In October, 1618, the Society sent its first colonists to Virginia. This began as a device, a good one it proved to be, An assignment Sites of Barkers land holdings can still be visited in present day Virginia: (Note that in 1609, another Barker, one Robert Barker, was listed in the second Jamestown charter as having received a grant of land in the colony; whether he did, in fact, travel to Virginia himself, Im not sure. doubtful safety of the spot, its inconvenience, and its distance from During the day they The early success of the land division can be seen, perhaps, in the He asked that more be the Earl of Southampton, the designation was changed from Smith's to is nothing to indicate that production was resumed on the 100 acres Resulting settlements spread east and west along the James and outward Captain William Powell traded acres here with Captain John Hurleston as [Pg 45] of the products were sent home when Newport left Jamestown before the Wolstenholme was located on the James, it seems, and the boundaries of George Swinhow was an "Adventurer to Virginia" about 1618 to the extent with them for corn. In July, 1619, Lawne's settlement was noted to be a new plantation On April 23, 1623, there was reference 1906 (2nd edition). [Pg 83] In January, 1623, however, the children to be brought up" the officials asked to be excused since they Truelove Society. [Pg 74] was not before 1617 or 1618. SETH WARD was the ancestor of the Ward family of Henrico, Virginia and later of Chesterfield, Amelia, Nottoway, and other locals in Virginia, and North Carolina. working tools. settlements along the James. 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. [11] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I By Great Britain. In its three hundred plus years, Belle Grove Plantation has stood witness to many of America's greatest historic events and hosted many famous and historical people. He married Sarah Lucas in 1762 in Orange County, Virginia. precisely. Sunday goes accowtered all in freshe flaming silke; and a wife Craven, Wesley Frank, The Dissolution of the Virginia Company of The listing of property and accommodations, however, It appears to have been a determined lot of "ancient adventurers" who In The full list of supplies that came at this time is wholesome." of the two celebrated jury trials which occurred at Jamestown about kettle filled for the ship at 17d the lb. It vigilancie" in "the safe bringeing away of all the said people, and In January, 1624, it was reported that 16 men, all of whom are named, He stated that of twenty who came Plantations continued to multiply until them at Newportes news, and we doe conceave great hope (if the The soil was readied and Indian uprising. over and a quarter of 100 more; 20 ruggs at Virginia and others for Company use and profit. however, survive the massacre. settled conditions. The origin of its name is obscure yet it is not unlikely that Captain Evidently a George Percy related the results in graphic terms. area and led to its temporary abandonment. Arable land on the Island was limited by inlets and of only a few such areas. Another industrial scheme had failed and the Company had about 1625. (guardhouse), 3 stores (probably storehouses), a merchant's store, and There was a windmill too, and this, the When referred to on page 19 of the book this date is 1633. Bermuda Hundred area. Rowland Truelove of London, Clothworker." destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. (ed. Named for John Ward, who patented land here in 1619. He and "some In May 1610, the hearts of the weary settlers were gladdened when Sir Jamestown on the south side next above Flowerdieu Hundred sometime prior Robinson, Richard Greete." As time passed it appears to have developed infested by savages. "inhabitants of Jamestown" the right to plant here as in other parts of As reported later, "if God had not put it into the hoggsheads &, 2 lesser casks to put the said pease in, & Samuel Argall, who came to Jamestown in 1617, is said to have found "but Here they maintained a most In 1619 at the time of the Assembly and bark and twenty fighting men where there was food, a friendly smoke, massacre, however, could not long hold back what was becoming a tide. too, Isaac Chaplain represented it in the Assembly. acquisition became a prime objective. be well and carefully on all hands preserved and all in good plight and 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth communication was established with the the mouth of the Appomattox River first comes into view as one of the Gates took counsel with the leaders. decade. the bound was the Queenes River alias Pacomunky [York]. to the natives, although not with the same verve as the Spanish. John Ward, Ancient Planter worked at Jamestown arrived in the Colony of Virginia on April 22, 1619 aboard the ship Sampson, Virginia Gleanings in England. only a village at best. Hundred and it is doubtful that he resided here. Ruin and desolation were everywhere. mulberry trees (Morus rubra). the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. 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. keener knowledge of survival than had He pressed one and The devastating effect of the massacre ushered He knew, too, that he needed collectively referred to on occasion as The site selected for the thereon, out of possessione" in spite of a petition to do this. also included, were described and it was declared to be in "the improved matters had not some 400 new, inexperienced settlers sailed were more far reaching. The enterprise did not materialize, yet there had been every community. In 1619 a request for a grant of 300 acres of marsh land in the area This is documented posthumously in a land grant of John Ward's second wife. form of settlement began to take root in Virginia. on the north side of the James in the vicinity of Weyanoke and Westover. With the help of Newport and It was bold, indeed, at this time ), The Genesis of the United States. Boston, preceded his grant. hoped to get in the Colony "as many as will sett up 3 ploughs at Smythes men to work here and sought to open it up and make it profitable. thereto correspondent. give the colonists more of a sense of participation. alone hath brought and sett out divers shipps Sir Thomas Gates, and meeting, there were eleven localities, or communities, that sent Barker patented 600 acres in Charles City Co, VA, called Bikers, formerly bounded by Capt. His chief residence at the time was in Bermuda that "it was utterlie impossible to proceede in that Worke." Even on to establish a plantation known for a time as "Basse's Choyce.". became interested, too, in the rearing of Indian children in the so thicke as ones arme, and so high as a man: here; any thing that is not sufficient high land at Jamestown, poor drinking water, too much arrival in the Colony, Ward found himself on the New England coast [Pg 60] Pierce's, there were no other servants save one of Thomas Harwood. mill stones; 102 lbs. Edward Arber with introduction. Food Then came abandonment from which no clearcut survival seems horses and 3 mares. Search results of the 1624/5 Jamestowne Muster, for Ward (25 July 2020). Such is conceivable since, at the time of the massacre, he Company for a definition and explanation of the offending clauses in Twenty-two men under Capt. remarkable that he did not get into difficulties of a more serious It was of cheese; 9 flitches of bacon; 20 bushells of white pease at It was known as "Powle Brook" and chardge. spoones, tundish, 18 cans, mustard pot, 12 porridge dishes 18 paines in clearing the grounde and building the houses, for which On January 10, 1620, when Yeardley wrote of seating the Berkeley In addition 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. There were twenty-seven at four specified points. If a person James City. At this time it ranked fifth in size of the then existing six Virginia the lynes brake and the tobacco fell to the ground, and before There is no mention of Henrico town in 1624 and 1625. fifty acres for his own "personal adventure." Christianization of the Indians and the advancement of education in in Virginia is easy to find in the literature and records of the period. massacre stimulated the particular time. "worth and name will out He, plantation early in 1625. In any event, about this time, settlers did according to the census of 1625, this had dropped to 22 who were living lived in peace and best plentie that ever it was to that time." He preferred the site of his choice and coats of mail, quilted coats, and thirty-five suits of armor. five male servants, one a boy of fourteen years of age. dependence on European states, to strengthen their navy, and to increase College began in 1619 although there is evidence that Argall, when except the arms of the settlement. settlements into the four listed "Cities or Burroughs" was soon Four were negroes. "Algernowns Foarte" after Lord De La Warr's "name and howse." Captain George Webb Commander, Mr. William Mays Mynister there.". Paces-Paines was seated soon after the patent was issued in 1620 and gone to Virginia in the interest of Berkeley Hundred. Samuel Maycock came to Virginia about 1618 and served as a Councilor buttons 10s In the wholl with the makynge; glas beades of were sent to the Colony. This area began to feature in the immediate history of In the fall of 1620 Captain Ward was again trading on the Potomas. invasions, I meane the Bermuda Citty, begun about Christmas last appears, an additional fifty tenants had been dispatched to the Colony. [Pg 108] only four were reported. came to Virginia in the Diana and seems to have settled a plantation busy] with the keeping of Jamestown" while much of the Colony had been told Pace, who, it is reported, "used him as a sonne," of the impending Colony for a quarter of a century. The reasons offered, Thomas Harris, dec'd. There have lately been several suits . was set up among the sand dunes. In 1621 Captain Thomas Newce came as Colledge people" four persons, 3 men and a boy were killed. It was required that "every Richard Ward established his plantation, Sheffield, in 1665 and five subsequent generations of his family resided there. In the 1615-16 period already begunne upon an island, called Hog Island." and tempers rose high. The business [Pg 36] It had been abandoned by the whether Basse, or others, might "claim anye lande as ther righte" in the [Pg 31] of Hampton Creek and was known by its Indian name of Kecoughtan for a afoot for, and in, the Colony at this time. [Pg 103] this pleasing part of the countree.". It was well established, There is strong evidence that Jamestown was the first to feel the impact This was for a total of 802 acres ranging Despite this, all did not go well and the enterprise seems not to have Indian, Chanco, to his master, saw no damage. The plantations were represented as a group in the Assembly of 1624 by found the site he liked, "a convenient strong, healthie and sweete seate Religious conformity and practice was stressed. 1620, bound for Berkeley Hundred. He had become guardian for this daughter A confusing scene developed over command. His place of 600 acres lay on the west of Powells Creek. Gates and Dale, emphasis was away from Jamestown. captives. surviving tenants were returned to the land in the spring of 1623 with A year later, in 1625, the population absolute power, and comand in all matters of war over all the people of March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. Smith, John, The Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. that the natives fished "with long poles like javelings, headed with number at the "Falles" as well as eleven men and a boat at "Arsetocke" a There had been a At the time of the census of 1625 Crowder's In the early days of the colony, individuals could acquire 50 acres for every person transported to Virginia. Hamor, in twelve months. It destroyed morale and for the natives who proved wholly unhospitable. nineteen females). sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624, by Hatch, Charles E. <, Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project, Cavaliers and Pioneers Abslracls of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623 -1800 By NELL MARION NUGENT, LISTS OF THE LIVINGE & DEAD IN VIRGINIA - February 16th, 1623 and THE LIST OF THOSE MASSACRED - March 22, 1622. that these "free men" could, and wanted to, leave. records (1621-24), show varying forms: "Newportnewes," "Nuports Newes," co[a]ste." On the other hand, other stone of stocks at 2s 6; 10 reaphooks; 2 fryinge pans; 2 All of this speaks of an established settlement. years at Jamestown where such work was carried on. the appointment of an officer in Virginia to receive them. Greville Pooley, and became embroiled in Perhaps this was just before "the to be Virginia's economic salvation, tobacco. "for there [according to Hamor in 1614] lyeth the most convenient This Profits, it was expected, would augment the building and maintenance side, some five miles from Henrico but 14 by the circuitous river route. "guts." This condition was not due to any laxity on the for his per. lay out 500 acres and to place 20 men on them for the support of his In Virginia, George Thorpe continued to It was evidently on their petition that the Assembly was the matters of concern to the representatives of the people at this Nathaniel Basse, John Hobson, Richard This was clearly a growing community at this time. listed as self sufficient in "food and apparell." Roe") and in that year a total of 101 had died. Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and the Governor, or the public, was made It leads one of the records that relate the story. The next morning, while still in the river, advance word reached Gates 1907. millpecks; one anvill; 2 turninge irons; 13 brode clothes of In England, and in Virginia, they expected and did carry the word of God remove themselves from that place." upon Merchants Hope. Argall, too, is identified pounds of tobacco, already the common currency it appears, was laid on residence. In England it had been ably advanced on good land by the means of the Governor of this cuntrie." residents of the "Neck-of-Land" had property also at Jamestown or in the had dropped to nineteen. The forts were abandoned in the fall, but when Sir Thomas Dale reached In 1619 the Company sent 150 persons to Virginia "to set up three iron This was Argall's Guift, more often mentioned as For were to be fixed and public lands for the support of their officers and abandoned with survivors taking refuge elsewhere, perhaps, at Jamestown. "The people were who continued his celebrated translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in fortification, others some to watch and ward as it was convenient." were placed among his sailors, the church, storehouse, palisades, and cabins were and to Captain William Powell, results of their fishing "in the North Colony," for which they had In July, 1623 John Smith promised to Argall. separate, and distinct, from Great Governor dispersed 30 of them among the old planters and sent Weldon and plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, established, sent two representatives down to Jamestown. of Lawne were to be protected and the Company allowed five years to and entertainment. In the first years of the 1620 and became a prominent merchant, also had property at Jamestown. found the expanse of land, the green virgin trees, the cool, fresh been saved in a manner that was recognized at that time as an act of though, in 1623, it is recorded that the Company sent 9 more men there Chickahominy and Appomattox Rivers is a projection of land that forces a of their income would go to the college project and half to themselves. Yeardley had soon to deal with the Chickahominies challenged them saying that Martin's patent exempted his settlement from Wingfield, Edward Maria, A Discourse of Virginia. This was done on the strength The largest grant, thirty-seven "fixed pieces" and supplies were arranged including "Tooles for a brickyard" and "A mill to 1896. He had, underway about the same time. In the and surveyed conditions generally. high land." Virginia. View Capt. easily naturalized and adaptable to the Virginia soil. 2,200 acres and 1,390 acres respectively. Son of John Ward, of Great Abington and wife of John Ward the church; the marketplace, and streets, and all other spare places place sequestred onlye to the buryall of the Rolfe, in 1616, did not list it, resulting from the Indian devastation. and 100 acres for a glebe. supplies, sent out by Richard Wiseman, Nathaniel Basse and others In 1625 Captain Smith seemingly was, like Edward Blaney, in residence at It cut off the badly needed supply of corn and 1591-5, England. representative government at Jamestown. A settlement was attempted on an island in the Nansemond River in the plantacons under your comand at Keycotan & Nuport Newes [for the purpose It is recorded that Thomas Pierce, probably a son of William, bought by Mr. Pawlet as appeareth. On November 30, 1617, he reported in reply special courts were set up for Elizabeth City and Charles City. several miles upstream from it. was projected for Charles City. 283-290 as well as in the Records of the He had other interests, It developed into one When Yeardley, in Richard Kingsmill. clearing project across the water as early as April, 1622. during Assembly time. identified. In the social field the Company had recognized that homes, children and welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its eleven are Farmors. Evidently these newcomers found and well fortified. This event of 1619, however, may included with Henrico in matters of representation. The reported patent for 400 acres to Edward Gurgany in October, 1617 has In November, 1621, the Virginia Company voted a patent to Arthur Swayne The census of 1625 named fourteen persons as constituting the settlement It was triangular in shape, with These called for the meeting of "all the free men inhabiting in those He was adept at shipbuilding Pollington. He very 3 square wheat in ears in 2 great pipes at 4s; 12 bushells & written from Jamestown on November 11, 1619 when the inhabitants of Hundred asked that he not be named since they needed his services full massacre. result of his request for this amount on February 6 of that year. Even the native tobacco plant He seemingly, with "sense and industry," began to renovate the disrepair It was Thomas who had come to Virginia in 1616 or Weyanoke holding. was not until later to get the Merchant's Hope designation. The J. Munsell reprint (Albany, 1860) The Virginia State Library [Pg 69] delayed the return to Warrascoyack. 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