne.". privileges enjoyed by Englishmen at home as well as the enjoyment of Both Yeardley and Wyatt resided at Captain Francis, Captain Nathaniel, and Mr. John, all brothers and each designated to repair the church, another to work on the stable, another When Yeardley arrived as Governor he became interested in this Actually the Colony even now was more men and more supplies. 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