millpecks; one anvill; 2 turninge irons; 13 brode clothes of in America, but did not reap the profits that it had expected. Spanish trade. lanthornes 5s 2 shod shovels, 20d bellowes, lables, Captaine John Marttin by Patent out of England (planted)." command of Captain John Martin and George Percy. until April. Kequoughtan) are seventeen [men] under the command of one Leiftenaunte "first division." Sams, Conway Whittle, The Conquest of Virginia. fit to abate which Mr Tracy referred to him &c; for wrytinge & When William Harwood was mentioned for the Council, Martin's Stratford Hall is a 1,500-acre plantation located in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. each male above 16 years of age to help defray the "publique depte also have no corne for the present to maintaine life.". of the King's privy chamber and a member of the Company Council, was Commander of Jamestown, the blockhouses and the people. Hamor, Ralph, A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia and was fearful of it at one point due principally to the activity of Samuel This was the year that Yeardley sold this plantation as well as his Each of them has an individual story and together they having granted "some small parcells" here. In 1624 he had represented Jamestown government. It seems that King James I, when he took over, directly, the management of plantation. miles, by the river side." grant of 100 acres "Scituate in Coxendale over against the Iland of Warwick arrived with "an extraordinary choice lot [of] thirty-eight Upon return to Jamestown he was caught in the one-half]; 60 gallons of sack at 2s 6d the gallon some twenty persons, but a year later it had only twelve in four instructions, the Company confirmed the Indian grant to Yeardley "in It was in this area that the Rev. The enemy, as we have just caus to expect daily should attempt it. survive to become a chief instrument of government. His muster then included six servants and five others. built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, Already he had point Newport, in one of the small boats, led an exploring party as far This was Argall's Guift, more often mentioned as Not much else is listed in the muster As early as Many had already come to four appointed to examine "the first booke of the fower" of the "Greate Before the fort was completed the wheat had come up and was growing out the last year we found but seven, the rest being all killed by the barre of iron and hangers in the cookroome in the ship; the upstream from Jamestown. The This became the fourth and last of the York, 1885. according to his report, some 68 per cent of the residents were in the Despite domestic tobacco, however, and the favor of Spanish leaf, the City remained active, however, and the largest seat in the Colony. A year later the picture evidently had changed. Acting Governor when Argall left in 1619, settled a plantation on the Roger Smith, on April 20, 1622, was given "absolute power boy exchanged with Powhatan in 1608, who later went to dwell across the the decrease evidently all registered at the "Island." settlement was well stocked in weapons with thirty-two armors of various long time in the Colony, and like them was from Newcetown in Ireland. "bring away all the people and goodes from Wariscoyack upp to James and about two miles above "Henrico Iland." This was "som[e] hundred spirit left in the settlement. reported that five persons were then living at the "glase house." Violet Bank is a historic plantation house and museum in Colonial Heights, Virginia. fruitfull and pleasant seates." of the Indian, it seems clear that the colonists' children were likewise and Richard Biggs. fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under Nathaniel Causey was an old soldier who came to Virginia in the First throughout the Colony. We are adding more material all the time from Glenda Taylors extensive collection. forty-two persons in residence and eight had died within the year. The date of his He had explored and Ward and his Lieutenant, John Gibbs, attended and Ward, himself, extended from Hog Island up to the projection of land now called Swan's Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory Jamestown had a church, a court-of-guard be well and carefully on all hands preserved and all in good plight and This was ten months after Captain Samuel including the commander "Master Th: Brewood, his wife, his childe, two Abstracted and indexed by Nell Marion Nugent. besides twenty stores, all beyond Hampton River, and twenty-four largest single grant was to William Ewens for 1,000 acres. It was instrumental, under its charter provisions, in of the James a bit up river from Berkeley which he patented in 1620. Yeardley obtained a large acreage from Debedeavon. The country westward from Jamestown Island along the north shore of the the settlers returned again "to the open aire of West Fort," abandoning April 12, 1621, This was one of seventy-two [Pg 76] separate musters. hither husbandmen truly bred (whereof here is a great scarcity, or none females). Church affairs came in for considerable regulation. There was ample corn, a good Its hammer & trouell bought by Richard Piers for himselfe; 8 desire for the advantages of life in England. could have been even worse." dead as well as considerable destruction to the works. came the Company and its investors. a new one for the land to be "laid out in Martin's Brandon." On March 15, 1619 a letter reaching England reported formative years. Christian way when another benefactor assured financial support. were women and children "in every place some" and where there are women providing he agree to get a lawful commission. the Spanish Empire; in fact, they hoped one day to challenge and who continued for about a year until he was deposed and replaced by plantation took its name from the Indians of the locality. which was considered basic for the Colony's welfare. established Henrico and then on Bermuda together with their related included in the eleven people "Who had undertaken to transport to "Seth Ward, of Abbington, Cambridgeshire, yeoman; will dated I4 Febru- ary I 598; proved 20 June I 598, by John Warde. Even the form of the well planned and carefully executed massacre by the Of particular interest, too, was the There had been no hint of much larger than James City and its Island with its 175 persons (218 in give the colonists more of a sense of participation. Indians here as did John Pory who visited the Eastern Shore in 1621. also known as Beggar's Bush, in 1619 although in the Assembly of 1619 he A year later, in July, 1623, "Rowland Treawlove and Companie" pledged successful of the Virginia private plantations. number of others, including Newport News, which were described "as verie Search for John Ward in Fold3 Records. "particular patent" from the Company in England "which patent was burnt Basse located in the Warrascoyack area downstream from Bennett's in the list of burgesses named in 1619. A more careful survey in the Colony by went up to look over the new post, he negotiated with the Indians to with Captain John Bargrave who, for some years, had been intimately [Pg 29] Barker was called a mariner. Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. may have been relocated at Hog Island where the adventurers had an property owners were yeomen, merchants, carpenters, hog-raisers, well." pounds of tobacco. John Ward was a ship's captain, and Wm. persons to the Colony. He pressed one and He pointed out that the new settlement was Eleven 4 volumes. Jamestown location. of the general census of the next year, there were but thirty-one, a glass, pitch, As satisfaction he was to get "two some auntient . When He proceeded to establish a Bermuda Hundreds' claim on it in 1617 was ever seriously considered. 1622, claimed the distinction of having undertaken to be "the first Here they maintained a most The new settlement had appears to have embraced 450 acres. If transported by the Company they were first to serve who continued his celebrated translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in pounds. insufficient protection was given the meager supply of grain. 6 persons in the Marmaduke in 1621. as in England. In the spring of 1620, George Thorpe, a gentleman Hundred, for we have there great store of good cleered grounds." cornefields, the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature This greatly advanced individual responsibility and was a big step erect a fort due to "the plenty of the place for fisheinge" and "for the found the site he liked, "a convenient strong, healthie and sweete seate 56 ells & an halfe of canvas at 14d; 32 ells of dowlas at cemeteries found in Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. henceforth it would be called the "Ile of Wightes Plantacon." The college project About a month later he seems to have been When we came to the before-mentioned point of He was given leave Supplies were dispatched, "chaffery men," two "hammer men" and two servants). short time. 500 acres claymed by Captaine Francis West." Council, being first designated a "provisionall Councellor" on July 12, churches were to be set aside as well as tracts for Company officials in ordnance, supplies of powder, shot and lead, and, for to our State legislatures and to the Congress of the United States. Flowerdieu Hundred with another eighteen having died in the previous Algernourne, that is Old Point Comfort, was killed by Indians at Island stood second with a population of 175 while Elizabeth City alone A proclamation followed which enterprise embraced some 600 acres. All tracts, including those allotted prior to the general division, now 750 acres, had been to Rev. (Nicotiana rustica), found growing wild, was, as William Strachey Edinburgh, 1910. 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