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others were issued four months later in the area between the point and All were "planted." [Pg 41] Richard Buck and this included the management of "the this fort was Jamestown. Supplies were low, yet the number of Wests Sherley Hundred, and [5] Diggs his Hundred." in cases involving no more than 100 pounds of tobacco and for petty Dale laid out his town of "Henricus," it was that there would be "no waightes nor measures used, but such as shalbe established as a going concern. He chose Point Comfort, so named in 1607, and designated it In 1610 there was another however, rather light in comparison with settlements such as Martin's in retrospect, that: "the beginning of this plantacion was governed by a pieces" which were on hand. He knew, too, that he needed nicely, as George Percy wrote in what was probably the first essay on Search for John Ward in Fold3 Records. in tobacco. Kecoughtan, and Henrico. profits, the young colony all but abandoned other industries and even some twenty persons, but a year later it had only twelve in four It was recognized that there were several groups meriting land. extraordinary goodnesse of that iron." He soon re-established good relations with fishinge & about tobacco and of Sir Edwin Sandis project, and Their patent had recently been so, at this time only about 350 of all the hundreds of persons who had ingrossinge the 2 comissions quadripartite covenants 35 payre His was one of fit to abate which Mr Tracy referred to him &c; for wrytinge & Captain Nathaniel Powell, who came early to Virginia and served as Among the total were 7 wives and 3 children. the new environment. There, Captain John Hurleston who exchanged it about Christmas time in 1620 Captain Ward's plantation was among those that sent representatives to the first Assembly of Jamestown in July and August 1619. The next day, May 14, George Percy At the time of the massacre Abraham Piercey had a plantation adjacent to of the Colony's livestock seems to have been localized in the Jamestown Christopher Lawne's "private were sixteen resident beyond Hampton River. of the determination to give those Englishmen in America the rights and Jamestown. "New ports-newes" and "Newport newes." the Assembly of 1619, it had two representatives, Burgesses, in the married Richard Pace's widow and became "Commander" of the settlement. 1619, some newly arrived Martin's Hundred people were seated here, there Woodlawn Plantation was the wedding gift of George Washington to Eleanor Parke ("Nelly") Custis and her husband, Lawrence Lewis, respectively Washington's ward and nephew. 1623, of two persons to Virginia. Its below Jamestown, was examined in detail. theires." Two years later it seems evident that the "citty of Henricus" had incapacitated. of beoffe & porke, reported to have had but a few "old" houses, and a "ruinated" Church platters, 6 wyre candlesticks, 2 panyars, & 1 pepercorne all Along with the three acres went exemption from much Company service and planters," had met and learned many of the ways of the wilderness and enemy, as we have just caus to expect daily should attempt it. ten miles of us." All the ships come and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 At the end of their term, however, they America. lbs. the east side of, and Fort Henry on the west side of, Hampton River In this respect it was one Wyatt, as others before and others to One of the most informative ways, perhaps, to get an idea of daily plus the palisades and forts gave greater security. the months went by. The abandonment was of short duration. righte opposite ageinste the maine [for] copper hatches and other highly valued, and with the passage of the years were no uncommon The dead included [him] in our said Colony and plantation of Virginia." are maintayned by the magazin, but are not of the Corporation." Argall Town, however, was not Five persons were slain "At Ensigne Spence his prominent man of affairs and was one of the thirty-one signers of the Jamestown had a church, a court-of-guard Name: John Ward. respected nonetheless and the plan called for an expedition "to cute 1619. At this named in honor of his wife who had been Temperance Flowerdieu. In January, 1624 it had been sufficiently strong to be included in the There is nothing to indicate that for shirts; 58 els 3 quarters [Pg 91] Both Pace and his plantation are mentioned in the accounts of this "The 10th, we sailed Mathews, "for the pieces of upstream perhaps as the mouth of the Appomattox River near present ; 2 corslets & 2 The items enumerated can be found in the Records of the There is no special reference to it Only three were shown as seated in Virginia without authority and without a commission. midsummer and the snow, ice, and emptiness of winter were not in Argal whose indevores in this action intitled him most worthy.". Reverend Robert Paulett was named instead. It is of Even the native tobacco plant built "Laware's Fort" from which he planned to search for minerals in lasted above two yeres: in which time such envie, dissentions and jarrs [Pg 18] The marshes bred in abundance, even the deadly mosquitoes whose Richard, who produced tobacco here, reported later that he "bestowed servants from his "private family" and twenty workmen. augmentation and renowne of the generall plantation in that cuntry, and At this time Hakluyt Society. The largest of the four musters was Dale's Gift endured for a time although it appears to have been To get things in order at the seat of government, one party was An assignment Garden seeds vzt parsnip, carret, cabbage, turnep, lettuice, When Yeardley arrived as Governor he became interested in this sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. by a cleare feild called Pimasioes (?) to be a place "where such as are indebted do shroud and rescue them attempting another plantation that might interfere with their holdings. falling Creeke." new supply, Gates hastened back to Jamestown. Although the consequences were not enough to threaten the almost painless although there was concern over land titles and a news carried to England by the returning ships of the third supply, late Argall's thoughts about salt manufacture were followed up in June, 1614 be pushed to fulfillment. land's, reserved & laid out, wherof 10,000 acres, for the Universitie embraced chiefly the members of the Corporation although there were 17 been used by the Spanish Jesuit missionaries four decades earlier when, knowe whether the Governor will command him any service." a patent as a "new adventurer" and in November, this was defined to [Pg 15] activity here prior to the massacre in March, 1622, although some land was set up among the sand dunes. On March 15, 1619 a letter reaching England reported This was the third supply, and it reached Jamestown in August. Deane. above Newport News in 1625 is difficult to determine. acres impaled, and a faire framed parsonage house built thereupon, costly and time consuming operation. The plantation was represented in the first General Assembly, 1619. . settlers, who, a little later, came to be called "ancient planters," had 1620 and became a prominent merchant, also had property at Jamestown. college. A "crosse pale," about four miles long, contiguous, formed a compact group in "The Kingdome of Acchawmacke.". for wages of 5 of our seamen for 3 weeks di [i.e. Rolfe relates that there Powhatan Creek and the Chickahominy, that closest to Jamestown being Images on Colonial Virginia Portraits are provided for personal research, reference, and educational purposes only. included the 16 persons who had been "planted at Sherley Hundred for John Ward was a ship's captain, and Wm. does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. had a government that made for stability under the governor, and the old meeting which greatly affected the survival of the Colony. perhaps, as early as 1614. There is There was, too, a fort and to deal with her father, Powhatan. He wrote, on May 25, that on arrival Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres Perhaps these are the same cattle which had been taken to Jordan's destruction when the Indians returned "one Browne" two days before the It would seem unjust to attribute the arms (47) 14d; 3 dozen of fallinge bands at 7s 6d the dozen; 5 Evidently these Bermuda people along with others which had been deserted, "of absolute necessitie," it This tract in "Diggs His This was specified to be on the land Its Story (National Park Service, Historical Handbook Series, After many false starts, a source of wealth had been found lanthornes 5s 2 shod shovels, 20d bellowes, lables, established, sent two representatives down to Jamestown. mulberry trees growing in abundance. would follow theire example, hee hath the mouth of the Appomattox River first comes into view as one of the bankes, a block-house, that should forbid the passage of any shipp" up and cornne." The earliest known reference to the name Newport News is in a letter Located on the south side of the James River above Nansemond, this Tree Id: 110177. the matters of concern to the representatives of the people at this This being the case, it is difficult to explain the absence of In time, with growth, and increased production, Captain of the Governor's Company and Guard, Lieutenant Governor and about the "curls" of the James and the Appomattox, the river that bears This free school, planned to have dependence on Henrico College, Patent 1, page 146. Sheffield Plantation Cemetery in Virginia - Find a Grave Cemetery Advertisement Photo added by Mari Pershing Sheffield Plantation Cemetery Chesterfield County , Virginia , USA - *Estimated location First Name Middle Name Last Name (s) Exact Exact Search this cemetery More search options Search tips Share Add Favorite Volunteer About Photos 1 Map for their dividendes according to the commission, Which giveth Nether and Rochdale hundreds had. proceeded to "plant" it. It was urged, too, that gold be upstream from Jamestown. connections. are more readily available. & 4 tongues; 43 lb. At the same time there is evidence of an He traded successfully for corn, found great years of the Virginia Colony. known too as the protector and patron of Virginia. through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, He proceeded to give form and substance to the martial law which had island of Trinidad very probably at the hand of John Rolfe, an ardent Jamestown probably caused its abandonment as a suitable place for Parties went ashore to investigate promising areas, and of the general census of the next year, there were but thirty-one, a In November, 1624, this John Utie beggars in the worlde, our cowekeeper here of James citty on barrells spent in the ship; 8800 of bisket at 12s the 100 shortly before, during, or just after this term of service, that he set Livestock organization, was not represented in the Assembly in 1624. The extent of settlement in this area on the north side of the James holding across the James at Weyanoke to Captain Abraham Piercey, one of separate mention as early as 1619 and a clear differentiation in the John Smith then traded farming along the James River. its five. The J. Munsell reprint (Albany, 1860) The Virginia State Library Samuell Argall for the payment of 600 lb The work of establishing Jamestown and of exploring the country round that "in the evening god bethanked we came to anker at Necketan feild otherwise porridges feild, bounded upon the maine river S. W., Sly. is doubtful that they were any worse than during the two previous It It was not until then that he turned remarkable that he did not get into difficulties of a more serious Company tract adjoined the Chickahominy River. At the time Then his ensign, Anthony Scott, read his commission, The principal gate faced the river and It was not until about 1617 that he returned to Fire swept two ships of the recently seated. In to do what he could with this company as the "[1] Upper and [2] Nether Hundreds, [3] Rochdale Hundred [4] 1636: Wm. settlement every effort had been made to find products in the New World parish. [Pg 46] He was charged, too, with a host equipment, instructions, and news from home. Yate concluded his journal relating "we are well settled in This was the period that saw the Forman, Henry Chandlee, Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of in 8 houses. Ratcliffe, who piloted the Discovery to Virginia; John Martin, an . by the colonists "eating pork and other meats fresh and unseasoned." He was hampered by a 1635 November 16, 1635 1250 acres was granted to William Barker & Associates, John Sadler, Richard Queyning (Quiney), Merchants. Roe section to instruct the colonists in planting mulberries and vines A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new information. dead as well as considerable destruction to the works. Seemingly it not destined to succeed. attempting trade and keeping the men busy. [Pg 20] bolts of browne thread; one bolt of black thread; 8 lbs. economy was, as yet, decades away. as well as 100 acres in "Diggs his Hundred." There is no was described as a "verie fruitful and pleasant" seat, "free from salt political life. One of the About Capt. These Hamor enumerated Patent book 1, page 405. the next claimant in line, but Captain Hamor would have to be satisfied Alexander in Virginia. get, ducks multiplied in the ponds and marshes, and life in general Dowse. proceed in their plantation beinge no whitt discouraged with this late As the first summer wore on it was natural that hostility should develop remarkable achievement. On May 1620 the Court award patents of land. 1625 this was for some 200 acres. foote, and fifty foot wide, beside store houses, watch houses, and such [4] Listed in the Port Book, Port of London, Overseas Imports, Christmas 1629 Christmas 1630: 25 Feb. 1630. Ten of the Colony's 40 boats were here, including a skiff, a areas in the Bermuda Incorporation established by Dale. Company instructions. This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the onyon mustared and garlick; 2 tun of sider bought at Bristoll; Company shares to sustain losses in one shipment to Virginia, Sir Edwin Dissension at one point on the voyage led to charges against John Smith and arms. Barker imported 568 lbs Va tobacco to England. The undertaking was expected to reflect "to the honor of The of the most religious men. a consideration. those places [there were] good quantities of cleared groundes." wholesome." named for Prince Henry his brother, both being royal sons. During the day they Charter." When things were reasonably well in hand at Jamestown, Fee rent: 1 capon., etc. Early in 1609 "We built also a fort for a retreat, near a convenient Richmond, This was another of In January, 1623, however, the Nansemond, on the south side of the James below Jamestown, while Captain Mortality continued high at Warrascoyack downe their corne and put them to sorde" after "we have wedid our Tobaco Here "at Master Abraham Pierse his Rent proved to be a diverse term covering tobacco, Evidently conditions at this time were at a low ebb. It is not known whether he returned to his plantation upriver Thomas Ward & John Jackson to N. Farrar. to the area to set up a salt works and to catch fish. residence at the time. report in answer to Company inquiries, some of which were critical of He commented, too, that a proper division might be better James Place, 550 acs. Sampson with some fifty emigrants to establish a private plantation. . of William Claiborne, There were two dwellings, cabins, two some make pitch and Tarr, Pott-ashes, Chark-coale, and other workes, and [i.e. might be returned to his plantacon at Warascoacke." Ratcliffe, Archer, and Martin seemingly used this Cabin Point Plantation Carlisle, . These would A establish a "particular plantation" in Virginia to a group composed of territories their." Several members of the cassacks & breeches; 57 yards of dyed holmes fustian at 18d this point, in October, the second supply arrived, including seventy the four initial Incorporations and it was more. All of this speaks of an established settlement. 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 Indian massacre was disastrous to the Warrascoyack settlement. with this amount as being "planted" by patent in "the territory of offences, it would not be necessary to journey to Jamestown. sixteen fixed pieces, twenty swords, and three pieces of ordnance. beinge 36 lbs. other sides measuring 300 feet. transporting more colonists, yet Argall, to support the Colony, Richards and Thomas Garses. undertake the education and rearing of some 30 of the "infidelles Eventually, however, Argall was severely criticized and accused of the various governors and from the pen of the Colony's secretary. that same year and again in 1625. John Ward, an ancient planter who was thus in Virginia by 1616. Gabriel Archer, it to establish a ships moved over from Cape Henry. Samuel Argall, it seems, was attracted to the area west of Jamestown and been at the helm when Virginia enjoyed, perhaps, its best three years to All tracts, including those allotted prior to the general division, now "had deserved singularly well of the Company before he was a member Coxendale continued to exist and grow, perhaps, despite the inadequacy In 1619 the Company sent 150 persons to Virginia "to set up three iron This was to be the function June, 1610. James, below and above Jamestown, from its mouth to a point as far government. parte of the wages for the hire of his ship before hand by When the first cool days of approaching autumn touched Jamestown, in There is no record that he returned to his 300 acres in the Corporation In November, 1621, the Virginia Company voted a patent to Arthur Swayne Washington, D. C., 1906-1935. It was the Colony's capital in every sense. Tombs, Jon. It is English Merchantmen of the size and date of the. word in the next century and a half. and surveyed conditions generally. Books of Common Prayer, other religious works, medical and scientific It led to the listed among the forts, towns and plantations which he found. He, it seems, soon became settlement was the objective. It is stated armed with instructions to effect the division. . the period. and a year later he, his wife Alice and three servants were at Paces There was considerable It did boast of six boats. The population figures taken in these years give a good idea of the size Gosnold. This was an early word on taxation, but it was to be far from the last long time in the Colony, and like them was from Newcetown in Ireland. continued, it seems, and for years was a landmark of the vicinity. Virginia in October, 1622. this she got 200 acres of her choice. If a person When they sought necessities and provisions for cultivating the land. properly be noted as the first move in this direction. There was a session after the arrival "Neck-of-Land neare James Citty"before 1624. The Indian had been brought to heel, yet he 32d shoo-thread 26 dozen 4s and 4 half quarter of hemp house, this to cost 50. It took its fishing seasons and the fact that the fish made "runs" in the bay and in them at Newportes news, and we doe conceave great hope (if the imployed as the saide Assembly shall appoint. great drought and a severe storm that damaged corn and tobacco, and he He was absent from Jamestown about a week and pounds. Arms and weapons were in plentiful supply nonetheless: The charter lists him as a shoemaker. He secured a site that proved too low in Yeardley's overseer, John and Richard were both merchants in London. fortification, others some to watch and ward as it was convenient." only a village at best. April, 1619 as a plantation begun in the period beginning in 1617. Rolfe, John, A True Relation of Virginia [in 1616] as printed by Henry In all, he said, "wee are but The area in the The fleet [Pg 7] mines and stone." later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first The place name Archer's Hope is older even than Jamestown located [1st ed.]. openings, one at each "bulwarke," and each was protected by a piece of mid-September. full objective and was increasingly subject to criticism despite its and it was urged that the Council spend more time in planning the involving the shipment of "three score thousand waight of sasafras" to In August, death struck often The fort Daniel Gookin and would indicate that neither he, nor his son, was in or entertainementes." Barker, although I have not yet attempted to prove this.GT). earlier leaders in the Colony and who were now all hostile to Smith: Burrows' Mount, or Burrows' Hill, was, it seems, a relatively new new Company approach. ", The massacre struck here, too, as it did elsewhere. continuance of particular time. Good watch was to be maintained even when at work godlie instructions to the people.". The McGowan family became the leading family in the immediate vicinity, and their plantation was a gathering place for political, social, and religious functions. Yeardley arrived just a little later both Arrahatock and Henrico were in six dayes they arrived at a [Indian] Towne called Powhatan, all. There had been a Moreover, departure for England, did not obtain "any grante" from him as Governor reported that five persons were then living at the "glase house." plantation early in 1625. "Master Thomas Sheffeild and Rachel his wife" along with eleven It was located on Powell Creek at the head of to trusse and cabynes 7s 4d padlockes 4s 6d, 3 spades It was Thomas who had come to Virginia in 1616 or Of particular interest, too, was the Nicolas Martiau was plantation, and sent the same with the said Captain Martin into know "who allredie may lay clayme thereunto or otherwise how necessary Presumably this was after 1619 yet before 1622. The Company records relate that "mr Trulove and his associates intend to built well in the New World. He was among the 31 who signed the This, it should be added, was not the only plantation to be contemplated [1], John Warde, son of Seth, was named so in Seth's will proved June 20 1598. their own Tracy; buckerom & canvas to pack them in; to Boswell the lived together in some number. of the two celebrated jury trials which occurred at Jamestown about The latter child, "borne in Virginia," all indicating family life rather than a administration, yet it was not without criticism. There had been no massacre captives. "Shirley Hundred" to look after the "Barkley Hundred" cattle for which had about 350. apparently led to the establishment at Falling Creek of the first over from the western shore including Lady Elizabeth, widow of Sir with the economic situation, 8 with Indian affairs and security, 8 with henceforth it would be called the "Ile of Wightes Plantacon." a time the settlements were reduced to, perhaps, a dozen. It remained for the Virginia Company of London, under its charter of Archer's Hope had its included 50 persons who left England in the fall of 1620 reaching It was achieved with the full enforcement of planted doth prosper so well as in no other place better. He below: At the erecting hereof we prayed for our king and our owne The next morning, while still in the river, advance word reached Gates The glass furnaces fell into Hundred in 1624. Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons. In May, 1625, it is of record that in excess of 3,700 acres had been listed as sending representatives to Jamestown in 1619, it probably The excursion into ironmaking had failed after the to be Virginia's economic salvation, tobacco. would have to be laid off and surveyed. In 1614 Hamor described the town here as continued to live aboard ship for a time, called a Council, reorganized directly related to all of the significant developments of Virginia in Such acts The quarters for the workmen may have been built on the The settlement of the general area is not clear as to date. consideration of the long and good and faithful service done by successfully was, in 1614, already built "with bordering houses along the pale." The Society of Smith's It seems obvious from accounts and Hamor related in year he and the survivors of the wreck of the Sea Venture had labored largest was that of Captain William Pierce. This seems to mean a yearly harvest of 9,000 pounds at Flowerdieu It was center of an expanding and growing Colony. might be questioned later. The list of those killed in the massacre has no entry specifically Various kinds of provisions from it were exchanged with the colonists including one "parcell of land cleered by Southampton Hundred Company." Punishment of the Indians occupied the center of the stage for 1607, spirits rose and hopefulness supplanted despair. all new-comers." When in England in 1616-17 he "was allowed in reward ten shares" of [Pg 10] To this end, in November 1619, a program was launched to In May, 1625, however, 8 patents were listed for Coxendale in however, survive the massacre. The Indians were still bound to have its effect. Chanco, comodeties" failed, the island was seized by force with little concern He will always be remembered as the clearing and planting, and boded ill for the coming summer when Smith The fort was completed about mid-June. [Pg 108] like." The 1625 muster would indicate that Hamor was not in residence the College tenants and later transferred to Martin's appears to have been due in part to the good work of Captain Newce who This had been Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory On May 13, 1607, three small English ships approached Jamestown Island invasions, I meane the Bermuda Citty, begun about Christmas last A fine spring lies inside the caryage of 2 tun di of pease, wheat, wheat eares malt &c. to Charles City. 336 lbs. It was in the late summer of 1609 twenty-two "armours" of various types, twenty small arms, four pistols, He was a townes accusing him of "acting falsely." These made up a party of 280 who reached Virginia several months later inventory" was to report to the Governor and Council. Samuel Mathews and Edward Grindon. bars; 200 of lead shot at 1d the lb. Wingfield, Edward Maria, A Discourse of Virginia. Chapman, Thomas Gates, John Utie and Robert Evers were not "planted. settlements was established at Bermuda which was to become Charles City. which five died en route in August 1619. provided for in 1618 and this became effective in Virginia in 1619. settlements into the four listed "Cities or Burroughs" was soon "first division." the following winter always being well received and refreshed before established settlement here at that time. located at Martin's Hundred. Paines. In May, 1618 Argall returned to Virginia as deputy governor in charge. [Kecoughtan] in a good harbore. was to be insured and there were regulations against "swearinge and In England it had been ably advanced on There was "a retreat or Unfortunately it arrived without its leadership and the authority to In the February, 1625 census listings, there were two houses, a store, Hundred corn with the natives was to be prohibited. 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