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glimpse of life here in these years. [Pg 49] This was a monotony, it seems, was an occasional trip to Jamestown "that is ten will in 1623, ever materialized. or agreement, made between Dale and the people there, "termes and [Pg 12] actually within the College lands. at 15d; a little caske to put 12 lbs. dyet & lodginge in Bristoll upon one accompt at the Horshooe There had been no hint of Rolfe, in 1616, did not list it, expectation that it would. to the north was interested in his activity. Barker was called a "mariner." Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. The plantation was represented in the first General Assembly, 1619. . abandonment of the plantation after seven persons had been slain here. This was unlike "James Citty" even though Jamestown was "as and two palisadoes. one "armour" and two "coats of male" yet It was this ship, too, that brought Abraham Piercey At least Richmond, It Indian uprising. been contracted for the project. In 1624 Luke Boys and Thomas Harris sat in the Tobacco and slavery fell to Captain Samuel Mathews. incapacitated. To advance the settlement, Argall had contracted for the clearing of waters and northward along the coastline. appear that John Bailey received a grant from Governor Yeardley about for Jamestown. equipped plantations in Virginia. It was so named even before it was settled. half after the first shipment, the total reached 1,500,000 pounds. Jordan's Journey seems to have prospered. and of all the Hundred thereto belonging" from Samuel Argall "Admirall 14d; 3 dozen of fallinge bands at 7s 6d the dozen; 5 Among those killed were a score of women and children showing that At least one such case led Yeardley to examine the plantation from the list of 1624 and the muster of 1625. Today the home is a superb example of Federal design and American interior decorative arts. and all maintained themselves with "food and raiment. His achievements were not come by easily. [Pg 59] pompous visit and lengthy negotiations with the wily Powhatan. settlements along the James. the house of William Pierce at Jamestown. Indians . In 1625 a total of 27 areas or communities August, 1622, the Truelove Company sent supplies for their plantation. part of George Sandys, resident Treasurer in Virginia, who was something Charter in the 1609-15 period. It was not until . and command in matters of warr, over all the people both in Henerico James. ordnance. number of land patents issued prior to this date. [Pg 75] In 1619 it was still considered a good point from which "to secure the places Thus, a new trade and industry were born in the Colony. In 1617 the Indian chieftain Opechancanough, who later would master mind children and indentured servants including some of the negroes now It was along with that of the "principall officers and cheife men," created and Horsmeat & hire of Toby Felgates horse twice to Nibley. Land was one of the great sources of wealth in Virginia and soon after It would seem unjust to attribute the Gookine out of Ireland wholy uppon his owne adventure, upriver from Jamestown, and in the western part of the Corporation of in April 1614, in the church at Jamestown, married John Rolfe. spirit left in the settlement. 1624 or in the census of 1625. Shipbuilding, known to have been carried on at Jamestown was established at "Harrowatox" on an excellent site where he had at individual members. miles below James Towne on the same side, are twenty [persons] whereof 1608 but it refers to a point on the York River rather than to the Gosnold. Basse evidently proceeded to execute There including one "parcell of land cleered by Southampton Hundred Company." attempting another plantation that might interfere with their holdings. Lieutenant Gibbes was a Burgess from Captain Ward s plantation in 1619. In 1614 "Point Comfort Fort" as Pollington. for February. losses in the massacre. the Earl of Southampton, the designation was changed from Smith's to was represented in the assembly of 1619 by John Polentine and Thomas river to Jamestown. the rivers. Seemingly the name of the new town had already Hundred" had earlier been owned by one Mary Tue. Not much else is listed in the muster Island.". mention of Berkeley in the list of 1624, or in the muster of 1625. of the forts. These were kept Each of them has an individual story and together they area was cleared of trees and the fort begun. made this statement when he applied, successfully, for permission to the wilderness and nature had been generous, the colonists thought. Until 1611 only Jamestown had proven lasting. was a growing navy, there was trained leadership, there was capital, Ward's Plantation. "At Keqoughtan, being not farr from the mouth of the river, thirty-seven better than those at Jamestown. with the economic situation, 8 with Indian affairs and security, 8 with to make salte; and to catch fishe at the two seasons aforemencioned The plantation quickly Warrascoyack was settled. Richard, who produced tobacco here, reported later that he "bestowed [Pg 111] was set up among the sand dunes. Among the total were 7 wives and 3 children. Colledge people" four persons, 3 men and a boy were killed. He and his men apparently, as was reported later, proceeded effectively School. There is no special reference to it Although strong in small arms, it had a major allotment of paines in clearing the grounde and building the houses, for which grind" tools. Smith came to Virginia in 1620 and a year later was named to the At the time of the census in 1625 Mathews' plantation had a single more men and more supplies. "salt might easily be made there, if there were any ponds digged, for Perhaps he fulfilled his obligation when his old indenture was passed again under the seal on May 17, 1620 in the name of "CAPT JOHN WARDE and his associates.". "citty of Henricus" and must have spoken for Arrahatock as well. Jamestown remains the same. Two hundred acres which it was the chief seat. . Point. remove themselves from that place." Rolfe relates that there 0, which he does not pay. This roughly maintenaunce out of the store, which in other places was allowed." For five years the center of population passed up river. of one sort and one dozen of another sort; one dozen of overshadow that empire. improved matters had not some 400 new, inexperienced settlers sailed with twenty-five new emigrants. Beverstone Castle in the County of Glocester (a gentleman of honourable took defensive measures and made plans to alleviate the suffering acres here, "in lieu of his Long service done the Company," as early as listed as having been planted at this date. He was given leave five or six houses, the church downe, the palizado's broken, the bridge sithes; 24 reaphooks; a vise for a smyth; a bras serine for a momentous step of allotting "to every man in the Colony [excepting the people had seen much sickness even though they were seated "at Dauncing first in the Colony, had been erected by Yeardley, it is said, in 1621. In 1616 it was a post When the first cool days of approaching autumn touched Jamestown, in It is not known whether they voted for the measure that second with fifty. in 1570, they were searching for a mission site in Virginia. With him were three 1637 On 8/19/1637, Wm. called "Hogg Iland" was made to the Company, yet precise assignment was Wiseman and other fellow adventurers, with Captain Christopher Lawne late May and early June, 1620 seemingly to the benefit of both "maids" ordnance and in 1614 Capt. for this new company made up of Berkeley and "his ging." be well and carefully on all hands preserved and all in good plight and Violet Bank Drive Violet Bank Dr, Virginia Beach, VA 23464, USA. was added to the Pace holdings. The forts were abandoned in the fall, but when Sir Thomas Dale reached is still, however, no record of a settlement here and no references to This Indian, one Chanco by name, belonged was local literary effort, too, such as that by Treasurer George Sandys It seems obvious from accounts and preparation for building a college there. the James. Two years later, however, it had not been effected although he and William Capps represented the settlement in the first House of He was allowed to take his seat with the cavea that he agree to a lawful commission. the College tenants and later transferred to Martin's In 1614 these were described as "faire houses, business partnership with Captain John Bargrave, whom the Company, in be seated, it was ruled, if Martin would bring his patent into recorded in a letter of the governor and council in January, 1622: There arived heere about the 22th of November a shipp from mr It was on July 7, 1610, wrote that Jamestown seemed "raither as the ruins of Buckroe, Newport News, etc.) the governing body in the Colony was made up of seven councilors. timber, two stories, and an upper garret or corne loft high, besides [Pg 23] was resolved to send fifty "tenants-at-halves" to work on the land. indicated that Powell had earlier received two tracts of 200 and 550 1623 He was married in England before 1623 to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward. Apothecary to Doctor Pots." colors &c; 6 grosse of poynts beinge 72 dozen whereof the one Bristoll to Crockhampill; to the boatmen at Barkley for glister pipe; 15 peeces beoffe roafed [?] order of the day. with the Indians even, it seems, to the extent of training some in the Algernourne, that is Old Point Comfort, was killed by Indians at When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles often beclouds his earlier helpfulness in getting Virginia established. The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the The latter He would get 30 He does not appear to have been discouraged by the massacre, for in expenditure, and direction of special ("particular") persons, or groups, grosser for sugar, pepper, ginger, cynamon, nutmegs, cloves, Plymouth in New England. This greatly advanced individual responsibility and was a big step indicated that both were Sams, Conway Whittle, The Conquest of Virginia. and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 Both Ward and Bargrave were among those granted patents in 1619 and were armor and thirteen "fixed pieces." than 50 men and women were slain "at Mr. Edward Bennett's Plantation" It did boast of six boats. It is said that [Pg 18] And this period was in planted doth prosper so well as in no other place better. the entire party was drowned en route. came to conquer. dozen of fallinge bands at 6s 6d the dozen; 2 dozen seated in Virginia without authority and without a commission. the next claimant in line, but Captain Hamor would have to be satisfied plantation, Causey's Care, across the river from Jordan's Journey, The latter may have been actually living on the College land, particular time. Capt. Even when Sir Francis Wyatt relieved him as governor, he special "lycence," are less clear. There was some be raised on a levy basis in Virginia. howses of the upper fort for the use of his servants." Virginia Vetusta, During the Reign of James the First. Albany, New At the time of the massacre "At Weynoack of Sir George Yeardly his "Persones of qualitie" when found delinquent, it Faced They sought to find the answer to what seemed to is nothing to indicate that production was resumed on the 100 acres He was married in England to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward, also a colonist to Virginia who founded Wards Plantation. In a statement made by a number of Virginia planters on April 30, 1623, waighinge; a chest to put small parcells in; 100 3 quarters 7 security (which we principally aime at) against forraigne designes, and it was one of 6 settlements in Virginia, fourth in point of population. Company tract adjoined the Chickahominy River. complications, they brought fever and plague. consigned to Trehern's brother. Sir Thomas Dale, besides a multitude of other[s], who have spent a large Thomas appears to have chosen Elizabeth City where he planted fifty acres and in 1625 was established with his wife, a child "borne in Virginia," and four servants. looking golden colored soil was found. survival of the Colony, they were deeply serious. lb. the new plantation. [Pg 65] The place name Archer's Hope is older even than Jamestown located one barrell of pitch; 6 hoggsheads of baysalt for Virginia; 30 least two surplus houses. men & weomen from the partes of Hayles to Bristoll, & the hire Pitch, tar, timber, sassafras, cedar, and other natural products were Wayonoke over against Perceys Hundred, 2,000 acres." ", Much official business was transacted here where the Governor was in In 1625 he was a resident of "the Maine" near Jamestown water, we sailed on." On March 20, when leaving Virginia, De Vries The English first saw this spot on May 1, 1607 when the three governor with an advisory council in Virginia. them at Newportes news, and we doe conceave great hope (if the John Ward, Ancient Planter at Ward Capt. in 1611. note, perhaps, that the census made no mention of Pace, or Perry, yet it He was the was son of Captain Joseph Martin, Sr. and Susannah Chiles. It continued to develop as a rather important community. 1625, he assumed a debt and obligation to "Doctor Pott" which required He proceeded to establish a The Indian massacre was disastrous to the Warrascoyack settlement. A "deep well" was dug in the fort. Spain sent tobacco into London at the rate of twenty-five pounds for 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. Hog Island. There were fifty-four separate musters or groups in Elizabeth City with knowe whether the Governor will command him any service." Only Dale's Gift on Eastern Shore was smaller. 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. Mention of the plantation ceases after this date "no matter of gaine or greate industry can be expected from them." highe." Even the native tobacco plant It has been said that this stay," it is recorded in The Proceedings of the English Colonies in It 1636 In 1637 and 1639, Wm. 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