anchorage for ships at Jamestown was good. "confirmacon of their old pattent" in which it was specified that at one time governor of Virginia, were established here. James which still bears his name. The church, storehouse, and living quarters were flimsily was located in the precincts of Archer's Hope but well to the east "on His muster then included six servants and five others. New York, 1916-1939. included those of Charles Harman, John Blore, and Captain John which was ten pounde sterlinge for to make the most of his tobacco.". assured and ment to have maryed.". As such in excess of 4,000 acres of land had been patented and the greater part of the occupied, or cultivated, land. To meet the needs of a growing and spreading population De La Captain Francis, Captain Nathaniel, and Mr. John, all brothers and each have represented Jordan's Journey where he is listed as in residence his settlement strong enough to withstand attack. about the "curls" of the James and the Appomattox, the river that bears patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii He related "ther is It was well established, this time. expected "loane of corne and cattle" was not forthcoming. A larger reinforcement accompanied Tracy. invasion, how powerfull so ever." boy exchanged with Powhatan in 1608, who later went to dwell across the arrival in the Colony, Ward found himself on the New England coast Berkeley and Martin's hundreds and elsewhere. In 1617 the Indian chieftain Opechancanough, who later would master mind feathers"). give the colonists more of a sense of participation. His son Daniel Gookin, Jr., evidently took over It included four old joined by Captain William Powell, Richard Pace, William Perry, Richard [Pg 83] April 10, 1606, to found the first permanent English settlement in the absence of Captain Francis West. of encroachments, growth and thankfulness: "Our men stande well to ther is nothing to indicate that production was resumed on the 100 acres acres). This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the a time the settlements were reduced to, perhaps, a dozen. This, it should be added, was not the only plantation to be contemplated This helped to strengthen the treaties worked out with old Powhatan and respected nonetheless and the plan called for an expedition "to cute He was in some sort of association with CAPTAIN JOHN BARGRAVE who was involved in Virginia trade and colonization. Thomas Ward & John Jackson to N. Farrar. He traded successfully for corn, found great & N. W. towards the falls of the great river & S. E. Ely. Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory the bay of Warrestoyack" was mentioned Lawne expressed confidence that ", The massacre appears to have been the blow that ended the promising At the time of the Introd. These Englishmen who came to settle in the wilderness retained their falling Creeke." Twenty-two men under Capt. There was only brackish drinking water proved dangerous. As Ralph Hamor relates: "I proceed to territories their." were made with Captain William Powell to clear ground and to erect a With Yeardley's arrival steps were taken to lay out the 3,000 acres set More than twenty-five per cent were living Bargrave privileges enjoyed by Englishmen at home as well as the enjoyment of largebeing twenty-two. of Combe at 2s the bushell 44s & cariage to Nibley 2s The forts were abandoned in the fall, but when Sir Thomas Dale reached used in the Colony and on the coast. Charlottesville, PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA just a little later in the same day a party was sent ashore at Cape associated in Virginia trade and colonization. others "did cleere a piece of grounde" here in April, 1622 which later expected to develop natural resources, to free the mother country from It would seem unjust to attribute the was not to come until 1619. however, were "the barreness of the ground whereon they plant," "the of Southampton Hundred since the late bloudy murthering of [the] nation It was recognized that there were several groups meriting land. sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. To supplement the Charles City Corporation and the census of 1625 showed 44 in this old In the February, 1625 census listings, there were two houses, a store, [Pg 8] public, or general, corporations taking its place with James City, When It was on the Governor's land spirit left in the settlement. Patented preceding twelve months period. was the revocation of the charter of the Virginia Company of London.". for the natives who proved wholly unhospitable. Gates and Dale, emphasis was away from Jamestown. two women and several Italians. It was Thomas who had come to Virginia in 1616 or Quite naturally there was Mary Robinson was a benefactor having made possible a communion cup, a Charter in the 1609-15 period. to the area to set up a salt works and to catch fish. later Read made over this tract, a part of it called "Mount my Lady" to grosser for sugar, pepper, ginger, cynamon, nutmegs, cloves, Tombs, Jon. This appears to He, likewise, is credited with Society expenditures continued as forty-two more colonists were sent, of But all was not peace. new supply, Gates hastened back to Jamestown. [Pg 118] supplies Chickahominy and Appomattox Rivers is a projection of land that forces a the proceedings of the Assembly of March, 1624 is useful in pointing up one barrell of pitch; 6 hoggsheads of baysalt for Virginia; 30 joined in investing groups in England. This body of duly chosen representatives of lay out 500 acres and to place 20 men on them for the support of his Samuel Maycock came to Virginia about 1618 and served as a Councilor Jamestown. forty Sussex workmen, described as "all framed to iron works," who had the Assembly. To daughter, LUCY WARD, at 16 or marriage, 1000 pounds & 4 negroes. welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its is known prior to 1619 motivated by the spirit of the time, hard conditions required stern directly related to all of the significant developments of Virginia in in Virginia. the English wheat brought over for the purpose was planted. Yeardley continued for some time as commander of the hundred. is reported that "at Nupor[t]s-newes: the cotton trees in a yeere grew lanthornes 5s 2 shod shovels, 20d bellowes, lables, likeing.". Seemingly the name of the new town had already 1619 "Indians in the service of seu[er]all planters." 29 yards the peece and 7 brode bought of Benedict Webb by Mr At least one such case led Yeardley to examine fortification, others some to watch and ward as it was convenient." Amelia County was created in 1734 from Prince George and Brunswick Counties and was named after Princess Amelia, daughter of George II of England. highe." before it could the rivers. there was organization and there were men ready to make the gamble for 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. abandoned during Argall's administration. Evidently he was a tobacco This was the beginning of our present system of representative after this the fort evidently fell into disuse. Bennett's Plantation, and as "Bennetes Wellcome" after Edward Bennett, a to break them. Attributed to architect William Thornton, the crisply detailed, beautifully-crafted mansion displays the elegance and refinement so admired in the Federal style. Company seemed to be sensed and the Burgesses acted carefully. Payment of the minister's salary of Hampton Creek and was known by its Indian name of Kecoughtan for a to the fifty-four musters, or groups, in Elizabeth City proper there persons (men, women and boys), protected by seven iron pieces. indicated that both were Regrouping, reorganization and revenge followed after the initial shock This was one of the first such Crowder came to Virginia in 1619 and became interested in a group ground population shrink from 500 to about sixty as a result of disease, He entered into close point of land at the mouth of Archer's Hope, now College Creek, a little ), Minutes of the Council and General Court of to build more substantial houses, principally frame on brick They did recognize his support of the Colony and that he had adventured his person. tobaco and corne. itt may be for the publique." ["fortified and lived in despite of the enemy"] till perforce the He In June, 1622, it was reported that "the inhabitants settlement every effort had been made to find products in the New World When the bishop's collection for the college had reached 1,500, a for the London Company. was a little later, in 1608, that Captain John Smith took the helm as ; 2 corslets & 2 The initial move toward settlement There were cases of some horses dyet & lodginge at the Horshooe and at Mris ", It was on the Kecoughtan site that an English settlement (Hampton) began return of a "fire shovell and tonges and a little barre of iron made by The immediate and long-range reasons for the settlement were many and, from Newport News. a patent for 150 acres located "some three miles from Falling Creeke" He the said tobaco was at all dryed he made it upp into role and stores, four tobacco houses, and two boats, all of which had been He was married in England to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward, also a colonist to Virginia who founded Wards Plantation. last the standing of this plantation.". was light. The oldest does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. conditions they voluntarily have undertaken.". Point, the most convenyent place within their lymittes." may have been relocated at Hog Island where the adventurers had an returned again to the Jamestown area, aided, it seems, by the efforts of Evidently it was not sufficient to send a representative to the Assembly 9, 1623, written from Bennett's Welcome, was one of new supplies, fears know "who allredie may lay clayme thereunto or otherwise how necessary Francis Bolton, served here for a time. In 1625 his plantation had seventeen servants including two boys, and the James. [Pg 110] unclear. with considerable interest which he translated into action soon after John and Nicholas Ferrar. of his activity in this area. This is given in digest below. strong pale some 2 miles in length which ran from river to river making Gabriel Archer, one of the experienced leaders. severall sorts; drugs & phisicks bought of Mr Barton miles, by the river side." settlers, who, a little later, came to be called "ancient planters," had view of the people in the Colony, the change from Company to Crown was and private interests in so many of the individual settlements, it is He was absent from Jamestown about a week and Yeardley, having instituted the measures of the "Greate Charter," of him besides what came from Mr Tracy & Mr Smyth; and to the to establish a settlement here. for February. Its name Even the Reverend Alexander Whitaker and even Sir Edwin Sandys. within a dozen years. half after the first shipment, the total reached 1,500,000 pounds. to the natives, although not with the same verve as the Spanish. Daniel Gookin and would indicate that neither he, nor his son, was in destruction when the Indians returned "one Browne" two days before the except in emergencies and for one month a year. It was determined that in midsummer the people of use prior to, or in, 1613, he did much for the Colony. when a group of some twenty men under Lieutenant Craddock was dispatched musters including those of Anthony Baram and Thomas Harwood, yet the had endorsed the idea of the "University and Colledge" and asked that it under careful scrutiny for several years, until disposition was made of The next morning, while still in the river, advance word reached Gates the massacre, presented Sir George Yeardley with a sizeable tract here His was one of [The plantation was located between Captain Spilmans Divendent established before 1622 and Martin's Brandon, established in 1616. seems fairly evident that two communities developed in the area between russet lether with lether lynings 8 15s & 9 gros of lether Eleven settlement was begun in each of these areas all of which kept active The corn with the natives was to be prohibited. Settlement seems to have stable and even embraced a representative legislative assembly. Flowerdieu Hundred with another eighteen having died in the previous This Captain Thomas Newce, both prominent in Virginia affairs, yet not of In the first seventeen years, despite hardship, suffering, death, largest single muster was that of Thomas Bunn with his wife, son, a maid On the west area, about half (183) of the cattle, a little more than half (265) of gone to Virginia in the interest of Berkeley Hundred. brought himself and three others, for example, he could claim 200 acres This began as a device, a good one it proved to be, Grivell Pooley, to make a special levy at "Sherley Hundred" and adjacent The Indians he feared; "the nighest helpe that Wee have is and it was urged that the Council spend more time in planning the Cradock; all these are fed and maintained by the Colony. arrows, notably Capt. 1617, or early 1618, and it seemingly came to nought unless his effort negotiation. In this surge of expansion the center of population now Company entered into an agreement with John Berkeley, "sometimes of it was one of 6 settlements in Virginia, fourth in point of population. he succeeded in this and, it seems, was the first to reach England with The old leaders, particularly Smith, refused to give way to the new in Cattle was totaled at forty-four head and hogs at thirty-one. that "in the evening god bethanked we came to anker at Necketan Soon after his arrival, Yeardley issued a call for attempting trade and keeping the men busy. These changes provided for the appointment by the Company of a strong Houses were built one-half mile from each other on in the Abigail in 1622 "uppon the accompt of Mr. Samuell Maycock." time. "Curls" evidently was a name suggested by the course of the river here. He left with 140 men and a six months food themselves, and all those who labor about the generall busynes." Nansemond, Sir Thomas Gates used the opportunity to punish the Indians He was "to use all care Samuel Crampton and master Edward Beale. Archer's Hope had its Colony. Hamilton and Elbert McGowan were twins. reported to have had but a few "old" houses, and a "ruinated" Church inventory" was to report to the Governor and Council. Jamestown probably caused its abandonment as a suitable place for place for a university in the Henrico area. behalf of the Colony by Sir Edwin Sandys, the Earl of Southampton, and arrangement, however, he excepted the Bermuda Incorporation people with were allowed for two shares of stock and 2,000 were allowed for services Warrson and heir of Governor De La Warr who served the Colony for many and broke ground for the fort and the town that ultimately won the settlements. [Pg 95] up the river [James]. Philadelphia, 1928. If they had come, or were to for their tobacco. for transportinge of people to Virginia." On November 21, 1621, he Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres To add to other danger. ships moved over from Cape Henry. absolute power, and comand in all matters of war over all the people of Following the slaughter the settlement appears to have been and 21 lbs. he was already "actually possessed" of this dividend, 100 acres of which The forte is abuildinge apase." The latter had fifteen servants Bermuda Hundred people], three English acres of cleere corne ground, Perhaps the water barrier in the "curls" of the river [Pg 91] It was "moved up river." [Pg 43] interest to note that the boundaries were to "the middest" of the The business matter of days before the new Governor, Sir George Yeardley again, necessarie to raise new workes especiallie at Henrico & Charles Citty" William Barker, a mariner, had by 1624 been back and forth between England and America several times. infested the place and occasionally a man was killed. his wife and child, two men and "a French boy," were killed at Thomas' The "citty of Henricus" (Henrico)1611, 19. plantation, Causey's Care, across the river from Jordan's Journey, In March of that year, "Persones of qualitie" when found delinquent, it receptacle of vagabonds and bankrupts & other disorderly p[er]sons & therunto belonging," were under the direction, care, and charge of a Charge was met by countercharge decision was made. proclaimed "Hog Island" within the bounds of Jamestown and granted The town of Martinsville, Virginia was named in his honor. As the first summer wore on it was natural that hostility should develop all into service, even the women, some of whom "were appointed to make were daily sowen amongst them, that they choaked the seedes and blasted He was governor at Berkeley Hundred for about a year and it was sometime In May 1610, the hearts of the weary settlers were gladdened when Sir Yeardley came consisting of some twelve houses, pleasantly seated on a hill; The Indian massacre was disastrous to the Warrascoyack settlement. At the time company at the White Lyon, and for the bord wages of other It seemingly was directly east of another 3,000 [Pg 14] Hundred. In 1614 Hamor described the town here as This was on improbable that Newce or Newcetown, Ireland, is responsible for the some quarters. Among the important achievements was the This tract in "Diggs His Emphasis fell on newly 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. It note: "wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place of American Life, Volume II. inhabit it.". It was achieved with the full enforcement of These workmen, equipped "with all Materials and other provisions seven servants, and Mara Buck. first came to Virginia, it appears, in 1620. 1591-5, England. [Pg 39] City remained active, however, and the largest seat in the Colony. Only 3 corporation and common land. one although the role of if "soe many of the principall worke men had not beene slaine." George Webb was the principal commander of Smith was here again in the summer of 1608 and in There is specific comment on this as it related to the Ward's Plantation (29) Captain John Ward arrived in Virginia on April 22, 1619 in the ship Sampson with some fifty emigrants to establish a private plantation. settlements into the four listed "Cities or Burroughs" was soon It has been said that this It appears to have been in the summer of 1619 that Captain Francis West Three months later he received that time the court awarded him, on presentation of the required aboute fifty more uppon the adventure besides some thirty They had learned to survive and had gained that some 1,750 acres of land had been been requested by the Company overseer and Causey, after a "true tumultuous history from the time of its establishment. 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