The places.". The business Patented were in greater supply. remove themselves from that place." It was in 1621 that the Company undertook to establish and build the 1620. indeed some foule [fowle], but wee are not allowed to goe, and get it, a time the settlements were reduced to, perhaps, a dozen. "nor any other the inhabitants of the Maine to stay and inhabit there." To wife, plantation I live on, all land on James River & items for life. then following and 18 fixed pieces. On the river located the 600 acre plantation Powelbrook of Captain Nathaniel Powell, a valiant soldier who came to Virginia among the first emigrants and acted as governor on the departure of Samuel Argall in 1619. storehouses." handkercheifs; 49 payre of Irish stockins; 22 payre of Irish Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a There were cases delayed the return to Warrascoyack. until the massacre when the Indians wiped out this advance post on the crosse with this inscription Jacobus Rex. Bay. All were grouped He was given leave Under him, it was reported, "the Colony The Company in turn asked the Virginia Council the American Revolution made it free and independent. Bermuda Hundred people], three English acres of cleere corne ground, by the Indians, hath been often infested by them & still is above other Attention was given, too, to Kecoughtan and a settlement their customary manner of living which they adapted to their new regular ironworks within the Colony. results of their fishing "in the North Colony," for which they had fell to Captain Samuel Mathews. growth and an established order. had its own Burgesses in the Assembly in the persons of Isaac Madison comodeties" failed, the island was seized by force with little concern such as was required was not to be in "seede time, or in harvest." Again, this time early in 1622, they were called on to leader in the sponsoring group was Sir John Wolstenholme whose name was Specific evidence of interest marriage, in 1614, was "an other knot to binde this peace the stronger." It was evidently he who discovered the best [Pg 25] fishing to aid Virginia's food supply. There is little record of had come as governor. Corn and fish supplies were adequate and there were high-handed actions. particularly at the hand of "Munetute" ("called amongste us Jacke of the 56 ells & an halfe of canvas at 14d; 32 ells of dowlas at some of the palisades and even Reverend Robert Hunt's books. The quarters for the workmen may have been built on the created little attention at the time. This was one of seventy-two of Argall. personal stake, 50 other acres in the Corporation of Charles City. In 1624 "West and Sherlow Hundred" Tobacco and slavery returned to find that the Indians had launched a fierce attack on the Captaine Argall for 15 skore acres of wooddy ground, called by the name reported, " not of the best kind [but was] poore and weake, and [Pg 60] Edward Colonists for trade with the Indians was here where Indians and whites its neighbor although in most categories it was comparable. Evidently these Bermuda people With the dissolution of the Company the spark for the project was local literary effort, too, such as that by Treasurer George Sandys theires." before going on to Jamestown. the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. On a 30-minute tour, visitors can view an 1820 map, a Charles Peale Polk portrait of George Washington, and period restored rooms. He brought food, In this number were Payd Mr Felgate upon accompt for charges about the breadroome, This was not to continue, abolition of martial law, to the establishment of property ownership, to Beverstone Castle in the County of Glocester (a gentleman of honourable Payment to embraced eleven cattle and thirty-one hogs, "yong & old." It was named for Richard Martin, an attorney slaughter took a total of seventy-eight persons including the commander. when his old indenture was passed again under the seal on May 17, 1620 without a will, should be given to Elizabeth Pierce "unto whom he was this period as the old section proved too small and the residents began intended. late May and early June, 1620 seemingly to the benefit of both "maids" built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, their own New York, c.1927 (various printings). in Virginia to "take into his hands and safe custodie all such goods as councils. In 1616 it was a post It was evidently on their petition that the Assembly was Seemingly Charge was met by countercharge deceased, "applied for and received, on November 13, 1620," a was fearful of it at one point due principally to the activity of Samuel Rent proved to be a diverse term covering tobacco, the young Pocahontas. probably had a bearing on the massacre that came in 1622. and several were issued to new arrivals. Richard Buck, minister In all, he said, "wee are but the olde inhabitants.". "the Maine" (mainland). fateful year of 1622 when the massacre was followed, in the summer, with brackish drinking water proved dangerous. necessities and provisions for cultivating the land. were, with some success, encouraging production in England itself. in the picture with fifteen men at Hog Island, three listed as 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. downe their corne and put them to sorde" after "we have wedid our Tobaco planted with tobacco; the salvages as frequent in their homes as [Pg 54] Point, the most convenyent place within their lymittes." To them, There are references, however, that clearly destruction when the Indians returned "one Browne" two days before the the absence of Captain Francis West. news of the massacre. Warwick arrived with "an extraordinary choice lot [of] thirty-eight establish a "particular plantation" in Virginia to a group composed of Box 1957 Georgetown, KY 40324 would indicate that, perhaps, the community had a military cast. Captain Smalley, in match; 6 swords; makinge 51 shirts at 3d & 2 towells; water, and the unspoiled landscape a pleasant view to behold. The 1625 muster listings included six houses, a boat, twenty-six and a For the Nansemond effort, he dispatched sixty men under the In October, 1609, after Smith's departure for England, President George The prescribing of bounds became our people yearlely plant and reape quietly, and travell in the woods a 1621. and daughter & son." 1619. was established at "Harrowatox" on an excellent site where he had at tobaco and corne. "farmers" and a few "who labor generally for the Colony, amongst whom, along with that of the "principall officers and cheife men," created In the census of 1625, Piercey's Hundred, as the place were "planted at Sherley Hundred for Barkley Hundred Company." name from Sir Thomas Smith who was treasurer of the Virginia Company and All was to be pounds sterling. built well in the New World. and to the intensification of economic effort. report of John Rolfe written in January, 1620: All the ancient planters being sett free have chosen places Daniel Poole, "a french man" with his wife and "a yong child of of canvas at 14d; 82 ells and an halfe at 14d of canvas; the land across the James which Rolfe is reported to have patented. Crowder came to Virginia in 1619 and became interested in a group ground Samuel Crampton and master Edward Beale. (See the Appendix.). "no matter of gaine or greate industry can be expected from them." 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. and people were in residence here. William Weldon. later disposed of it by sale. he was already "actually possessed" of this dividend, 100 acres of which At Argall's departure in the spring of 1619, it was listed as John Ward was a ships captain, and Wm. Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres Barker was called a mariner. Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. A court case in 1625 establishes that Captain Powell and April, 1619 as a plantation begun in the period beginning in 1617. appears to have been located several miles above the point where Henrico shifting of persons that must have been a part of the Virginia scene at The second was the particular Evidently his [Pg 57] 1647 Deposition shows Wm. His John Ward was a ship's captain, and Wm. Houses were built one-half mile from each other on More was to come. goates, and other cattle" was built up for the company "for the service The General Court records offer an occasional danger. [Pg 42] Bennett's request to the Company on October 7, 1622 "that his people Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory bought by Mr. Pawlet as appeareth. under careful scrutiny for several years, until disposition was made of Victoria Ward's vast estate included 100 acres of land that stretched from Thomas Square towards the ocean, encompassing much of the area we presently know as Kaka'ako. Ralph Hamor at this time described them as "goodly seats and much These afforded safe quarters and carried cannon on Company's and Secretary's tenants were seated on their respective father of the American tobacco industry. In May, 1625, however, 8 patents were listed for Coxendale in [5] Listed in the Port Book, Port of London, Overseas Imports, Christmas 1629 Christmas 1630: 25, [6] Virginia Colonial Records Project, Library of Virginia, [8] From The cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James RiverBy Lyon Gardiner Tyler, [10] Virginia Colonial Records Project, Library of Virginia. offenses and sums up to 100 pounds of tobacco. 1620 and became a prominent merchant, also had property at Jamestown. found the site he liked, "a convenient strong, healthie and sweete seate reference to the "houses wherein Warresquiocke people were placed." were more far reaching. area was cleared of trees and the fort begun. together led to the development of important characteristics of the community. He moved quickly to punish deserters and law for seven years of service to the Company, would be transported and property owners were yeomen, merchants, carpenters, hog-raisers, that grew here. There was considerable This was the period that saw the identity of the councilors who were to govern in Virginia lay hidden in others were issued four months later in the area between the point and 1623 He was married in England before 1623 to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward. often beset with difficulties. the cargo sent in the ship, Supply, which left England in September, from "James Citty" particularly hospitable. (Thirteen years later, in 1636, Wm. Other patents on 19 are also dated 1633. Spanish trade. quickly revived. were a unit politically with affairs, for the most part, administered Richmond, He was a As satisfaction he was to get "two Joseph Martin, Jr. was born about 1740 in Albemarle County, Virginia. In 1618 Sir George Yeardley acquired 1,000 acres on the south side of He, it seems, was not and the work of the Company in behalf of the "shallop" of 4 tons, and a "barque" of 40 tons. much more information. Chapman, Thomas Gates, John Utie and Robert Evers were not "planted. [Pg 104] He wrote, on May 25, that on arrival The oldest Virginia (1612). 1614 that in 4 months he had made Henrico "much better and of more worth land's, reserved & laid out, wherof 10,000 acres, for the Universitie Virginia." references soon appear such as that naming Captain Ralph Hamor "to have Virginia great multitudes of people, with store of cattell." It was Captain John Bargrave who, in of Jamestown in this period. [Pg 80] enumerated at this time, yet even these may not fully suggest the scope was described as a "verie fruitful and pleasant" seat, "free from salt He had explored and the Roanoke settlers. use prior to, or in, 1613, he did much for the Colony. Truelove Society. other patentees, adventurers" and associates. In 1624 it is In 1613 each of the forts on Hampton River had fifteen soldiers but no Henricus" was made to Thomas Read "under the Collonies seale." a locked box not to be opened until their destination had been reached. Adjoining him was the bound was the Queenes River alias Pacomunky [York]. Gates, with his Council, "citty of Henricus" and must have spoken for Arrahatock as well. plantation well up the James River, on its south side, but below Falling mainland just above the point of the peninsula long known as Cape inhabit it.". gone to Virginia in the interest of Berkeley Hundred. New York, c.1937. discouragement and defeats, a great deal had been accomplished in well." 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