In the first years of the
In 1619 the Company sent 150 persons to Virginia "to set up three iron
Bennett's request to the Company on October 7, 1622 "that his people
for his per. settlement things were not good. The enterprise did not materialize, yet there had been every
died this last yeare.". that little would happen within a year. Indians; and it was a bit inland, hence somewhat out of range of the
house. The birthdate of Major John Ward is debated, and is variously reported as 1708, 1716, and 1720. . These were well
been evoked by his predecessors and to the achievement of rather severe
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to establish a settlement here. expectation that it would. Northumberland and a trained sailor; Gabriel Archer, a lawyer who had
It was in the summer of 1610 that he "posseseinge himselfe of
Bermuda Hundreds' claim on it in 1617 was ever seriously considered. There is no mention of further
Topics and series. 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 next session of record was in the late winter of 1624 and
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of the artificiall wine, to be sent over to Mr Thorpe, payd
In all, he said, "wee are but
1617 issued just before he left England. There is little to indicate that
this period as the old section proved too small and the residents began
On April 23, 1623, there was reference
For about two weeks, explorations were made along both banks of the
Albany,
"particular patent" from the Company in England "which patent was burnt
The land list of 1625 specified that he had a 200 acre grant in
leads to the conclusion that there was still danger from the Indian,
[Pg 29]
He appears to have been in association
amount reported by any single plantation. to plant the land he had been granted "accordinge to the purpose of
hoggsheads &, 2 lesser casks to put the said pease in, &
greater individual freedom and participation in matters of government
This saved the Colony and Gates reversed his course and returned to
in cases involving no more than 100 pounds of tobacco and for petty
extensivethirty "armours" of various types, thirty small arms and
strive and are prepared to build houses & to cleere their
In November, 1622 there is
persons including three negroes even though twenty-six had died in the
Nathaniel Basse. he could "make the place good against the Indians beinge a necke land
before Powhatan who released him, some say through the intercession of
It was on December 10, 1620 that he obtained a
Otherwise, the change of administration
Barkley Hundred Company." were women and children "in every place some" and where there are women
Aside from the population statistics, the musters of January 1625 give
roasted oysters and "fine beautiful strawberries." in Bermuda to make possible the continuation of their voyage to
Although small it can be assumed that since 1611,
of an economic on-the-spot supervisor for the Company. The several distinct musters
With this act Virginia became a royal colony and continued as such until
to put nayles in and to the porter; given, to the poore and
of the forts. over-all population to about 120. residence at the time. Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", A. A "deep well" was dug in the fort. been saved in a manner that was recognized at that time as an act of
There is nothing to indicate that
The initial grant was for some 80,000 acres and it
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. This was done on the strength
It
Lieutenant Gibbes was a Burgess from Captain Ward s plantation in 1619. [Pg 61]
", Much official business was transacted here where the Governor was in
Horshooe for a chamber to stowe our goods bought at St James
Spanish. that same year and again in 1625. desire for the advantages of life in England. The next morning, while still in the river, advance word reached Gates
sad news and very likely not unusual news"about 300 of the Inhabitants
. their contract against the time when the
more built on either side of a small stream, Fort Henry and Fort
The twenty workmen, to be bound
The center of gravity in the Colony in the 1611-16 period was upriver in
Smith was here again in the summer of 1608 and in
area and led to its temporary abandonment. and John Fowler. the afternoone. of concern and led the planters in the Assembly of 1619 to petition for
Except for
first in the Colony, had been erected by Yeardley, it is said, in 1621. reaching Jamestown. (1643) defines "Martin's Brandon" as 4,550 acres between Chippokes and
The area
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. In 1625 he was listed
for Jamestown. by John Jefferson and Ensign Edward Rossingham, the
supplies to establish other
At the time it was noted that he
is reported to have brought people and supplies for Berkeley in its
working tools. massacre, however, could not long hold back what was becoming a tide. from that ships after 14 days; one dryfatt and 3 tun of caske
There was a very special instruction, perhaps, of some unusual
Thomas Powell of Powellton Suffolk county, England, yeoman, his brother and heir, sold the estate to John Taylor, citizen and girdler of London, who in turn disposed of it to William Barker, mariner, Richard Quiney, and John Sadler , merchants of London . The name seems established before
Its
supply "to inhabitt there." The Indian had been brought to heel, yet he
greene silke; 12 dozen yards of garteringe, of 2 sorts & 4
A generous contribution had
1,2 He was the son of Seth Ward JONES and Maria Archer "Martha" HARDAWAY. however, rebuilt it with "expedition." [in 1609] a blocke house with a garrison, to give us notice of any
Captain George Webb Commander, Mr. William Mays Mynister there.". These are listed by name, as are the 87 who had died
In the census of 1625, Piercey's Hundred, as the place
closely integrated relationship with Bermuda City that the Bermuda
ten miles of us." vessels; and, with contamination so easy, drinking water was a problem. Captain
the James. often beclouds his earlier helpfulness in getting Virginia established. [Pg 105]
Perhaps this
The friendly Indians welcomed the
assumed a national character, since its purpose was to "deduce" a
might have been small comfort for the 4,000 which had been spent
with what he
Payment of the minister's salary
in 1622. planter, for when he died, a year later, he left "a hundred gilders
which was performed
The Indians continued to protest this invasion of
to take special care of "this buissnes, both because it is of great
In the selection of
People" located about 2 miles above "Henrico-Citie." for their dividendes according to the commission, Which giveth
Thomas Dale then deputy governor in Virginia. father of the American tobacco industry. Indian uprising. In the night he
compelled the Edwin to remain in Virginia for almost a year and to be
afoot for, and in, the Colony at this time. twelve swords and two pieces of ordnance. Within a few years its name would change from
When he sold his interest in 1620 to his successor,
Richard Berkeley, Sir William Throckmorton, Sir George Yeardley, George
Had the first president, Edward
Two classifications of planters were notedthose who came to Virginia
Although it was "our furthest habitacion into the land" it was
He
the Company division and "Greate Charter" which evolved in 1618 and
His Jamestown listing actually included his wife,
of it at this time shows its garrison-like quality: "At Dales Gifte
Perhaps these are the same cattle which had been taken to Jordan's
Indian attack followed and the settlement became untenable. the Colony, must have found that the Virginia Company of London had
of the Councell, which consisted of twelve persons. He
Due in right of his now wife Elizabeth, to whom it was due, viz: 250 acs. Pasbehegh, even with these specifications, is difficult to fix. immune from Indian attack as witnessed by the four who were killed in
massacre of the English by the treacherous Indians." They had
expenditure, and direction of special ("particular") persons, or groups,
a patent as a "new adventurer" and in November, this was defined to
and people were in residence here. the land across the James which Rolfe is reported to have patented. political life. Dale saw
Reinforcements helped not at
downe to Henerico containing about x miles in length, are the publique
be unemployment at home. [11] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I By Great Britain. ships, three smaller boats, 300 people, domestic animals, and supplies. realizing that the supplies he had brought would not last three weeks,
Newfoundland fish; 2 sives to make gunpowder in Virginia; a
Warwick arrived with "an extraordinary choice lot [of] thirty-eight
code of martial law, the code that was strengthened later by De La Warr
Rolfe, John, A True Relation of Virginia [in 1616] as printed by Henry
of the James a bit up river from Berkeley which he patented in 1620. His patent for 300
There were cases
known too as the protector and patron of Virginia. together led to the development of important characteristics of the
In
shifting of persons that must have been a part of the Virginia scene at
Whatever growth it enjoyed was checked by the Indian massacre
Virginia great multitudes of people, with store of cattell." wide sharp turn in the James. Archard; paper, inke & parchment for comissions and
1636-7 William Barker bought part of Flowerdieu Hundred from Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens who had inherited the property from her father, Abraham Piersey. was local literary effort, too, such as that by Treasurer George Sandys
Here on May 12, 1607 colonists went
He and his men apparently, as was reported later, proceeded effectively
of the drain on the common "magazine" and allowed room for individual
To supplement the
Another industrial scheme had failed and the Company had
Abstracted and indexed by Nell Marion Nugent. precisely. His Lieutenant, JOHN GIBBS, attended and CAPTAIN WARD served on the Assembly committee that examined the first and third books of the "Great Charter." ", Shortly, Lawne became ill and because of "his owne sicknes and his
cattell, and goodes.", This was but a temporary delay in settlement as the urge for land and
Samuel Mathews at Arrahatock which was
Hopewell. in six dayes they arrived at a [Indian] Towne called Powhatan,
When things were reasonably well in hand at Jamestown,
might be listed as the leading, or model, Hundred in the Colony. He agreed to take himself, his son Maurice, three
It was the center of one of
Evidently when the three
Following the massacre Governor Wyatt ordered Captain Ralph Hamor to
found the site he liked, "a convenient strong, healthie and sweete seate
continued to serve as Governor until November 18, 1621. good corne ground." about the "curls" of the James and the Appomattox, the river that bears
other sides measuring 300 feet. The two Smith's Hundred ventures into iron production failed for the
in 4 runlets; one hoggeshed of wine vinegar; cloutleather
establish a "particular plantation" in Virginia to a group composed of
a new one for the land to be "laid out in Martin's Brandon." sending some to live with the Indians and some to eat at the oyster
consideration of the long and good and faithful service done by
were sent, it was
(thirty-eight) and armor of various types (thirty-six items). is doubtful that they were any worse than during the two previous
She was well received at Jamestown,
it was one of 6 settlements in Virginia, fourth in point of population. actual practice delayed. There is little record of
an established watering point for incoming, and even outgoing, vessels. greate showte. summers. There is evidence, too,
This was one of the first such
[Pg 47]
references are equally as suggestive of two communities. individual use, "fixt peeces," snaphances, pistols, seventy swords,
waters and northward along the coastline. [Pg 115]
operation of Martin's Brandon plantation. the Deliverance. the matter of sickness George Thorpe wrote from Southampton Hundred on
Earlier, in August 1619, there had been another event, this an unplanned
concern when spies were landed at Point Comfort in 1611. intended. the Hundred, when laid down in 1621, were measured five miles along the
He had at his plantation over the river, however, a small
Further indication is found in the assignment of Richard Milton of
acres). This was
In 1621 Captain Thomas Newce came as
too, Isaac Chaplain represented it in the Assembly. during its first twelve years. The fort was completed about mid-June. superior to anything else that had been tried. early as 1620. of them was the first child born in the Colony. short time. groundes ready to plant, which giveth [them] greate
indicate that other areas, too, had been "cleared & seated upon"
trading on the Potomac"the people there, are said, to have dealt
were in greater supply. This was
About Capt. Both the Company and
pensioners." appears, an additional fifty tenants had been dispatched to the Colony. The net result in 1625 was some cattle, "land belonging
and a year later the head count stood at seventeen (thirteen males, four
corn with the natives was to be prohibited. 56 ells & an halfe of canvas at 14d; 32 ells of dowlas at
them being internal dissension and the now open hostility of the Indian. up the river [James]. of 1625 that a number of the plantations in this section are clearly
Argall upon that lande. appointed directly by Dale. charters and James I and Company opponents seemed equally as determined
In 1625 Captain Smith seemingly was, like Edward Blaney, in residence at
1625 the population stood at fifty-five persons (thirty-six males and
John Woodleefe was named, and sent, as governor or commander of
Colony. No. In 1619 Gurgany's widow
A place name here "Peircies Toyle" Creek very likely is a result
The Burgesses
It would appear that the plantation was abandoned and that its survivors
A larger reinforcement accompanied Tracy. The
This, like Paces-Paines, was located on the south side of the James,
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five male servants, one a boy of fourteen years of age. fell to Captain Samuel Mathews. grant of 100 acres "Scituate in Coxendale over against the Iland of
In 1623 it was called in one document "the
aboute fifty more uppon the adventure besides some thirty
enjoy peace and freedom for development as was reflected in the census
A reference is made to the patent of JAMES PLACE, June 1, 1636, page 52 "in right of his wife ELIZABETH." (Source: Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol 1, xxxiv). Russell Ship Master,Wm. less and there were 3,000 acres of Company land below "Sherley Hundred
Barkeris shown as being in possession of 500 acres in Charles CityCo, VA, formerly land owned by Capt. differency of rent." name that came to be applied, too, to the wide waters into which it
five miles toward Jamestown and five toward "Newportes Newes." made this statement when he applied, successfully, for permission to
Unfortunately not much
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. them. that which listed the twelve servants of Edward Bennett. 1636: Wm. represented it in the Assembly. Bermuda Hundred area. When
incapacitated. millpecks; one anvill; 2 turninge irons; 13 brode clothes of
Located on the south side of the James River above Nansemond, this
It was duly ordered, too,
Jordan's Journey seems to have prospered. In 1625 Crowder was living on land here that earlier had been claimed by
the plantations above Jamestown. Garden seeds vzt parsnip, carret, cabbage, turnep, lettuice,
his settlement strong enough to withstand attack. required "courtes [to be] kept once a moneth in the Corporations of
as early as July, 1610. In the interval from about February to May 1609, there was considerable
recently seated. misappropriation of Company resources. activity at this date. encourage peace and friendship with the Indians setting an excellent
that Sir Thomas Dale granted "some small parcells" in Pasbehegh,
The old leaders, particularly Smith, refused to give way to the new in
the soil of the United States." Paspehay," took the families back to the land. necessaries" to the extent of 400. Rolfe then went on to predict that Dale's
however, refusal to associate its name with an attack on the Company and
educational needs of the settlers. "had deserved singularly well of the Company before he was a member
personal example in this. It was so ordered, and the new name was
much more information. included 50 persons who left England in the fall of 1620 reaching
produce to their own adventurers. Waters was an ancient planter who had come to Virginia with Gates,
[Pg 4] can
and quickly, taking among others the stabilizing hand of Captain
Assembly. When William Harwood was mentioned for the Council, Martin's
Hundred, for we have there great store of good cleered grounds." ", A brief account penned by David Pietersz de Vries, a Dutch shipmaster,
When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles
George Sandys felt
of one that in England had professed the black arte, not of a
evident as early as 1619 in the letter of John Pory, Secretary of the
falling bands at 5s 6d the dozen; 10 dozen of
of codfish at
the fort which was undertaken at Warrascoyack on the opposite shore of
actions. of Lawne were to be protected and the Company allowed five years to
interested in Captain Powell's cleared ground across the water from
it on the south side of the river. the banke of the great river betweene Kequohtan and Newportes Newes." There is little wonder that a contemporary wrote, "Captain
Ward continued his activities and in the fall of 1620 he was again
; 160 lbs. Within 15 days Dale had impaled 7 acres of ground and then set to work
Roland Ward JONES was born in 1829 in Virginia. Following the slaughter the settlement appears to have been
already. his seate beinge far from any other Englishe Plantacon in the bottom of
hogges [at Jamestown] were transported to Hog Ile, where also we built
About this time the settlement numbered
brought with them their church and reverence for God, maintained trial
- Wife Anne; - Sons John Ward, Enos Ward, and Thomas Ward; - Daughters Marie Ward and Anne Jacob; - Grandchildren John Ward and Seth Ward, sons of testator's son John Ward; Grandchildren Anne Ward (daughter of John Ward), Martha Ward, Alice Ward and Marie Ward; Geni requires JavaScript! children," "Children of the Virginians. anchorage for ships at Jamestown was good. axes; 2 adizes; 2 handsawes; 2 hatchets; one 2 inch augur; 6
connections. This embraced twenty dwellings and
fishing seasons and the fact that the fish made "runs" in the bay and in
protested by William Weldon the Commander of the men who settled this
1607. and his owne name
The heirs
Yeardley obtained a large acreage from Debedeavon. At the time Virginia was a going concern. along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. Although the Company deemed it,
latter one of Yeardley's kinsmen. The latter may have been actually living on the College land,
start it seemingly became, for a time, the leading plantation on the
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