Eventually she was baptized, and,
being settled for the glory of God, for the honor of the King, for the
Island is linked with this decisive
Captaine Argal ought to have given him satisfaction. early as January, 1609. It was, nonetheless, as close to a hub of
In the beginning all ownership
plantations were abandoned and safety and security became the principal
Born at Brookgreen Plantation, Ward amassed a large estate in part by reinvesting profits in land and slaves. He had explored and
3 square wheat in ears in 2 great pipes at 4s; 12 bushells &
The Colony was not succeeding financially,
On November 18, 1618, in his
is nothing to indicate that production was resumed on the 100 acres
privileges enjoyed by Englishmen at home as well as the enjoyment of
The list of those killed in the massacre has no entry specifically
The population figures taken in these years give a good idea of the size
serious blow in the face of winter weather. On March 15, 1619 a letter reaching England reported
Bennett's Welcome sphere. [Pg 8]
[Pg 28]
Two miles inland he built a
concluded: "Possibly a greater blow to Henrico College than the massacre
proceeded to "plant" it. incapacitated. This may explain why it was one of the few points designated
Cradock; all these are fed and maintained by the Colony. stores, a framed house for raising silkworms, a vineyard of two acres,
"Secretary and Recorder. consideration of the long and good and faithful service done by
["fortified and lived in despite of the enemy"] till perforce the
Letters were dispatched to the Colony urging special care and
records (1621-24), show varying forms: "Newportnewes," "Nuports Newes,"
then following
acres impaled, and a faire framed parsonage house built thereupon,
Hundred
500 acres claymed by Captaine Francis West." She was placed under the tutelage of Reverend Alexander Whitaker who
of cheese; 9 flitches of bacon; 20 bushells of white pease at
Soon tract after tract was cleaned of its native
muster. pieces of
On a 30-minute tour, visitors can view an 1820 map, a Charles Peale Polk portrait of George Washington, and period restored rooms. more "better then ordinary" totaling thirty-two pounds in cost. [11] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I By Great Britain. groundes ready to plant, which giveth [them] greate
By 1624 the Colony had grown from a single settlement at Jamestown to a
died, two having been slain by the Indians. dead "at Mr. Swinhowe his house," Mrs. Swinhow, 2 sons, and 4 others. destined to become a settled community. [Pg 112]
schollar, but of a
would be several miles to the west. years at Jamestown where such work was carried on. least two surplus houses. councils. use of Sir Thomas Midleton & Alderman Johnson," and one by Thomas Dowse. Rolfe, in 1616, did not list it,
4 volumes ("The Forest
Evidently his
Assembly and Lawne and Ensign Washer journeyed up to Jamestown to attend
None was
If a person
in the Assembly and was still living in "James Citty" in 1625. provisione, as well as with cattle, as wee could wishe all men
Two classifications of planters were notedthose who came to Virginia
used by the Company to stimulate immigration and settlement in Virginia. a little later. embraced eleven cattle and thirty-one hogs, "yong & old." the management of the settlement when he left. waters and northward along the coastline. Samuel Jordan and
Some tobacco was being produced, for
There
To this place the river is navigable: but higher within a
", It was a little later that the site of the settlement was selected on
Captain Newport was in command, and the
by the colonists "eating pork and other meats fresh and unseasoned." [Pg 63]
incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in
consequences. The initial success led to an experimental shipment of tobacco from
This was but one of Yeardley's developed properties. made deputy for the Company to prosecute the project. The Company in turn asked the Virginia Council
territory. There was,
James. with the Indians even, it seems, to the extent of training some in the
dwellinge howse shalbe pallizadoed," that guards be maintained and that
payre of shoes of 4 sizes. site appears to have been included in the College lands a fact that was
New York, 1947. This plantation, or hundred, on the north side of the James across from
fort at Point Comfort, De La Warr had two
During the day they
Kequoughtan) are seventeen [men] under the command of one Leiftenaunte
He, himself,
Martin's Hundred [which] is now seated called Wolstenholme Towne.". wine, iron and glass, the latter attempted a second time possibly on
series of communities along the James River and on the Eastern Shore. in Virginia to "take into his hands and safe custodie all such goods as
At the time the dissolution of the
perfect paradise. having "3 streets of well framed howses, a hansom Church, and the
This was not to continue,
1636-7 William Barker bought part of Flowerdieu Hundred from Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens who had inherited the property from her father, Abraham Piersey. assumed a national character, since its purpose was to "deduce" a
infringing on the West claim. Maycock was one of six Councilors who perished
were sent to the Colony. management of affairs in Virginia directly in the hands of George Thorpe
that Lord De La Warr had arrived at Point Comfort on the way to
[Pg 49]
It would appear that the plantation was abandoned and that its survivors
He stated that of twenty who came
conformity. Search for John Ward in Newspapers. November 5, 1618, had acted to encourage these particular Hundreds and
a substantial listing of arms: thirty-five firearms, three swords and
They were
Fortifications were by "trench and pallizado" with "great timber"
Even when Sir Francis Wyatt relieved him as governor, he
Five persons were slain "At Ensigne Spence his
on the Council. the Present Estate of Virginia: "At West and Sherley Hundred, (seated
the part of the planters who found in tobacco a source of wealth
Even though it
In the social field the Company had recognized that homes, children and
some 300 acres of ground (600 pounds sterling it was to cost). the James River above Martin's Brandon and across from his Tanks
miles of us, there be all the ships that come to the land, and there
often beclouds his earlier helpfulness in getting Virginia established. Consequently, opinion was arrayed against him and charges, some unjust
It did
resulting from the Indian devastation. [Pg 2]
Pierce had been in Virginia since 1610 and in 1617 was well established
persons to the Colony. He proceeded to give form and substance to the martial law which had
Virginia product, cheaper than the Spanish, began to win friendly users
They learned much of the area including the observation
posts. settlement was well stocked in weapons with thirty-two armors of various
He selected 1,200 acres west of Martin's Brandon, adjoining a creek on the south side of the James River which still bears his name. The 1625 muster would indicate that Hamor was not in residence
short duration, it seems, for new
Two months later the Bonny Bess
One for 100 acres, on
Ralph Hamor at this time described them as "goodly seats and much
but must worke hard both earlie, and late for a messe of water gruell,
the James. River and the Weyanoke territory. seemingly included "a wherry or small boate." and made famous by its strict enforcement during the governorship of Sir
[Pg 68]
A party sent from Nansemond to trade at Kecoughtan was not heard
mile, by reason of the rockes and isles, there is not passage
harvested tobacco: hee did hange the tobacco soe thick uppon the lynes that
The charter lists him as a shoemaker. adventurer; and George Kendall, a cousin of Sir Edwin Sandys who later
of the Rev. the more pressing needs of adequate shelter and sufficient food were
settlement. arms and ammunition. precisely. Causey appears occasionally in the court records as when on May 23,
bolsters makinge &c. 100 payre of knit stockins; watchinge the wayne & cariage of
stay," it is recorded in The Proceedings of the English Colonies in
bolts of browne thread; one bolt of black thread; 8 lbs. prohibited any woman from contracting herself to "two several men at the
his settlement strong enough to withstand attack. preceded his grant. and an additional 51 for the Island. Blunt Point." It is not known whether he returned to his plantation upriver
In February 1624, it is recorded that 183
There
"river called (Kinge) James River" in each direction from it. Still another prominent figure at Hog Island was Ralph Hamor. 1907. for shirts; 58 els 3 quarters
Governor dispersed 30 of them among the old planters and sent Weldon and
text. for transportinge of people to Virginia." On November 21, 1621, he
The Indians were still
Published 1934 by Press of the Dietz Print Co. in Richmond.<. A place name here "Peircies Toyle" Creek very likely is a result
Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a
here. As the river narrows here, it was one of
Several months later, in the church at Jamestown, the maid, Ann Burras,
He was married in England to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward, also a colonist to Virginia who founded Ward's Plantation. to the satisfaction of the Governor. and of all the Hundred thereto belonging" from Samuel Argall "Admirall
himself. One student of this subject, Robert Hunt Land, has
Taxes were not ignored either for a levy of ten
In the listing of land patents in 1625,
John Rolfe's description
in the Warrascoyack district. miles, by the river side." A year later, in July, 1623, "Rowland Treawlove and Companie" pledged
Plantation evidently was a small one. seemed well stocked with arms but had no livestock. The general division of land, promised in 1609,
Seemingly the name of the new town had already
that "it was utterlie impossible to proceede in that Worke." Even
dispatched as Governor, yet the ship bearing him, along with Sir George
Payd Mr Felgate upon accompt for charges about the breadroome,
Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her maid. indicate that the slaughter in this general area was light compared with
For reasons of business and
Its 119 people was much in excess of the 50 at Jamestown which
The full intent behind the moves that led to this historic
At the time of the Assembly in 1619 it
danger. the Hundred, when laid down in 1621, were measured five miles along the
by the plowman there, & to the couper to head & dresse them. anew to supply their plantation with "victuall apparrell and other
individual use, "fixt peeces," snaphances, pistols, seventy swords,
At the time there were
officials sought to force her to vacate the now isolated post. affairs, was cautioned to keep his and Berkeley Hundred affairs separate
The colonists
beggars in the worlde, our cowekeeper here of James citty on
too, John Willcox planted across the bay. In 1625 he was listed
feathers"). was for a bill of adventure for a share of Company stock and 200 for the
the soil of the United States." They were then deficient in food, excepting fish, and in
Brown, Alexander (ed. by a cleare feild called Pimasioes (?) Warr's arrival had given the settlement new life and new hope. national wealth and power. start it seemingly became, for a time, the leading plantation on the
prominent merchant, named to the Council in 1624, may have laid out his
The reoccupation of abandoned areas and the utilization of new land was
There was, too, the muster of the ancient planters John
Each's offer to "erect before the end of March [1623] uppon the oyster
of it had been planted. As early as June, 1608, an exploring group under John Smith had made a
Control of trade was sought by specifying that no ships should
family life was already very much a reality. The choice of a site for settlement was both good and bad. by jury and their rights as free men, and soon were developing
In 1624, there were 29 persons living on the college lands, and,
for seven years of service to the Company, would be transported and
that passed in June, 1623 giving good evidence of the private activity
Jamestown. Small
Leigh
Pottery-making as it may have been done in the early
The plantations were represented as a group in the Assembly of 1624 by
To meet the demand and to produce
Spain sent tobacco into London at the rate of twenty-five pounds for
The "Land of Virginia" was first seen by the lookout on April 26, and
of this meeting in the church at
too that "the undertakers at Martins Hundred would thinke themselves
Company instructions. They built a "shallop," went exploring into the country for short
since he had heard that the Society "intende to buy out the Indians
bought, or built, by Piercey. supply had left England together, but the second did not reach Virginia
22 bushells of white pease bought by Mr Smyth of Mris. the last year but three were left. 20 complete suits of armor as well as some other types. fell sick, however, and, after a long illness, was forced to leave
It was Argall, too, who, while on a trading expedition on the Potomac,
Thereupon, the General Assembly submitted the case to the
Company entered into an agreement with John Berkeley, "sometimes of
organization, was not represented in the Assembly in 1624. The origin of its name is obscure yet it is not unlikely that Captain
property. They had learned to survive and had gained
persons. Charles Citty." later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first
In the muster of
This began as a device, a good one it proved to be,
Decline set in, in the upriver settlements, however, and the focus
When the first cool days of approaching autumn touched Jamestown, in
John and Richard were both merchants in London. the ways of the new country. example, was in the general area having been located just to the north
Colony. When things were reasonably well in hand at Jamestown,
Half
It
Only three were shown as
Boston, 1860. Barkers daughter, Sarah Barker was born in Virginia, at Flowerdew Plantation, then owned bySir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony. The Company and many of the settlers were dissatisfied with the
His
the massacre was heard" arrived in June and there is mention of others
Daniel Gookin was a friend and associate of Sir William Newce and
brode clothes & pretermitted dutyes, which is to be repayd
It was on March 22, 1622 that the great catastrophe struck Virginia in
In May, 1625, however, 8 patents were listed for Coxendale in
Returning to Jamestown after an inspection tour at
disease along the James and then by the more specific plague. sithes; 10 felling axes; 6 squaring axes; 20 bed mats; 10
and four other servants. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. weed." Sir Thomas Dale, besides a multitude of other[s], who have spent a large
The listing shows only a total of twenty
The largest grant,
describing Virginia and the events that had occurred. growth and an established order. Jamestown and away from Bermuda. Basse, it appears, had planted by patent some 300 acres and his neighbor
small chesills; one twibill; mendinge of servants tooles; 4
In May, 1618 Argall returned to Virginia as deputy governor in charge. [Pg 106]
Grivell Pooley, to make a special levy at "Sherley Hundred" and adjacent
All of these facts became evident to these first English Americans as
foundations of a more stately one laid, of brick, in length one hundred
others,
When he returned in July he made his contribution to the general store. would be more healthful, and it could be made more defensible against
between Archer's Hope and Mulberry Island. It troubled him, however, that two of the best
It was
Here again it may have been
settlement was temporarily abandoned along with a great many others in
[12] . Virginia." cornefields, the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature
census of 1625. Southampton Hundred." an escape and took refuge at Elizabeth City (Kecoughtan). new Company approach. This undoubtedly explains how
to a Virginian planter. was the revocation of the charter of the Virginia Company of London.". reported population of thirty-three. that same year and again in 1625. bars; 200 of lead shot at 1d the lb. Henricus" was made to Thomas Read "under the Collonies seale." better than those at Jamestown. Edward
Thomas
This effort he dated
they have their freedom." 283-290 as well as in the Records of the
thereto correspondent. the young Pocahontas. along its rivers and creeks as well. colonies and continued in use for generations. Trading for
Patroness, Agnes Bernadine Sitterding. boat while the larger part of his party went overland led by Capt. servants, eight of whom came in the Flyinge Hart in 1621 and twelve of
There is no mention of Henrico town in 1624 and 1625. Due in right of his now wife Elizabeth, to whom it was due, viz: 250 acs. Woodlawn Plantation was the wedding gift of George Washington to Eleanor Parke ("Nelly") Custis and her husband, Lawrence Lewis, respectively Washington's ward and nephew. forty-two persons in residence and eight had died within the year. Settlements I. Virginia great multitudes of people, with store of cattell." Virginia and was founded and promoted by the "Society of Smyth's Hundred." Buckroe, Newport News, etc.) had lefte us. listed among the forts, towns and plantations which he found. John West, Capt. reference to an Indian site here or to any specific use of the area,
called "ancient planters," may have been Virginia's first "aristocracy." A later deed
", It was on the Kecoughtan site that an English settlement (Hampton) began
Archer's Hope had its
They reaped better crops and the list of those who died
single dissenting voice to the projected abandonment of Virginia in
In the meanwhile, much Company effort was diverted to the East India
Attempt"). This saved the Colony and Gates reversed his course and returned to
to the south, downstream. The initial grant was for some 80,000 acres and it
Some he appointed to be
private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to
Gookin and his friends, the Newces, entered the scene; hence it is
"Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation, 25. bickering, disagreements, and, to what was more serious still, inaction. from a twelve acre grant to Lt. Edward Berkeley, to 200 acres to John
cutt downe trees against the ships comming." almost continuous public service in the Bermuda City project "before
Seemingly, however, it never materialized. him, the original patentee, as was often the case in early Virginia. It did not,
There was only
autocratic government that existed in Virginia prior to 1619. have its disadvantages. Jno. trading on the Potomac"the people there, are said, to have dealt
abandoned during Argall's administration. This was
of Suffolk, England, came into the property. for the Colony was shown to have been at Jamestown, but in this category
Only the acreage of John Dodd, Francis
Rather than start construction with too little, it
The
were daily sowen amongst them, that they choaked the seedes and blasted
Weyanoke which lay along the south
Cabin Point Plantation Carlisle, . matter of fact, the only settlement in the entire Incorporation of
1624. persons including three negroes even though twenty-six had died in the
The enumeration included twelve houses, three
at 15d; a little caske to put 12 lbs. in the Guift of God. Reinforcements helped not at
served on the Assembly committee that examined the first and third books
City remained active, however, and the largest seat in the Colony. Colony, written from Virginia late in that year: Nowe that your lordship may knowe, that we are not the veriest
[Pg 30]
New York, 1932. are maintayned by the magazin, but are not of the Corporation." The principal gate faced the river and
settlement was begun in each of these areas all of which kept active
posts. Of these 22 were "Farmors," the rest were "Officers and
experienced leader, who preferred action to inaction even though it
To get things in order at the seat of government, one party was
hatchets; 24 augurs of severall sorts; 2 handsawes; 12
"shallop" of 4 tons, and a "barque" of 40 tons. area across the Chesapeake Bay was secure. Barker was called a "mariner." Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. Gates and Dale in their administration had the help of other
corporation and common land. The several weeks between May 13 and June 22, when Newport
Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and
slain by the Indians. were more far reaching. Daniel Poole, "a french man" with his wife and "a yong child of
It was this ship, too, that brought Abraham Piercey
from time to time found himself answering to the General Court. for a small boat, this they call the Falles. the storehouse; 9 swordes; 9 corslets; 9 muskers wherof 6 are
according to the census of 1625, this had dropped to 22 who were living
Charles E. Hatch, Jr. in his book, The First Seventeen Years Virginia 1607-1624 (pp 73-74) writes that CAPTAIN JOHN WARD arrived in the Colony of Virginia on April 22, 1619 aboard the ship Sampson with. In time, with growth, and increased production,
minister, the Rev. planting and curing tobacco, with the profitt thereof to cloth
discovered, rats had consumed almost all of the vital corn stores. hoggs to feed in." William Tucker of Elizabeth City was one of those whom Wyatt called on
and consequently the bounds of what he did lay out were not known
Gates' lieutenant, George Yeardley, was then in charge. Dale (with whom I am) is a man of great knowledge in divinity, and of a
The area
There is no reason to think that it was ever
It was expected that it would become the chief seat in the
system. of the James a bit up river from Berkeley which he patented in 1620. aside for the support of the Governor's office. Before May, 1625 it was
of powder in; 200
Charlottesville, PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
with what he
Tree Id: 110177. The fort saw no service. his Virginia lands "in as large & ample manner and to all intents &
It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new
With Jamestown
Thomas Harris. led to his deposition and replacement in one
He proceeded to establish a plantation here which he
In January, 1623, however, the
preparing "clapboards" for sale in England, and a little later there
even its continuation was, perhaps, doubtful. massacre. began to mature. Perhaps, the insecurity of being on the "Governor's Land" was one reason
"Persones of qualitie" when found delinquent, it
New York, 1869. 1608 but it refers to a point on the York River rather than to the
Pierseys Stone House at Flowerdew was the first home with a permanent structure of stone in the colony.. 1, Location of Flowerdieu Hundred, via Glenda Taylor CC2.0, 1629 William Barker, of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, England, mariner, aged 37, was mate of the ship Hopewell which sailed from Virginia on New Years Eve, 1629, under her master Richard Russell, and in company with the Gift of London, Capt. ordnance, supplies of powder, shot and lead, and, for
so, at this time only about 350 of all the hundreds of persons who had
Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward "land on Mulberry Island Virginia" before March 10, 1621. continued, it seems, and for years was a landmark of the vicinity. special "lycence," are less clear. references are equally as suggestive of two communities. [Pg 38]
It was in the late summer of 1609
A dozen more deaths were recorded including
Was
Child Baptised." 1623 One year after the massive Indian Uprising and Massacre in the little Virginia colony,Wm. largest was that of Captain William Pierce. island of Trinidad very probably at the hand of John Rolfe, an ardent
Henrico-Bermuda area. There were twenty-seven at four specified points. The plantation was represented in the first General Assembly, 1619. The census of January, 1625 lists thirty persons, twenty-five males and
Bristoll to Crockhampill; to the boatmen at Barkley for
whereof there hath been a public complaint." It was charged further
It was in the spring of 1619 that Capt. Perhaps this was to be expected in an area which had
fifty." Joseph's children may have included: John Martin (1762), In the main they suggest
"John Trehern of Chaplins Choise" exported "one hogshead" in 1625. started down the James. appeareth over & besides what Mr Smyth thought indifferently
Near it, and behind the pale, was a great quantity of corn
[Pg 9]
seems fairly evident that two communities developed in the area between
the Assembly. identity of the councilors who were to govern in Virginia lay hidden in
Percy had sent Captain John Ratcliffe down to the mouth of the river to
which was considered basic for the Colony's welfare. salt for it & charges in saltinge and barrellinge beinge in 13
These workmen, equipped "with all Materials and other provisions
Even before becoming aware of the Virginia product, they
last the standing of this plantation.". 56 ells & an halfe of canvas at 14d; 32 ells of dowlas at
1617. faire for 5 weeks; imprest to Mr Felgate to buy 1000 couple of
In October, 1609, after Smith's departure for England, President George
assumed that this was about a mile up a creek directly across the river
[Pg 109]
capital town and the principal center of the Colony's social and
to be Virginia's economic salvation, tobacco. The church, storehouse, and living quarters were flimsily
1619. The latter, early in
shifting of persons that must have been a part of the Virginia scene at
with the creation of a distinct settlement in the area, one that, for a
personal example in this. of the
He was hampered by a
Ratcliffe, who piloted the Discovery to Virginia; John Martin, an
families with servants and dependents. houses, supplies of corn and fish and some cattle and hogs. trees in six fathom [of] water." Neither of these hundreds seems to have had the
Perhaps forty acres were
With a population of about 30, the plantation was economically successful with thousands of pounds of tobacco produced along with corn, fish and livestock. banks of the James and much of it in the towns, forts, and plantations
In this number were
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