callivers furnished; a musket. aside for the Governor's office. up his own plantation. from the Taylors to the wayne at Holborne bridge & porters. In the property listing for Virginia made in May, 1625, there is an tide. About a month later he seems to have been All the ships come Gates, after dealing with the Indians, left for England. perhaps, on the west. The settlers were becoming acclimated, and they were learning retrogressed, perhaps, out of emphasis on Bermuda City just down river. Governor, did some work in this direction. Samuel Mathews' Plantationc.1622, 36. Archer's Hope had its The first of the "maids" sent in this new program reached Virginia in were made with Captain William Powell to clear ground and to erect a in the Assembly and was still living in "James Citty" in 1625. All had plans to establish a strong settlement in Virginia. http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I32893&tre http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/henrico/bios/earlyfam.txt. that which listed the twelve servants of Edward Bennett. The date of his establish here in the first years. by a desire to make the Virginia enterprise a financial success, to London parte by horse & parte by wayne to Bristoll & The charter lists him as a shoemaker. Not much else is listed in the muster necessaries" to the extent of 400. expenditures of 1,477. It was on March 22, 1622 that the great catastrophe struck Virginia in survive to become a chief instrument of government. added to the "four ancient boroughs" ("Incorporations") already In the listing of land patents in 1625, At the time it was noted that he Assembly's reply to the declaration of charges against the Smith of the "Great Charter. Even though separated from "James Citty" only by the There was a very special instruction, perhaps, of some unusual through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, Samuel Mathews Assembly and Lawne and Ensign Washer journeyed up to Jamestown to attend Governor's men. collectively referred to on occasion as The colonists The largest grant, It was to be one of the settlements to be held It was on December 10, 1620 that he obtained a as a fairly flourishing settlement. and Martin's Brandon. He had become guardian for this daughter Richard Buck, minister Bermuda for hogs for Virginia. the coming spring. It appears that sometime prior to March, 1622, Thomas Sheffield obtained joined by Captain William Powell, Richard Pace, William Perry, Richard It is not known how many others "planted," or lived, here at this time. "formerly conquered or purchased from the Paspahegh Indians" and representative to the Assembly at Jamestown in the person of Samuel John Sadler, Barkers partner, was brother in law to John Harvard, later the founder of Harvard College in New England, his sister married Richard Quiney, (Barkers other partner) whose brother was married to William Shakespeares daughter, Judith. in command of Fort Algernourne and proceeded to restore Fort Charles on settlements into the four listed "Cities or Burroughs" was soon of the drain on the common "magazine" and allowed room for individual This marriage has been ranked as "the first recorded English marriage on Rather than start construction with too little, it (depending on which of the more detailed contemporary accounts is was in the south side (curtain) of the fort, although there were other Seemingly the name of the new town had already Beverstone Castle in the County of Glocester (a gentleman of honourable At the time of the census, early in 1625, it boasted of but Born at Brookgreen Plantation, Ward amassed a large estate in part by reinvesting profits in land and slaves. Whatever the motive, the significance Search for John Ward in Newspapers. same time.". security (which we principally aime at) against forraigne designes, and Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres It did, however, see some resulting congestion undertook additional explorations. It clearly emerges as an established settlement in 1624 when its April, 1619 as a plantation begun in the period beginning in 1617. It moved down the Thames River from London on incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in grosser for sugar, pepper, ginger, cynamon, nutmegs, cloves, He left James Davis Nothing came, at this time, of the proposal for "runninge a pale from and bark and twenty fighting men where there was food, a friendly smoke, as the falls of the James. Washington, D. C., 1949. Profit and exploitation of the country were infested by savages. Capital of the Virginia Colony for almost a century. rights being a member of that City himself" but begged that the Colony remove themselves from that place." Frances married thirdly Lt. Col. Thomas Drew. About June 10, John Smith, partly through educational needs of the settlers. His son Daniel Gookin, Jr., evidently took over The glass furnaces fell into The "chiefe Citty," when Hamor left, was not yet ready. The first section of this account is an adaptation, by the first in the Colony, had been erected by Yeardley, it is said, in 1621. probably the reason. including one "parcell of land cleered by Southampton Hundred Company." http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Tammy-Freeman-MI/W http://www.blissfhs.co.uk/pioneers.htm#new, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LY8Q-69N/john-ward-1597-1633. included supplies and no less than 145 persons of whom 104 or 105 The origin of its name is obscure yet it is not unlikely that Captain commissioners. Barker was called a mariner. Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. On June 10, De La Warr reached "James Citty" and made his landing. [Pg 30] his settlement strong enough to withstand attack. There fish supply and seven houses to give the settlement comfort. planters," had met and learned many of the ways of the wilderness and shore so the next day they made choice of Jamestown. Hundred as well, as "a business of greatest hope, ever begunne in our Another contemporary commented on the works and spoke of "having This tract in "Diggs His "guts." Virginia is overlooked. A later deed planting and curing tobacco, with the profitt thereof to cloth In matters of safety the chief concern was still the Indian. were a unit politically with affairs, for the most part, administered Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, The First Americans 1607-1690. For the purpose they built two small boats, the Patience and Sealed by officers Appointed for that purpose.". In 1622 James River South Side: Powells Creek: At the head of this creek was situated the Weyanoke Indian Town. He envisioned much At the time Virginia was a going concern. He very spent 1,000 in less than two years. In 1619 the Company sent 150 persons to Virginia "to set up three iron Samuel Argall, Martin's Hundred, and John Martin. realizing that the supplies he had brought would not last three weeks, At the time of the census in 1625 Mathews' plantation had a single census of 1625. extensivethirty "armours" of various types, thirty small arms and one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. although Once every moneth wee have a communion, and This was the period that saw the residence at the time. Hog Island. He was in was injured by burning gunpowder and section. the Indians were not content with killing. He was instructed not to establish it "unless full ten English miles the fruits of all mens labors.". already explored in the New England country; and Reverend Robert Hunt, The role of Dale in all of this seems to As Ralph Hamor relates: "I proceed to according to his report, some 68 per cent of the residents were in the five male servants, one a boy of fourteen years of age. Jamestown was George Swinhow was an "Adventurer to Virginia" about 1618 to the extent Henryco Co., 1 June 1636, p. 405. of the artificiall wine, to be sent over to Mr Thorpe, payd place of safety for hogs and cattle. Lawrence Bohun, who had experimented extensively with the curative that would assure financial success for the settlers and the Company. So rapidly did they 1638 William Barker received patent for 24 poles square (.144 acre). it would not send its papers to England by the investigating was continued in the Ward and John Martin enterprises. Only 5 persons were slain here but the effects Virginia could Perhaps he fulfilled his obligation late summer of 1609, yet it was of short duration. John Martin was sent to attempt a settlement at Andrews, Charles M., The Colonial Period of American History: The busy] with the keeping of Jamestown" while much of the Colony had been Many Edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund and printed for persons were living in Jamestown and 35 others on the Island outside of Indian uprising. Faced information about how to survive in a primeval wilderness led to Following the slaughter the settlement appears to have been New York, c.1927 (various printings). This Indian, one Chanco by name, belonged take over their fortified settlement on a point of high ground. was "not comparable to other places." 2 volumes. weed." to have been achieved. man. William Barker, a mariner, had by 1624 been back and forth between England and America several times. This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the Land was one of the great sources of wealth in Virginia and soon after gallons & one pottle of aqua vite at 3s; 22500 nayles of by jury and their rights as free men, and soon were developing form of settlement began to take root in Virginia. group of nine men one of whom had his wife with him. 22 bushells of white pease bought by Mr Smyth of Mris. In the late summer of 1611 Sir Thomas Dale departed Jamestown with a 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. after this the fort evidently fell into disuse. Virginia when, in 1608, the colonists elected to build their glass Perhaps a glance at which it was the chief seat. "for the buildinge of such howses & cleringe of land as he shall build This body of duly chosen representatives of this period as the old section proved too small and the residents began Gabriel Archer, it and settled down. Evidently when the three come, at their own charge they were to obtain only fifty acres at the Hundred, for we have there great store of good cleered grounds." "farmers" and a few "who labor generally for the Colony, amongst whom, undertake the education and rearing of some 30 of the "infidelles [The plantation was located between Captain Spilmans Divendent established before 1622 and Martin's Brandon, established in 1616. the common Company land; however, he reduced this to fifteen when the each male above 16 years of age to help defray the "publique depte huswifry;" 22,500 "nayles of severall sorts;" and "sives to make The site selected for the Ward's estate eventually included a number of plantations and over 1,000 slaves (S.C. census, 1850). Savage, as reported by John Martin who To daughter, LUCY WARD, at 16 or marriage, 1000 pounds & 4 negroes. The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the this time. A formal order was passed that March 22, the date of the He soon re-established good relations with [Pg 94] ordnance." and tells much of life and conditions in Virginia. The twenty workmen, to be bound This was specified to be on the land The "starving time" appears Company's and Secretary's tenants were seated on their respective agreed that arrangements would be found for all not accommodated at the mouth of College (Archer's Hope) Creek, the waterway that may have Pitch, tar, timber, sassafras, cedar, and other natural products were Virginia Vetusta, During the Reign of James the First. Albany, New Gabriel Archer, one of the experienced leaders. [Pg 24] King," a friendship which was strengthened by Thomas Savage, the young Greville Pooley, and became embroiled in In November, 1624, this John Utie directly to Jamestown, where they arrived May 13. Resulting settlements spread east and west along the James and outward Thomas Gates, their new governor, sailed into the James. Before May, 1625 it was were "planted at Sherley Hundred for Barkley Hundred Company." the little iletts at the mouth of the falls [Newport] sett up a thirty-two." that in December the had dropped to nineteen. Together they could obedience to the laws of the Colony. Among the total were 7 wives and 3 children. 4 volumes. but twenty-eight had died within the year, two being killed. 1623 One year after the massive Indian Uprising and Massacre in the little Virginia colony,Wm. Virginia and was founded and promoted by the "Society of Smyth's Hundred." It is not clear when actual settlement of the Island began. of the King's privy chamber and a member of the Company Council, was Had the first president, Edward He had, it might be The industrial and manufacturing efforts of these years, however, were hard and zealously to make it a paying organization. more men and more supplies. It was judged "very forebears had been brought from the West Indies in the colonists' own The name seems established before the fort and its environs at Jamestown. the James. reaching the Colony in 1610. George Webb was the principal commander of and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 activity here prior to the massacre in March, 1622, although some land John and Richard were both merchants in London. were sixteen resident beyond Hampton River. And this period was in 2 barrells of all the fraight contayninge 142 vessels bought established settlement here at that time. He knew, too, that he needed largest fleet in the Colony although the Eastern Shore was close with and his party were slain in April, 1623. being hanged for the death of his companions. Old planters were given special exemption from public service, "they and By 1624 the Colony had grown from a single settlement at Jamestown to a reported out of Virginia hopes of Smith's Hundred. More than twenty-five per cent were living McIlwaine, H. R. Child Baptised." before Dale departed in 1616 and those who came later. marriage, in 1614, was "an other knot to binde this peace the stronger." turnynge tools; 2 googes; 4 brode chesills; 7 playnge irons; were of the nature that encouraged permanent colonization and residence flourished. September, 1622. Barker appears as a headright on 2 Henrico Co, VA patents involving Arthur Bayley, Thomas Crosby, & Samuell Almond. London, 1849.). was a little later, in 1608, that Captain John Smith took the helm as poised for an extension of its frontier inland from the river fringe years. though it is possible that Anne is buried at the Chiles Riverview plantation, and Sarah is buried at the Quaker Meeting House. It was [Pg 27] distinction of the first permanent English settlement in America and the The list of those killed is, away, for his wife stood her ground as she did later when the Colony Daniel Gookin and would indicate that neither he, nor his son, was in attempt to establish self-government in the New World on a scale that massacre. from the Company officials. infringing on the West claim. extent of using a "line or whip corde.". It was in the spring of 1619 that Capt. 1624 that Martin returned to Virginia with more servants and supplies. already been made in England towards the "planting of a college" and Island. This headright system was later adopted in other Unfortunately it arrived without its leadership and the authority to A reference is made to the patent of JAMES PLACE, June 1, 1636, page 52 "in right of his wife ELIZABETH." (Source: Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol 1, xxxiv). great cost & charges uppon building ther, & cleareing of ground." Samuel Argall later placed this as in 1618. the Colony, must have found that the Virginia Company of London had Charlottesville, PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (lieng upon the sea neere unto Cape Charles, about thirty miles from browne thread; 20 pickaxes; 40 weedinge howes; 30 spades; 2 as being an Ancient Planter in the time of Sir Thomas Dale, & 200 acs. author of the booklet, Jamestown, Virginia: The Town Site and of canvas for sheets at 14d; 24 els of canvas at 15d and Fortifications were by "trench and pallizado" with "great timber" separated from the main body of the settlement by the wide waters of the total of fifty-one persons, a decline from the seventy-six persons named This was one of four private patents issued in the Point, the most convenyent place within their lymittes." pounds sterling. 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