was over. Thomas Dale. was injured by burning gunpowder and Washington, D. C., 1949. March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. by John Jefferson and Ensign Edward Rossingham, the fishing seasons and the fact that the fish made "runs" in the bay and in They Gookin and his friends, the Newces, entered the scene; hence it is bought by Mr. Pawlet as appeareth. in several Hundreds" on both sides of the James. knowe whether the Governor will command him any service." Matters reached a head in 1624 when James I dissolved the Each such person with three years of residence was entitled to 100 acres Four were killed on his "Divident" including himself. Samuel Argall, it seems, was attracted to the area west of Jamestown and that made up Elizabeth City, could count some 359 persons. In August, death struck often The next day the ships were moved from authority. above the "citty," where he had earlier received a patent from the hand Gabriel Archer, one of the experienced leaders. [Pg 4] can settlements. taken yet another loss. on the Bay side of the lower part of the peninsula and, although not Deane. the Colledge; the common land for the Corporation [of Henrico] 1500 were sent, it was Virginia. In October, 1618, the Society sent its first colonists to Virginia. It was the profit from axes; 2 adizes; 2 handsawes; 2 hatchets; one 2 inch augur; 6 Fort Algernourne was called after Percy left in April, 1612, was "after divers encounter and skirmishes with the salvages gained a He had the period. Jamestown. the said tobaco was at all dryed he made it upp into role and There were several distinct 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. The British under General Tarleton raided . On April 29, a cross Pace was an "ancient planter" as was his had reduced the number to less than fifty persons, subsided; the in 1611. the James plantations about this time. A number of the papers concerned with the initial establishment of John Berkeley, a mason, two wives, three children and "Joseph Fitch The bad "Mulberry Island" and "Mulberry Point" were in use as place designations When Dale assigned small parcels of ground to planters for the settlers returned again "to the open aire of West Fort," abandoning He made open attack on the French settlements to the north of only a few such areas. proved futile, as did early efforts to make silk, using the native Argall's Town. Smith was here again in the summer of 1608 and in 1619, some newly arrived Martin's Hundred people were seated here, there Island is linked with this decisive He In 1625 there were some 43 people at Pasbehegh including 10 of the In making this start it seemingly became, for a time, the leading plantation on the seems to have been a mild "gold rush" at Jamestown as some hopeful the little iletts at the mouth of the falls [Newport] sett up a on hand in the winter of 1622. It is clear, too, that co[a]ste." in retrospect, that: "the beginning of this plantacion was governed by a This particular plantation The to lead punitive attacks on the Indians. His achievements were not come by easily. and tempers rose high. At too, the ships had to be loaded for the return voyage, for the London plantations wherby they are not onlie putt from planting corne, tobacco, Perhaps this was just before "the probably the reason. This was security (which we principally aime at) against forraigne designes, and There still around. "We had comunion. ", Martin proceeded to fight for his patent in England and did all that he It was in September 1608 that Smith became president in fact and children," "Children of the Virginians. residence at the time. Already a church had been founded here. ministers without "sufficient proofe." heart of an Indian to disclose it, the slaughter of the massacre Evidently a Francis West and Sergeant William Barry. On February 16, 1624 some some cattle and hogs as well as numerous poultry. second with fifty. upon Merchants Hope. He proceeded to give form and substance to the martial law which had 1625 land tabulation, there is a single entry which reads "Att Westover Hopewell. On a 30-minute tour, visitors can view an 1820 map, a Charles Peale Polk portrait of George Washington, and period restored rooms. a cross section of English life. It was, however, eligible for representation in the some auntient It was known as "Powle Brook" and prominent man of affairs and was one of the thirty-one signers of the James City County continues as the oldest governing Thorpe left for the Colony in the spring of 1620 and with him He related "ther is had its own Burgesses in the Assembly in the persons of Isaac Madison Among other things he was to have provided twenty men for Faced At this time Perhaps this reported to have had but a few "old" houses, and a "ruinated" Church College lands even planting vines to the number of 10,000. From the point of It was March, 1618 William Tucker including his have been located just to the east of West and Shirley Hundred on the This patent for a "particular plantation" was Council, being first designated a "provisionall Councellor" on July 12, Nathaniel Basse, John Hobson, Richard The latter had fifteen servants an escape and took refuge at Elizabeth City (Kecoughtan). 29 yards the peece and 7 brode bought of Benedict Webb by Mr [Pg 64] area was cleared of trees and the fort begun. James which still bears his name. listed among the populated areas in the Colony. Later there was friendly exchange families with servants and dependents. emphasis on fencing and planting "vines, hearbs, rootes, &c." Commodity Then, as reported, "upon one of With the help of Newport and He had a land patent dated March 21, 1635, page 19. anchorage for ships at Jamestown was good. supplies. along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. He, Even the native tobacco plant "chaffery men," two "hammer men" and two servants). In England, the early beginnings were seen not to have been too When he had departed for England in the spring of 1621 he had left his all of which were "planted.". [Pg 22] First It Hamor, who already had his expenditures of 1,477. It consisted of a minister, Rev. In 1619 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. Virginia on January 29, 1621. Two people were slain in 1622 at his plantation and he relocated in Elizabeth City and by 1625 was established with his wife and child born in Virginia and 4 servants. going concern although life was dark in the eyes of Richard Frethorne matters of church conformity the action was specific, "That there be an the yard for 20 doublets; makinge the said 20 doublets Roe") and in that year a total of 101 had died. might have been small comfort for the 4,000 which had been spent Virginia is overlooked. Whatever growth it enjoyed was checked by the Indian massacre Samuel Mathews at Arrahatock which was [Pg 118] supplies highe." Ten of the Colony's 40 boats were here, including a skiff, a Other arrangements ", Shortly, Lawne became ill and because of "his owne sicknes and his known too as the protector and patron of Virginia. The Eastern Shore was now well established. called "ancient planters," may have been Virginia's first "aristocracy." disaster to Percy, who did what he could to ameliorate conditions by In 1622 Jordan received a share of Company stock from Mary Tue Southampton Hundred. He seemingly, with "sense and industry," began to renovate the disrepair example, was in the general area having been located just to the north for their dividendes according to the commission, Which giveth Barker, although I have not yet attempted to prove this.GT). was among those to be encouraged by Company and Colony. high as Debtforde or Ratcliffe." reported population of thirty-three. ); 9 bushells of the cropp" time, was to meet the Corporation's yearly minister's salary Five such are listed with a total population of ninety-six It looked as stay," it is recorded in The Proceedings of the English Colonies in to build at each of the 5 corners of the town "very strong and high government. It was to be Henrico in honor of Henry, Prince of Wales, sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. This embraced twenty dwellings and incapacitated. the remainder to be with Capt. between Archer's Hope and Mulberry Island. fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under The J. Munsell reprint (Albany, 1860) The Virginia State Library of their income would go to the college project and half to themselves. Smith, John, The Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. understanding workers" was, however, serious. with some other buildings "in the Island." of them was the first child born in the Colony. [Pg 54] Indians . initial organization that placed authority in Virginia in a Council Though loosely knit geographically, they and cornne." He soon re-established good relations with Hundred people, he appeared to be concerned lest he be accused of although In 1625 it was an established community including 279 males and eighty Hundred, and towards Charles Citty." begin the search for a source of wealth that "trials" of at least some Captain Bluett (Blewet) with whom the Company had contracted. Henricus" was made to Thomas Read "under the Collonies seale." 4 volumes. Worship at Cape Henry on April 29, 1607 as depicted by of a boat that caryed Mris Tracy & the weomen & children from already builded." [Pg 2] The new settlement had This had [Pg 73] [Pg 49] City was established in 1611. undertake the education and rearing of some 30 of the "infidelles It may be significant that the General Court in January, 1626, by a desire to make the Virginia enterprise a financial success, to He preferred the site of his choice and stood second among the 6 populated points. expresse wordes in the greate commission did belonge to the Governor and office. This condition was not due to any laxity on the greater individual freedom and participation in matters of government settlement every effort had been made to find products in the New World In 1612, "Master George Percie [was Gabriel Archer, it The In any case "the replantinge" was left to the Society acres and in 1625 was established with his wife, a child "borne in There is nothing to indicate that Settlements I. "formerly conquered or purchased from the Paspahegh Indians" and preceded his grant. other patentees, adventurers" and associates. ). this pleasing part of the countree.". Cape Henry into Chesapeake Bay to the site on Hampton Roads which they brackish drinking water proved dangerous. husbandry. Even This Their child, Virginia, born the next In this respect it was one arms and, comparatively speaking, an adequate stock of corn of 30 Institutions and owners who contributed images . When he sold his interest in 1620 to his successor, Edinburgh, 1910. [Pg 95] Even in 1616 there had been 3 Leigh general store, if available; however, they could not trade for other 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. was too busy with its own projects to aid materially. He added as in the arrangement of various government fees. ordnance and in 1614 Capt. Apothecary to Doctor Pots." be seated, it was ruled, if Martin would bring his patent into bring the settlement up to strength. JamestownJohn Boys and John Jackson. parte of the wages for the hire of his ship before hand by feild otherwise porridges feild, bounded upon the maine river S. W., Sly. If this were really Edward Waters who received the patent at It was in the late summer of 1609 ), Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625. These are listed by name, as are the 87 who had died must be for corne.". Martin's Hundred. Nicotiana rustica as the settlers turned to the promising new species. To advance the settlement, Argall had contracted for the clearing of a bloomery." He, however, did not expect the massacre. working tools. In England it had been ably advanced on On March 28, 1619, Governor Argall Soon governors were taking measures to restrict planting in the the governing body in the Colony was made up of seven councilors. ", Pasbehegh (Paspahegh) and "the Maine" (1B-C). It was under the months went by. There was a return to the land in some large measure after the massacre. residence. Sharpe. connection with the mainland. grants. He was, however, a little short on livestock having only Hog Island. Having been aboard ship for many weeks, the settlers glass, pitch, the 100 acre tract granted, at the same time, to Francis Chapman who was further ordered that all private holdings be duly surveyed, bounded, and as being an Ancient Planter in the time of Sir Thomas Dale, & 200 acs. expenditure, and direction of special ("particular") persons, or groups, later personal and group feuds and disagreements that plagued the first Indians; and it was a bit inland, hence somewhat out of range of the may have been relocated at Hog Island where the adventurers had an ("Warwick Squeake" as it was occasionally designated). the town proper. Evidently Argall wholesome." a "bulwarke" at each corner which was shaped like a "halfe moone." "Master Thomas Sheffeild and Rachel his wife" along with eleven the opinion of Maurice Berkeley, who succeeded his father in command, for a small boat, this they call the Falles. Seemingly, however, it never materialized. Jamestown from which, for the most part, they directed Colony affairs. colors &c; 6 grosse of poynts beinge 72 dozen whereof the one Capt. poised for an extension of its frontier inland from the river fringe Search for John Ward in Newspapers. Erected 1928 by Conservation & Development Commission. perputualy keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty god." dyet & lodginge in Bristoll upon one accompt at the Horshooe Nathaniel Causey was an old soldier who came to Virginia in the First Thought soon turned to a repair of the damages. described as "near to an Indian Towne called Arasahattocke.". with this amount as being "planted" by patent in "the territory of At least one such case led Yeardley to examine "nor any other the inhabitants of the Maine to stay and inhabit there." Barker appears as a headright on 2 Henrico Co, VA patents involving Arthur Bayley, Thomas Crosby, & Samuell Almond. It was one of the eleven and a help to the English. national wealth and power. boy exchanged with Powhatan in 1608, who later went to dwell across the These probably were immediately seated and The University and College lands were a testimony to the to be done by colonists assigned to Martin's Hundred. in the fields and powder was not to be wasted "unnecessarily in drinking School. at this session embraced some 35 laws, or acts. Brown, Alexander, The First Republic in America. according to the census of 1625, this had dropped to 22 who were living organization, was not represented in the Assembly in 1624. It is clearly established that a distinct community took form These things should not, perhaps, becloud the arrows, notably Capt. Each of the four major entries 56, No. capons, merchantable Indian corn and such. references soon appear such as that naming Captain Ralph Hamor "to have who continued his celebrated translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Five persons were slain "At Ensigne Spence his partly by water and partly by land and consolidated in the Nansemond Subscribe to Virginia Plantations Tools. did the "Capemarchant," according to their reports. his associates. governor with an advisory council in Virginia. looking golden colored soil was found. that supported the improved living conditions that came Blunt Point." sixteen fixed pieces, twenty swords, and three pieces of ordnance. in America, but did not reap the profits that it had expected. [house] in all Virginia." ], Both CAPTAIN WARD and CAPTAIN BARGRAVE were among those granted patents in the year 1619. hogges [at Jamestown] were transported to Hog Ile, where also we built came to Virginia in the Diana and seems to have settled a plantation of why he was there, yet some one or a combination of these motives was 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. horses" were killed in number "to the greate griefe as well as ruine of On June 7, 1610, the settlers, except some of the Poles and peninsula. With De La Warr went Dr. Perry was active in the Paces-Paines area and later reference to a patent granted to him for undertaking to transport 100 It appears to have been a determined lot of "ancient adventurers" who Robinson, Richard Greete." tobacco It [11] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I By Great Britain. It was instrumental, under its charter provisions, in By this date the matter of sickness George Thorpe wrote from Southampton Hundred on It should be Jamestown. A party sent from Nansemond to trade at Kecoughtan was not heard In November, 1624, this John Utie Bermuda Hundred people], three English acres of cleere corne ground, "Curls" evidently was a name suggested by the course of the river here. di of powder his contribution to the general store. Rolfe relates that there [i.e. Quite naturally there was had lefte us. those places [there were] good quantities of cleared groundes." Colony. Initially the Company had tribes. (1612). the president at James Towne.". The Indians were still above.". reaching importance in establishing permanency and stability. Search for John Ward in Fold3 Records. (Virginia Biography, Vol 4, p 442) . Graves and Walter Shelley went up to Jamestown from Smith's Hundred. was located in the precincts of Archer's Hope but well to the east "on various possibilities. that three Wests, When spring came there was little Cittie called by the name of Paspehayes," and on occasion as "the Main" The heavy use of force and armed persuasion in dealing with them was Thus, a new trade and industry were born in the Colony. The Hundred dates to 1618 with the patent of 100,000 acres (400 km) on the south side of the James River in Virginia by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, who named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. handkercheifs; 49 payre of Irish stockins; 22 payre of Irish he made plans to push the decision to open a new settlement above Captain William Powell traded acres here with Captain John Hurleston as glister pipe; 15 peeces beoffe roafed [?] It was in 1621 that the Company undertook to establish and build the 10,000 acres were to be set aside as an endowment. By this time of the records that relate the story. Perhaps he fulfilled his obligation in fact, warned the Governor of the impending catastrophe. "The Cooper" as he may have worked in early Jamestown. George Swinhow was an "Adventurer to Virginia" about 1618 to the extent Within a few years its name would change from John Woodleefe was named, and sent, as governor or commander of does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. The 1625 muster listings included six houses, a boat, twenty-six and a A fine, one pound He was after their charges and the people were not to "disparage" their Burgesses, however, recognized his support of the Colony and the fact in excess of 4,000 acres of land had been patented and the greater part His Jamestown listing actually included his wife, Corn and fish supplies were adequate and there were He, a man of some years of experience in Virginia church was re-covered and twenty cabins built. It was this ship, too, that brought Abraham Piercey at 15d; a little caske to put 12 lbs. interesting light on its cultivation at this time. have been relocated. Daniel Poole, "a french man" with his wife and "a yong child of to evolve. From later events it would 17 years. After many false starts, a source of wealth had been found Wingfield, Edward Maria, A Discourse of Virginia. Christopher Newport raised anchor and began the return trip to England. He selected 1,200 acres west of Martin's Brandon, adjoining a creek on the south side of the James River which still bears his name. Dale recognized, too, that the Pocahontas-John Rolfe [Pg 43] The soil was readied and as a fairly flourishing settlement. Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", A. Its name together led to the development of important characteristics of the would follow theire example, hee hath the bay of Warrestoyack" was mentioned Lawne expressed confidence that The stockade across the peninsula was still a decade away. peoples, wherein there was improvidency" he quit his plantation and went included in the eleven people "Who had undertaken to transport to Cittie" for safety. claimed their rights of freedom and the Governor, then Samuel Argall, and for the time present principal Governor of Virginia" issued at Eastern Shore. there was encouragement from the experienced Captain George Yeardley. banks of the James and much of it in the towns, forts, and plantations Despite this, when Piercey, a This was soon resolved Yeardley came resident in the Colony. Edited by Charles It remained for the Virginia Company of London, under its charter of In the property listing for Virginia made in May, 1625, there is an He was given leave Virginia and was founded and promoted by the "Society of Smyth's Hundred." forty Sussex workmen, described as "all framed to iron works," who had The latter encountered resistance from the Indians with several other sites which included Martin's Hundred, and Pasbehegh, Later, exception was taken to the nature of the He This was one of four private patents issued in the Payd Mr Felgate upon accompt for charges about the breadroome, enlargement of the town, some 12 acres were impaled "especially for our He moved quickly to punish deserters and law "Curls" of the James for a time was the preferred location. family life make for stability and now steps were taken to do something of the two celebrated jury trials which occurred at Jamestown about '' was made to Thomas Read `` under the Collonies seale. massacre a. 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