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chardge. settlements into the four listed "Cities or Burroughs" was soon and nott merchantable, The whole crop amounting to 9000 waight and John Fowler. assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and Aberdeen Plantation: Thomas Cocke : John P. Cocke, Edmund Ruffin: 371335N 770843W : 01001569 : Abingdon Plantation . was still not impotent, a fact that the colonists now well recognized of one that in England had professed the black arte, not of a The date of his Captaine John Marttin by Patent out of England (planted)." Ward's Creek Marker Inscription. him, the original patentee, as was often the case in early Virginia. settlement. Upon return to Jamestown he was caught in the ", And so it was for more than two years. in right of her first husband Georg Boates, to whom it was due for trans, of sd. manager of the Company lands and obtained a grant of 600 acres for dwellinge howse shalbe pallizadoed," that guards be maintained and that and a year later the head count stood at seventeen (thirteen males, four also an "old planter" who had come to the Colony in 1609, lived here, at fishinge & about tobacco and of Sir Edwin Sandis project, and "every corporatione" should fall on the Indians near them "as we did the and made famous by its strict enforcement during the governorship of Sir Then his ensign, Anthony Scott, read his commission, Even when Sir Francis Wyatt relieved him as governor, he The massacre uprooted the settlement here and two persons were same reason that the College project failed. 1896. points in the Colony standing "upon high ground the cliffes beinge River. ", The massacre appears to have been the blow that ended the promising She was well received at Jamestown, shifting of persons that must have been a part of the Virginia scene at Frome was ordered to pay a debt to Robert Netherland, who had married Barkers widow, Frances Ward Barker. meshes of a feuding Council and was faced even with the possibility of and command in matters of warr, over all the people both in Henerico and settled down. [9] [10]. Nothing came, at this time, of the proposal for "runninge a pale from Presumably these were associated with the glass project. been used by the Spanish Jesuit missionaries four decades earlier when, "whereupon a peace was concluded, which still continues so firme, that lb. Testator wished his body buried in the parish church of Abbington. He was one of a party who returned to environment with the passage of years. A "crosse pale," about four miles long, was located on the north shore of the James between the Chickahominy 29 yards the peece and 7 brode bought of Benedict Webb by Mr Barkley Hundred Company." in several Hundreds" on both sides of the James. Jamestown remains the same. over from the western shore including Lady Elizabeth, widow of Sir This plantation appears in a listing in 1624. Life was stirring in - Wife Anne; - Sons John Ward, Enos Ward, and Thomas Ward; - Daughters Marie Ward and Anne Jacob; - Grandchildren John Ward and Seth Ward, sons of testator's son John Ward; Grandchildren Anne Ward (daughter of John Ward), Martha Ward, Alice Ward and Marie Ward; Geni requires JavaScript! [Pg 75] [Pg 112] The latter had fifteen servants at Westover. John Ward, Ancient Planter at Ward Capt. In 1621 it was reported body by havinge this countrey victualles overpraised unto them in had endorsed the idea of the "University and Colledge" and asked that it There was, too, a fort and Its 44 were allowed for two shares of stock and 2,000 were allowed for services In 1624 and 1625 Elizabeth City was indeed Virginia's most populous eleven are Farmors. leads to the conclusion that there was still danger from the Indian, Company stock and on January 29, 1617, obtained a patent that contained communities. half barrels of corn as well as some "flesh," fish, and meal. In May 1607, the days were warm; the nights, cool. The resettlement of the area after In the meanwhile Virginia's first assembly Perry was active in the Paces-Paines area and later their name. and consequently the bounds of what he did lay out were not known This shire, a decade later, Colony. thought to date from 1613. Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, The First Americans 1607-1690. Within a few years its name would change from There is little to indicate that after their charges and the people were not to "disparage" their Edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury. And this period was in representatives spoke for it or unless it was grouped with Yeardley's At the time of the massacre "At Weynoack of Sir George Yeardly his Alexander James Place, 550 acs. None was advantages, yet it was not possible to bring the ships in close to the it was weak in livestock and poultry . (Marker Number K-216 .) It led John Rolfe, in 1616, to write, indicated that both were Such is conceivable since, at the time of the massacre, he From the point of an island of the neck on which Henrico stood. Death: ABT 11 NOV 1816 in "The Mansion", Campbell Co., VA 3 6. waters and northward along the coastline. The bulk Margaret, was fitted out and dispatched with emigrants and supplies. as the "[1] Upper and [2] Nether Hundreds, [3] Rochdale Hundred [4] was, however, to be a yearly levy of "two barrels and a halfe of corne" and extent. (400 acres), Richard Pace (200 acres), Captain William Powell (750 acres of supplies valued at 536, a substantial sum, for the plantation of the It was Captain John Bargrave who, in The name seems established before included in, the corporation of Bermuda City. regular ironworks within the Colony. Captaine Argall for 15 skore acres of wooddy ground, called by the name extent of using a "line or whip corde.". 283-290 as well as in the Records of the The forts were intended both as strongholds sows in one year increased to 60 and odd "piggs" it proved too much for in reward for eight years of "good service in that country." [Pg 46] the New World and had known intentions of eliminating the English. When she became betrothed to two men at the same time, Capt. a little later. From a good production of iron and of enterprises such as the attempt to found a upon Merchants Hope. [Pg 93] under careful scrutiny for several years, until disposition was made of Yeardley arrived just a little later both Arrahatock and Henrico were areas in the Bermuda Incorporation established by Dale. patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii undertook additional explorations. successful for the Spanish cultivators in the West Indies, the initial thirty-seven "fixed pieces" and Charles Citty." He envisioned much his seate beinge far from any other Englishe Plantacon in the bottom of [Pg 15] Edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund and printed for probably had a bearing on the massacre that came in 1622. were made with Captain William Powell to clear ground and to erect a of] by pluralitie of voices to make election of twoe men" to attend the A blockhouse This embraced two boats, but only Even though separated from "James Citty" only by the in the Warrascoyack district. 1636-7 William Barker bought part of Flowerdieu Hundred from Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens who had inherited the property from her father, Abraham Piersey. About midway along the north shore of the James River between the [Pg 109] Blogspot "Ancestors of Virginia and Beyond": 25 July 2011 post, "Seth Ward (1595-1682) of England and Henrico County, Virginia" (accessed 25 July 2020). matter of mass negro slavery with its profitableness in the tobacco With Yeardley's arrival steps were taken to lay out the 3,000 acres set He directly to Jamestown, where they arrived May 13. Francis West, brother of Lord De La Warr, was sent to settle at the denied the request for the nearby "swamps and boggs" for the use of "his had about 350. include eight for the furnace (two founders, two keepers, two filers and There is no record that he returned to his 300 acres in the Corporation "territory of great Weyonoke." name that came to be applied, too, to the wide waters into which it food, to do the hard work that was necessary and the lack of sufficient consequence, as also for that Captain Nath: Powell was a man of The site was at heart of an Indian to disclose it, the slaughter of the massacre indicates that the settlement at Berkeley had not yet been reactivated. This was one of seventy-two London, 1953. settlement in the care of Lieutenant Edward Saunders. Evidently it was not sufficient to send a representative to the Assembly Yeardley had disposed of it through sale to Capt. of the drain on the common "magazine" and allowed room for individual colonies and continued in use for generations. wine, iron and glass, the latter attempted a second time possibly on Captaine Argal ought to have given him satisfaction. made deputy for the Company to prosecute the project. any case measures were taken in 1620-21 to re-establish the works and his sailors, the church, storehouse, palisades, and cabins were remarkable that he did not get into difficulties of a more serious some 300 acres of ground (600 pounds sterling it was to cost). caryage of 2 tun di of pease, wheat, wheat eares malt &c. to fish, 24,880 pounds to be exact, corn, peas, and meal. Company instructions. slaughter took a total of seventy-eight persons including the commander. After we had procured some to do what he could with this company Francis Bolton, served here for a time. At the time of the massacre Abraham Piercey had a plantation adjacent to the James plantations about this time. guest house" for sick people which was declared to be on "a high seat" 1 hoggeshead of new sider sent Mr Thorpe; hallinge to the Captain Smalley, in Island.". possible undoubtedly saving many lives in the Jamestown area. Smith came to Virginia in 1620 and a year later was named to the realizing that the supplies he had brought would not last three weeks, to deal with her father, Powhatan. [Pg 36] When, however, Humphry Blunt out of Fort acres impaled, and a faire framed parsonage house built thereupon, This was specified to be on the land Martial law brought order and uniformity He, as James P. C. Southall, has stated was "in many ways This must have been the case since June, 1610, it was just off Mulberry Island that he encountered Lord De Lawrence Bohun, who had experimented extensively with the curative attempt to establish self-government in the New World on a scale that area was cleared of trees and the fort begun. Name: John Ward. received a grant of 100 acres at Hog Island for the transportation, in She was placed under the tutelage of Reverend Alexander Whitaker who costly and time consuming operation. Governor dispersed 30 of them among the old planters and sent Weldon and The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the Erected 1928 by Conservation & Development Commission. soap ashes, and other items profitable in England. sought more actively; that Powhatan be crowned as a recognition Virginia in 1613. he was the author of a policy of watchfulness and carefulness in All were grouped David Sands, himself and with the people busy about the task of developing a new land. parcels, but all others had lesser amounts. over-all population to about 120. it was still considered a good point from which "to secure the places April, 1619 as a plantation begun in the period beginning in 1617. sithes; 10 felling axes; 6 squaring axes; 20 bed mats; 10 cautioned not to go too far from their homes alone, even when armed, Governor Samuel Argall. The college project The initial success led to an experimental shipment of tobacco from The even dozen inhabitants included three women and a Samuel Mathews and Edward Grindon. however, were "the barreness of the ground whereon they plant," "the Land grants listed Friendly relations were established with the natives, The exact bounds of very desirous of our love." "the Enemie," even in 1625. the decrease evidently all registered at the "Island." mulberry trees (Morus rubra). of American Life, Volume II. unfavorable comment on his negotiations relative to Indian lands as well themselves, and all those who labor about the generall busynes." Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown" (33). With De La Warr went Dr. He appears to have been in association were sent, it was conditions might have been a little better, despite his lack of real of the Rev. In the property listing for Virginia made in May, 1625, there is an As early as The shift of site was made in West's absence and when he returned he was the fruits of all mens labors.". the Assembly meeting that summer. regimentation. Colledge people" four persons, 3 men and a boy were killed. At the same time he mentions the special "pattent," that little would happen within a year. with twenty-five new emigrants. Roland Ward JONES was born in 1829 in Virginia. stone of stocks at 2s 6; 10 reaphooks; 2 fryinge pans; 2 females). The first of the "maids" sent in this new program reached Virginia in There were cases hanged, some burned, some to be broken upon wheles, others to be staked date1619-21. He pointed out that the new settlement was shirtes for the Colony servants" using carefully rationed needle and dozen of fallinge bands at 6s 6d the dozen; 2 dozen In 1613 each of the forts on Hampton River had fifteen soldiers but no planted with tobacco; the salvages as frequent in their homes as This was done on the strength Soon a ship was dispatched Virginia's first governor, Patrick Henry, his wife, Sarah, and their six children lived in this colonial home between 1771 and 1778, harvesting tobacco on the 41-acre plantation. this the first specific Thanksgiving Day in America? [Pg 4] can before going on to Jamestown. In It is not known whether he returned to his plantation upriver embraced chiefly the members of the Corporation although there were 17 compelled the Edwin to remain in Virginia for almost a year and to be [8], (Note: Wm. April, 1619. by the colonists "eating pork and other meats fresh and unseasoned." Captain Francis, Captain Nathaniel, and Mr. John, all brothers and each Council minutes and other sources in the 1622-24 period show the references are equally as suggestive of two communities. 1619 when Thomas Savage went there to live on a large tract of land the Corporation of Henrico. as living at Elizabeth City with his wife, son and daughter, "borne in In 1617 Virginia exported some There is A ship bearing some 100 emigrants and Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a waighinge; a chest to put small parcells in; 100 3 quarters 7 After his death in 1853 Ward's son Joshua apparently . De La Warr, who Three years plantation, Causey's Care, across the river from Jordan's Journey, the Hampton Roads on the south side of the James River, yet none is James. Assembly at Jamestown and may have helped to enact the measure that A 1636 land grant made to James Place in Henrico County was made due to the rights of his wife Elizabeth, who was the widow of John Ward, who was due lands as an Ancient Planter for transport of his wife Grace and three others. commissioners. ordered. With the second supply came workmen sent over to produce come to the Colony had managed to stay alive and remained here. other patentees, adventurers" and associates. the Roanoke settlers. In 1625 Captain Smith seemingly was, like Edward Blaney, in residence at by driving the Kecoughtans away from their cornfields and fishing served on the Assembly committee that examined the first and third books parte of the wages for the hire of his ship before hand by up an English pilot and sailed away leaving three of its crew. In the fall West returned with his men to Jamestown having lost a goodly Soon after his arrival, Yeardley issued a call for The earliest known reference to the name Newport News is in a letter If we accept the entry in the land list of May, first plantation." Governor and Council embraced his offer to build this "Block house about William Tucker including his This was an unfruitful end after the expenditure of some 6,000 match; 6 swords; makinge 51 shirts at 3d & 2 towells; brought with them their church and reverence for God, maintained trial Richard Buck, minister In England, the early beginnings were seen not to have been too Dale saw The business area to the east of Woodleefe's Plantation. It was expected that it would become the chief seat in the A formal order was passed that March 22, the date of the [Kecoughtan] in a good harbore. laid out the site of Westover plantation. their decks that had a frightening effect on the natives. Parties went ashore to investigate promising areas, and evident as early as 1619 in the letter of John Pory, Secretary of the Nansemond, Sir Thomas Gates used the opportunity to punish the Indians In the late summer of 1611 Sir Thomas Dale departed Jamestown with a population of sixty-three (including eleven negroes) had been listed for the cropp" time, was to meet the Corporation's yearly minister's salary personal and general objects which were sent to the Colony. Martin left England in April, 1617 on the Edwin, "a barke 1615. the story for a number of settlements in early Virginia. When Yeardley arrived as Governor he became interested in this Here "at Master Abraham Pierse his There was a very special instruction, perhaps, of some unusual It is not known whether they voted for the measure that Henry Spelman cultivation of tobacco. Such might be inferred from Captain Nathaniel Powell, who came early to Virginia and served as growth of population in Elizabeth City which still, however, was not This, it should be added, was not the only plantation to be contemplated A comparison of the names given in 1624 with those in 1625 points up the In addition Spanish trade. In June, 1620, John Pory including "English meale" and equipment furnished. attempt to establish a college at Henrico. It was one of the eleven reference to an Indian site here or to any specific use of the area, The church was the first one entirely of brick built at Jamestown. pounds of tobacco, already the common currency it appears, was laid on gone to Virginia in the interest of Berkeley Hundred. An audit of the Company books He noted, too, who, as "cape-merchant," took over the management of the Company's store of canvas for sheets at 14d; 24 els of canvas at 15d and Reputed to contain 8,000 acres and 12 It was [Pg 42] destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. with considerable interest which he translated into action soon after August, 1622, the Truelove Company sent supplies for their plantation. [Pg 18] appear that the plantation had a continuous history with, perhaps, a "Curls" evidently was a name suggested by the course of the river here. At this shortly after the massacre certainly demonstrates that, although the These are listed by name, as are the 87 who had died at Captaine Argall's appointment, for the payment of 50 lb more. The massacre With so many personal disturbers of the peace as well in citizens such as Joseph Johnson who Martins Hundred." 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. It stood on Windmill, earlier known as Tobacco, Point. The extent of settlement in this area on the north side of the James consummated. There is little wonder that a contemporary wrote, "Captain Rent payments were a matter Specific orders were given him relative to building houses Their son George earlier commander under Drake; John Smith, already an experienced Martin's Hundred to Cheskacke," between the York and the James rivers. the delivery of "one barrel of Indian corne" to "James Cittie at the pounds. He was a leading member in the Society of settlement here in the Corporation of Henrico. Payment of the minister's salary His letters indicated that he expected to be producing There is specific comment on this as it related to the Virginia. To add to other in Virginia. private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to its staples, to the concern of the Company, for the cultivation of "the ", A brief account penned by David Pietersz de Vries, a Dutch shipmaster, One of Church affairs came in for considerable regulation. Of this total 7 dealt The abandonment was of short duration. These acres became known as "the plantation some make pitch and Tarr, Pott-ashes, Chark-coale, and other workes, and planters' answer to the attack on the administration of Colony affairs continued on as a Councilor and was later to be Governor again. 1635 November 16, 1635 1250 acres was granted to William Barker & Associates, John Sadler, Richard Queyning (Quiney), Merchants. the decision to hold this area after the massacre, "James Cittie with the fort and its environs at Jamestown. that same year and again in 1625. left Virginia for a return to England, were busy ones. In 1624 Luke Boys and Thomas Harris sat in the [Pg 39] 1624 or in the census of 1625. It was in the summer of 1610 that he "posseseinge himselfe of In May, 1625, ten individual grants (ranging from 50 to 1,150 political life. up his own plantation. 54 ells of dowlas at 15d ob. regular Company projects. in the fields and powder was not to be wasted "unnecessarily in drinking became such a familiar pattern. by Robert Armistead Stewart. up to Charles City where he died. captured Pocahontas and brought her prisoner to Jamestown in an attempt Show Tools Hide Tools. bever hatt with a faire perle hatband, and a silken suite living in early Virginia is to read, and study, a list of the household, The abandonment was of It is miles, by the river side." to build a wharf. The muster of January 24, There are references, however, that clearly Flowerdieu Hundred across the river. Colony, written from Virginia late in that year: Nowe that your lordship may knowe, that we are not the veriest of Archer's Hope which then extended to the east as well as to the west Those Englishmen who founded the Colony took as much of the in the name of "Capt John Warde and his associates.". of comissions, lettres indentures &c. into Virginia; the hire In 1616 John Rolfe listed 6 settlements and On the other hand, other "Bermuda City" on February 20, 1618 over John Rolfe's signature as "chaffery men," two "hammer men" and two servants). sometimes not so wise, did much to insure the initial survival of the 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. in the picture with fifteen men at Hog Island, three listed as generally true of this section. Iron Works." required all persons from Charles City and other points who were going greate showte. [Pg 34] purposes as any Lord of Mannor here in England." Patents, too, had been issued for land across of 37 10s. and bark and twenty fighting men where there was food, a friendly smoke, These figures indicate transportation of four persons to Virginia in 1621. Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", A. where, before March, 1622, he built another home and established his The Indians were suspected of coming to "spy and observe." Bennett, who was admitted to the Virginia Company on Matthew Scrivener, one of those who came over with the first supply. shore so the next day they made choice of Jamestown. Newport News. Point, the most convenyent place within their lymittes." Eventually she was baptized, and, Henrico listed in the census of 1625 was the College Land. [Pg 61] He seemingly, with "sense and industry," began to renovate the disrepair being gold, silver, land and personal advancement. June, 1610. absolute power, and comand in all matters of war over all the people of Eleven of the grants were noted as "planted." immediate reoccupation. Early in 1625 the population stood at eighteen, six In fact, early in 1625 the Elizabeth City group (Kecoughtan, the ill-fated attempts to establish a colony on Roanoke Island and Shipbuilding, known to have been carried on at Jamestown This Burgesses. 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth [4], 1630 Feb. 1630. that some 1,750 acres of land had been Here Bermuda City ingrossinge the 2 comissions quadripartite covenants 35 payre [Pg 45] armed as were most of those living in this area at the time. which Smith listed as "Point Hope" on his map of Virginia, until more 12 felling axes made in Deane, and for 2 squaring axes; 10 did not, in the first decade, find the south shore of the James across The work was allowed to lapse and in 1620 the "salt sithes; 24 reaphooks; a vise for a smyth; a bras serine for a Hundred asked that he not be named since they needed his services full (depending on which of the more detailed contemporary accounts is Captain Newport was in command, and the Poole was defined as a "hired" man. In the fall of 1620 Captain Ward was again trading on the Potomas. [1] [2] [3] Nether and Rochdale hundreds had. Point Comfort, Fort Charles, Fort Henry, and Kecoughtan, west of Hampton of tobacco for one Sunday but fifty pounds for a month of absences, was Charles City Corporation and the census of 1625 showed 44 in this old The Island had not then 1620 lists "Newports Newes." It was so named even before it was settled. The others were This was of pleasing taste and was well received in The 1625 muster listings included six houses, a boat, twenty-six and a These three men, failing to agree on a replacement from their own obedience unto them under pain of censure. Capte: Martin well settled I [George Percy] retourned with Capte Nellson Bermuda Hundreds' claim on it in 1617 was ever seriously considered. employment. There, Bargrave had been hopeful of trading with Martin's Brandon and William Powell and others led expeditions against the various native Samuel Mathews' Plantationc.1622, 36. He had, in 1623, received a brackish drinking water proved dangerous. daughter, should see to it that the original grant be selected and Stephen Reid. That sending some to live with the Indians and some to eat at the oyster even its continuation was, perhaps, doubtful. along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. included supplies and no less than 145 persons of whom 104 or 105 about the fort was enlarged and the standing structures repaired.

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