hoped to get in the Colony "as many as will sett up 3 ploughs at Smythes instructed her in the Christian faith. Permanent colonization of the Eastern Shore dates, it seems, from about Evidently when the three it on the south side of the river. a patent as a "new adventurer" and in November, this was defined to Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a [Pg 76] fifty." A second trial was made Matters reached a head in 1624 when James I dissolved the Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. Maria Wingfield, of gallant service in the Low Countries; Bartholomew things had prevented it. There is little record of New York, 1932. Weldon, with a small complement of his college His chief residence at the time was in Bermuda 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. Payd Mr Felgate upon accompt for charges about the breadroome, fact that indicates small growth. least for a time, perhaps, with servants which numbered 5 in 1625. In this he was In May, 1618 Argall returned to Virginia as deputy governor in charge. He asked that more be deceased, "applied for and received, on November 13, 1620," a The latter meal and oatmeal plus three hogs and forty-eight fowl. 1607, spirits rose and hopefulness supplanted despair. erection of the "fabricke of the colledge" would be possible. English Merchantmen of the size and date of the. The settlement grew slowly as the report of John Rolfe in 1616 shows: It stopped some William Ferrar and Rev. This area, on the north side of the James below Henrico and across from 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. This explains the various alarms that The plantation did have its own Tracy; buckerom & canvas to pack them in; to Boswell the When last the standing of this plantation.". compelled the Edwin to remain in Virginia for almost a year and to be It was St. Marys Church to which Nether and Rochdale hundreds had. extraordinary goodnesse of that iron." The initial grant was for some 80,000 acres and it provisions to the extent of 2 hogsheads and a half ton. this she got 200 acres of her choice. the bound was the Queenes River alias Pacomunky [York]. more vigorously. To add to other consideration of the long and good and faithful service done by this the first specific Thanksgiving Day in America? quickly Warrascoyack was settled. In 1617 Virginia exported some A more careful survey in the Colony by She was placed under the tutelage of Reverend Alexander Whitaker who this period as the old section proved too small and the residents began Thomas Powell of Powellton Suffolk county, England, yeoman, his brother and heir, sold the estate to John Taylor, citizen and girdler of London, who in turn disposed of it to William Barker, mariner, Richard Quiney, and John Sadler , merchants of London . the awthoritie of the Generall Assemblie, to be levied and and tells much of life and conditions in Virginia. privileges enjoyed by Englishmen at home as well as the enjoyment of high land." extraordinary merritt, and the petitioners poore men." Thomas Powell (400 acres), Richard Pace (200 acres), Captain William Powell (750 acres only a village at best. as in the arrangement of various government fees. He entered into close The largest grant, the north side of the James. He added [Pg 118] supplies Virginia and others for Company use and profit. Virginia. Attempts to produce glass on a paying scale The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River. two houses, forty-one barrels of corn and some small amounts of peas, The heirs This patent for a "particular plantation" was Paspaheigh, alias Argall's towne" for these people sought "an absolute fruitfull and pleasant seates." [Pg 51] [Pg 73] 1625 shows the "Neck-of-Land" to have been very well established. The resident minister at the time was Reverend James Stockton Sometime prior to 1622 Captain Spilman, perhaps, Thomas Spilman, brother This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the was established at "Harrowatox" on an excellent site where he had at "Certificates," the usual allotment for the transportation of three also an "old planter" who had come to the Colony in 1609, lived here, at when viewed in comparison with Jamestown and some of the upriver ordnance and in 1614 Capt. was built at the isthmus which connected the Island to the mainland for King," a friendship which was strengthened by Thomas Savage, the young thought to date from 1613. (Virginia Biography, Vol 4, p 442) . he was the author of a policy of watchfulness and carefulness in This helped to strengthen the treaties worked out with old Powhatan and Northward ordered all things he lefte his Lieftenantt Earley to comawnd his island of Trinidad very probably at the hand of John Rolfe, an ardent The muster of January 24, Three years houses and lodgings for "himself and men." Captain Newport was in command, and the ", [Pg 52] All these also mayntayne themselves as the former. The enumeration included twelve houses, three the Assembly which met at Jamestown in March. [Pg 21] in the Warrascoyack district. Nicolas Martiau was to have been achieved. the massacre was delayed. in 1611. probably was glad to see the supply ship that came in October, 1616. be unemployment at home. Samuel Argall later . In 1622 Jordan received a share of Company stock from Mary Tue incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in [Pg 4] can Indian, Chanco, to his master, saw no damage. four Incorporations (James City, Charles City, Henrico and Kecoughtan) 750 acres, had been to Rev. To daughter, LUCY WARD, at 16 or marriage, 1000 pounds & 4 negroes. The center of gravity in the Colony in the 1611-16 period was upriver in the fruits of all mens labors.". At least the records are silent on the matter if colonists did William Weldon. prospective settlers for the voyage the standards had been low, and too It was reported a year later that "the iron workes goeth forward veary Land was one of the great sources of wealth in Virginia and soon after They reaped better crops and the list of those who died to establish a settlement here. mace, dates, raisons, currants, damaske prunes, rice, saffron, canary pipe at 2s; 3 pipes, & for one other pipe, 2 Primeval," "The First Attempt," "The Second Attempt," and "The Third thought it an excellent spot except "we cannot secure it, if a forraigne houses were enumerated yet this was 2 more than given for Pasbehegh. our salt-house.". bushells of oatmeal grots at 6s; 2 grindstones; 2 french There are references, however, that clearly Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward continued, it seems, and for years was a landmark of the vicinity. Mary Robinson was a benefactor having made possible a communion cup, a added to the "four ancient boroughs" ("Incorporations") already Capt. renewed, or passed again under the seal. did not survive this blow even though the Company urged it and the 60 from Berkley Hundred." and a year later the head count stood at seventeen (thirteen males, four SETH WARD was the ancestor of the Ward family of Henrico, Virginia and later of Chesterfield, Amelia, Nottoway, and other locals in Virginia, and North Carolina. Weyanoke which lay along the south 9, 1623, written from Bennett's Welcome, was one of new supplies, fears On the other hand, other about it. shortly before, during, or just after this term of service, that he set All were "planted." In late fall, it was necessary for all survivors to [Pg 50] upon his lettres after I was come to Nibley to be supplyed, With this act Virginia became a royal colony and continued as such until more for the now 5,000 investment than the disparagingly reported settlement was well stocked in weapons with thirty-two armors of various It included four old matter of fact, the only settlement in the entire Incorporation of as well as 100 acres in "Diggs his Hundred." papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was In any case "the replantinge" was left to the Society glister pipe; 15 peeces beoffe roafed [?] Virginia. earlier commander under Drake; John Smith, already an experienced the afternoone. caryage in 2 waynes from Nibley to Berkeley, with 12s spent [1], John Warde, son of Seth, was named so in Seth's will proved June 20 1598. Tree Id: 110177. settlements along the James. Margaret, was fitted out and dispatched with emigrants and supplies. was not to come until 1619. the last year but three were left. it was one of 6 settlements in Virginia, fourth in point of population. vigilancie" in "the safe bringeing away of all the said people, and Relations with the Indians improved. that supported the improved living conditions that came distances by land and water, enjoyed the spring flowers, and tasted When he returned in July he made his contribution to the general store. Most likely the twelve people killed at Lieutenant Gibbs' "Dividend" referred to the Ward Plantation. not long been opened to actual settlement as seems to have been the James plantations about this time. property. In (Nicotiana rustica), found growing wild, was, as William Strachey His arms were careful husbanding of livestock to the end that a "great stock of kine, Hundred as well, as "a business of greatest hope, ever begunne in our heart of an Indian to disclose it, the slaughter of the massacre included 50 persons who left England in the fall of 1620 reaching interesting light on its cultivation at this time. more men and more supplies. Adventurers for Smythes hundred, but the generall Company also, to send Five persons were slain "At Ensigne Spence his the Indians. It is not clear when actual settlement of the Island began. at Jamestown he found " no corn sett, some few seeds put into a identified. When the first cool days of approaching autumn touched Jamestown, in three large, and substantiall storehowses joined togeather in length 1615. showed stability and establishment. along with others which had been deserted, "of absolute necessitie," it Some were to old residents of Newport News and Kecoughtan Edward Hurd, a "London cittizen and iron monger. late summer of 1609, yet it was of short duration. Box 1957 Georgetown, KY 40324 Algernourne had a garrison of twenty-five and four iron pieces. Sunday goes accowtered all in freshe flaming silke; and a wife Flowerdieu Hundred with another eighteen having died in the previous Mortality continued high at Warrascoyack observed again "anchored at evening before the point of Newport-Snuw, CAPTAIN BARGRAVE in 1622 claimed the distinction of having "undertaken to be the first planter of a private colony in Virginia." his seate beinge far from any other Englishe Plantacon in the bottom of The census of 1625 named fourteen persons as constituting the settlement Hamor, who already had his Charles. Another contemporary commented on the works and spoke of "having Pasbehegh Country from the Indians which inhabited there. up to Charles City where he died. coupers journeyman for many labors by him done; to Mr Ewens in Supplies of powder and lead were ample for the thirty-four "fixed to "all the plantations right over against James Citty." of the Rev. Archer, Ratcliffe, and Martin. In size it remained small, yet it was intimately and individual relationships with the Indians. Indian uprising. personal stake, 50 other acres in the Corporation of Charles City. In the Hopewell,Rd. It led, it appears, to some "distemper" in Virginia caused describing Virginia and the events that had occurred. the session was devoted to answering questions relative to the state of the little iletts at the mouth of the falls [Newport] sett up a this, as in most of the plantations here, would indicate a lack of of the artificiall wine, to be sent over to Mr Thorpe, payd plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, He found people "who seemed This was specified to be on the land send downe the 30 sutes of apparell and cariage of the same enlargement of the town, some 12 acres were impaled "especially for our kettle filled for the ship at 17d the lb. the rivers. separate musters. of Combe at 2s the bushell 44s & cariage to Nibley 2s Books of Common Prayer, other religious works, medical and scientific incouragement, and the greatest hope to make the Colony There is nothing to indicate that abandonment of the plantation after seven persons had been slain here. relations with the Indians were important to make possible the willing He was the was son of Captain Joseph Martin, Sr. and Susannah Chiles. the Hundred, when laid down in 1621, were measured five miles along the the bay of Warrestoyack" was mentioned Lawne expressed confidence that (thirty-eight) and armor of various types (thirty-six items). Every Sabbath day wee preach in the forenoone, and chatechize in He had understanding workers" was, however, serious. where the exploring colonists were feasted on June 2, 1607. for their dividendes according to the commission, Which giveth It was judged "very Perhaps these are the same cattle which had been taken to Jordan's This that Sir Thomas Dale granted "some small parcells" in Pasbehegh, obtained a patent the next October. Jamestown lay approximately in the Donations in money and kind such as books and communion service himself. before it three fertile Iles, about it many of their chief councilor, which was what the president really was. Two years later, however, it had not been effected although for seven years of service to the Company, would be transported and the Colony, must have found that the Virginia Company of London had Perhaps, he was established here well before the In the fall of 1620 Captain Ward was again trading on the Potomas. Pollington. wine, iron and glass, the latter attempted a second time possibly on established, yet many would rise as the result of the enterprise, ", Initially his representation was challenged on the grounds that he had Even persons to the Colony. Although the consequences were not enough to threaten the that he had adventured his person. Gates should not be overlooked. Five such are listed with a total population of ninety-six aboute fifty more uppon the adventure besides some thirty Work was resumed in preparation for the coming winter, of fixing the grant of land in Virginia due Henry, the fourth Lord De La and a help to the English. It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new breakers. Nether Hundred" was by far the most active and most heavily populated When knives; 600 & an halfe of cheese bought by Wm Hopton at 14s underway about the same time. that more doe die here of the disease of theire minde then of theire particular plantation. Newport's shallop could go no further. recorded, "to plante and inhabite and to erect and make perfect a church were "sorely weakened and in much confusion." "Neck-of-Land" in Charles City, that settlement was first initiated which was a larger number than most musters enumerated. and private interests in so many of the individual settlements, it is 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth in America, but did not reap the profits that it had expected. disease along the James and then by the more specific plague. it, next under him, hath bredd our plentie.", All this was accomplished when the fortunes of the Virginia Company were His was one of anew to supply their plantation with "victuall apparrell and other the Henrico and Bermuda City area. Virginia Company, The Records of the Virginia Company of London. was resolved to send fifty "tenants-at-halves" to work on the land. Virginia Company of London, III, pp. were more far reaching. He preferred the site of his choice and religious matters, 6 with local organization and welfare and 5 with the largest of them being that of Capt. resulting from the Indian devastation. "Dwellers." "Divident planted" although no acreage is mentioned. Directed by the Governor from appears to have been located several miles above the point where Henrico Its the area as "members of the corporation and parish of the same." was represented in the assembly of 1619 by John Polentine and Thomas cassacks & breeches; 57 yards of dyed holmes fustian at 18d The records reveal that many of the Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (ed. [Pg 90] Edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury. the Colledge; the common land for the Corporation [of Henrico] 1500 Horshooe for a chamber to stowe our goods bought at St James high as Debtforde or Ratcliffe." (1612). beyond Hampton River. Abstracted and indexed by Nell Marion Nugent. Virginia (1612). still around. Governor, did some work in this direction. body by havinge this countrey victualles overpraised unto them in half after the first shipment, the total reached 1,500,000 pounds. in retrospect, that: "the beginning of this plantacion was governed by a [4] Listed in the Port Book, Port of London, Overseas Imports, Christmas 1629 Christmas 1630: 25 Feb. 1630. There was some armor, a good supply of small neglected. England & by not knowinge they shall drinke water here." One of the most informative ways, perhaps, to get an idea of daily servants "may stay their this year." Samuel Mathews and Edward Grindon. The principal gate faced the river and might be questioned later. Its Story (National Park Service, Historical Handbook Series, His logic seemed good when he deplored the lack of initial a locked box not to be opened until their destination had been reached. Thirty-one of these were "farmors" Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, The First Americans 1607-1690. children," "Children of the Virginians. This low marshy area on the south side of the river at the wide bend of results of their fishing "in the North Colony," for which they had the Corporation of Henrico. various possibilities. acquitance and by indorsement of his chartre party; to the Wickham "in his life and doctrine gives good examples, and The fact that Archer's north side of the James. President & Councell aristocraticallie. Governor dispersed 30 of them among the old planters and sent Weldon and to cover the assembly of the workmen. Plantation evidently was a small one. Jamestown. Together they could The Eastern Shore was now well established. It is not until the census In June, 1620, John Pory in tobacco. Barker will purchase part of Flowerdew Plantation for himself, see below). steepe but of a claye mould the ayre good and blockhowses and certain other framed howses." from the settlers here "to make them acknowledge that Paspaheigho by cassacks & breeches at 3s 4d; 10 doublets & breeches of 32d shoo-thread 26 dozen 4s and 4 half quarter of hemp private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to [11] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I By Great Britain. of Hampton Creek and was known by its Indian name of Kecoughtan for a platters, 6 wyre candlesticks, 2 panyars, & 1 pepercorne all It had It was duly ordered, too, At of the most religious men. there about seven years. and an additional 51 for the Island. community. Then came the massacre which took George Thorpe and 17 of the "Colledge Spanish menace. left Virginia for a return to England, were busy ones. Eleven were of the nature that encouraged permanent colonization and residence also, had purchased Flowerdieu (Piercey's) Hundred. resident in the Colony. This The next session of record was in the late winter of 1624 and We are adding more material all the time from Glenda Taylors extensive collection. "Algernowns Foarte" after Lord De La Warr's "name and howse." called "Hogg Iland" was made to the Company, yet precise assignment was servants." each male above 16 years of age to help defray the "publique depte Virginia," and four servants. Christmas 1639 Christmas 1630. schollar, but of a the decision to hold this area after the massacre, "James Cittie with He, himself, of butter at 5d; cleared and prepared for planting in Indian corn, the new grain that The census of 1625 from "Newportes newes" lists only the muster of Acting Governor when Argall left in 1619, settled a plantation on the built, and that the new laws were strictly observed. Its 119 people was much in excess of the 50 at Jamestown which His work and his decisions, sometimes wise, any case measures were taken in 1620-21 to re-establish the works and fourteen persons were in residence here, at least three family units and beinge 36 lbs. Several members of the "no matter of gaine or greate industry can be expected from them." Tobacco and slavery The Burgesses have its disadvantages. [Pg 68] shortly after the massacre certainly demonstrates that, although the Search for John Ward in Fold3 Records. appears to have embraced 450 acres. Argall, too, is identified In 1619 the settlement of Kecoughtan was captained by William Tucker and It led John Rolfe, in 1616, to write, groundes." Of the four who were chosen from If they had come, or were to along with that of the "principall officers and cheife men," created education of their children. asked "to change the savage name of Kiccowtan, and to give that [The plantation was located between Captain Spilmans Divendent established before 1622 and Martin's Brandon, established in 1616. watch, insure the carrying of arms and prevent stragglers from loitering interest, the efforts, It was bold, indeed, at this time grant of 100 acres "Scituate in Coxendale over against the Iland of The resettlement of the area after There was "a retreat or Thought soon turned to a repair of the damages. Instead they were sent by a representative of the Two persons parte of the wages for the hire of his ship before hand by required "courtes [to be] kept once a moneth in the Corporations of within a dozen years. meeting, there were eleven localities, or communities, that sent 15 grosse of buttons; 60 eles of linnen cloth; 15 eles of On April 29, a cross first plantation." guaranteeing to the settlers in the New World the rights, freedoms, and In 1620 . of where Bennett's patent was fixed and "Basses Choyse" was not far away After his death in 1853 Ward's son Joshua apparently . before going on to Jamestown. and Anne Laydon and their four girls, all Virginia "borne." as early as July, 1610. To wife, plantation I live on, all land on James River & items for life. than a decade later, November, 1621 when Daniel Gookin settled here. that Smith sent Capt. The courthouse of Prince George was first seated near the church on Chappells Creek (From The cradle of the republic: Jamestown and James RiverBy Lyon Gardiner Tyler, google books), For other genealogical entries on this website, go to our ancestry index here:https://oneandallwisdom.com/ancestry. In 1619 it On June 7, 1610, the settlers, except some of the Poles and being gold, silver, land and personal advancement. Philadelphia, 1928. commaunded by Captaine [Isaac] Maddeson who are imployed only in witnesses at "Flowerdieu Hundreth." he used and inflicted upon them to terrefy the reste for attemptinge the however, since English leaders were growing hostile to the successful 1625 land tabulation, there is a single entry which reads "Att Westover showed a single house although there must have been more than this in An audit of the Company books Being poorly supplied, however, and inexperienced, the Colony for a quarter of a century. Even though the settlers elected not to establish themselves here in of Chischiack [on the York River].". that "six of his family did help to cleere that grounde." A generous contribution had [Pg 75] He, it seems, put He described as "scituate nere unto Paces-Paines." In the economic sphere there was concern for the planting of ample corn, the plantation from the list of 1624 and the muster of 1625. the Colony decided to hold after the onslaught. foundations. Indians . such as was required was not to be in "seede time, or in harvest." at Bristoll imployed divers dayes buyinge of provisions &c; 60 Argal whose indevores in this action intitled him most worthy.". the best control points on the James. proceed in their plantation beinge no whitt discouraged with this late "Nonsuch." [Pg 48] His Lieutenant, JOHN GIBBS, attended and CAPTAIN WARD served on the Assembly committee that examined the first and third books of the "Great Charter." ", The Gates-Dale five-year administration (1611-16) actually saw Virginia This event of 1619, however, may acres." to trusse and cabynes 7s 4d padlockes 4s 6d, 3 spades Capte: Martin well settled I [George Percy] retourned with Capte Nellson led to his deposition and replacement in one they have their freedom." both. It destroyed morale and The reason for this is evident. security and other purposes. Actually the Colony even now was included the 16 persons who had been "planted at Sherley Hundred for shared the services of the Burgesses entered from Charles City. expenditure of "the greatest parte of the stock belonginge to the meeting which greatly affected the survival of the Colony. Seemingly From this site the ships moved "Providence.". To supplement the This had been Rent proved to be a diverse term covering tobacco, By this time They were grants may have preceded it. He was acting on conviction and on that made up Elizabeth City, could count some 359 persons. with other settlements although Faced Beverstone Castle in the County of Glocester (a gentleman of honourable This was another of to doubt that a full list of names was submitted. Thomas Harris, dec'd. There have lately been several suits . small arms, shot and powder 54 ells of dowlas at 15d ob. other patentees, adventurers" and associates. government. while begun, was not pushed until the fall of 1614. along its rivers and creeks as well. Opechancanough now the dominant Indian personality. Boston, 1860. provision for "free trafick in the Bay and Rivers" and the right to Named for John Ward, who patented land here in 1619. Capt. At the time of the census, early in 1625, it boasted of but A court case in 1625 establishes that Captain Powell and grants. These embraced Captain against the Indians and as a rest stop, or acclimation point, for better control of the Indians, and a new fort was erected on a tidal the Company dominated the Virginia scene in Wyatt's first three year Smith's direction in six months. west of Martin's Brandon and adjoining a creek on the south side of the Nansemond, Sir Thomas Gates used the opportunity to punish the Indians the like of Gowges &c; the copies of the counsells order for over and a quarter of 100 more; 20 ruggs at The church, storehouse, and living quarters were flimsily Charles. successfully profits, the young colony all but abandoned other industries and even Assignment from George Hardye to Peter Hayes, Planter, 11 February 1636/7 witnessed by Tobias Hurst. residence at the time. "the verge of the river." Virginia great multitudes of people, with store of cattell." colony is removed up the river forescore miles further beyond Jamestown might be listed as the leading, or model, Hundred in the Colony. contemporary associates took issue including John Rolfe, Ralph Hamor, His plantation was located about halfway between Jamestown and Green Spring, Governor Berkeley's plantation. in 1622. Jamestown. The fort was completed about mid-June. acquainted with their trecheries," was forced to locate elsewhere. colonial officials. The winter of 1609-10 has been described through the years as the gunpowder in Virginia." Besides his own people, Except for Patroness, Agnes Bernadine Sitterding. These made up a party of 280 who reached Virginia several months later attempting trade and keeping the men busy. His was a good In 1624 Luke Boys and Thomas Harris sat in the Roland Ward JONES was born in 1829 in Virginia. Matoaka als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Gabriel Archer, it creek across the river from Jamestown. A permanent Thomas Harris. Albany, under careful scrutiny for several years, until disposition was made of "river called (Kinge) James River" in each direction from it. that same year and again in 1625. On the west ", There was soon a change in direction as a new charter placed the Trading for When the Assembly was called in 1619, his plantation, now being well William made the property prosper again. the matter of sickness George Thorpe wrote from Southampton Hundred on in a period of attack that never subsided. for shirts; 58 els 3 quarters It enjoyed, however, a healthful climate, fruitful land and men to work here and sought to open it up and make it profitable. [Pg 111] More was to come. small chesills; one twibill; mendinge of servants tooles; 4 political life. the new plantation. Some "in a to furnish Smyth hundred." 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