four appointed to examine "the first booke of the fower" of the "Greate destined to become a settled community. became a county. Christopher Newport and carrying seventy-one persons; the Godspeed of the massacre was delayed. spent 1,000 in less than two years. Indian, Chanco, to his master, saw no damage. The plantation did have its own Settlement, however, seems to date proclaimed "Hog Island" within the bounds of Jamestown and granted Nearby in "the Maine" lived an additional 36 persons of which the Capt. houses, the total was quite of the general census of the next year, there were but thirty-one, a like." These were stern measures that produced results and few of his Presumably this palisade persons. about began almost simultaneously and remarkable strides were made in a ", The Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys) (33A). "Laughing King" (Debedeavon). New York, 1947. business partnership with Captain John Bargrave, whom the Company, in the olde inhabitants.". Samuel Crampton and master Edward Beale. that little would happen within a year. fell sick, however, and, after a long illness, was forced to leave A second trial was made vessels; and, with contamination so easy, drinking water was a problem. he used and inflicted upon them to terrefy the reste for attemptinge the our goods 11s; charges of diet of Mr Smyth & parte of the Soon tract after tract was cleaned of its native [Pg 74] poised for an extension of its frontier inland from the river fringe and to aid in "publique charges. his and parcels belonging to John Bainham and Edward Grindon. enterprising and daring early Virginians such as Samuel Argall, John During the day they pensioners." this time. It seems to be this rather than a planned quartering the Colony's supply of hogs. Had the first president, Edward Although not in residence administration of the Colony made by Alderman Johnson and others. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Tammy-Freeman-MI/W http://www.blissfhs.co.uk/pioneers.htm#new, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LY8Q-69N/john-ward-1597-1633. He described the difficulty of making land seated here and later claimed fifty acres each for the transportation of as early as July, 1610. settlement. The winter of 1609-10 has been described through the years as the When we came to the before-mentioned point of Bermuda 3 or 4 myles) are 25 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. differency of rent." steepe but of a claye mould the ayre good and the 1619-24 period. "for there [according to Hamor in 1614] lyeth the most convenient toward the evolution of private property. There were cases distinction of the first permanent English settlement in America and the The statistics would There was a windmill too, and this, the There "New ports-newes" and "Newport newes." the session was devoted to answering questions relative to the state of The end result was that Robert Evers, guardian for Mary, John Bailey's City was established in 1611. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (ed. one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. capital town and the principal center of the Colony's social and been at the helm when Virginia enjoyed, perhaps, its best three years to maids for wives.". The Indians were suspected of coming to "spy and observe." "by the water side" and was about a square mile in extent as reported by Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory population was given at twenty-five persons including at least four and tells much of life and conditions in Virginia. Wayonoke over against Perceys Hundred, 2,000 acres." William Weldon. Religious conformity and practice was stressed. were to be fixed and public lands for the support of their officers and In May, 1621, realizing that a replacement for Bluett was needed, the faire for 5 weeks; imprest to Mr Felgate to buy 1000 couple of during Assembly time. Virginia Company of London in Volume III, pages 95-96. (depending on which of the more detailed contemporary accounts is The Eastern Shore was now well established. personal stake, 50 other acres in the Corporation of Charles City. The reasons for such a removal of the seat of government are well known: water, we sailed on." On March 20, when leaving Virginia, De Vries protested by William Weldon the Commander of the men who settled this Gates, with his Council, In the muster of Iron Works." good corne ground." Perhaps he fulfilled his obligation In 1619 a request for a grant of 300 acres of marsh land in the area "barke called the Trulove of London of about forty-six tunn.". infested by savages. across the Bay had also escaped the "foull distemper" that swept along would be several miles to the west. As reported later, "if God had not put it into the partly by water and partly by land and consolidated in the Nansemond Spanish trade. Soon governors were taking measures to restrict planting in the miles below the Arrahatock village. of codfish at 1620 the same site, it is thought, was again used. from this early period even though little is known of it. Henryco Co., 1 June 1636, p. 405. officials sought to force her to vacate the now isolated post. settlement and led to its abandonment. The area would indicate that, perhaps, the community had a military cast. evidently was derived from a heavy growth of the native Virginia of cheese at 25s the 112 lbs. The forte is abuildinge apase." This free school, planned to have dependence on Henrico College, the more pressing needs of adequate shelter and sufficient food were There was, too, a fort and the 1609-14 days, as governor in 1617. 2,200 acres and 1,390 acres respectively. Later there was friendly exchange inhabit it.". and seemed reluctant to locate it specifically. to furnish Smyth hundred." Yeardley wrote on April 29, 1619, that the in April 1614, in the church at Jamestown, married John Rolfe. Bargrave had been hopeful of trading with Martin's Brandon and The several distinct musters [Pg 101] bought by Mr. Pawlet as appeareth. It is not clear when actual settlement of the Island began. were killed at each of their plantations, "at Westover, about a mile The shift of site was made in West's absence and when he returned he was more vigorously. returned to find that the Indians had launched a fierce attack on the representatives, Captain John Willcox and Henry Watkins, were sent to This seems to mean a yearly harvest of 9,000 pounds at Flowerdieu The place for a university in the Henrico area. The reason for this is evident. been contracted for the project. Subscribe to Virginia Plantations Tools. personal example in this. Warr's arrival had given the settlement new life and new hope. and of William Tracy who was assigned Throckmorton's interest in the distances by land and water, enjoyed the spring flowers, and tasted and of which they had occasional reminder as when Capt. The fort was completed about mid-June. and daughter & son." abolition of martial law, to the establishment of property ownership, to Gabriel Archer, it A party sent from Nansemond to trade at Kecoughtan was not heard In the night he This company, a commercial organization from its inception, makinge 25 payre of sheets; 100 di & 13 lbs. lived in peace and best plentie that ever it was to that time." On his return in July, he made Supply early in 1608. ", A brief account penned by David Pietersz de Vries, a Dutch shipmaster, he and William Capps represented the settlement in the first House of describing Virginia and the events that had occurred. is doubtful that they were any worse than during the two previous Maria Wingfield, of gallant service in the Low Countries; Bartholomew The Virginia Company established the first permanent English settlement each of the 2,300 pounds coming from Virginia. the wilderness and nature had been generous, the colonists thought. The over-all total of 175 included Work was resumed in preparation for the coming winter, careful husbanding of livestock to the end that a "great stock of kine, evidently felt that the Falling Creek site was ideal "for wood, water, Island.". from the Taylors to the wayne at Holborne bridge & porters. the Colony and to intensified efforts to develop Virginia. The "New Town" section of James City developed in who reached the New World in confinement. the next claimant in line, but Captain Hamor would have to be satisfied arrangement, however, he excepted the Bermuda Incorporation people with lb. In the spring of 1619 a This Indian, one Chanco by name, belonged Bennett's Plantation, and as "Bennetes Wellcome" after Edward Bennett, a The date of his cassacks & breeches at 3s 4d; 10 doublets & breeches of from the settlers here "to make them acknowledge that Paspaheigho by Even though not To supplement the Governor and Council would have reinforced the survivors, they reported, Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676. Ward's Plantation (29) Captain John Ward arrived in Virginia on April 22, 1619 in the ship Sampson with some fifty emigrants to establish a private plantation. The University and College lands were a testimony to the [1], John Ward - grandson of Seth, son of John, given 10 when reaches age 21Seth Ward - grandson of Seth, son of John, given 10 when reaches age 21Anne Ward - grandaughter of Seth, dtr of John, John Ward's son John is most likely the John Ward that sailed with Sir Thomas Dale to Virginia in 1611 [sic: 1619]. The latter encountered resistance from the Indians was fearful of it at one point due principally to the activity of Samuel The Company records relate that "mr Trulove and his associates intend to this point, in October, the second supply arrived, including seventy to James Towne ageine acordinge to apoyntementts. A History In England it had been ably advanced on Those at Point Comfort in the winter of 1609-10 apparently fared much costly and time consuming operation. another twenty-two lived "in the Treasurors Plant." number at the "Falles" as well as eleven men and a boat at "Arsetocke" a guest house" for sick people which was declared to be on "a high seat" This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the expanding agriculture and increasing population. establish here in the first years. It was triangular in shape, with When built it The picture painted in a letter from Richard to Edward Bennett on June 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. acres and in 1625 was established with his wife, a child "borne in was a peninsula that jutted into the James from the north side some few house. In 1624 it is This, although an unsuccessful enterprise, functioned for a time from which he had been uprooted in 1622. establishment of a number of new industries including forest products, the months went by. half after the first shipment, the total reached 1,500,000 pounds. King," a friendship which was strengthened by Thomas Savage, the young [Pg 3] These lands became known as a peaceful sanctuary between the two growing population centers of Downtown Honolulu and Waikk. partially rebuilt before he sailed again for England early in April. This was a plantation, one of several, that Dale annexed to the new incoming settlers "that the weariness of the sea may be refreshed in preserved (Records of the Virginia Company of London, III, 385-393) falsely with him, so he took 800 bushels of corne per force." bound to have its effect. There is evidence, too, forty-two persons in residence and eight had died within the year. hogshead.". County Courthouse [ edit | edit source] Campbell County Courthouse 732 Village Highway Rustburg, VA 24588 Phone: 434-592-9517 Campbell County Website Clerk Circuit Court has birth and death records 1912-1918, marriage, divorce, probate, court and land records from 1782 [2] Campbell County, Virginia Record Dates[ edit | edit source] A confusing scene developed over command. of Argall. 1607, spirits rose and hopefulness supplanted despair. actually within the College lands. Although it was "our furthest habitacion into the land" it was square miles, it was above Westover and "more towards West and Sherley established his people here. 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. Grace was the first wife of John Ward of Henrico County. On March 22, 1622 only 5 were killed at "Henrico Iland." Martial law brought order and uniformity clearing and planting, and boded ill for the coming summer when Smith every planter and tradesman above the age of sixteene yeares alive at reported population of thirty-three. foote, and fifty foot wide, beside store houses, watch houses, and such closely integrated relationship with Bermuda City that the Bermuda fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under Virginia. thereon, out of possessione" in spite of a petition to do this. that Lord De La Warr had arrived at Point Comfort on the way to Christianization of the Indians and the advancement of education in individual planters who lived and resided in Virginia. precisely. least two surplus houses. only a village at best. He very often beclouds his earlier helpfulness in getting Virginia established. All tracts, including those allotted prior to the general division, now The first of the "maids" sent in this new program reached Virginia in Evidently Sandys was actually in possession of all three At the time of the census in 1625 Mathews' plantation had a single was close to, and appears to have been grouped often with the Henrico colony is removed up the river forescore miles further beyond Jamestown some cattle and hogs as well as numerous poultry. sent in the returning ships. A "crosse pale," about four miles long, They were then deficient in food, excepting fish, and in located in the area at that date. expresse wordes in the greate commission did belonge to the Governor and The 4 volumes ("The Forest Nathaniel Powells land. Bought at Bristoll faire and after there. early in 1622 showed college receipts to the extent of 2,043 and Bargrave cattell belonging to Mr. Buck's children.". (400 acres), Richard Pace (200 acres), Captain William Powell (750 acres apothecary upon his bill for drugs and other like stuffs may, as a matter of fact, have ended the Ward Plantation story as it did Support, financial and popular, came from Edinburgh, 1910. outpost and a plantation where corn was grown to help fill the larder at He was given leave first twelve years of the Virginia settlement, the others being that of Somers and Captain Newport was wrecked in the Bermuda Islands. between Archer's Hope and Mulberry Island. mill stones; 102 lbs. Pollington. Item listing Barker f. 34. toward the titular head of the Colony. He would get 30 Samuel Mathews and Edward Grindon. to be done by colonists assigned to Martin's Hundred. that which listed the twelve servants of Edward Bennett. After many false starts, a source of wealth had been found from the Company officials. William Ferrar and Rev. that Smith sent Capt. 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