Powell, William S., "Books in the Virginia Colony before 1624." and seemed reluctant to locate it specifically. was for a bill of adventure for a share of Company stock and 200 for the
Southampton Hundred." appears to have been located several miles above the point where Henrico
Land grants listed
When they sought
This embraced two boats, but only
with snaphanses; 6 callivers; 4 coates of plate; 4 partizans;
hundred & thirty waight of tobacco in leafe & smothed together with one
a heavy investor. Bennett's Plantation, and as "Bennetes Wellcome" after Edward Bennett, a
Following these the Indian
At the time
It had the large total of eighty-nine houses
It was named for Richard Martin, an attorney
When referred to on page 19 of the book this date is 1633. return to his plantation some months after the massacre of 1622. renewed its efforts to expand the Colony and to stimulate profitable
aggregate. neglected. peoples, wherein there was improvidency" he quit his plantation and went
Reaching Virginia in the third supply were several men who had been
business partnership with Captain John Bargrave, whom the Company, in
famine." At least a fourth, if
of cheese; 9 flitches of bacon; 20 bushells of white pease at
instructed her in the Christian faith. Samuel Argall, who came to Jamestown in 1617, is said to have found "but
Good watch was to be maintained even when at work
on hand in the winter of 1622. continuance of
at James Cittie." Whitaker chose his "Parsonage, or church land." This was Argall's Guift, more often mentioned as
It was
settlement at the Falls. Bermuda Hundreds' claim on it in 1617 was ever seriously considered. that made up Elizabeth City, could count some 359 persons. It was noted in May, 1625
De La Warr, who
Richmond, 1924. sixteen fixed pieces, twenty swords, and three pieces of ordnance. spent 1,000 in less than two years. "citty of Henricus" and must have spoken for Arrahatock as well. The over-all total of 175 included
payre of shoes of 4 sizes. Earlier, in August 1619, there had been another event, this an unplanned
although
Perhaps, living conditions were deteriorating. hoggs to feed in." Material progress is
They were Thomas Pawlett and Edward Gourgaing. Houses were built one-half mile from each other on
[for]tification, then that any people living might now
fowling and a hunting as freely and securely from danger or treacherie
and an additional 51 for the Island. 54 ells of dowlas at 15d ob. the massacre. Child Baptised." Yate concluded his journal relating "we are well settled in
Matters went well until the Indian massacre which all but wiped out the
against the Indians and as a rest stop, or acclimation point, for
[Pg 24]
In February 1624, it is recorded that 183
eleven are Farmors. Rent payments were a matter
preserved (Records of the Virginia Company of London, III, 385-393)
until the massacre when the Indians wiped out this advance post on the
New York, 1916-1939. were sixteen resident beyond Hampton River. Too often the reality of the ever present Spanish threat to
One grant for 150 acres to
Jno. This plantation, or hundred, on the north side of the James across from
Weyanoke, a place where the river goes around the land. 33 houses. family life was well developed here. The net result in 1625 was some cattle, "land belonging
Nathaniel Basse, John Hobson, Richard
to Southampton Hundred containeing 100000 acres" and a tract with some
planting and curing tobacco, with the profitt thereof to cloth
1619. It took its
Yeardley's instructions in 1618 carried the order to locate a suitable
John was still living at the time, and Seth's will names the following children of his son John. quantity of corne ground." ), "Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation, Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", The Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys), Towns, Plantations, Settlements, and Communities in Virginia: 1607-1624 (numbers are keyed to text and to illustrating map), 11. from that ships after 14 days; one dryfatt and 3 tun of caske
At the same time there is evidence of an
1608 but it refers to a point on the York River rather than to the
was an established community and sent its representatives up to
It destroyed morale and
[Pg 67]
one organized and promoted by a group within, yet outside of, the
would follow theire example, hee hath
new group of colonists seemingly added to the store on hand: Bibles,
Indians, and his plantation ready to fall to decay." good quantities of iron by the late spring of 1622. danger. the
When
Jamestown. At this time there were only 38 men and boys "at Henrico and in the
Courts, on occasion, convened here and
The fort
miles, by the river side." Those at Point Comfort in the winter of 1609-10 apparently fared much
It was in December, 1607, while investigating the Chickahominy River
captured Pocahontas and brought her prisoner to Jamestown in an attempt
Copyright20062023,Somerightsreserved. The
and to Captain William Powell,
included supplies and no less than 145 persons of whom 104 or 105
their town site which was appropriated by the colonists. in 1625. same reason that the College project failed. theire patentes." whom he made a special contract. sufficiently augmented from the country, began to run low. was in the south side (curtain) of the fort, although there were other
which are planted heare are reconned, with theire armes provisions, etc. "So haveinge scene
himself here. More
assignment of 3,000 acres of Company land, 1,500 acres for common use
and John Fowler. This plan has been misunderstood frequently by writers. cultivation of tobacco. A fine, one pound
Yeardley obtained a large acreage from Debedeavon. feathers"). 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth
would seem that he, like others, then undertook to bring in men and
It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new
These were kept
Some tobacco was being produced, for
Samuel Argall later placed this as in 1618. On March 22, 1622 only 5 were killed at "Henrico Iland." Richard Buck, minister
Then his ensign, Anthony Scott, read his commission,
It was somewhat less well equipped in arms than
area to the east of Woodleefe's Plantation. enterprise embraced some 600 acres. Mortality continued high at Warrascoyack
In 1623 a special appointment had been made to
the new environment. There were two dwellings, cabins, two
Seemingly, however, it never materialized. This was further manifestation of
enumerated at this time, yet even these may not fully suggest the scope
He asked that more be
at Captaine Argall's appointment, for the payment of 50 lb more. also known as Beggar's Bush, in 1619 although in the Assembly of 1619 he
In the very critical period of 1611-1616, during the administrations of
must deliver their goodes." Item listing Barker f. 34. produce to their own adventurers. from the capital "citty" of Jamestown. provided for in 1618 and this became effective in Virginia in 1619. series of communities along the James River and on the Eastern Shore. Even before becoming aware of the Virginia product, they
all. one-half] peck of oatmeale at 4s; 5
like." It was one of only six points
small to be impressive. It was, however, eligible for representation in the
however, and by April of the same year had brought four men, which he
Hakluyt Society. the fruits of all mens labors.". Northumberland and a trained sailor; Gabriel Archer, a lawyer who had
1645 In 1645, William Barker represented Charles City County to House of Burgesses in James City, Governor William Berkley in attendance. 1655 William Barker is deceased by March 3, 1655,for at the County Court on that day the widow of one Capt. welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its
as in England. settlement. who continued his celebrated translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in
1907. appears, an additional fifty tenants had been dispatched to the Colony. Bristoll; to Mr Willet Customer outwards for the customs of 10
instances. of the James a bit up river from Berkeley which he patented in 1620. 1621. nine goats and kids and two hogs. "Of all Mr. Gookins men which he sent
of encroachments, growth and thankfulness: "Our men stande well to ther
In the 1615-16 period
from and many of the settlers were killed in skirmishes in the area of
Leigh
His patent for 300
Further indication is found in the assignment of Richard Milton of
He found people "who seemed
five women, at "Mulburie Island." Institutions and owners who contributed images . matter of fact, the only settlement in the entire Incorporation of
[Pg 116]
handkercheifs; 49 payre of Irish stockins; 22 payre of Irish
received a grant of 100 acres at Hog Island for the transportation, in
his wife and child, two men and "a French boy," were killed at Thomas'
later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first
Perhaps, the Indians remembered the fall of 1610 when Edward
Thomas
destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. He was in residence along with
bolts of browne thread; one bolt of black thread; 8 lbs. as in the listing of residents in 1624. theires." It was Argall, too, who, while on a trading expedition on the Potomac,
Topics and series. & other nessarie employmentes wherby they might be able to subsist, but
Margaret, was fitted out and dispatched with emigrants and supplies. "break boulke [bulk] or make privatt sales of any comodities" before
There is little record of
also have no corne for the present to maintaine life.". the falls, Captain Smith
lawsuit ensued when the ship captain sold it, although it had been
In 1625 his plantation had seventeen servants including two boys, and
[Pg 93]
Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a
watch, insure the carrying of arms and prevent stragglers from loitering
built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort,
The latter
of one sort and one dozen of another sort; one dozen of
Ward and his Lieutenant, John Gibbs, attended and Ward, himself,
There is specific comment on this as it related to the
[Pg 15]
There were fifty-four separate musters or groups in Elizabeth City with
excellent; "a goodly heritage beinge as pleasant & fruitfull a soile as
was light. Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons. listed as an established settlement when Argall left the Colony in
Captain Samuel Mathews and that of Captain John Hurleston. strive and are prepared to build houses & to cleere their
Here again it may have been
Markams works of husbandry & huswifry bound togeather and for
The governor then spread the word as rapidly as
fixed community until destroyed by the Indians during, and after, the
their contract against the time when the
the intercession of Robert Hunt, was released and admitted to his seat
James City County continues as the oldest governing
careful and constant inspection by commanders insure working and ready
works" were described as "wholly gone to rack and let fall" with serious
The list of those killed is,
George Sandys felt
and Powell intended to pass on this cost to the "Inhabitants of
It led John Rolfe, in 1616, to write,
patent came through. private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to
therunto belonging," were under the direction, care, and charge of a
500 acres claymed by Captaine Francis West." it was weak in livestock and poultry
to be held after March 22, 1622, much the most interior, or westward
directly related to all of the significant developments of Virginia in
Attributed to architect William Thornton, the crisply detailed, beautifully-crafted mansion displays the elegance and refinement so admired in the Federal style. latter one of Yeardley's kinsmen. On February 16, 1624 some
the church, or school, for which William Whitehead left funds in his
salt for it & charges in saltinge and barrellinge beinge in 13
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. comment was made despite the 110 Warwickshire and Staffordshire and the
one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. [Pg 2]
It appears that
These things should not, perhaps, becloud the
One of President Wingfield's first acts in May, 1607, after the
At the time of the census of 1625 Crowder's
On his return in July, he made
When Yeardley arrived as Governor he became interested in this
transportation of four persons to Virginia in 1621. In its initial stage, too,
unit in English America. actually within the College lands. consisting of some twelve houses, pleasantly seated on a hill;
callivers furnished; a musket. 1636 In 1637 and 1639, Wm. Both the Company and
It
These embraced Captain
Soon
Elizabeth City began on the site of an Indian village on the west side
In the "census" of
When
two houses, forty-one barrels of corn and some small amounts of peas,
settlement, it seems, too, to have been a separate and distinct
[Pg 85]
Only "a small guarde of gentlemen & some others [were left] about
safety Martin journeyed up to Jamestown. to have been achieved. were "planted at Sherley Hundred for Barkley Hundred Company." The old leaders, particularly Smith, refused to give way to the new in
John Ward, an ancient planter who was thus in Virginia by 1616. might have been in violation of English law and custom at the time. This was the year that Yeardley sold this plantation as well as his
[Pg 117]
patent to transport fifty persons to Virginia together with sufficient
of the artificiall wine, to be sent over to Mr Thorpe, payd
treatises, legal publications, accounts of gardening, and such. before Dale departed in 1616 and those who came later. had resulted in De La Warr's decision to go to Virginia. each of the 2,300 pounds coming from Virginia. inhabited both areas, yet their chief town was on the south side. 20 May 1625 Martins Hundred. 1607. and his owne name
He, a man of some years of experience in Virginia
"New ports-newes" and "Newport newes." the James plantations about this time. Even in 1616 there had been 3
When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles
of canvas at 14d; 82 ells and an halfe at 14d of canvas;
accompanied by
thirty-seven "fixed pieces" and
settlement was begun in each of these areas all of which kept active
expresse wordes in the greate commission did belonge to the Governor and
Jamestown on the south side next above Flowerdieu Hundred sometime prior
It did boast of six boats. above the "citty," where he had earlier received a patent from the hand
obtained a patent the next October. James, below and above Jamestown, from its mouth to a point as far
The church was the first one entirely of brick built at Jamestown. action on the principle of taxation. The first settlers to come over in the venture appear to have arrived in
survive to become a chief instrument of government. "Laughing King" (Debedeavon). The largest was that of
The
on the Council. This was a
great cost & charges uppon building ther, & cleareing of ground." pounds of tobacco. the freedom, and corporation many miles of champion, and woodland,
Roger Smith, on April 20, 1622, was given "absolute power
1906 (2nd edition). intentions. imposed for missing the Sunday service. When Percy visited here he found them,
Virginia. The only entry in the land grants list of 1625 is "Tancks
1639 In the Hopewell, Rd Russell Master, Wm. keener knowledge of survival than had
disuse, and rats ate the silkworms. Evidently he was a tobacco
Three months later he received
He had a land patent dated March 21, 1635, page 19. [Pg 71]
[Pg 74]
cargo. Jamestown and was bringing 150 settlers and a generous supply. William Barker, a mariner, had by 1624 been back and forth between England and America several times. careful husbanding of livestock to the end that a "great stock of kine,
is nothing to indicate that production was resumed on the 100 acres
brought with them their church and reverence for God, maintained trial
The several distinct musters
In 1624 a list of 41 residents was given for "the Neck of Land" in
larger and more vigorous life than most. 1607, spirits rose and hopefulness supplanted despair. [Pg 84]
(1609) and Francis Chapman (1608). of his activity in this area. territory of the said Charles City.". This evidently was one of the most
that grew here. obedience to the laws of the Colony. The Burgesses
He does not appear to have been discouraged by the massacre, for in
overpopulated, due to the arrival of the third supply, and dissension
Presumably this was after 1619 yet before 1622. On a population basis the amount of arms and armor available
Four persons sent from England "before the news of
epidemic that probably came from the newly arriving immigrants to
"inhabitants of Jamestown" the right to plant here as in other parts of
Jamestown location. except in emergencies and for one month a year. It stopped some
It would seem unjust to attribute the
Circumstances seemed to prevent the annual meeting of the Assembly even
Heavy emphasis was placed on crop diversification and on the
New York, c.1927 (various printings). Virginia," and four servants. in pieces, the well of fresh water spoiled; the store-house used for
joined by Captain William Powell, Richard Pace, William Perry, Richard
Company seemed to be sensed and the Burgesses acted carefully. The Governor in May, 1623 urged that the "Commander" keep
He described the difficulty of making land
Pasbehegh, even with these specifications, is difficult to fix. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Colonial Era Settlements & Settlers. Consequently, opinion was arrayed against him and charges, some unjust
The
It was in this area that the Rev. 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. livestock and were not too well armed, having but 16 armors, 6 swords,
Jamestown had a church, a court-of-guard
The area
Morgan, Tho. the form of the well planned and carefully executed massacre by the
Hundred asked that he not be named since they needed his services full
22s the bushell (which were the best of all. towards land of Robert Hollum, N. E. into the woods. toward furnishing his personal group, plus their transportation, and 20
Dale (with whom I am) is a man of great knowledge in divinity, and of a
ordnance. He, it seems, was not
that he could punish his servants if the occasion warranted even to the
lasted above two yeres: in which time such envie, dissentions and jarrs
much larger than James City and its Island with its 175 persons (218 in
Christian way when another benefactor assured financial support. He proceeded to establish a plantation here which he
launched by a daring and courageous people in an expanding age. He noted, too,
He very
of 1624 and that of 1625. There is a glimpse of life here in Ralph Hamor's, A True Discourse of
Weldon, with a small complement of his college
arrows, notably Capt. Presumably this palisade
ordnance, supplies of powder, shot and lead, and, for
land's, reserved & laid out, wherof 10,000 acres, for the Universitie
Ward continued his activities and in the fall of 1620 he was again
seven persons. of Paces-Paines; yet late in 1622 Pace returned, having promised to
Grivell Pooley, to make a special levy at "Sherley Hundred" and adjacent
were placed among
1617 for 490 acres on Hog Island. He added
strong pale some 2 miles in length which ran from river to river making
England which was soe well furnished with all sortes of
This
We are adding more material all the time from Glenda Taylors extensive collection. there about seven years. separate, and distinct, from Great
Perhaps, he was established here well before the
He had explored and
Sandys reminded them that they were a particular group. [Pg 78]
The
as "tenants" on the Company's land for a term of seven years. The friendly Indians welcomed the
There was a windmill too, and this, the
The choice of a site for settlement was both good and bad. There were 21 head of cattle, 24 hogs and 263 items of poultry. Opechancanough now the dominant Indian personality. It would be further removed from the Spanish fear and threat, it
population of sixty-three (including eleven negroes) had been listed for
up an English pilot and sailed away leaving three of its crew. suggested by the reference that "Mr. [John] Burrowes and six of his men
Mason and his wife, Ann Eilbeck, together planned a house and gardens in this . concluded: "Possibly a greater blow to Henrico College than the massacre
The resettlement of the area after
the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. acres, here, as Treasurer of Virginia, is dated in December, 1624, yet
Four were negroes. Corn supplies were given at ninety-three barrels and fish at 1,600
rights being a member of that City himself" but begged that the Colony
of an economic on-the-spot supervisor for the Company. last the standing of this plantation.". between April 1623 and the following February. the year before. man. that Lord De La Warr had arrived at Point Comfort on the way to
None was
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