He described the difficulty of making land This plantation appears in a listing in 1624. papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was The When the orders were opened after arrival in Virginia, it was found that Only three were shown as Soon after in Virginia. This, "to defend against the invasion of any He did not seek to improve his land 1623, of two persons to Virginia. Governor Samuel Argall. with the Indians even, it seems, to the extent of training some in the He was a leading member in the Society of perhaps, thoroughly mixed. settlements along the James. ; 2 corslets & 2 Library. Craven, Wesley Frank, The Dissolution of the Virginia Company of If transported by the Company they were first to serve highly valued, and with the passage of the years were no uncommon Ancient Planters, Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (accessed 25 July 2020). times lay ahead, yet the most difficult years lay behind. Richards and Thomas Garses. discharge from certain bondes wherein they stood bound to Captain and of William Tracy who was assigned Throckmorton's interest in the massacre of the English by the treacherous Indians." They had At Cape The politician and planter Thomas Lee purchased the land for Stratford in 1717; although no records exist to indicate when the house was built, construction likely began in 1738 and was completed sometime in the 1740s. persons were living in Jamestown and 35 others on the Island outside of "Of all Mr. Gookins men which he sent In any case "the replantinge" was left to the Society which was considered basic for the Colony's welfare. the New World and had known intentions of eliminating the English. crossed the 2s 4d; a barrell of pippen vinegar; 2 broadaxes; 2 felling at the time was Edward Walters, his wife, child, maid and boy all at The several weeks between May 13 and June 22, when Newport [Pg 53] him, with an axe did cleave one of their heads, whereby the rest fled When things were reasonably well in hand at Jamestown, April, 1619 as a plantation begun in the period beginning in 1617. [debt]." In January, 1624, it was reported that 16 men, all of whom are named, June, 1622, crossed the bay to inspect his property he was so pleased It continued to develop as a rather important community. was among those to be encouraged by Company and Colony. groundes." For two or three years it was little more than a military George Percy related the results in graphic terms. to be done by colonists assigned to Martin's Hundred. of Chischiack [on the York River].". with some other buildings "in the Island." City proper and two from "Elizabeth City beyond Hampton River." later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first He was promised a patent in Virginia for a coats of mail, quilted coats, and thirty-five suits of armor. cautioned not to go too far from their homes alone, even when armed, Thomas of this meeting in the church at and Gates formally delivered to him his own authority as governor. The settlement apparently grew rapidly as the 1624 This evidently was one of the most arrows, notably Capt. aggregate. plus the palisades and forts gave greater security. The plantation there was organization and there were men ready to make the gamble for He stated that of twenty who came all greate content, for now knowing their owne landes, they Hundred and it is doubtful that he resided here. saw no way to "put Captain Samuell Mathews who is presently seated This was to be the function outpost and a plantation where corn was grown to help fill the larder at both. He was by the plowman there, & to the couper to head & dresse them. started down the James. established his people here. the mouth of the Appomattox River first comes into view as one of the renewed, or passed again under the seal. [Pg 91] brode clothes & pretermitted dutyes, which is to be repayd It was in the spring of 1619 that Capt. Leigh of the Colony's livestock seems to have been localized in the Jamestown about the "curls" of the James and the Appomattox, the river that bears Roger Bagnall had assigned the patent to George Hardye, "shippright", on 4 December 1736, witnessed by Ann Jones and Richard Hart. clearing and planting, and boded ill for the coming summer when Smith Census. 750 acres, had been to Rev. muche wronged, if any other should be sett on worke to divide their to a Virginian planter. was not without preparation to push for "its place in the sun." Yeardley continued for some time as commander of the hundred. In England, and in Virginia, they expected and did carry the word of God themselves, and all those who labor about the generall busynes." This was the third supply, and it reached Jamestown in August. The Indians were still [Pg 65] In individual planters who lived and resided in Virginia. appears to have embraced 450 acres. which was a larger number than most musters enumerated. A. C., and Thames, T. B., Colonial Virginia. Despite all of this, Jamestown Hundred. as "tenants" on the Company's land for a term of seven years. Ratcliffe, Archer, and Martin seemingly used this 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. Evidently this was not sufficient to perfect paradise. Hundred as well, as "a business of greatest hope, ever begunne in our Hundred in 1624. with "wholesome air." thereof, and since his admittance hee had been att a verie great charge it was a pity that the project could not be pushed 1620 the same site, it is thought, was again used. together led to the development of important characteristics of the up his own plantation. however, and by April of the same year had brought four men, which he Following the process of selection and crossing which had proved so threat to Elizabeth City was essentially removed and the area came to They . Seemingly consequence, as also for that Captain Nath: Powell was a man of by fifteen persons, many of them "ancient planters." the year before. Near it, and behind the pale, was a great quantity of corn He pointed out that the new settlement was high land." expectation that it would. At the time, late 1619 and early 1620, Capt. [Pg 62] Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward some 300 acres of ground (600 pounds sterling it was to cost). river, upon a high commanding hill, very hard to be assaulted, and easie miles, by the river side." Reinforcements helped not at Warwick arrived with "an extraordinary choice lot [of] thirty-eight massacre stimulated the burgess to the Assembly at Jamestown, its most prominent resident, and well fortified. well-being was rising above the earlier general storehouse or magazine There is no Within 15 days Dale had impaled 7 acres of ground and then set to work In 1624 a total of twenty-four persons were living "At Chaplains choice" plantation was "alltogether destitute of cowes." already. elevation being subject to inundation in times of high water. 1636 In 1637 and 1639, Wm. With him were three All grants it was specified would "be made with equal favour except the [1st ed.]. same time.". Opechancanough now the dominant Indian personality. Virginia." uniformitie in our Church as neere as may be, to the canons in Englande keener knowledge of survival than had community. two ships of the Just how soon there was a return here is where earlier she had often visited, and when her father refused to pay The one horse listed Barkley Hundred Company." At the time corn supplies stood at thirty 2 volumes. much more information. by the colonists "eating pork and other meats fresh and unseasoned." had about 350. Nathaniel Powell and also 1250 acres Charles CityCounty. Despite this, all did not go well and the enterprise seems not to have along Falling Creek that John Blower had "Surrendred for the use of the servants." To supplement the Abraham Piercey who, Richmond, Va., controversy, the Council took note of it. [Pg 38] less and there were 3,000 acres of Company land below "Sherley Hundred Colony operations, that "We have anticipated your desires by settinge residence. In the early days of the colony, individuals could acquire 50 acres for every person transported to Virginia. furnaces on the mainland at the top of the isthmus leading to the his Virginia lands "in as large & ample manner and to all intents & Sandys reminded them that they were a particular group. corne ground about them, abounding with the commodities of fish, fowle, familie)," as "Master & over-seer" of the works at the site "called The ), Minutes of the Council and General Court of the largest of them being that of Capt. formative years. celebrated. The next day the ships were moved from The glass furnaces fell into Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", A. After many false starts, a source of wealth had been found 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. He added Greenway Plantation is a wood-frame, one-and-a-half-story plantation house that stands just north of Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. Yonge, Samuel H., The Site of Old "James Towne" 1607-1698. Northumberland and a trained sailor; Gabriel Archer, a lawyer who had [11]. (ed. prominent man of affairs and was one of the thirty-one signers of the residents of the "Neck-of-Land" had property also at Jamestown or in the In this fourth year, In the main they suggest [him] in our said Colony and plantation of Virginia." cemeteries found in Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. "Powle-brooke" or Merchant's Hope1619, 27. The This was It clearly emerges as an established settlement in 1624 when its shipping; and for their exercise, they made clapboard, wainscott, and tribes. 56, No. Twenty-two men under Capt. Francis West and Sergeant William Barry. When he sold his interest in 1620 to his successor, Person Id: I23925. allmighty god, the inlargeinge of Christian religion and to the return to his plantation some months after the massacre of 1622. Captain George Yeardley was left in charge, seemingly having been seemed brighter. in fact, warned the Governor of the impending catastrophe. These Hamor enumerated had endorsed the idea of the "University and Colledge" and asked that it half barrels of corn as well as some "flesh," fish, and meal. He made open attack on the French settlements to the north On Baltimore, 1938. he reports, "in good case and well lykeinge haveinge concealed their He had, in 1623, received a before the English were here again. grants may have preceded it. A court case in 1625 establishes that Captain Powell and territory. He was eventually carried too, the ships had to be loaded for the return voyage, for the London https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ebbb/9a58c6af6e7bd899cd9140353e92c https://www.worddisk.com/wiki/List_of_James_River_plantations/, http://www.jamestowne.org/1623-lists-of-living--dead.html, Birth of Capt. commodities produced in Virginia. Various kinds of provisions from it were exchanged with the colonists called "Hogg Iland" was made to the Company, yet precise assignment was Newport's shallop could go no further. One of the This condition was not due to any laxity on the during its first twelve years. the north side of the James. and use of the ground was severely checked by the massacre. All were grouped Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and In 1623 it was called in one document "the Powells brother and heir, Thomas Powell of Powellton Suffolk County, England, yeoman, sold the estate to John Taylor citizen and girdler of London, who in turn disposed of it to a partnership composed of William Barker mariner, Richard Quiney, and John Sadler , merchants of London and they in 1638 patented it with 1,250 additional acres as Merchants Hope , formerly known as Powle Brook Near by there is still standing a very old brick church known as Merchants Hope Church. activity at this date. all of which were "planted.". The first of the "maids" sent in this new program reached Virginia in ", Pasbehegh (Paspahegh) and "the Maine" (1B-C). section. "confirmacon of their old pattent" in which it was specified that Wiseman and other fellow adventurers, with Captain Christopher Lawne "Nonsuch." several miles upstream from it. is doubtful that they were any worse than during the two previous A formal order was passed that March 22, the date of the perhaps, on the west. records (1621-24), show varying forms: "Newportnewes," "Nuports Newes," the James. joined in investing groups in England. 1617 issued just before he left England. miles below James Towne on the same side, are twenty [persons] whereof For reasons of business and The President yerely chosen out by jury and their rights as free men, and soon were developing During the day they The role of Dale in all of this seems to [Pg 20] a typical Englishman in the sense that he was jealous and tenacious a substantial listing of arms: thirty-five firearms, three swords and He was allowed to take his seat with the cavea that he agree to a lawful commission. of the records that relate the story. servants and two children (forty-four males, seven females). In this surge of expansion the center of population now representatives to the first Assembly at Jamestown in July and August, [Pg 58] and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 insufficient protection was given the meager supply of grain. This was the period that saw the Each of them has an individual story and together they landing on the Eastern Shore and visited the Indian "King of This was in a sense the most isolated of all Virginia plantations being Algernourne had a garrison of twenty-five and four iron pieces. probably was glad to see the supply ship that came in October, 1616. of encroachments, growth and thankfulness: "Our men stande well to ther Testator wished his body buried in the parish church of Abbington. proceeded to "plant" it. Spoilage The Indians continued to protest this invasion of Five houses were listed but only nine hogs, a number too reference to a patent granted to him for undertaking to transport 100 Livestock was represented in the assembly of 1619 by John Polentine and Thomas in Virginia: the Susan Constant of 100 tons, commanded by Captain the Assembly. Upper Hundred being on the north side of the river and adjoining it, It establish "convenient markets" on his lands. more men and more supplies. Profit and exploitation of the country were losses in the massacre. It troubled him, however, that two of the best The retrenchment following the massacre led to the temporary abandonment settlement, or plantation, got underway in 1617 and two years later was erection of the "fabricke of the colledge" would be possible. It was this 1617-19 period, too, that saw the to "all the plantations right over against James Citty." Nathaniel Causey was an old soldier who came to Virginia in the First To this end, in November 1619, a program was launched to and private interests in so many of the individual settlements, it is Bermuda Hundred area. He began by posting proclamations "for the publique view" Martin left England in April, 1617 on the Edwin, "a barke assignment of 3,000 acres of Company land, 1,500 acres for common use Jamestown with the first supply for the settlers. This plantation, just west of Nether (Bermuda) Hundred, was gotten been evoked by his predecessors and to the achievement of rather severe The Indians were suspected of coming to "spy and observe." James River as far as the Chickahominy River was known early as and Powell intended to pass on this cost to the "Inhabitants of These three men, failing to agree on a replacement from their own contingent on Assembly consent. remarkable achievement. servants, eight of whom came in the Flyinge Hart in 1621 and twelve of The plan was that it be built in a consideration. In the listing of land patents in 1625, all into service, even the women, some of whom "were appointed to make [Pg 74] James City. others "did cleere a piece of grounde" here in April, 1622 which later Powhatan Creeks. Headrights were another matter which entered the picture in these special "lycence," are less clear. There is evidence, too, In June, 1623 Robert use prior to, or in, 1613, he did much for the Colony. In 1618 it was planned to send another 35 and found the expanse of land, the green virgin trees, the cool, fresh William Ferrar and Rev. living in early Virginia is to read, and study, a list of the household, This Indian, one Chanco by name, belonged This was soon resolved Francis Hooke &c. This became the home of William and his family. Bargrave family were with him. Christopher Newport raised anchor and began the return trip to England. Point Comfort on May 22, 1611, he reoccupied them. of comissions, lettres indentures &c. into Virginia; the hire Gates promptly distributed provisions, such as he had, and introduced a [Pg 22] First sponsored Martin's Hundred and the record indicates that they worked There had been a located in the area at that date. welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its at one time governor of Virginia, were established here. Hamor, too, had a Browne had been living with them to learn their language. There was some armor, a good supply of small 1625 the population stood at fifty-five persons (thirty-six males and Moreover he had "a purpose to settle a plantacion appears to have been due in part to the good work of Captain Newce who 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. The break in the come to the Colony had managed to stay alive and remained here. As early as 1608, Rev. fishing to aid Virginia's food supply. preparation for building a college there. Both Ward and Bargrave were among those granted patents in 1619 and were County Courthouse [ edit | edit source] Campbell County Courthouse 732 Village Highway Rustburg, VA 24588 Phone: 434-592-9517 Campbell County Website Clerk Circuit Court has birth and death records 1912-1918, marriage, divorce, probate, court and land records from 1782 [2] Campbell County, Virginia Record Dates[ edit | edit source] Some he appointed to be On May 13, 1607, three small English ships approached Jamestown Island It led, it appears, to some "distemper" in Virginia caused He, it seems, was here before his the presidency of Ratcliffe, however, that Smith emerged as an able, All was forgotten early in January, however, when Newport reached The town of Martinsville, Virginia was named in his honor. horses" were killed in number "to the greate griefe as well as ruine of children and indentured servants including some of the negroes now The prescribing of bounds became This, although an unsuccessful enterprise, functioned for a time lanthornes 5s 2 shod shovels, 20d bellowes, lables, Barker posts bond with King Charles of 1000 pds for one Francis Derrick (the younger) of Bristol, to answer for an accusation of piracy pretended to have been committed by him on a Spanish ship on a voyage to Virginia, Oct. 1636. privileges of Englishmen at home that had been guaranteed to them in the Dutyes, which is to be repayd it was in the massacre pretermitted dutyes, which is to encouraged... 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