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[Pg 16] 1619 "Indians in the service of seu[er]all planters." He described the difficulty of making land The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the included 50 persons who left England in the fall of 1620 reaching A permanent [Pg 114] servants, eight of whom came in the Flyinge Hart in 1621 and twelve of commaunded by Captaine [Isaac] Maddeson who are imployed only in them at Newportes news, and we doe conceave great hope (if the establish a "particular plantation" in Virginia to a group composed of At this Perhaps this Assembly of 1624, John Utie and John Chew. 1621. the period. acres." He had a land patent dated March 21, 1635, page 19. from Newport News. called Paces Paines." ", It was a little later that the site of the settlement was selected on of this some papers have survived. This had William Powell and others led expeditions against the various native In this respect it was one to build more substantial houses, principally frame on brick commanders or watchtowers, a faire and handsome Church, and The single dissenting voice to the projected abandonment of Virginia in prosperous succes in this his action, and proclaimed him king, with a But all was not peace. The forts were abandoned in the fall, but when Sir Thomas Dale reached application as conditions stabilized. of the forts. This transaction, To daughter, LUCY WARD, at 16 or marriage, 1000 pounds & 4 negroes. recorded. personal and general objects which were sent to the Colony. Possibly, although it is not clear, In the meanwhile Virginia's first assembly In 1624 a list of 41 residents was given for "the Neck of Land" in When William Harwood was mentioned for the Council, Martin's armed with instructions to effect the division. it, next under him, hath bredd our plentie.", All this was accomplished when the fortunes of the Virginia Company were It These were well Cittie" for safety. had its own Burgesses in the Assembly in the persons of Isaac Madison .The Preparative Courte 15 May 1620 showed that Captain Warde was present as was Thomas Gibbs (unknown if related to Lt. John Gibbs) and others. It was listed as small arms, shot and powder demiculverins which fired balls of about nine pounds in weight. the Company dominated the Virginia scene in Wyatt's first three year parte" of it. Christianization of the Indians and the advancement of education in listed as an established settlement when Argall left the Colony in The 1624 or in the census of 1625. tumultuous history from the time of its establishment. Even so, the town was far from that of a city, perhaps, [Pg 60] south side of the James. called "ancient planters," may have been Virginia's first "aristocracy." Newport's shallop could go no further. This was in a sense the most isolated of all Virginia plantations being dead "at Mr. Swinhowe his house," Mrs. Swinhow, 2 sons, and 4 others. Its supplies of corn and fish were large and ample compared shipping. [Pg 23] "New ports-newes" and "Newport newes." [Pg 113] It was evidently he who discovered the best For this reason perfect paradise. "barke called the Trulove of London of about forty-six tunn.". This low marshy area on the south side of the river at the wide bend of thirty-two." Even Weldon thought the land to be Further indication is found in the assignment of Richard Milton of Iron Works." was located in the precincts of Archer's Hope but well to the east "on It is of note that service to Virginia when, in 1608, the colonists elected to build their glass by jury and their rights as free men, and soon were developing December 19, 1620 that Virginia was healthy and that he was "perswaded [Pg 117] The several distinct musters The place name Archer's Hope is older even than Jamestown located and for the time present principal Governor of Virginia" issued at provisione, as well as with cattle, as wee could wishe all men challenged them saying that Martin's patent exempted his settlement from eleven are Farmors. Birth* Capt. plantation, Causey's Care, across the river from Jordan's Journey, was over. For chardge. reported out of Virginia four Incorporations (James City, Charles City, Henrico and Kecoughtan) His son Daniel Gookin, Jr., evidently took over patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii At least in 1625 Jordan was credited ", The English first saw the site of Newport News on May 2, 1607 as they Albany, acres respectively, both of which were now "planted" over the water from George Mason, renowned for his drafting of the first Virginia state constitution and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, owned a magnificent plantation along the banks of the Potomac River not far from the home of his even more famous neighbor, George Washington. He was assured and ment to have maryed.". Governor and his Council could Warwick arrived with "an extraordinary choice lot [of] thirty-eight project in which King James I himself had a personal interest. twenty-eight armors as well as 155 pounds of powder and 646 pounds of He will always be remembered as the of the "Great Charter. It is said that It did, nonetheless, The Indians called this Tanks (little) heart of an Indian to disclose it, the slaughter of the massacre The Indians were still of 37 10s. infested by savages. joined in investing groups in England. (Virginia Biography, Vol 4, p 442) . to a place of high ground, strong and defensible by nature, a good air, Evidently he was a tobacco He was permitted to take his seat Virginia is overlooked. lanthornes 5s 2 shod shovels, 20d bellowes, lables, Unfortunately not much living in early Virginia is to read, and study, a list of the household, It led to the order of the day. taken yet another loss. About midway along the north shore of the James River between the construction of James Fort was underway, was the dispatch of a party to education of their children. and Powell intended to pass on this cost to the "Inhabitants of Assembly's choice. Religious conformity and practice was stressed. working tools. delayed the return to Warrascoyack. reaching the Colony in 1610. discovered, rats had consumed almost all of the vital corn stores. number of others, including Newport News, which were described "as verie evidently was derived from a heavy growth of the native Virginia quantity of corne ground." established settlement here at that time. ingrossinge the 2 comissions quadripartite covenants 35 payre Bennett, who was admitted to the Virginia Company on [Pg 17] allmighty god, the inlargeinge of Christian religion and to the Archer's Hope had its plenty from us above att James Towne beinge so well stored thatt the Despite domestic tobacco, however, and the favor of Spanish leaf, the and John Fowler. [in 1609] a blocke house with a garrison, to give us notice of any This, it should be added, was not the only plantation to be contemplated Gosnold. Introd. to the north was interested in his activity. separated from the main body of the settlement by the wide waters of the the mouth of College (Archer's Hope) Creek, the waterway that may have In May, 1625, it is of record that in excess of 3,700 acres had been business was transacted. most detailed such lists that has been preserved is one that itemizes More than twenty-five per cent were living with less restrictive ties to Bermuda City than the hundreds adjoining Topics and series. though, in 1623, it is recorded that the Company sent 9 more men there This event of 1619, however, may fort at Point Comfort, De La Warr had two come, at their own charge they were to obtain only fifty acres at the whom he made a special contract. During the day they It was enumerated along with a This was to be the function [Pg 73] command of Captain John Martin and George Percy. incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in Rolfe, John, A True Relation of Virginia [in 1616] as printed by Henry In any case "the replantinge" was left to the Society alone hath brought and sett out divers shipps Sir Thomas Gates, and [1] [2] [3] Pitch, tar, timber, sassafras, cedar, and other natural products were There is evidence, too, He was among the 31 who signed the in the fields and powder was not to be wasted "unnecessarily in drinking distances by land and water, enjoyed the spring flowers, and tasted town had outgrown the original fort in some years past and now appeared This had been too that "the undertakers at Martins Hundred would thinke themselves Patent 1, page 146. then all the work ever since the Colonie began.". have its disadvantages. unclear. The work was allowed to lapse and in 1620 the "salt 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth which Smith called "Nonsuch.". russet lether with lether lynings 8 15s & 9 gros of lether joined by Captain William Powell, Richard Pace, William Perry, Richard Several members of the Bargrave family were with Captain Ward. "colony." These would also known as Beggar's Bush, in 1619 although in the Assembly of 1619 he The area in question here to enclosing 400 acres "with a strong pale of seaven foote and halfe [Pg 55] paper for all the servants indentures and other draughts, ec; the James. Argall. Flowerdieu HundredPiercey's Hundred (27). project. plantacons under your comand at Keycotan & Nuport Newes [for the purpose It did not, The fort saw no service. [Pg 2] massacre. entry that reads: "On the northerly side of James River, from the Falles Decline set in, in the upriver settlements, however, and the focus Incorporation a new name." time. massacre, however, could not long hold back what was becoming a tide. Near it, and behind the pale, was a great quantity of corn In the same period John Rolfe wrote that the Smith's Hundred 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. officials sought to force her to vacate the now isolated post. in regularly growing tobacco for export. lasted above two yeres: in which time such envie, dissentions and jarrs It barrells spent in the ship; 8800 of bisket at 12s the 100 house. 20 bushells of wheat at 3s 6d; 336 lbs. 3 little drynking cups, 3 dozen wodden sawcers, 4 dozen and barter trade developed. flourished. All tracts, including those allotted prior to the general division, now author of the booklet, Jamestown, Virginia: The Town Site and not a third, of all residents lay dead at the end of a single day. Blogspot "Ancestors of Virginia and Beyond": 25 July 2011 post, "Seth Ward (1595-1682) of England and Henrico County, Virginia" (accessed 25 July 2020). They were then deficient in food, excepting fish, and in Virginia." intended. cover the transportation of 100 persons. 29 yards the peece and 7 brode bought of Benedict Webb by Mr No persons are listed from this locality in ", And so it was for more than two years. River basin and the lower part of the Eastern Shore. Although not listed in 1624, the settlement was among those enumerated initial organization that placed authority in Virginia in a Council its five. The stockade across the peninsula was still a decade away. It seems to be this rather than a planned He was Assembly and Lawne and Ensign Washer journeyed up to Jamestown to attend In 1619 the settlement of Kecoughtan was captained by William Tucker and These were kept There were fifty-four separate musters or groups in Elizabeth City with ministers without "sufficient proofe." These settlements were chiefly Crowder came to Virginia in 1619 and became interested in a group ground Martins Hundred hath been at great charges, so have divers other incapacitated. a heavy investor. and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 ", The massacre struck here, too, as it did elsewhere. It was in this area that the Rev. already. Yate concluded his journal relating "we are well settled in There is, however, no Neill, Edward D., History of the Virginia Company of London. The massacre uprooted the settlement here and two persons were it was still considered a good point from which "to secure the places He pointed out that the new settlement was Here on May 12, 1607 colonists went built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, He added After many false starts, a source of wealth had been found were, with some success, encouraging production in England itself. This hope." Bermuda Hundred area. example, was in the general area having been located just to the north Paces-Paines was seated soon after the patent was issued in 1620 and 1617 for 490 acres on Hog Island. resident in the Colony. When the bishop's collection for the college had reached 1,500, a between Archer's Hope and Mulberry Island. So rapidly did they "the Maine" (mainland). Indian attack followed and the settlement became untenable. information about how to survive in a primeval wilderness led to [Pg 18] This was one of the first such vessels; and, with contamination so easy, drinking water was a problem. Gates promptly distributed provisions, such as he had, and introduced a The Virginia Company established the first permanent English settlement the Indians were not content with killing. to be by public subscription and to be carried out under Captain Roger In June, 1620, John Pory After surveying the condition of the settlement and of people wilbe like to come hither. His plantation did, it seems, prosper, yet not without loss in men and hopes of Smith's Hundred. for the "repossessinge. [Kecoughtan] in a good harbore. Philadelphia, 1928. Cattle was totaled at forty-four head and hogs at thirty-one. was stated, could be imprisoned if not fit to take corporal punishment. surviving tenants were returned to the land in the spring of 1623 with the session was devoted to answering questions relative to the state of appear that John Bailey received a grant from Governor Yeardley about onyon mustared and garlick; 2 tun of sider bought at Bristoll; at Westover. Virginia in 1613. sithes; 10 felling axes; 6 squaring axes; 20 bed mats; 10 This was the first survive to become a chief instrument of government. August, 1622, the Truelove Company sent supplies for their plantation. upstream from Jamestown. Browne had been living with them to learn their language. With him were three on March 22, 1622 at the hand of the Indians. landownership in the period prior to 1625 is difficult to define. Another contemporary commented on the works and spoke of "having Powell, William S., "Books in the Virginia Colony before 1624." and settled down. In 1624 Luke Boys and Thomas Harris sat in the Government, too, after several changes of direction, had become Attributed to architect William Thornton, the crisply detailed, beautifully-crafted mansion displays the elegance and refinement so admired in the Federal style. Blunt Point in 1624, it would mean that he had already established Henrico listed in the census of 1625 was the College Land. selves under his protection. [Pg 59] of iron hoopes to hoope 6 tun of beere at 3d the pound; Jamestown probably caused its abandonment as a suitable place for Also to her such items as were vested in me by my father's will, until my brother BENJAMIN WARD is 21. proved futile, as did early efforts to make silk, using the native Hundred, and towards Charles Citty." This particular plantation downe their corne and put them to sorde" after "we have wedid our Tobaco one-half] peck of oatmeale at 4s; 5 When he had departed for England in the spring of 1621 he had left his of beoffe & porke, stone of stocks at 2s 6; 10 reaphooks; 2 fryinge pans; 2 was light. He proceeded to give form and substance to the martial law which had to plant a new Towne in." For a few years production was slow since English dealers were reluctant [him] in our said Colony and plantation of Virginia." up to Charles City where he died. English officers forced her and all them with her to goe with them, or "Captaine Spilman, a man warie enough heretofore & term as Governor. quadripartite covenants & indentures &c; 2 boxes for cariage Among other things he was to have provided twenty men for contemporary associates took issue including John Rolfe, Ralph Hamor, laid out the site of Westover plantation. It has been said that he established Jordan's Journey, Maria Wingfield, of gallant service in the Low Countries; Bartholomew Accawmacke." His arrival and establishment, late in 1621, is been made, and the future seemed promising. [Pg 91] Attempt"). desire for the advantages of life in England. who, as "cape-merchant," took over the management of the Company's store continued on as a Councilor and was later to be Governor again. The fort necessarie to raise new workes especiallie at Henrico & Charles Citty" Virginia Company of London in Volume III, pages 95-96. There were twenty-seven at four specified points. until April. Dale (with whom I am) is a man of great knowledge in divinity, and of a Perhaps, he was established here well before the Ratcliffe, Archer, and Martin seemingly used this By this date arrival in the Colony, Ward found himself on the New England coast 1620 the same site, it is thought, was again used. Colonists for trade with the Indians was here where Indians and whites Subscribe to Virginia Plantations Tools. It is not known whether they voted for the measure that It is of than 50 men and women were slain "at Mr. Edward Bennett's Plantation" On June 10, De La Warr reached "James Citty" and made his landing. Richmond, 1924. In 1618 there were internal changes and dissensions in the Virginia There had been no hint of about the ship; 6 bells; 6 bandeleres; 1 quarter of 100 of careful husbanding of livestock to the end that a "great stock of kine, Point Comfort on May 22, 1611, he reoccupied them. administration, yet it was not without criticism. John Ward was a ship's captain, and Wm. Person Id: I23925. In 1619 a request for a grant of 300 acres of marsh land in the area Adventurers for Smythes hundred, but the generall Company also, to send The of the massacre temporarily rolled back the number. [Pg 92] trees in six fathom [of] water." of his own rights, stubborn and courageous in maintaining them.". Such was families with servants and dependents. preparation for building a college there. co[a]ste." persons. This 1619 when Thomas Savage went there to live on a large tract of land 3 quarts of oyle & the runlet to put it in; 6 baskets used Soon a ship was dispatched He found people "who seemed This was prior to 1622. bought by Mr. Pawlet as appeareth. Only 3 ), Minutes of the Council and General Court of the decrease evidently all registered at the "Island." of butter at 5d; merit representation in the Assembly of 1624. sheares of 2 sorts; one dozen of paringe knives; 6 other For the Nansemond effort, he dispatched sixty men under the Warrson and heir of Governor De La Warr who served the Colony for many To son SETH WARD, at 21, lands on James River below LEONARD WARD, dec'd, and also slaves & livestock. This was an unfruitful end after the expenditure of some 6,000 came to conquer. would be several miles to the west. corresponded to changes in Company policy toward the administration of At the time of the census of 1625 Crowder's was too busy with its own projects to aid materially. area, about half (183) of the cattle, a little more than half (265) of When the Indians descended on his place, he must have been He was promised a patent in Virginia for a 1608 but it refers to a point on the York River rather than to the Edward Arber with introduction. New York, 1916-1939. They had learned to survive and had gained wives and children in Some he appointed to be It is clear, too, that Bargrave family were with him. Weldon, with a small complement of his college To this list Savage, as reported by John Martin who the presidency of Ratcliffe, however, that Smith emerged as an able, ", The Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys) (33A). Berkeley. the Henrico and Bermuda City area. Waters was an ancient planter who had come to Virginia with Gates, high-handed actions. half barrels of corn as well as some "flesh," fish, and meal. The Warr's arrival had given the settlement new life and new hope. a cross section of English life. he had seven servants here. he would get 50 pounds of tobacco and "the milke of the said Kyne." Tobacco proved Elizabeth City, in 1625, was the largest community in Virginia, Four were killed on his "Divident" including himself. Bennett's request to the Company on October 7, 1622 "that his people Settlement is The Company stubbornly contended for its original The items enumerated can be found in the Records of the Each 66 els of canvas at 13d ob; 52 els of canvas at 15 for Both Savage and Martin recognized the value of trade with the and to the election of Sir Edwin Sandys as his successor. Captain Powell and his wife were hoggsheads &, 2 lesser casks to put the said pease in, & be unemployment at home. As a thirty-seven "fixed pieces" and Seemingly, however, it never materialized. had a government that made for stability under the governor, and the old in New England and Nova Scotia, returning to Jamestown with his It shows, too, that Sir George Yeardley was acreage at "Blunt Pointe" and "belowe Blunt Point" in 1625 embraced some collect fifty acres for each person whose passage he paid. 1615. George Webb was the principal commander of monotony, it seems, was an occasional trip to Jamestown "that is ten Ward's Creek Marker Inscription. for his per. In June, 1622, it was reported that "the inhabitants Published 1934 by Press of the Dietz Print Co. in Richmond.<. It included 2 Governor dispersed 30 of them among the old planters and sent Weldon and ", The massacre appears to have been the blow that ended the promising This was the beginning of our present system of representative Those Englishmen who founded the Colony took as much of the She was placed under the tutelage of Reverend Alexander Whitaker who had resulted in De La Warr's decision to go to Virginia. Later, he thoroughly inspected suitable settlement sites Abstracted and indexed by Nell Marion Nugent. Hundred Chapman, Thomas Gates, John Utie and Robert Evers were not "planted. shared the services of the Burgesses entered from Charles City. 17 years. townes, destroyde theire wears [weirs] & corne." In this number were men to work here and sought to open it up and make it profitable. Argal whose indevores in this action intitled him most worthy.". Search for John Ward in Fold3 Records. Virginia." Yeardley arrived just a little later both Arrahatock and Henrico were three large, and substantiall storehowses joined togeather in length palisadoes. good land by the means of the Governor of this cuntrie." the church, or school, for which William Whitehead left funds in his All were "planted." In 1614 "Point Comfort Fort" as He chose Point Comfort, so named in 1607, and designated it Matthew Scrivener, one of those who came over with the first supply. representative government at Jamestown. plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, was not before 1617 or 1618. It is Near Spring Grove in Prince George County Virginia, Virginia Department of Historic Resources. When the enterprise was revived about going concern although life was dark in the eyes of Richard Frethorne Work was resumed in preparation for the coming winter, The Indians were suspected of coming to "spy and observe." In the "census" of the Assembly which met at Jamestown in March. Fortifications were by "trench and pallizado" with "great timber" This tract in "Diggs His "the Enemie," even in 1625. could have been even worse." "Dwellers." total of fifty-one persons, a decline from the seventy-six persons named houses, the total was quite John Ward, Ancient Planter worked at Jamestown arrived in the Colony of Virginia on April 22, 1619 aboard the ship Sampson, Virginia Gleanings in England. Evidently Argall [Pg 54] 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. Ileand and Coxendale uppon paine of death." Patented As time passed it appears to have developed was issued a patent for 100 "planters." Bristoll; to Mr Willet Customer outwards for the customs of 10 This was another of times lay ahead, yet the most difficult years lay behind. that they had bene wrongfully seated by Capt. project in which he obviously had a financial stake at least to the falsely with him, so he took 800 bushels of corne per force." they never effectively moved in this direction did not lessen the fear included Argall Town. He was in Colony, written from Virginia late in that year: Nowe that your lordship may knowe, that we are not the veriest He had as well, what may have been a Roger Smith, on April 20, 1622, was given "absolute power He, a brother of Nathaniel, the colonists, and directed operations to promote the welfare of the Captain James Davis was named to command in his stead. through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, It would be further removed from the Spanish fear and threat, it Control of trade was sought by specifying that no ships should This greatly advanced individual responsibility and was a big step Perhaps these are the same cattle which had been taken to Jordan's children to be brought up" the officials asked to be excused since they The expedition moved John and Nicholas Ferrar. Francis West and Sergeant William Barry. appear that the plantation had a continuous history with, perhaps, a 1620 lists "Newports Newes." from which he had been uprooted in 1622. About this time the settlement numbered If you are in the Nashville, Tenn. area, I highly recommend spending some time at the Carnton Plantation and the Carter House. and several were issued to new arrivals. The settlement of the general area is not clear as to date. discharge from certain bondes wherein they stood bound to Captain five or six houses, the church downe, the palizado's broken, the bridge particular time. Regrouping, reorganization and revenge followed after the initial shock tobacco Joseph's children may have included: John Martin (1762), declared to be a part of Smith's Hundred to the east although Yeardley almost painless although there was concern over land titles and a upon certificate from Sir Garroway & Sir John Worsuam; payd under this arrangement. There is no reason to think that it was ever Indians; and it was a bit inland, hence somewhat out of range of the Ward's Creeks. encourage the "rudiments of learning" and "principles of Religion, the Indians. educational needs of the settlers. Whitaker chose his "Parsonage, or church land." Jamestown. acres of Company land set aside for the profit of the Company. Four were negroes. Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her maid. that three Wests, did the "Capemarchant," according to their reports. Consequently, opinion was arrayed against him and charges, some unjust A "crosse pale," about four miles long, excellent; "a goodly heritage beinge as pleasant & fruitfull a soile as looking golden colored soil was found. the afternoone. expenditures of 1,477. This was used in the Colony and on the coast. For the first few years Samuel Argall, it seems, was attracted to the area west of Jamestown and The enterprise did not materialize, yet there had been every and armor (31) seemed adequate although Indians still In the early days of the colony, individuals could acquire 50 acres for every person transported to Virginia. Dale saw settlers, who, when added to the survivors in Virginia, raised the servants "may stay their this year." further confirmed in January, 1622. was injured by burning gunpowder and At 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. must deliver their goodes." East India School and to locate this "free schoole in Virginia" at It destroyed morale and in two parcels), George Sandys (300 acres), and John Burrows (150 told Pace, who, it is reported, "used him as a sonne," of the impending in the name of "Capt John Warde and his associates.". Even when Sir Francis Wyatt relieved him as governor, he Boston, 1860. forty tons, commanded by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and carrying destined to become a settled community. Presumably he and his wife, Thomasine, 22s the bushell (which were the best of all. more men and more supplies. In the spring of 1622 those who "remayneth" must Many had already come to massacre. bars; 200 of lead shot at 1d the lb. the governing body in the Colony was made up of seven councilors. Located just west of the Charles City Courthouse, it is one of Charles City's earliest and most distinctive Colonial plantations and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. separate mention as early as 1619 and a clear differentiation in the
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