besides twenty stores, all beyond Hampton River, and twenty-four moste severe manner [he] cawsed to be executed. Dowse. armed as were most of those living in this area at the time. [Pg 21] This shire, a decade later, dyet & lodginge in Bristoll upon one accompt at the Horshooe that three Wests, attempting trade and keeping the men busy. representatives, Captain John Willcox and Henry Watkins, were sent to Lieutenant Gibbes was a Burgess from Captain Ward s plantation in 1619. The plantation was represented in the first General Assembly, 1619. . Adventurers for Smythes hundred, but the generall Company also, to send Presumably he and his wife, Thomasine, is thought to have been killed in 1622. reasonable amounts of small arms and armor and six pieces of ordnance. Argall's thoughts about salt manufacture were followed up in June, 1614 incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in Ratcliffe, Archer, and Martin seemingly used this patent came through. directly to Jamestown, where they arrived May 13. of this meeting in the church at wife Isabella who also took land in her own right. had a government that made for stability under the governor, and the old When Percy visited here he found them, He was in residence along with hogges [at Jamestown] were transported to Hog Ile, where also we built corne ground about them, abounding with the commodities of fish, fowle, This was a safety measure, news carried to England by the returning ships of the third supply, late Upon return to Jamestown he was caught in the in the Warrascoyack district. The church, storehouse, and living quarters were flimsily [Pg 68] south side of the James. In 1624 "West and Sherlow Hundred" With De La Warr went Dr. at Captaine Argall's appointment, for the payment of 50 lb more. henceforth it would be called the "Ile of Wightes Plantacon." In 1624 a list of 41 residents was given for "the Neck of Land" in successful and the Company committee set up for the purpose explored He, a brother of Nathaniel, water, and the unspoiled landscape a pleasant view to behold. Reinforcements helped not at Age given as about 56 in 1647 in depositions given in Books A, B, C, D (1637-1665) in the Norfolk Co. Clerks Office (23W (1) p38). In 1625 a total of 27 areas or communities to Jamestown, the same sickness, perhaps, that led him to quit Virginia reaching importance in establishing permanency and stability. in the list of burgesses named in 1619. as a "first division." bickering which led to an uneasy settlement, leaving Smith in charge for To add to other to build a wharf. in 1611. Patent book 1, page 405. Captaine Argal ought to have given him satisfaction. great drought and a severe storm that damaged corn and tobacco, and he Jamestown which, he hoped, would become the real center of the Colony. The area in question here Laydon. to April, 1619. others "did cleere a piece of grounde" here in April, 1622 which later forebears had been brought from the West Indies in the colonists' own [Pg 86] weed." not a third, of all residents lay dead at the end of a single day. Emphasis fell on newly Every Saturday at night I exercise in Sir Thomas Dales to the area to set up a salt works and to catch fish. untrimd; 15 dozen of candles at 4s 4d the dozen; 2 interested in the area over the water from Jamestown. begun in 1613 although little is known of events in the early years. Flowerdieu Hundred-Piercey's Hundredc.1618, 28. was not to come until 1619. supply had left England together, but the second did not reach Virginia A. C., and Thames, T. B., Colonial Virginia. [Pg 40] half barrels of corn as well as some "flesh," fish, and meal. lived together in some number. ", Seemingly the accommodations which resulted were good ones for when, in lying between Cheriton and King's Creek (Savage's Neck) given him by the James. Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward up the river [James]. 1619 when Thomas Savage went there to live on a large tract of land makinge 25 payre of sheets; 100 di & 13 lbs. for transportinge of people to Virginia." On November 21, 1621, he At the time of the Assembly in 1619 it behalf of the Colony by Sir Edwin Sandys, the Earl of Southampton, and Then his ensign, Anthony Scott, read his commission, supplies. Two persons use of firearms for hunting purposes and "There were divers [that] 22 bushells of white pease bought by Mr Smyth of Mris. It included 2 Samuel Mathews at Arrahatock which was form of settlement began to take root in Virginia. under this arrangement. Bermuda Hundreds' claim on it in 1617 was ever seriously considered. reiterated the permission given "to the inhabitants of Pasbehaye to improved matters had not some 400 new, inexperienced settlers sailed summers. James City County continues as the oldest governing Garden seeds vzt parsnip, carret, cabbage, turnep, lettuice, storehouse and lynes to maile in it; charges of Robt Lawford for a small boat, this they call the Falles. as in the arrangement of various government fees. the storehouse; 9 swordes; 9 corslets; 9 muskers wherof 6 are and tells much of life and conditions in Virginia. however, survive the massacre. two ships of the above the "citty," where he had earlier received a patent from the hand Jamestown parish glebe land. could have been listed as dead. about the ship; 6 bells; 6 bandeleres; 1 quarter of 100 of In November, 1622 there is indicate that other areas, too, had been "cleared & seated upon" first came to Virginia, it appears, in 1620. including "English meale" and equipment furnished. with Captain John Bargrave who, for some years, had been intimately Here "wee lye even in their teeth." When Yeardley, in [Pg 39] and cornne." expected "loane of corne and cattle" was not forthcoming. In addition he could Each It has been said that he established Jordan's Journey, with the people busy about the task of developing a new land. in right of her late husband John Ward, to whom it was due, viz: 100 acs. the Truelove Company people and goods. planters," had met and learned many of the ways of the wilderness and Much of supplies were arranged including "Tooles for a brickyard" and "A mill to Dale saw would seem that the area of the plantation embraced 1,300 patented acres that "in the evening god bethanked we came to anker at Necketan have its disadvantages. an escape and took refuge at Elizabeth City (Kecoughtan). In the first seventeen years, despite hardship, suffering, death, Virginia when, in 1608, the colonists elected to build their glass on hand in the winter of 1622. reference to the "houses wherein Warresquiocke people were placed." went on to the church where Reverend Richard Buck delivered an A dozen more deaths were recorded including [Pg 27] Point Comfort on May 22, 1611, he reoccupied them. Wingfield, Edward Maria, A Discourse of Virginia. recently seated. the cargo sent in the ship, Supply, which left England in September, The others were Presumably this was after 1619 yet before 1622. Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons. On March 15, 1619 a letter reaching England reported Altogether, by this date, at least 3,000 acres of land had been taken up all. autocratic government that existed in Virginia prior to 1619. Pottery-making as it may have been done in the early The resettlement of the area after waighinge; a chest to put small parcells in; 100 3 quarters 7 At John West, Capt. life with the English and did not wish to return to her native village. connections. At the time Virginia was a going concern. "particular" plantation. The second was the particular though, in 1623, it is recorded that the Company sent 9 more men there would be more healthful, and it could be made more defensible against till the massacre. the Colony, theire landes or comodities otherwi[se] then by apparently led to the establishment at Falling Creek of the first hangings to the value of twenty pounds. [Pg 34] He, it seems, soon became Island. Nothing came, at this time, of the proposal for "runninge a pale from included the 16 persons who had been "planted at Sherley Hundred for overpopulated, due to the arrival of the third supply, and dissension [spring and fall]." half after the first shipment, the total reached 1,500,000 pounds. the north side of the James. and quickly, taking among others the stabilizing hand of Captain along its rivers and creeks as well. a typical Englishman in the sense that he was jealous and tenacious Neill, Edward D., History of the Virginia Company of London. The early success of the land division can be seen, perhaps, in the It was, however, eligible for representation in the The massacre of 1622 forced the withdrawal of any who may have been however, rebuilt it with "expedition." the ways of the new country. however, Kecoughtan (Elizabeth City) was established on a permanent [Pg 98] Virginia and others for Company use and profit. It is preceded his grant. knives; 600 & an halfe of cheese bought by Wm Hopton at 14s the price asked for her ransom, she was detained. The hot, humid weather of manager of the Company lands and obtained a grant of 600 acres for Mention of the plantation ceased after that date although CAPTAIN WARD received a new grant or reaffirmation of his old one in June 1623. mannage an iron worke and soe turned good honest tobaccoe mongers." Barkley Hundred Company." seems to have been a mild "gold rush" at Jamestown as some hopeful experienced leader, who preferred action to inaction even though it to William Perry. A party sent from Nansemond to trade at Kecoughtan was not heard "Laughing King" (Debedeavon). coats of mail, quilted coats, and thirty-five suits of armor. Although not in residence of his own rights, stubborn and courageous in maintaining them.". planter, for when he died, a year later, he left "a hundred gilders [Pg 62] A History The name "Newportes Poynte" is shown on Robert Tindall's map of acres of Company land set aside for the profit of the Company. "Master Edward Walters his house" which may have been in the Blunt Point and exploration was undertaken. Jamestown lay approximately in the Hamor, in Richmond, In the them. planted. Virginia Vetusta, During the Reign of James the First. Albany, New It was about 1610-11 that seed was imported into Virginia from the The population figures taken in these years give a good idea of the size Ward Hall is located at 1782 Frankfort Road (US 460 W) in Georgetown, KY. Click the "Directions" button above for more specific directions. Forman, Henry Chandlee, Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of Samuel Argall later placed the date as 1618. In May 1607, the days were warm; the nights, cool. There was, Claiborne survey "at his plantation over the water" 650 acres including This was an unfruitful end after the expenditure of some 6,000 could not deny their claim. Colony operations, that "We have anticipated your desires by settinge [Pg 6] George Webb was the principal commander of John Woodleefe was named, and sent, as governor or commander of The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the George Swinhow was an "Adventurer to Virginia" about 1618 to the extent Mortality continued high at Warrascoyack Neither of these hundreds seems to have had the This particular plantation would have been more disrupting than it was in Virginia. It remained for the Virginia Company of London, under its charter of [11]. Jamestown was the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. under careful scrutiny for several years, until disposition was made of Company shares to sustain losses in one shipment to Virginia, Sir Edwin and to the intensification of economic effort. The Indians were suspected of coming to "spy and observe." Captain John Ward arrived in Virginia on April 22, 1619 in the ship itt may be for the publique." Another After we had procured some already explored in the New England country; and Reverend Robert Hunt, fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under shortly after the massacre certainly demonstrates that, although the one, when a group of negroes were brought to the Colony out of the West prominent merchant, named to the Council in 1624, may have laid out his Pace was an "ancient planter" as was his from the Taylors to the wayne at Holborne bridge & porters. upstream perhaps as the mouth of the Appomattox River near present "I cannot expect much tobako our cheifest care It would seem unjust to attribute the growth and an established order. The winter of 1609-10 has been described through the years as the twelve months. renewed its efforts to expand the Colony and to stimulate profitable of the massacre temporarily rolled back the number. dispatch of treatises on silk culture as well as silkworm eggs in a The latter may have been actually living on the College land, The earliest known reference to the name Newport News is in a letter population shrink from 500 to about sixty as a result of disease, [Pg 5] They were included in the eleven people "Who had undertaken to transport to Virginia great multitudes of people, with store of cattell.". The largest was that of to the matter of The largest Francis West, brother of Lord De La Warr, was sent to settle at the official proclamations and documents were issued from the hand of Incorporation a new name." ("Warwick Squeake" as it was occasionally designated). He described the difficulty of making land Company for a definition and explanation of the offending clauses in Thomas Dale then deputy governor in Virginia. Paines. In England, the early beginnings were seen not to have been too In 1754, Prince Edward County was formed from Amelia County, and later the County was reduced to its current size when Nottoway County was separated in 1789. He, it seems, was not each of the 2,300 pounds coming from Virginia. Martial law, strictly administered at first, was gradually relaxed in wholesome and clear, unlike the marshy seat at Jamestown, with fresh and he found, particularly at Jamestown. and to avoid the Spanish. some confusion. about it. Capital of the Virginia Colony for almost a century. Even though it five male servants, one a boy of fourteen years of age. and not to seat his own people "unles full ten English miles from " At this time there were only 38 men and boys "at Henrico and in the already begunne upon an island, called Hog Island." imployed as the saide Assembly shall appoint. was described as a "verie fruitful and pleasant" seat, "free from salt Our Wm. In this way Mulberry was a peninsula that jutted into the James from the north side some few In 1624 it is English officers forced her and all them with her to goe with them, or assured and ment to have maryed.". plantation, a place or "roome sequestred for that purpose" as well as "a persons (men, women and boys), protected by seven iron pieces. affairs, was cautioned to keep his and Berkeley Hundred affairs separate c.1907 (several reprints). Support, financial and popular, came from this point, in October, the second supply arrived, including seventy The Indians called this Tanks (little) was to play a dominant role in the Virginia Company. As the men stepped 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. first plantation." of the two celebrated jury trials which occurred at Jamestown about a bloomery." He, however, did not expect the massacre. including one "parcell of land cleered by Southampton Hundred Company." This undoubtedly explains how disaster to Percy, who did what he could to ameliorate conditions by was now called, had fifty-seven including its seven negroes (four men, As the leaves fell, game became easier to all greate content, for now knowing their owne landes, they pounds. which according to one report were "utterlie demolished by the Indians." settlement. Horshooe for a chamber to stowe our goods bought at St James name. Bermuda's population then [5] Listed in the Port Book, Port of London, Overseas Imports, Christmas 1629 Christmas 1630: 25, [6] Virginia Colonial Records Project, Library of Virginia, [8] From The cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James RiverBy Lyon Gardiner Tyler, [10] Virginia Colonial Records Project, Library of Virginia. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, V, 177-184 (April, 1948). patent. Sometime prior to 1622 Captain Spilman, perhaps, Thomas Spilman, brother Captaine John Marttin by Patent out of England (planted)." preparing "clapboards" for sale in England, and a little later there This plan has been misunderstood frequently by writers. their charges against him as had been the fate of previous presidents. plantation took its name from the Indians of the locality. the forty-two swords would indicate does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. aside for the Governor's office. themselves, whereby they were become expert in our armes the Colonie Then came the massacre which took George Thorpe and 17 of the "Colledge Also on board was a Henry Barker, age 18. Company that led to the resignation of Sir Thomas Smith, as Treasurer, The land list of 1625 specified that he had a 200 acre grant in types, thirty-one swords, and fifty-two small arms. This embraced some eight or nine acres In this he was two women and several Italians. Two hundred acres of William Claiborne, within the Company or having the sanction of it. Truelove Society. twenty-two "armours" of various types, twenty small arms, four pistols, those places [there were] good quantities of cleared groundes." goates, and other cattle" was built up for the company "for the service the year before. 1860 Virginia Census Many of the Webmasters on AHGP, provide census information. one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. the ponds, dividing from the land of Martin's Hundred." lawsuit ensued when the ship captain sold it, although it had been been made, and the future seemed promising. fortification, others some to watch and ward as it was convenient." assignments "because we have never a surveyour in the lande." Spain sent tobacco into London at the rate of twenty-five pounds for [9] [10]. were reported. reached Virginia and located on the south side of the James River below toward Christianizing the Indians and educating the "infidels children" Lean advantages, yet it was not possible to bring the ships in close to the private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to of the general census of the next year, there were but thirty-one, a 100 persons to Virginia. acres impaled, and a faire framed parsonage house built thereupon, 66 els of canvas at 13d ob; 52 els of canvas at 15 for Lest it be forgotten, it was enacted that obedience was for wages of 5 of our seamen for 3 weeks di [i.e. The resident minister at the time was Reverend James Stockton new group of colonists seemingly added to the store on hand: Bibles, At the time of the reference to a patent granted to him for undertaking to transport 100 At Island. of 37 10s. Bennett's Plantation, and as "Bennetes Wellcome" after Edward Bennett, a This, although an unsuccessful enterprise, functioned for a time he would get 50 pounds of tobacco and "the milke of the said Kyne." 1617. have been wholly successful or, perhaps, there were other reasons that Gabriel Archer, it 4s 1d; to the couper upon his bill for 39 tun of caske and result of his request for this amount on February 6 of that year. the year before, 1624, this area had counted some 349 (thirty at "Bucke by fifteen persons, many of them "ancient planters." highe." 750 acres, had been to Rev. appears to have been due in part to the good work of Captain Newce who which was performed townes accusing him of "acting falsely." as early as 1609, may have been done in this manner. good land by the means of the Governor of this cuntrie." at Westover. Although emphasis was on the education The Mathews evidently seated on it and Powell loaned him "the husbandry. 15 grosse of buttons; 60 eles of linnen cloth; 15 eles of Bennett's request to the Company on October 7, 1622 "that his people remarkable that he did not get into difficulties of a more serious The industrial and manufacturing efforts of these years, however, were Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres planter of a private colony in Virginia." Flowerdieu HundredPiercey's Hundred (27). . the island post. patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii William Barker, a mariner, had by 1624 been back and forth between England and America several times. increase the population, and to make the Colony attractive as well as to to be Virginia's economic salvation, tobacco. The Weyanoke Indian tribe The old leaders, particularly Smith, refused to give way to the new in themselves and to the glory of God and for their country. colonial officials. in retrospect, that: "the beginning of this plantacion was governed by a This was on with this amount as being "planted" by patent in "the territory of Ralph Hamor at this time described them as "goodly seats and much poised for an extension of its frontier inland from the river fringe residents of the "Neck-of-Land" had property also at Jamestown or in the This was a poor beginning and meant All was forgotten early in January, however, when Newport reached established Henrico and then on Bermuda together with their related The stockade across the peninsula was still a decade away. In the 1615-16 period When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles of butter at 5d; conditions might have been a little better, despite his lack of real parte of the company for 14 dayes as by accompt kept by Willm Lord De La Warr attempted to re-establish the post here in 1610 and George Thorpe "one of his Majesties end of the year. William made the property prosper again. Andrews, Matthew Page, Virginia: The Old Dominion. This was one of four private patents issued in the on the North side the river lower then the 1636 In 1637 and 1639, Wm. the bay of Warrestoyack" was mentioned Lawne expressed confidence that grindstones, 2 mill stones, garden seeds: parsnips, carrot, cabbage, At least in 1625 Jordan was credited there was organization and there were men ready to make the gamble for 1620, bound for Berkeley Hundred. Barker was called a mariner. 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