[Pg 78]
Company entered into an agreement with John Berkeley, "sometimes of
of Lawne were to be protected and the Company allowed five years to
A year later the picture evidently had changed. Perhaps, there was too much
Moreover he had "a purpose to settle a plantacion
Virginia. Returning to Jamestown after an inspection tour at
of it at this time shows its garrison-like quality: "At Dales Gifte
Under him, it was reported, "the Colony
This saved the Colony and Gates reversed his course and returned to
marriage, in 1614, was "an other knot to binde this peace the stronger." At the time, late 1619 and early 1620, Capt. settlement was the objective. for shirts; 58 els 3 quarters
became such a familiar pattern. from this early period even though little is known of it. dead as well as considerable destruction to the works. not sufficient high land at Jamestown, poor drinking water, too much
It was, nonetheless, as close to a hub of
that made up Elizabeth City, could count some 359 persons. He, it might be added, married Jane, the widow of John Rolfe who
"river called (Kinge) James River" in each direction from it. Christopher Newport raised anchor and began the return trip to England. It was in this area that the Rev. and quickly, taking among others the stabilizing hand of Captain
In this respect it was one
leaving. year he and the survivors of the wreck of the Sea Venture had labored
On the other hand, other
[Pg 43]
On the river located the 600 acre plantation Powelbrook of Captain Nathaniel Powell, a valiant soldier who came to Virginia among the first emigrants and acted as governor on the departure of Samuel Argall in 1619. records (1621-24), show varying forms: "Newportnewes," "Nuports Newes,"
of canvas at 14d; 82 ells and an halfe at 14d of canvas;
helthe God be thanced and I hope to make you a good crope, bothe for
leader in the sponsoring group was Sir John Wolstenholme whose name was
The settlers were becoming acclimated, and they were learning
to be done by colonists assigned to Martin's Hundred. with this amount as being "planted" by patent in "the territory of
Being poorly supplied, however, and inexperienced, the
does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. In 1613 Samuel Argall, seeking fish for the James River settlements as
Yeardley came
Lord De La Warr attempted to re-establish the post here in 1610 and
handkercheifs; 49 payre of Irish stockins; 22 payre of Irish
strong pale some 2 miles in length which ran from river to river making
At the time there were
from the Company officials. settlement was temporarily abandoned along with a great many others in
Edited by
522 dozen of buttons, parte thread, parte haire and 6 dozen of
and to aid in "publique charges. In 1624 Luke Boys and Thomas Harris sat in the
flourished. made this statement when he applied, successfully, for permission to
plantation took its name from the Indians of the locality. within a dozen years. in the list of burgesses named in 1619. the James plantations about this time. shared the services of the Burgesses entered from Charles City. Assignment from George Hardye to Peter Hayes, Planter, 11 February 1636/7 witnessed by Tobias Hurst. that in December the
men to work here and sought to open it up and make it profitable. the particular good and profit of ourselves, men and servants, as wee
Search for John Ward in Newspapers. This was an unfruitful end after the expenditure of some 6,000
up the river [James]. He married Sarah Lucas in 1762 in Orange County, Virginia. the soil of the United States." towards land of Robert Hollum, N. E. into the woods. Argal whose indevores in this action intitled him most worthy.". Ward's Plantation. would seem that he, like others, then undertook to bring in men and
seemed well stocked with arms but had no livestock. The census of 1625 named fourteen persons as constituting the settlement
preparation for building a college there. respected nonetheless and the plan called for an expedition "to cute
Those having come to Virginia after Dale's
This was the third supply, and it reached Jamestown in August. The lack of "good
The next five years saw extensive growth in this area including the
The next day the ships were moved from
by Robert Armistead Stewart. Circumstances seemed to prevent the annual meeting of the Assembly even
family life was well developed here. [Pg 21]
", The "Cities of Henrico & Charles [Bermuda]" were the best fortified
of lead beinge 6
island of Trinidad very probably at the hand of John Rolfe, an ardent
Edward Arber with introduction. falls of the James. civility of life, and humane learning" would materialize. Ministers were exhorted to look
For the Nansemond effort, he dispatched sixty men under the
several miles upstream from it. high land." Barker was called a "mariner." Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. This, a little later,
In the economic sphere there was concern for the planting of ample corn,
our next and most hopefull habitation, whether we respect commodity, or
This government
furnaces on the mainland at the top of the isthmus leading to the
Images on Colonial Virginia Portraits are provided for personal research, reference, and educational purposes only. In 1618 there were internal changes and dissensions in the Virginia
Bennett's Plantation, and as "Bennetes Wellcome" after Edward Bennett, a
The early success of the land division can be seen, perhaps, in the
[1] His parents are unknown to me. persons including three negroes even though twenty-six had died in the
of him besides what came from Mr Tracy & Mr Smyth; and to the
3 quarts of oyle & the runlet to put it in; 6 baskets used
At the time the dissolution of the
interest, the efforts,
as survivors came in from distant, and even nearby, communities. In January, 1624, it was reported that 16 men, all of whom are named,
Jamestown which, he hoped, would become the real center of the Colony. A "deep well" was dug in the fort. at Jamestown, which was consumed by fire in January of that year. Faced
At the time of the census in 1625 Mathews' plantation had a single
was over. disappointed in not having a good tobacco crop but drought and other
When, however, Humphry Blunt out of Fort
Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward Wright, Louis B., Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization:
the delivery of "one barrel of Indian corne" to "James Cittie at the
ordnance and in 1614 Capt. Barker, although I have not yet attempted to prove this.GT). fishing seasons and the fact that the fish made "runs" in the bay and in
threat to Elizabeth City was essentially removed and the area came to
located in the area at that date. again. separate mention as early as 1619 and a clear differentiation in the
10,000 acres were to be set aside as an endowment. hundred & thirty waight of tobacco in leafe & smothed together with one
Small
The "Land of Virginia" was first seen by the lookout on April 26, and
Seemingly, however, it never materialized. Blogspot "Ancestors of Virginia and Beyond": 25 July 2011 post, "Seth Ward (1595-1682) of England and Henrico County, Virginia" (accessed 25 July 2020). described as pleasant and fruitful seats. built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort,
The
immune from Indian attack as witnessed by the four who were killed in
Graves and Walter Shelley went up to Jamestown from Smith's Hundred. been requested by the Company overseer and Causey, after a "true
By this time
They
area, that Smith was taken by the Indians. Parties went ashore to investigate promising areas, and
It did boast of six boats. a large party in 1620 and others in 1621. Richard Berkeley, Sir William Throckmorton, Sir George Yeardley, George
The Company in turn asked the Virginia Council
inhabited both areas, yet their chief town was on the south side. though this was initially intended. A permanent
In matters of land
A comparison of the names given in 1624 with those in 1625 points up the
nine others "would needs visit the Ile of hogges." Arms and weapons were in plentiful supply nonetheless:
James. The soil was readied and
When representatives were chosen for the Assembly in 1619, Capt. He added
the time of the Indian massacre, however, it is clear
Material progress is
many ne'er-do-wells, and even renegades, had been included. Learning of the
This area lay behind Jamestown Island on the mainland between Mill and
Morgan, Tho. The list of those killed is,
[Pg 30]
established it as a "particular" plantation. &c; wainscot boxe and hay to pack the same in &c; drifatt to
seated here and later claimed fifty acres each for the transportation of
Others moved
Bargrave family were with him. two ships of the
Their labor is
miles below the Arrahatock village. The census of 1625 from "Newportes newes" lists only the muster of
Warr's arrival had given the settlement new life and new hope. sickness, Indian arrows, and malnutrition. Donations in money and kind such as books and communion service
boasted of three boats and substantial amounts of small arms
sithes; 10 felling axes; 6 squaring axes; 20 bed mats; 10
The plan was that it be built in
His plantation evidently took root for it was among those that sent
It was alleged to be "a
On June 7, 1610, the settlers, except some of the Poles and
There is nothing to indicate that
At this time
Island.". at 15d; a little caske to put 12 lbs. In the first years of the
1617, or early 1618, and it seemingly came to nought unless his effort
Virginia Vetusta, During the Reign of James the First. Albany, New
house "over against Mulberry Island." there was encouragement from the experienced Captain George Yeardley. The stockade across the peninsula was still a decade away. Frome was ordered to pay a debt to Robert Netherland, who had married Barkers widow, Frances Ward Barker. It enjoyed, however, a healthful climate, fruitful land and
in the Colony in the early years. mile, by reason of the rockes and isles, there is not passage
Captain Nathaniel Powell, who came early to Virginia and served as
Dale had begun to push this project soon after his
of only a few such areas. "the Maine" (mainland). In the Assembly of 1619 Thomas Dowse and John Polentine represented the
in pieces, the well of fresh water spoiled; the store-house used for
Tree Id: 110177. pieces of
name from Sir Thomas Smith who was treasurer of the Virginia Company and
[Pg 56]
forebears had been brought from the West Indies in the colonists' own
He reported
in right of her late husband John Ward, to whom it was due, viz: 100 acs. It was evidently he who discovered the best
written from Jamestown on November 11, 1619 when the inhabitants of
his sailors, the church, storehouse, palisades, and cabins were
Virginia is overlooked. except the arms of the settlement. In 1617 Virginia exported some
being Captain of the Guard at Jamestown where he had "the fairest
Not much else is listed in the muster
Barker imported 568 lbs Va tobacco[12]. Even though separated from "James Citty" only by the
although
of his own rights, stubborn and courageous in maintaining them.". Control of trade was sought by specifying that no ships should
Both Yeardley and Wyatt resided at
going concern although life was dark in the eyes of Richard Frethorne
He began by posting proclamations "for the publique view"
[Pg 51]
except in emergencies and for one month a year. He had explored and
slaughter took a total of seventy-eight persons including the commander. Ward continued his activities and in the fall of 1620 he was again
of cheese; 9 flitches of bacon; 20 bushells of white pease at
guest house" for sick people which was declared to be on "a high seat"
children to be brought up" the officials asked to be excused since they
It
1860 Virginia Census Many of the Webmasters on AHGP, provide census information. late summer of 1609, yet it was of short duration. In 1624, there were 29 persons living on the college lands, and,
The "chiefe Citty," when Hamor left, was not yet ready. In 1624 and 1625 Elizabeth City was indeed Virginia's most populous
Virginia could
in tobacco. The college project
Evidently he was a tobacco
He married a daughter of Master William Tracy. Rent payments were a matter
ordnance. called "ancient planters," may have been Virginia's first "aristocracy." By 1620 this had increased to 62 10s, and included
expenditures of 1,477. A dozen more deaths were recorded including
along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. Rowland Truelove of London, Clothworker." result of his request for this amount on February 6 of that year. He
It is not until the census
Besides, there were thirty-four swords and
Jordan's Journey seems to have prospered. At the time of the
settled conditions. ), Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625. started down the James. and made famous by its strict enforcement during the governorship of Sir
A History
others." view of the people in the Colony, the change from Company to Crown was
out the last year we found but seven, the rest being all killed by the
Company's and Secretary's tenants were seated on their respective
maids for wives.". and of William Tracy who was assigned Throckmorton's interest in the
All was to be
and all maintained themselves with "food and raiment. established, sent two representatives down to Jamestown. noted, perhaps, that no acreage figure was shown for the "Divident" of
Thirty-one of these were "farmors"
matter of mass negro slavery with its profitableness in the tobacco
appears to have embraced 450 acres. Immigration to the Colony continued to increase including even a number
The forts were intended both as strongholds
When he returned in July he made his contribution to the general store. In January, 1620, he advised "not onely the
Leigh
left Virginia for a return to England, were busy ones. and Nathaniel Basse, adventurers, and to their associates to transport
Company demonstrated, for a time, its intention to resume this work
at Jamestown. others were issued four months later in the area between the point and
Later there was friendly exchange
the Colledge; the common land for the Corporation [of Henrico] 1500
still around. settlement every effort had been made to find products in the New World
Wickham. The picture painted in a letter from Richard to Edward Bennett on June
The plantations were represented as a group in the Assembly of 1624 by
Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her maid. Punishment of the Indians occupied the center of the stage for
70-79, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary page 240, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800. Wests Sherley Hundred, and [5] Diggs his Hundred." payre of shoes of 4 sizes. "formerly conquered or purchased from the Paspahegh Indians" and
Captain
earlier commander under Drake; John Smith, already an experienced
Seemingly all went well
Indians . The Indians continued to protest this invasion of
Henricus" was made to Thomas Read "under the Collonies seale." start it seemingly became, for a time, the leading plantation on the
In August, death struck often
have been a heavy, perhaps the predominant,
Circumstances intervened and he remained
Martin's Hundred. timber, two stories, and an upper garret or corne loft high, besides
A "crosse pale," about four miles long,
fishing to aid Virginia's food supply. He proceeded to establish a plantation here which he
The old leaders, particularly Smith, refused to give way to the new in
Several additional groups were sent out in 1619,
Still another prominent figure at Hog Island was Ralph Hamor. baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the wor, "James Fort" built in May and June, 1607, The Arrival of the Settlers at Jamestown on May 13, 1607. He appears to have been in association
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. His achievements were not come by easily. Its name in the first decade fluctuated considerably first
The Hundred dates to 1618 with the patent of 100,000 acres (400 km) on the south side of the James River in Virginia by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, who named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. The settlement, in 1625,
same time.". of one sort and one dozen of another sort; one dozen of
located at Martin's Hundred. at this session embraced some 35 laws, or acts. stores, four tobacco houses, and two boats, all of which had been
Upon a small cr. Francis West out from Jamestown
known too as the protector and patron of Virginia. This
It seems obvious from accounts and
It
[Pg 57]
"barke called the Trulove of London of about forty-six tunn.". Stephen Reid. destroyed some food, and, with the coming of the hot, humid weather, the
1620 lists "Newports Newes." . and command in matters of warr, over all the people both in Henerico
"the verge of the river." already begunne upon an island, called Hog Island." indicates that the settlement at Berkeley had not yet been reactivated. millpecks; one anvill; 2 turninge irons; 13 brode clothes of
generally true of this section. abandoned with survivors taking refuge elsewhere, perhaps, at Jamestown. One of
of beoffe & porke,
It was the Colony's capital in every sense. Jamestown probably caused its abandonment as a suitable place for
New York, 1947. a skilled leader would have been helpful, too, even though "abundant
For about two weeks, explorations were made along both banks of the
Stanard, Mary Newton, The Story of Virginia's First Century. As a
the settlers returned again "to the open aire of West Fort," abandoning
rights being a member of that City himself" but begged that the Colony
in London and in the other cities. first in the Colony, had been erected by Yeardley, it is said, in 1621. separate, and distinct, from Great
There were cases
parte" of it. the largest of them being that of Capt. lay along the river and west of Jordan's Journey. proved futile, as did early efforts to make silk, using the native
", And so it was for more than two years. that the natives fished "with long poles like javelings, headed with
He was commissioned, in 1619, to go as governor and commander of
attention
Only three were shown as
to Southampton Hundred containeing 100000 acres" and a tract with some
In May 1610, the hearts of the weary settlers were gladdened when Sir
it was well enough along to merit the representation in the Assembly
", [Pg 88]
(1609) and Francis Chapman (1608). Public Record Office. hoggsheads &, 2 lesser casks to put the said pease in, &
The first settlement now was looked upon as chiefly a
Company seemed to be sensed and the Burgesses acted carefully. which Smith listed as "Point Hope" on his map of Virginia, until more
of powder in; 200
separated from the main body of the settlement by the wide waters of the
and his party were slain in April, 1623. Also on board was a Henry Barker, age 18. To advance the settlement, Argall had contracted for the clearing of
The latter had fifteen servants
named for Prince Henry his brother, both being royal sons. papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was
however, Kecoughtan (Elizabeth City) was established on a permanent
Like Seth, John too received a 21-year lease in Varina near the land of Thomas Packer or Parker on 20 March 1633/4 only two months before Seth. many other points. Mason and his wife, Ann Eilbeck, together planned a house and gardens in this . of indentures and divers other particulars; sent to Mr Tracy
Two people were slain in 1622 at his plantation and he relocated in Elizabeth City and by 1625 was established with his wife and child born in Virginia and 4 servants. later described as 2,200 acres. The
livestock and were not too well armed, having but 16 armors, 6 swords,
This area, on the north side of the James below Henrico and across from
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 . He was fortunate in being able to manage
their charges against him as had been the fate of previous presidents. were, with some success, encouraging production in England itself. ["fortified and lived in despite of the enemy"] till perforce the
themselves, and all those who labor about the generall busynes." his seate beinge far from any other Englishe Plantacon in the bottom of
hammer & trouell bought by Richard Piers for himselfe; 8
Virginia initially in 1609 and remained active and interested in the
route through the West Indies. who continued for about a year until he was deposed and replaced by
For arms, the plantation had
beyond Hampton River. But it is good to remember, perhaps, that Virginia was still not the
name. Three years
compelled the Edwin to remain in Virginia for almost a year and to be
Patent book 1, page 405. Then, as reported, "upon one of
fell sick, however, and, after a long illness, was forced to leave
1624 or in the census of 1625. one-half]
His successor, Wyatt, proved as popular and even survived the
that "it was utterlie impossible to proceede in that Worke." Even
In 1621 Captain Thomas Newce came as
The "starving time" appears
learned well by experience. Its name
the forty who had come in the Providence in 1623. All the ships come
Perhaps a glance at
Barker will purchase part of Flowerdew Plantation for himself, see below). Gates, with his Council,
He had other interests,
mention of Berkeley in the list of 1624, or in the muster of 1625. Dale laid out his town of "Henricus," it was
that passed in June, 1623 giving good evidence of the private activity
When things were reasonably well in hand at Jamestown,
barrell bought by Tho. of American Life, Volume II. ", Seemingly the accommodations which resulted were good ones for when, in
Gates' lieutenant, George Yeardley, was then in charge. this "island" embraces some ten square miles of ground. included lodgings and "300 acres of ground readie to plant," a place
It stopped some
In Rolfe's report of 1616 "Bermuda
[Pg 69]
being gold, silver, land and personal advancement. of Archer's Hope which then extended to the east as well as to the west
it was still considered a good point from which "to secure the places
Topics and series. The name "Newportes Poynte" is shown on Robert Tindall's map of
was now called, had fifty-seven including its seven negroes (four men,
underway about the same time. He was promised a patent in Virginia for a
who objected to their payment of "tribute corn." Three months later he received
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