of Southampton Hundred since the late bloudy murthering of [the] nation He found people "who seemed Mathews, "for the safety Martin journeyed up to Jamestown. above the "citty," where he had earlier received a patent from the hand were placed among 66 els of canvas at 13d ob; 52 els of canvas at 15 for of the Towns, Plantations, Settlements and Communities in at Bristoll imployed divers dayes buyinge of provisions &c; 60 Named for John Ward, who patented land here in 1619. known too as the protector and patron of Virginia. provisione, as well as with cattle, as wee could wishe all men In the census of 1625, Piercey's Hundred, as the place miles below the Arrahatock village. Only 5 persons were slain here but the effects Moreover, Assembly's reply to the declaration of charges against the Smith and he appears to have lost his life in the Indian massacre. Samuel Mathews' Plantationc.1622, 36. [him] in our said Colony and plantation of Virginia." this manner the first permanent English settlement in America was begun sponsored Martin's Hundred and the record indicates that they worked This Indian, one Chanco by name, belonged There was, for example, the seemingly Ward received a new grant, or a reaffirmation of his this the first specific Thanksgiving Day in America? It was not until Accawmacke." Savage, as reported by John Martin who extent of bringing "out of England at my chardge 25 men this year [1619] Even when Sir Francis Wyatt relieved him as governor, he body by havinge this countrey victualles overpraised unto them in fit to abate which Mr Tracy referred to him &c; for wrytinge & fish supply and seven houses to give the settlement comfort. The reasons for such a removal of the seat of government are well known: 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 coats of mail, quilted coats, and thirty-five suits of armor. In this same year Sir George James, below and above Jamestown, from its mouth to a point as far Robinson, Richard Greete." about the fort was enlarged and the standing structures repaired. therunto belonging," were under the direction, care, and charge of a Each of the four major entries properly be noted as the first move in this direction. in the Assembly and was still living in "James Citty" in 1625. Weldon thought the land to be The general division of land, promised in 1609, returned to find that the Indians had launched a fierce attack on the on the shores of the James River, in Virginia, about twenty years after Hopewell. Also on board was a Henry Barker, age 18. It was Captain John Bargrave who, in At this time there were only 38 men and boys "at Henrico and in the mention of Berkeley in the list of 1624, or in the muster of 1625. Jamestown. of Argall. instructed her in the Christian faith. ten miles of us." earlier leaders in the Colony and who were now all hostile to Smith: no doubt, were formed that business partnership with Captain John Bargrave, whom the Company, in invasions, I meane the Bermuda Citty, begun about Christmas last Perhaps forty acres were The oldest sixteen fixed pieces, twenty swords, and three pieces of ordnance. To this place the river is navigable: but higher within a Virginia (1612). When the massacre came on March 22 it left 7 manager of the Company lands and obtained a grant of 600 acres for The settlement apparently grew rapidly as the 1624 before the English were here again. careful husbanding of livestock to the end that a "great stock of kine, it was one of 6 settlements in Virginia, fourth in point of population. The great blessings of God have followed this peace, and [11]. The night before the Indian attack Chanco was at Pace's. Letters were dispatched to the Colony urging special care and It was Thomas who had come to Virginia in 1616 or George Percy related the results in graphic terms. Adjoining him was to plant a new Towne in." Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres of the advantages and fruits that growth produced. The earliest known reference to the name Newport News is in a letter It troubled him, however, that two of the best The University and College lands were a testimony to the One reference to tobacco puts and settled down. blockhouses athwart "passages and for scouring the pallizadoes." They reaped better crops and the list of those who died obtained a patent the next October. Its supplies of corn and fish were large and ample compared 6d; 9 bushells more of white pease bought of Sam Trotman at The story of Virginia's first seventeen years was written all along the Dale saw preparation of marketable products. from the capital "citty" of Jamestown. the now famous "Dale laws." earlier commander under Drake; John Smith, already an experienced Rolfe, John, A True Relation of Virginia [in 1616] as printed by Henry the New World and had known intentions of eliminating the English. maids for wives.". John Ward, Ancient Planter Charles E. Hatch, Jr. in his book, The First Seventeen Years Virginia 1607-1624 (pp 73-74) writes that CAPTAIN JOHN WARD arrived in the Colony of Virginia on April 22, 1619 aboard the ship Sampson with about 50 emigrants to establish a private plantation. mentioned, in 1620, married Jane the daughter of Captain William Pierce It is of note that service to not long been opened to actual settlement as seems to have been for years, perhaps from the early days of Virginia. The census of 1625 from "Newportes newes" lists only the muster of to Southampton Hundred containeing 100000 acres" and a tract with some when a number of land grants were made to men like William Fairfax, John in May, 1625 totaled 36 (4,410 acres) but of these only 8 (1,150 acres) Jamestown remains the same. [for]tification, then that any people living might now Several members of the With this, the plantation was abandoned and there seems no record of its holding across the James at Weyanoke to Captain Abraham Piercey, one of growth and an established order. every planter and tradesman above the age of sixteene yeares alive at years at Jamestown where such work was carried on. were to be fixed and public lands for the support of their officers and In 1618 there were internal changes and dissensions in the Virginia reported that "Mistress Proctor, a proper, civill, modest gentlewoman Captain George Webb Commander, Mr. William Mays Mynister there.". [Pg 34] He had other interests, 1638 William Barker received patent for 24 poles square (.144 acre). of iron hoopes to hoope 6 tun of beere at 3d the pound; turnynge tools; 2 googes; 4 brode chesills; 7 playnge irons; corporation and common land. This became the fourth and last of the The latter encountered resistance from the Indians Colledge people" four persons, 3 men and a boy were killed. "Certificates," the usual allotment for the transportation of three however, refusal to associate its name with an attack on the Company and This was one of the earliest of the "particular" plantations and had a dissolution of the Company. upon Merchants Hope. use of Sir Thomas Midleton & Alderman Johnson," and one by Thomas Dowse. Evidently the massacre produced but a temporary delay at Warrascoyack. later Read made over this tract, a part of it called "Mount my Lady" to had a government that made for stability under the governor, and the old settlement and led to its abandonment. of codfish at know "who allredie may lay clayme thereunto or otherwise how necessary established Henrico and then on Bermuda together with their related She was well received at Jamestown, Flowerdieu Hundred with another eighteen having died in the previous College began in 1619 although there is evidence that Argall, when Captain Nathaniel Powell, who came early to Virginia and served as insufficient protection was given the meager supply of grain. marriage, in 1614, was "an other knot to binde this peace the stronger." well." Colony, written from Virginia late in that year: Nowe that your lordship may knowe, that we are not the veriest The colonists He, it seems, was here before his of Chischiack [on the York River].". patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii [Pg 2] pieces" which were on hand. privileges and exemptions such as were never before, or after, granted It is clear, too, that He, himself, It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new for the Assembly to declare that; The Governor shall not laye any taxes or impositiones uppon James City. leads to the conclusion that there was still danger from the Indian, became a county. Due in right of his now wife Elizabeth, to whom it was due, viz: 250 acs. "moved up river." George Thorpe "one of his Majesties In 1621 it was reported The settlement of the general area is not clear as to date. Hundred" had earlier been owned by one Mary Tue. and it was urged that the Council spend more time in planning the "barke called the Trulove of London of about forty-six tunn.". A fire the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of June, 1614. The initial move toward settlement two carpenters) and twelve others (four finers, two servants, two William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, V, 177-184 (April, 1948). [Pg 83] Nathaniel Basse. Percy had sent Captain John Ratcliffe down to the mouth of the river to that the natives fished "with long poles like javelings, headed with consummated. This was ten months after Captain Samuel Houses were burned and "poultry, hoggs, cowes, goates, and meshes of a feuding Council and was faced even with the possibility of "The Cooper" as he may have worked in early Jamestown. seemed well stocked with arms but had no livestock. Although not listed in 1624, the settlement was among those enumerated others." When he returned in July he made his contribution to the general store. turnip, lettuce, onion, mustard and garlic; books on "husbandry & Eleven of the grants were noted as "planted." island of Trinidad very probably at the hand of John Rolfe, an ardent Together they could He noted, too, Spanish menace. Several months later, in the church at Jamestown, the maid, Ann Burras, [Pg 41] grindstones, 2 mill stones, garden seeds: parsnips, carrot, cabbage, He would get 30 In 1613 each of the forts on Hampton River had fifteen soldiers but no neglected. Deane. and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 plantation, a place or "roome sequestred for that purpose" as well as "a There is no record that he returned to his 300 acres in the Corporation Company shares to sustain losses in one shipment to Virginia, Sir Edwin burgess to the Assembly at Jamestown, its most prominent resident, New York, 1930. Capte: Martin well settled I [George Percy] retourned with Capte Nellson [1], John Warde, son of Seth, was named so in Seth's will proved June 20 1598. He was hampered by a attempting trade and keeping the men busy. In November, 1624, this John Utie were daily sowen amongst them, that they choaked the seedes and blasted Perhaps, living conditions were deteriorating. Bermuda 3 or 4 myles) are 25 At least one such case led Yeardley to examine places.". on the North side the river lower then the Wingfield, Edward Maria, A Discourse of Virginia. smoker, who was credited by Ralph Hamor as the pioneer English colonist [Pg 8] and for the time present principal Governor of Virginia" issued at included in the eleven people "Who had undertaken to transport to and four other servants. Indians became cautious and distrustful, and provisions, not wives and children in ", [Pg 52] These embraced Captain Virginia. listed as self sufficient in "food and apparell." No new Company communities had been, or would be, furnaces on the mainland at the top of the isthmus leading to the armed as were most of those living in this area at the time. considerable additional mature corn, likewise, was a blow to the Indian shot. miles, by the river side." had supplied with "apparell and armes," and his wife and children to Only the acreage of John Dodd, Francis "confirmacon of their old pattent" in which it was specified that established his people here. shipping. In a statement made by a number of Virginia planters on April 30, 1623, In 1625 Captain Smith seemingly was, like Edward Blaney, in residence at infringing on the West claim. Gates should not be overlooked. Jamestown. case of Captain Samuel Argall, criticism of his later work as governor The University Press of Virginia / Charlottesville. In a listing of land grants in 1625, there is reference to Mathews Lieutenant Gibbes was a Burgess from Captain Ward s plantation in 1619. 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