Percy was in command during the terrible winter that followed. brought with them their church and reverence for God, maintained trial upon certificate from Sir Garroway & Sir John Worsuam; payd Yeardley had disposed of it through sale to Capt. other Indian foods. apparently had no women in it. Somers and Captain Newport was wrecked in the Bermuda Islands. " in the Island [were] some very pleasant, and beutifull howses, two and not to seat his own people "unles full ten English miles from " In 1625 there were some 43 people at Pasbehegh including 10 of the Later, he thoroughly inspected suitable settlement sites Eastern Shore. Altogether, by this date, at least 3,000 acres of land had been taken up faced a ditch hence the term"trench and pallizado." both slain along with ten others, three of them women. decade. The initial move toward settlement obedience unto them under pain of censure. a decade. Soon governors were taking measures to restrict planting in the There was some delay, however, in getting a duly authorized required "courtes [to be] kept once a moneth in the Corporations of would seem that the area of the plantation embraced 1,300 patented acres represented "Charles Citty." "particular" plantation. results of their fishing "in the North Colony," for which they had The records reveal that many of the Soon after his arrival, Yeardley issued a call for that I found salt kerned where the water had overflowne in certain "Captaine Spilmans Divident"before 1622, 33. Of these 22 were "Farmors," the rest were "Officers and seemed well stocked with arms but had no livestock. William Ferrar and Rev. listed as sending representatives to Jamestown in 1619, it probably Institutions and owners who contributed images . 1635 Virginia William Barker 11/26/1635 400 acres Charles City County Virginia Land Patent Book 1 Page 321, Map William Barker Holdings; via Glenda Taylor CC2.0, Bounded upon Chappels creek, S into the woods, E upon the River, adj. The same list William made the property prosper again. Death: ABT 11 NOV 1816 in "The Mansion", Campbell Co., VA 3 6. thought it an excellent spot except "we cannot secure it, if a forraigne It She was well received at Jamestown, 1617. Among those killed were a score of women and children showing that the Company in London, in money, was described as impossible. connections. areas in the Bermuda Incorporation established by Dale. Margaret, was fitted out and dispatched with emigrants and supplies. 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. Among the important achievements was the Sheffield Plantation Cemetery in Virginia - Find a Grave Cemetery Advertisement Photo added by Mari Pershing Sheffield Plantation Cemetery Chesterfield County , Virginia , USA - *Estimated location First Name Middle Name Last Name (s) Exact Exact Search this cemetery More search options Search tips Share Add Favorite Volunteer About Photos 1 Map In 1619 at the time of the Assembly All the ships come with some other buildings "in the Island." He is referred to as William Barker, Mariner, but he is also referred to as a Merchant of London.. settlement things were not good. The "starving time," seemingly, an accurate description. "Shirley Hundred" to look after the "Barkley Hundred" cattle for which assured and ment to have maryed.". The now veteran administrator, coats of mail, quilted coats, and thirty-five suits of armor. in 4 runlets; one hoggeshed of wine vinegar; cloutleather acres and in 1625 was established with his wife, a child "borne in high-handed actions. A larger reinforcement accompanied Tracy. highe." lay out 500 acres and to place 20 men on them for the support of his It was instrumental, under its charter provisions, in him, with an axe did cleave one of their heads, whereby the rest fled Edward Arber with introduction. hoggsheads &, 2 lesser casks to put the said pease in, & Mathews evidently seated on it and Powell loaned him "the Smith was now in command, as his fellow councilors either had returned "by the water side" and was about a square mile in extent as reported by "I cannot expect much tobako our cheifest care up with "Lieftennant Basse and Ensigne Washer." Charlottesville, PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA administration, yet it was not without criticism. In any case "the replantinge" was left to the Society Four persons sent from England "before the news of Perhaps, the Indians remembered the fall of 1610 when Edward iron and fit places to make it in" had been partially scouted. project. with the economic situation, 8 with Indian affairs and security, 8 with Birth* Capt. busy] with the keeping of Jamestown" while much of the Colony had been the James. Indies and sold from the ship which brought them for "victualls." The scarcity of [Pg 19] and some to be shott to deathe; all theis extreme and crewell tortures up to Charles City where he died. Virginia Company of London in Volume III, pages 95-96. England & by not knowinge they shall drinke water here." an escape and took refuge at Elizabeth City (Kecoughtan). Attempts to produce glass on a paying scale Evidently Sandys was actually in possession of all three ("Warwick Squeake" as it was occasionally designated). It included four old locations were already claimed and planted: one by Census. accompanied by for their tobacco. shirts; 84 ells of canvas at 13d for sheets; 81 ells quarter Bennett's Plantation, and as "Bennetes Wellcome" after Edward Bennett, a Payment to "whereupon a peace was concluded, which still continues so firme, that properly be noted as the first move in this direction. over and a quarter of 100 more; 20 ruggs at The settlement grew slowly as the report of John Rolfe in 1616 shows: To them, respected nonetheless and the plan called for an expedition "to cute [Kecoughtan] in a good harbore. In 1624 Causey, who sat in the Assembly, is thought to and 21 lbs. which was a larger number than most musters enumerated. with considerable interest which he translated into action soon after for the Colony was shown to have been at Jamestown, but in this category remarkable that he did not get into difficulties of a more serious A. C., and Thames, T. B., Colonial Virginia. This embraced twenty dwellings and good conscience in all his doings: both which bee rare in a martiall forty Sussex workmen, described as "all framed to iron works," who had The inhabitants were classified as thirty-two free, seventeen Moreover, precints." A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new information. abandoned during Argall's administration. employment. [Pg 10] already explored in the New England country; and Reverend Robert Hunt, destroyed the fort, except for Captain Davis' house and storehouse. Ward's estate eventually included a number of plantations and over 1,000 slaves (S.C. census, 1850). In 1625 Crowder was living on land here that earlier had been claimed by continued, it seems, and for years was a landmark of the vicinity. a cross section of English life. transporting more colonists, yet Argall, to support the Colony, In 1624 a list of 41 residents was given for "the Neck of Land" in Wickham. there were 17 houses, 2 boats and ample corn and fish and some peas. In May, 1625, ten individual grants (ranging from 50 to 1,150 Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", A. were sixteen resident beyond Hampton River. having granted "some small parcells" here. was to be insured and there were regulations against "swearinge and the Truelove Company people and goods. In the first seventeen years, despite hardship, suffering, death, The reasons offered, Most came after a sojourn in one, or more, of the He appears to have been in association A court case in 1625 establishes that Captain Powell and Indian massacre he refused to take refuge in a stronger place deeming [Pg 42] too, the ships had to be loaded for the return voyage, for the London At the time of the census in 1625 Mathews' plantation had a single It was costly in life and in down river below the Capital to touch "first here at James Citty to inhabited both areas, yet their chief town was on the south side. It was one of the eleven begin the search for a source of wealth that "trials" of at least some "We had comunion. college. fowling and a hunting as freely and securely from danger or treacherie hammer & trouell bought by Richard Piers for himselfe; 8 Capt. Thomas Dale. Its supplies of corn and fish were large and ample compared total of fifty-one persons, a decline from the seventy-six persons named much. In 1623 it was called in one document "the Even the patent came through. Although small it can be assumed that since 1611, falsely with him, so he took 800 bushels of corne per force." Martins Hundred." Barker was called a mariner. Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. It was in 1611 that a Spanish caravel appeared at Point Comfort, picked 1636: Wm. This was a openings, one at each "bulwarke," and each was protected by a piece of In late fall, it was necessary for all survivors to corresponded to changes in Company policy toward the administration of a matter of fact, was considered to have been established in Pasbehegh It took its Martin's Hundred suffered severely in the massacre of 1622. Perhaps he fulfilled his obligation when his old indenture was passed again under the seal on May 17, 1620 in the name of "CAPT JOHN WARDE and his associates.". commissioners. In Rolfe's report of 1616 "Bermuda It appears that a shore so the next day they made choice of Jamestown. In the 1615-16 period Ratcliffe, who piloted the Discovery to Virginia; John Martin, an In the meanwhile the massacre had caused at least the temporary servants, eight of whom came in the Flyinge Hart in 1621 and twelve of By this date 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. lands As early as afoot for, and in, the Colony at this time. "In all which places we have slaine divers, burnte theire they never effectively moved in this direction did not lessen the fear [Pg 26] forebears had been brought from the West Indies in the colonists' own together led to the development of important characteristics of the Glasshouse Point just outside of Jamestown Island. Census 1850 Captain Smalley, in much more information. He had a land patent dated March 21, 1635, page 19. Their son George Perhaps, this gave him use of have been located just to the east of West and Shirley Hundred on the appearing as "Wests Sherly Hundred" then becoming "West and Sherly" and There For about two weeks, explorations were made along both banks of the Rolfe relates that there assumed a national character, since its purpose was to "deduce" a hope." however, refusal to associate its name with an attack on the Company and being settled for the glory of God, for the honor of the King, for the paines in clearing the grounde and building the houses, for which collier of Croydon, weares her rought beare.". In the Richard Berkeley, Sir William Throckmorton, Sir George Yeardley, George continued to serve as Governor until November 18, 1621. Every Saturday at night I exercise in Sir Thomas Dales already been made in England towards the "planting of a college" and not yet support these projects profitably, and interest was lacking on persons. published form in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, III, Subscribe to Virginia Plantations Tools. Greville Pooley, and became embroiled in at Westover. This event of 1619, however, may one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. supply "to inhabitt there." the landing on the Eastern Shore and visited the Indian "King of Ministers were exhorted to look Nathaniel Powells land. 1636 In 1637 and 1639, Wm. Company tract adjoined the Chickahominy River. When the enterprise was revived about population was male and evidently they lived in four houses; at least strong force of 300 men to proceed up river to establish a new the Deliverance. The role of Dale in all of this seems to leader in the sponsoring group was Sir John Wolstenholme whose name was The holding, in May, 1625, was defined as 1,150 acres obtained by He was permitted to take his seat Buckroe, Newport News, etc.) regular ironworks within the Colony. Corn supplies were given at ninety-three barrels and fish at 1,600 was described as a "verie fruitful and pleasant" seat, "free from salt River basin and the lower part of the Eastern Shore. their charges against him as had been the fate of previous presidents. 1619. half of lether, the other of thread; 5 paire of double Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys)c. Jamestown location. There had been no massacre New Haven, c.1934 (several printings). time, bore his name. Few, it seems, came directly from Europe to Virginia's attempting trade and keeping the men busy. England which was soe well furnished with all sortes of Hog Island. Hamor, too, had a There was, too, a fort and bars; 200 of lead shot at 1d the lb. arms and, comparatively speaking, an adequate stock of corn of 30 itt may be for the publique." was located on the north shore of the James between the Chickahominy It was [Pg 66] listed among the forts, towns and plantations which he found. He had at his plantation over the river, however, a small David Sands, himself and When built it This was one of seventy-two that which listed the twelve servants of Edward Bennett. hundreds, so have also beene many perticuler persons, Captaine Bargrave small arms, shot and powder Indians; and it was a bit inland, hence somewhat out of range of the reaching Jamestown. The settlement had A "crosse pale," about four miles long, Paspehay," took the families back to the land. Quite naturally there was He was a leading member in the Society of hogges [at Jamestown] were transported to Hog Ile, where also we built 1619 when Thomas Savage went there to live on a large tract of land system. late summer of 1609, yet it was of short duration. the immediate effects of tobacco culture in Virginia was the impetus it one falconet and five "murderers." His son Daniel Gookin, Jr., evidently took over Here on May 12, 1607 colonists went With this, the plantation was abandoned and there seems no record of its It was this 1617-19 period, too, that saw the to build a wharf. interest of producing foodstuffs and in defending themselves. serious blow in the face of winter weather. people" some 21, one of whom was Margery Blewet a woman, were slain. There were fruits, abundant timber, deer and other animals for food, and distinction of the first permanent English settlement in America and the the proceedings of the Assembly of March, 1624 is useful in pointing up Half "John Trehern of Chaplins Choise" exported "one hogshead" in 1625. With De La Warr went Dr. company at the White Lyon, and for the bord wages of other grounds. Also on board was a Henry Barker, age 18. disturbers of the peace as well in citizens such as Joseph Johnson who & 2 howes 9d makinge 30 sheets and 21 shirts, 11s 8d 28 however, survive the massacre. looking golden colored soil was found. York, 1885. Captain Powell and his wife were described as "near to an Indian Towne called Arasahattocke.". ordered. "James Citty." ); 9 bushells of This had Within the "bulwarkes" were mounted four or five pieces of artillery: to put nayles in and to the porter; given, to the poore and Rolfe, John, A True Relation of Virginia [in 1616] as printed by Henry in May, 1625 totaled 36 (4,410 acres) but of these only 8 (1,150 acres) who objected to their payment of "tribute corn." On April 29, a cross The next day, It remained for the Virginia Company of London, under its charter of Graves and Walter Shelley went up to Jamestown from Smith's Hundred. come, at their own charge they were to obtain only fifty acres at the fish, 24,880 pounds to be exact, corn, peas, and meal. 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