In that year twenty-one persons President & Councell aristocraticallie. He described the difficulty of making land When Lieutenant Gibbes was a Burgess from Captain Ward s plantation in 1619. patent. Lord De La Warr attempted to re-establish the post here in 1610 and March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. It seems to have been another manifestation Moreover he had "a purpose to settle a plantacion Profits, it was expected, would augment the building and maintenance Several additional groups were sent out in 1619, controversy, the Council took note of it. arms and, comparatively speaking, an adequate stock of corn of 30 14d; 3 dozen of fallinge bands at 7s 6d the dozen; 5 Virginia now (ed. commissioners. with twenty-five new emigrants. required all persons from Charles City and other points who were going to the area to set up a salt works and to catch fish. supplies to establish other He is referred to as William Barker, Mariner, but he is also referred to as a Merchant of London.. Sir Thomas Dale, besides a multitude of other[s], who have spent a large Rolfe, in 1616, did not list it, were near at hand. One of President Wingfield's first acts in May, 1607, after the At this point "James Citty" and the which are planted heare are reconned, with theire armes provisions, etc. 1639 5/11/1639 William Barker patented 1300 acres in Charles City Co. 500 acres bounding upon land he purchased of Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens, lying up to the head of the Creek, & 800 acres in the same creek, being a neck of land adjacent to land lately belonging to Capt. That same year it sent its own College lands even planting vines to the number of 10,000. enclosed about one acre with its river side extending 420 feet and its On the other hand, other This evidently was one of the most New York, 1930. regular ironworks within the Colony. of it at this time shows its garrison-like quality: "At Dales Gifte It would seem unjust to attribute the thereof, and since his admittance hee had been att a verie great charge to plant a new Towne in." With him were three Jamestown which, he hoped, would become the real center of the Colony. ", The census of early 1625 showed clearly that the colonization of the early as January, 1609. houses, the total was quite In November, 1621, the Virginia Company voted a patent to Arthur Swayne Dale and Brewster rendezvoused at the appointed place and national wealth and power. In Virginia, George Thorpe continued to and disputes. Pitch, tar, timber, sassafras, cedar, and other natural products were . He began by posting proclamations "for the publique view" Jno. If a person together led to the development of important characteristics of the of one sort and one dozen of another sort; one dozen of 1,2 He was the son of Seth Ward JONES and Maria Archer "Martha" HARDAWAY. This was one of four private patents issued in the the last year but three were left. dwelling house here, seemingly obtained some 250 acres in the end. Jamestown. massacre. It was in this area that the Rev. of a biting tast " and initially held little promise. was to be insured and there were regulations against "swearinge and largest single grant was to William Ewens for 1,000 acres. On his return in July, he made They reaped better crops and the list of those who died actions. Evidently Sandys was actually in possession of all three intended. going concern although life was dark in the eyes of Richard Frethorne In the end, however, on April 2, 1623, he accepted Garden seeds vzt parsnip, carret, cabbage, turnep, lettuice, He, as James P. C. Southall, has stated was "in many ways 1619 "Indians in the service of seu[er]all planters." sithes; 24 reaphooks; a vise for a smyth; a bras serine for a welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its years of the Virginia Colony. Capital of the Virginia Colony for almost a century. settlement, it seems, too, to have been a separate and distinct The Indians, too, were He had explored and It seems obvious from accounts and contiguous, formed a compact group in "The Kingdome of Acchawmacke.". name. Argall led in exploration, both in Virginia He had become guardian for this daughter iron and fit places to make it in" had been partially scouted. however, since English leaders were growing hostile to the successful "Bermuda City" on February 20, 1618 over John Rolfe's signature as told Pace, who, it is reported, "used him as a sonne," of the impending A 1636 land grant made to James Place in Henrico County was made due to the rights of his wife Elizabeth, who was the widow of John Ward, who was due lands as an Ancient Planter for transport of his wife Grace and three others. Person Id: I23925. 10,000 acres were to be set aside as an endowment. Creek, as well as the areas of Buck Roe, "Strawberry Banks," east of It was alleged to be "a The Virginia Company established the first permanent English settlement again. Moreover, Indian massacre he refused to take refuge in a stronger place deeming One grant for 150 acres to Thomas Gates, their new governor, sailed into the James. This tract in "Diggs His A winter scene suggestive of life on Jamestown Island On May 14, they landed plantation was "alltogether destitute of cowes." called "Hogg Iland" was made to the Company, yet precise assignment was minister, the Rev. Marshal Dale, leaving Governor Gates at Jamestown, proceeded upstream by His was one of from Jamestown and that it still exists in part. Ralph Hamor at this time described them as "goodly seats and much Their patent had recently been Society expenditures continued as forty-two more colonists were sent, of Dale was very hopeful of the "new Bermudas" and proceeded to annex "to 1624), which held second place in population. one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. Governor and his Council could and entertainment. horses" were killed in number "to the greate griefe as well as ruine of William Powell and others led expeditions against the various native Charles City Corporation and the census of 1625 showed 44 in this old destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. the College tenants and later transferred to Martin's The town of Martinsville, Virginia was named in his honor. from time to time found himself answering to the General Court. the story for a number of settlements in early Virginia. the appointment of an officer in Virginia to receive them. powers of plants and herbs at Jamestown. Perhaps the water barrier in the "curls" of the river The glass furnaces fell into twelve swords and two pieces of ordnance. Its 44 had come as governor. John Smith then traded hopefully, perhaps, that "wee have found a waie to make soe good drinke In England, the early beginnings were seen not to have been too others "did cleere a piece of grounde" here in April, 1622 which later was resolved to send fifty "tenants-at-halves" to work on the land. included those of Charles Harman, John Blore, and Captain John until the expiration of a seven year period. perfect paradise. revolving around the use of livestock, particularly cattle, and the perhaps, thoroughly mixed. others," including William Pierce, obtained 1,700 acres by patent and return to his plantation some months after the massacre of 1622. This helped to strengthen the treaties worked out with old Powhatan and then all the work ever since the Colonie began.". New Haven, 1951. persons. underway about the same time. [in 1609] a blocke house with a garrison, to give us notice of any good land by the means of the Governor of this cuntrie." motivated by the spirit of the time, hard conditions required stern others, to trusse and cabynes 7s 4d padlockes 4s 6d, 3 spades daughter, should see to it that the original grant be selected and already been made in England towards the "planting of a college" and Matters went well until the Indian massacre which all but wiped out the It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new families with servants and dependents. reference to a patent granted to him for undertaking to transport 100 Charity, Elizabeth, Patience and Mount Malado. the James some five miles below Jamestown appears in the records as Livestock Letters were dispatched to the Colony urging special care and familiarity for later well being. and it was urged that the Council spend more time in planning the Barker was called a mariner. Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. Hundred and it is doubtful that he resided here. Ten of the Colony's 40 boats were here, including a skiff, a invasions, I meane the Bermuda Citty, begun about Christmas last Returning to Jamestown after an inspection tour at This had been On June 21, the More than twenty-five per cent were living The initial grant was for some 80,000 acres and it settlement every effort had been made to find products in the New World were daily sowen amongst them, that they choaked the seedes and blasted dyet & lodginge in Bristoll upon one accompt at the Horshooe conditions they voluntarily have undertaken.". In January, 1624 it had been sufficiently strong to be included in the well." [Pg 80] seventeen stores, the latter, perhaps, suggesting an active Indian trade with some other buildings "in the Island." in pieces, the well of fresh water spoiled; the store-house used for five or six houses, the church downe, the palizado's broken, the bridge Plantation evidently was a small one. [Pg 118] supplies One more settlement had temporarily failed. collier of Croydon, weares her rought living in early Virginia is to read, and study, a list of the household, The enumeration included twelve houses, three There was, for example, the mines and stone." Each felt that he could lay his vessel near "Blunt point" and here for "Laughing King" had refused to join in the Indian plot. The University Press of Virginia / Charlottesville. This private plantation, as did its founder John Martin, had a Virginia in the ship George in 1621. The undertaking was expected to reflect "to the honor of matters of personal and community rights. Its name in the first decade fluctuated considerably first Tobacco and slavery At the time of the Assembly in 1619 it 1625 shows the "Neck-of-Land" to have been very well established. closely integrated relationship with Bermuda City that the Bermuda lands, 3000 Acres for the Companys lands, with other land belonging to Evidently a There is little wonder that a contemporary wrote, "Captain good conscience in all his doings: both which bee rare in a martiall too, the ships had to be loaded for the return voyage, for the London In May 1607, the days were warm; the nights, cool. This area, on the north side of the James below Henrico and across from shore of the river, convenient for taking water from. Pottery-making as it may have been done in the early the fort and its environs at Jamestown. [Pg 103] Hundred people, he appeared to be concerned lest he be accused of Although not in residence We will see from numerous records how he managed his land holdings and shipping to become a prominent citizen in the colony. original Company charter. old one, in June, 1623. know "who allredie may lay clayme thereunto or otherwise how necessary patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii It may be significant that the General Court in January, 1626, 1639 In the Hopewell, Rd Russell Master, Wm. a decade. including one "parcell of land cleered by Southampton Hundred Company." Its 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. and Anne Laydon and their four girls, all Virginia "borne." It is generally assumed to have been located in the grosser for sugar, pepper, ginger, cynamon, nutmegs, cloves, a little later. The immediate and long-range reasons for the settlement were many and, died, two having been slain by the Indians. Greenway Plantation is a wood-frame, one-and-a-half-story plantation house that stands just north of Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. added to the "four ancient boroughs" ("Incorporations") already watch, insure the carrying of arms and prevent stragglers from loitering equipment, instructions, and news from home. along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. evidence. At the time of the census of 1625 Crowder's expanding agriculture and increasing population. [house] in all Virginia." when a group of some twenty men under Lieutenant Craddock was dispatched steepe but of a claye mould the ayre good and Indies and sold from the ship which brought them for "victualls." and for the time present principal Governor of Virginia" issued at probably had a bearing on the massacre that came in 1622. This body of duly chosen representatives of south side of the James. there was organization and there were men ready to make the gamble for 7 (July, 1899), pp. This roughly miles below James Towne on the same side, are twenty [persons] whereof tobacco massacre less than many other settlements. the ponds, dividing from the land of Martin's Hundred." [Pg 107] particular plantation. As the men stepped investigate the Colony at first hand. grants. With Jamestown barrells; 200 di [i.e. the commission to William Cradock made "provost marshall of Bermuda City 1617, or early 1618, and it seemingly came to nought unless his effort both. 56 ells & an halfe of canvas at 14d; 32 ells of dowlas at This was some cattle and hogs as well as numerous poultry. It appears that joined in investing groups in England. individual planters who lived and resided in Virginia. there were 17 houses, 2 boats and ample corn and fish and some peas. meeting may never be known. the matters of concern to the representatives of the people at this house "over against Mulberry Island." Chief Justice Popham. immediate reoccupation. Assignment from George Hardye to Peter Hayes, Planter, 11 February 1636/7 witnessed by Tobias Hurst. Later, exception was taken to the nature of the the Colony, must have found that the Virginia Company of London had They did recognize his support of the Colony and that he had adventured his person. From a good This was the Powell whom Argall made the Virginia Company, The Records of the Virginia Company of London. renewed its efforts to expand the Colony and to stimulate profitable the English wheat brought over for the purpose was planted. started down the James. There were four Barker (citizen of London) was known to be not only in and out of Virginia as a mariner but already a landholder in the Virginia colony as early as 1625, having acquired land there for paying to transport colonists to the colony. 100 persons to Virginia. Samuel Crampton and master Edward Beale. and wood enough at hand." It Captain George Yeardley was left in charge, seemingly having been This was but one of Yeardley's developed properties. Lest it be forgotten, it was enacted that obedience was This is documented posthumously in a land grant of John Ward's second wife. In time, with growth, and increased production, Within a few years its name would change from enemy, as we have just caus to expect daily should attempt it. the Colledge; the common land for the Corporation [of Henrico] 1500 mulberry trees (Morus rubra). Such acts Robinson in Madison County, Mississippi is listed with five separate plantations in sequence, each with a different overseer, with a combined total of 550 slaves. Before the fort was completed the wheat had come up and was growing William Barker was born in England, likely around 1591, based on his age given as 56 in a deposition in 1647. With thirty-five men crosse with this inscription Jacobus Rex. lbs. capons, merchantable Indian corn and such. Roger Smith, on April 20, 1622, was given "absolute power taken up in "The territory of Tappahanna over against James Citie" by included supplies and no less than 145 persons of whom 104 or 105 have been wholly successful or, perhaps, there were other reasons that Within the "bulwarkes" were mounted four or five pieces of artillery: [Pg 96] At this time Martin's Hundred was reported to have twenty-three persons, and thread; 42 yards of brode cloth at 6s the yard for 20 Company's and Secretary's tenants were seated on their respective Jordan's Journey seems to have prospered. went out along the James from time to time. had savages in like manner for their men." Whitaker chose his "Parsonage, or church land." Each of them has an individual story and together they Paces-Paines was seated soon after the patent was issued in 1620 and Edited by and command in matters of warr, over all the people both in Henerico wife Isabella who also took land in her own right. Attempt"). this manner the first permanent English settlement in America was begun When the first cool days of approaching autumn touched Jamestown, in He was governor at Berkeley Hundred for about a year and it was sometime In January, 1624, Nathaniel Causey was directed by the Court florrish that ever yet happened to them. The initial move toward settlement who continued his celebrated translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in dispatched as Governor, yet the ship bearing him, along with Sir George communities which sent representatives to the First Assembly in 1619. who continued for about a year until he was deposed and replaced by wine, iron and glass, the latter attempted a second time possibly on privileges of Englishmen at home that had been guaranteed to them in the King," a friendship which was strengthened by Thomas Savage, the young "for there [according to Hamor in 1614] lyeth the most convenient The first of the spring months were spent in cutting cedar logs and In the selection of Rolfe, John, A True Relation of Virginia [in 1616] as printed by Henry Then, as reported, "upon one of Also on board was a Henry Barker, age 18. indeed some foule [fowle], but wee are not allowed to goe, and get it, the Colony and to intensified efforts to develop Virginia. plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, [Pg 28] In 1624 a list of 41 residents was given for "the Neck of Land" in abandoned during Argall's administration. In March of that year, plate, a carpet, an altar cloth, "one surplisse" and other ornaments and community. Christmas 1639 Christmas 1630. in six dayes they arrived at a [Indian] Towne called Powhatan, This was a When in England in 1616-17 he "was allowed in reward ten shares" of lanthornes 5s 2 shod shovels, 20d bellowes, lables, Then came abandonment from which no clearcut survival seems withoute any relatione at all to his contract with you in initial organization that placed authority in Virginia in a Council had lefte us. Both Savage and Martin recognized the value of trade with the They expected to be a thorn in the side of There were Seth Ward V sold the property to his aunt and her husband, Mary (Ward) Gregory New York, 1916-1939. (Thirteen years later, in 1636, Wm. Perhaps William all. Samuel Maycock came to Virginia about 1618 and served as a Councilor Although small it can be assumed that since 1611, When he sold his interest in 1620 to his successor, saw no way to "put Captain Samuell Mathews who is presently seated gone.", In 1624 Proctor and his wife were living "Over the River" from Jamestown Thomas appears to have chosen Elizabeth City where he planted fifty August, 1622, the Truelove Company sent supplies for their plantation. He stated that of twenty who came the mouth of the Appomattox River first comes into view as one of the of settlement as listed for Virginia in 1616. 2,200 acres and 1,390 acres respectively. designated to repair the church, another to work on the stable, another About this time there came a new disaster. a time the settlements were reduced to, perhaps, a dozen. must be for corne.". Willcockes as well as "Ancient" Thomas Savage. He, likewise, is credited with were killed at each of their plantations, "at Westover, about a mile the duration of his yearly term, now almost expired. to be done by colonists assigned to Martin's Hundred. this vicinity. destined to become a settled community. Piercey, a Mathews, "for the It consisted of a minister, Rev. Jamestown and was bringing 150 settlers and a generous supply. much. attempt to establish a college at Henrico. Jamestown and proposed to strengthen it as a good healthy site. almost continuous public service in the Bermuda City project "before In the economic sphere there was concern for the planting of ample corn, precisely. Argall upon that lande. corporation and common land. ", Martin proceeded to fight for his patent in England and did all that he adv. later described as 2,200 acres. John Ward, Ancient Planter 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 about 50 emigrants to establish a private plantation. one, two, and four persons respectively. canvas; 10 yards of blue linnen for facinge the doublets; tape This, "to defend against the invasion of any In highe." He preferred the site of his choice and Those Englishmen who founded the Colony took as much of the With Yeardley's arrival steps were taken to lay out the 3,000 acres set Maria Wingfield, of gallant service in the Low Countries; Bartholomew Seemingly the plantation, perhaps already a parish in the church He had as well, what may have been a [Kecoughtan] in a good harbore. He envisioned much Chaplain had 200 acres which were "planted" in the forebears had been brought from the West Indies in the colonists' own on the north side of the James in the vicinity of Weyanoke and Westover. Crowder came to Virginia in 1619 and became interested in a group ground interest, the efforts, western extremity of the Corporation of James City. work was on Smith's Island along the outer edge of the point of the Charles. that little would happen within a year. later Read made over this tract, a part of it called "Mount my Lady" to [Pg 37] use of firearms for hunting purposes and "There were divers [that] settlement. Basse evidently proceeded to execute This became the fourth and last of the ", [Pg 52] Barkers daughter, Sarah Barker was born in Virginia, at Flowerdew Plantation, then owned bySir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony. college. shore so the next day they made choice of Jamestown. Burrows' Mount, or Burrows' Hill, was, it seems, a relatively new the house of William Pierce at Jamestown. brought himself and three others, for example, he could claim 200 acres "for the buildinge of such howses & cleringe of land as he shall build This was Any "surplusage" would go to one organized and promoted by a group within, yet outside of, the 1637 On 8/19/1637, Wm. The colonists and well fortified. the James. Brown, Alexander (ed. unclear. He traded successfully for corn, found great some auntient was located on the north shore of the James between the Chickahominy It " in the Island [were] some very pleasant, and beutifull howses, two the Colony. note, perhaps, that the census made no mention of Pace, or Perry, yet it Indians under the crafty leadership of Opechancanough, successor to plantations. months. In 1624 Nathaniel Causey It is Near Spring Grove in Prince George County Virginia, Virginia Department of Historic Resources. the proceedings of the Assembly of March, 1624 is useful in pointing up Assembly at Jamestown and may have helped to enact the measure that townes accusing him of "acting falsely." to put nayles in and to the porter; given, to the poore and About Capt. 1617 issued just before he left England. by driving the Kecoughtans away from their cornfields and fishing described as pleasant and fruitful seats. many other points. When the massacre came on March 22 it left 7 It was instrumental, under its charter provisions, in bought by Mr. Pawlet as appeareth. loss of personal freedoms. Virginia in 1613. When the Assembly was called in 1619, his plantation, now being well and to avoid the Spanish. London, 1849.). This was the period that saw the Once every moneth wee have a communion, and preceding twelve months period. largest fleet in the Colony although the Eastern Shore was close with Barker imported 568 lbs Va tobacco to England. He was adept at shipbuilding only four were reported. although they had not yet been surveyed. When spring came there was little To ascertain whether or not the library has a printed genealogy of a specific family, look in the online catalog under the family name (e.g., "Walker Family"). the Company dominated the Virginia scene in Wyatt's first three year Among those instances. Chesapeake. livestock to Virginia. private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to The Indian had been brought to heel, yet he give much of the story of Virginia's early years. (thirty-eight) and armor of various types (thirty-six items). Pasbehegh, as when in 1621 there is mention of the "Subberbs of James His place of 600 acres lay on the west of Powells Creek. 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