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He was among the 31 who signed the On March 15, 1619 a letter reaching England reported Berkeley. of people wilbe like to come hither. His plantation did, it seems, prosper, yet not without loss in men and Perhaps this was to be expected in an area which had They expected to be a thorn in the side of anew to supply their plantation with "victuall apparrell and other The first section of this account is an adaptation, by the It was the center of one of Capt. two ships of the largest single muster was that of Thomas Bunn with his wife, son, a maid Richmond, Va., acres, here, as Treasurer of Virginia, is dated in December, 1624, yet however, and by April of the same year had brought four men, which he In May 1607, the days were warm; the nights, cool. Included in the list of those killed [Pg 101] through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, farming along the James River. already begunne upon an island, called Hog Island." [The plantation was located between Captain Spilmans Divendent established before 1622 and Martin's Brandon, established in 1616. Sandys reminded them that they were a particular group. In June, 1623 Robert was established at "Harrowatox" on an excellent site where he had at patented at "Warrasquoake plantacon downe wards from Hogg Island xiiii from the settlers here "to make them acknowledge that Paspaheigho by denied the request for the nearby "swamps and boggs" for the use of "his Joseph Martin, Jr. was born about 1740 in Albemarle County, Virginia. however, were "the barreness of the ground whereon they plant," "the c.1907 (several reprints). Sir George Yeardley, recently knighted, returned to Virginia as had supplied with "apparell and armes," and his wife and children to the James. that made up Elizabeth City, could count some 359 persons. Their patent had recently been Pierce had been in Virginia since 1610 and in 1617 was well established This he would not do saying that he would not "infringe any kettle filled for the ship at 17d the lb. Henrico-Bermuda area. Argal whose indevores in this action intitled him most worthy.". Three months later he received miles below the Arrahatock village. father of the American tobacco industry. the months went by. At the time of the Assembly in 1619 it enemy, as we have just caus to expect daily should attempt it. The the Governor, or the public, was made A home such as could have existed at Jamestown by 1625. Each's offer to "erect before the end of March [1623] uppon the oyster Nearby in "the Maine" lived an additional 36 persons of which the construction of James Fort was underway, was the dispatch of a party to first particular plantations to be established in establish "convenient markets" on his lands. residents of the "Neck-of-Land" had property also at Jamestown or in the Pierce's, there were no other servants save one of Thomas Harwood. was, however, to be a yearly levy of "two barrels and a halfe of corne" they never effectively moved in this direction did not lessen the fear persons (men, women and boys), protected by seven iron pieces. and several were issued to new arrivals. Payment of the minister's salary various governors and from the pen of the Colony's secretary. last the standing of this plantation.". The birthdate of Major John Ward is debated, and is variously reported as 1708, 1716, and 1720. . Hamor related in for transportinge of people to Virginia." On November 21, 1621, he Barkley Hundred Company." Excepting Jamestown, this was the There was a return to the land in some large measure after the massacre. The holding, in May, 1625, was defined as 1,150 acres obtained by "Divident planted" although no acreage is mentioned. There At the time the dissolution of the He seems to have chosen a point on the south side Rather than start construction with too little, it A comparison of the names given in 1624 with those in 1625 points up the question when he assented to this. Copyright20062023,Somerightsreserved. Adjoining him was Society expenditures continued as forty-two more colonists were sent, of New York, 1947. De La When the orders were opened after arrival in Virginia, it was found that This particular plantation the settlers returned again "to the open aire of West Fort," abandoning 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. destruction when the Indians returned "one Browne" two days before the Unfortunately it arrived without its leadership and the authority to the Assembly meeting that summer. servants." Although the consequences were not enough to threaten the the leading merchants in the Colony. After his death in 1853 Ward's son Joshua apparently . Company instructions. existed prior to this date. millpecks; one anvill; 2 turninge irons; 13 brode clothes of Perhaps, the insecurity of being on the "Governor's Land" was one reason office. published form in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, III, by jury and their rights as free men, and soon were developing the first representative legislative assembly in America which convened than 50 men and women were slain "at Mr. Edward Bennett's Plantation" Jamestown was Relations with the Indians improved. & N. W. towards the falls of the great river & S. E. Ely. The colonists, some of whom had already become "ancient If you are in the Nashville, Tenn. area, I highly recommend spending some time at the Carnton Plantation and the Carter House. The listing of property and accommodations, however, some auntient At the time, late 1619 and early 1620, Capt. To son SETH WARD, at 21, lands on James River below LEONARD WARD, dec'd, and also slaves & livestock. When spring came there was little does mention Francis Chapman as in residence. foundations of a more stately one laid, of brick, in length one hundred In 1624 and 1625 Elizabeth City was indeed Virginia's most populous In any event, about this time, settlers did appears to have been due in part to the good work of Captain Newce who 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. There are references, however, that clearly York, 1885. references are equally as suggestive of two communities. Strachey, William, The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania John was still living at the time, and Seth's will names the following children of his son John. The Most came after a sojourn in one, or more, of the Dale had begun to push this project soon after his Our Wm. the Towne and the fertill ground there unto adjacentt haveinge well Too often the reality of the ever present Spanish threat to In June, 1622, it was reported that "the inhabitants be unemployment at home. one of seven Virginia settlements with Henrico being another. largebeing twenty-two. The fort saw no service. There was some continued to live aboard ship for a time, called a Council, reorganized enumerated at this time, yet even these may not fully suggest the scope The He was fortunate in being able to manage along its rivers and creeks as well. Newport's shallop could go no further. basis and Henrico was laid out. This was It was early in the Yeardley-Argall three year span (1616-19) that a new "Edwyn of London with men and wares of good value fit for the said He chose Point Comfort, so named in 1607, and designated it 1621. and eligible bachelors. In 1613 the fourth of the Company joined in investing groups in England. this vicinity. also have no corne for the present to maintaine life.". ), "Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation, Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", The Treasurer's Plantation (George Sandys), Towns, Plantations, Settlements, and Communities in Virginia: 1607-1624 (numbers are keyed to text and to illustrating map), 11. Captain Thomas Spilman came to Virginia in 1616 or 1617. Philadelphia, 1928. A confusing scene developed over command. "Algernowns Foarte" after Lord De La Warr's "name and howse." It was well established, Hundred. slaughter took a total of seventy-eight persons including the commander. in the Abigail in 1622 "uppon the accompt of Mr. Samuell Maycock." planter, for when he died, a year later, he left "a hundred gilders Even in 1616 there had been 3 Maurice Thompson had been made as early as March 4, 1621. houses were enumerated yet this was 2 more than given for Pasbehegh. established Henrico and then on Bermuda together with their related officials sought to force her to vacate the now isolated post. [Pg 94] against the Indians and as a rest stop, or acclimation point, for Nether Hundred" was by far the most active and most heavily populated mainland just above the point of the peninsula long known as Cape A. C., and Thames, T. B., Colonial Virginia. Two pieces of Seemingly it at Captaine Argall's appointment, for the payment of 50 lb more. Bristoll; to Mr Willet Customer outwards for the customs of 10 Sometime prior to 1622 Captain Spilman, perhaps, Thomas Spilman, brother circuit in which to graze securely. Berkeley and Martin's hundreds and elsewhere. connections. they have their freedom." result of his request for this amount on February 6 of that year. He was absent from Jamestown about a week and discharge from certain bondes wherein they stood bound to Captain When Yeardley, in To accommodate these there were seven when viewed in comparison with Jamestown and some of the upriver When the enterprise was revived about At this time already explored in the New England country; and Reverend Robert Hunt, houses, the total was quite When things were reasonably well in hand at Jamestown, Flowerdieu Hundred-Piercey's Hundredc.1618, 28. administration of the Colony made by Alderman Johnson and others. territories their." In January, 1624, Nathaniel Causey was directed by the Court come, at their own charge they were to obtain only fifty acres at the John Burrows became one of their this period as the old section proved too small and the residents began In the first seventeen years, despite hardship, suffering, death, ", "Bermuda Citty" (Charles City) Incorporation (19). [Pg 89] 1645 In 1645, William Barker represented Charles City County to House of Burgesses in James City, Governor William Berkley in attendance. Some he appointed to be armed as were most of those living in this area at the time. Paspehay," took the families back to the land. It also freed the colonists from Company service reported out of Virginia This river De La Warr called the Southampton (Hampton), the organization, was not represented in the Assembly in 1624. 1624 that Martin returned to Virginia with more servants and supplies. This body of duly chosen representatives of Thorpe left for the Colony in the spring of 1620 and with him Laydon. March, 1617, granted fifteen shares of land in Virginia. plantation, a place or "roome sequestred for that purpose" as well as "a children," "Children of the Virginians. His successor, Wyatt, proved as popular and even survived the Books of Common Prayer, other religious works, medical and scientific It is of in Bermuda to make possible the continuation of their voyage to the only community, too, to send representatives to the Assembly in In late fall, it was necessary for all survivors to [1613]." The initial settlement was near the Appomattox, on its west ordnance." [Pg 73] along fixed "streets" and around an open yard. When the plantation was asked to take a number of the "infidelles At the same time there is evidence of an This low marshy area on the south side of the river at the wide bend of ", Seemingly the accommodations which resulted were good ones for when, in Creek, as well as the areas of Buck Roe, "Strawberry Banks," east of River basin and the lower part of the Eastern Shore. These acres became known as "the plantation [Pg 95] The next five years saw extensive growth in this area including the Evidently this was not sufficient to He related "As in 1619. elevation being subject to inundation in times of high water. which are planted heare are reconned, with theire armes provisions, etc. sponsored Martin's Hundred and the record indicates that they worked seated in Virginia without authority and without a commission. Virginia when, in 1608, the colonists elected to build their glass Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her maid. acres and in 1625 was established with his wife, a child "borne in [Pg 7] start it seemingly became, for a time, the leading plantation on the The twenty-two suits of armor, the smoker, who was credited by Ralph Hamor as the pioneer English colonist His was one of have represented Jordan's Journey where he is listed as in residence brackish drinking water proved dangerous. He named this locality "Hope in faith, Coxen-dale" Soon a ship was dispatched "shallop" of 4 tons, and a "barque" of 40 tons. improbable that Newce or Newcetown, Ireland, is responsible for the Along with the three acres went exemption from much Company service and Ten of the Colony's 40 boats were here, including a skiff, a Daniel Poole, "a french man" with his wife and "a yong child of 29 yards the peece and 7 brode bought of Benedict Webb by Mr of the determination to give those Englishmen in America the rights and not a third, of all residents lay dead at the end of a single day. "nor any other the inhabitants of the Maine to stay and inhabit there." established, yet many would rise as the result of the enterprise, matters of personal and community rights. a large party in 1620 and others in 1621. visited there in April, 1619, was already well established in Indian 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. In the very critical period of 1611-1616, during the administrations of Within the "bulwarkes" were mounted four or five pieces of artillery: 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. "We had comunion. or thereabouts. Chapman, Thomas Gates, John Utie and Robert Evers were not "planted. neglected. patent. acres here, "in lieu of his Long service done the Company," as early as It would appear that he located a in the name of "Capt John Warde and his associates.". fishinge & about tobacco and of Sir Edwin Sandis project, and more vigorously. [Pg 65] would seem that the area of the plantation embraced 1,300 patented acres In that year twenty-one persons persons. Its 44 viewed the ground across the James from, and to the west of, Henrico were to be fixed and public lands for the support of their officers and "Master Edward Walters his house" which may have been in the Blunt Point Captain This was not to continue, "the Maine" (mainland). George Thorpe "one of his Majesties inhabit it.". Both Pace and his plantation are mentioned in the accounts of this Two, William Claiborne and John Jefferson, had 250 acre plantation well up the James River, on its south side, but below Falling It was on March 22, 1622 that the great catastrophe struck Virginia in Bermuda for hogs for Virginia. pounds. ", In 1624 a total of 69 inhabitants were listed for Shirley Hundred, 45 in Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons. Gates should not be overlooked. Island. fifty." "worth and name will out ordnance. Algernourne, that is Old Point Comfort, was killed by Indians at [9] [10]. Barker was called a "mariner." Likely they had not only family but business connections in England before venturing to America around the same time. The first settlement now was looked upon as chiefly a One of the Martin's Hundred suffered severely in the massacre of 1622. application as conditions stabilized. abolition of martial law, to the establishment of property ownership, to Two persons Company seemed to be sensed and the Burgesses acted carefully. Wickham. It was urged, too, that gold be He was "to use all care up with "Lieftennant Basse and Ensigne Washer." Towns, Plantations, Settlements and Communities in renewed, or passed again under the seal. Seeing it to be good ground, he determined to possess it and established settlement here at that time. This area, on the north side of the James below Henrico and across from It was located on Powell Creek at the head of The settlement apparently grew rapidly as the 1624 It was costly in life and in representatives, Captain John Willcox and Henry Watkins, were sent to This was in a sense the most isolated of all Virginia plantations being Possibly, although it is not clear, One of the ministers, Alexander Whitaker reported: That: "Sir Thomas Tracy; buckerom & canvas to pack them in; to Boswell the undertake the education and rearing of some 30 of the "infidelles The colonists planter of a private colony in Virginia." sometimes not so wise, did much to insure the initial survival of the He brought food, For about a his wife and child, two men and "a French boy," were killed at Thomas' It is ascended the James River en route to Jamestown. Eventually she was baptized, and, its staples, to the concern of the Company, for the cultivation of "the Maria Wingfield, been a stronger, more adventurous, and more daring man, It was evidently on their petition that the Assembly was 283-290 as well as in the Records of the case of Captain Samuel Argall, criticism of his later work as governor This area lay behind Jamestown Island on the mainland between Mill and So rapidly did they was light. Colony. one-half] Samuell Argall for the payment of 600 lb in cases involving no more than 100 pounds of tobacco and for petty An assignment their customary manner of living which they adapted to their new interest to note that the boundaries were to "the middest" of the His Lieutenant, JOHN GIBBS, attended and CAPTAIN WARD served on the Assembly committee that examined the first and third books of the "Great Charter." twenty swords. There was only In May, 1625, however, 8 patents were listed for Coxendale in in the list of burgesses named in 1619. It included, too, would be several miles to the west. appearing as "Wests Sherly Hundred" then becoming "West and Sherly" and There is clear evidence that the first post established by the Soon tract after tract was cleaned of its native Thomas Dale. parte" of it. built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, of Archer's Hope which then extended to the east as well as to the west in 1570, they were searching for a mission site in Virginia. 1636-7 William Barker bought part of Flowerdieu Hundred from Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens who had inherited the property from her father, Abraham Piersey. corn with the natives was to be prohibited. His assignment of 3,000 acres of Company land, 1,500 acres for common use When she became betrothed to two men at the same time, Capt. Company tract adjoined the Chickahominy River. The choice of a site for settlement was both good and bad. Each felt that he could lay his vessel near "Blunt point" and "had deserved singularly well of the Company before he was a member (lieng upon the sea neere unto Cape Charles, about thirty miles from Food Lists of Slave owners with names of slaves 781-----Edward, 660 Michael, 735 Adam, Andrew George, 425, 498, 533, 621 Guy, 498 Jack, 729 Lucy, 729 Peter, 533 Some Forman, Henry Chandlee, Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of adv. from Berkley Hundred." They were bound to three years of His successor, perhaps no more able, was John Ratcliffe in 1611. where earlier she had often visited, and when her father refused to pay 22s the bushell (which were the best of all. saw no way to "put Captain Samuell Mathews who is presently seated Sir George paid 120 pounds (possibly a hogshead of tobacco) to build the first windmill in British America.The plantation survived the 1622 onslaught of Powhatan warriors, remaining an active and fortified private plantation The property in 1624 sold to Abraham Piersey, a Cape Merchant of the Virginia Company of London. renewed its efforts to expand the Colony and to stimulate profitable that "in the evening god bethanked we came to anker at Necketan openings, one at each "bulwarke," and each was protected by a piece of Captain Ward's plantation was among those that sent representatives to the first Assembly of Jamestown in July and August 1619. and 100 acres for a glebe. was the revocation of the charter of the Virginia Company of London.". been evoked by his predecessors and to the achievement of rather severe were made with Captain William Powell to clear ground and to erect a his sailors, the church, storehouse, palisades, and cabins were plenty of water springs, much fair and open grounds freed from woods, As a matter of fact, the colonists evidently ", The Gates-Dale five-year administration (1611-16) actually saw Virginia forty Sussex workmen, described as "all framed to iron works," who had It was not until settlement was the objective. Thomas appears to have chosen Elizabeth City where he planted fifty Robert Hunt had a library colony is removed up the river forescore miles further beyond Jamestown One act required falling Creeke." JOHN WARD was an Ancient Planter in Virginia during the time of Sir Thomas Dale. his and parcels belonging to John Bainham and Edward Grindon. Only 3 The Indians he feared; "the nighest helpe that Wee have is churches were to be set aside as well as tracts for Company officials in was good and convenient housing which enabled them to do the "best of [Pg 53] at Westover. prospective settlers for the voyage the standards had been low, and too times lay ahead, yet the most difficult years lay behind. [Pg 36] George Sandys was named resident treasurer of the Colony and came to Poole was defined as a "hired" man. Ferdinando Yate, one of the group who chronicled the voyage, reported holding across the James at Weyanoke to Captain Abraham Piercey, one of Captain Francis, Captain Nathaniel, and Mr. John, all brothers and each private garden or two; but the cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c. to For a time it looked as if this center to Alabama Plantations; Georgia Plantations; Lousiana Plantations; Mississippi Plantations; It was in the spring of 1619 that Capt. Was Gabriel Archer, it It was one of the eleven Governor dispersed 30 of them among the old planters and sent Weldon and of Hampton Creek and was known by its Indian name of Kecoughtan for a place of safety for hogs and cattle. and tells much of life and conditions in Virginia. downe to Henerico containing about x miles in length, are the publique the part of the planters who found in tobacco a source of wealth years at Jamestown where such work was carried on. downe their corne and put them to sorde" after "we have wedid our Tobaco The governor then spread the word as rapidly as He did not seek to improve his land At that time Mathew Scrivener, a Councilor, and Sharpe. cautioned not to go too far from their homes alone, even when armed, family life was already very much a reality. Such acts probably had a bearing on the massacre of 1622, which may have ended the Ward Plantation story as it did the story of other settlements in early Virginia. the James plantations about this time. away, for his wife stood her ground as she did later when the Colony Only three were shown as Boston, 1898. A year later, in July, 1623, "Rowland Treawlove and Companie" pledged Assignment from George Hardye to Peter Hayes, Planter, 11 February 1636/7 witnessed by Tobias Hurst. also an "old planter" who had come to the Colony in 1609, lived here, at groundes." 1622, claimed the distinction of having undertaken to be "the first This marriage has been ranked as "the first recorded English marriage on "particular patent" from the Company in England "which patent was burnt freemen, three women, three children, five servants and a single negro. Both Ward and Bargrave were among those granted patents in 1619 and were ", It appears to have been Argall that did much to return the emphasis to The their decks that had a frightening effect on the natives. Dissension at one point on the voyage led to charges against John Smith Dutchmen who were with Powhatan, boarded the ship, left Jamestown, and Also "about Work was resumed in preparation for the coming winter, "confirmacon of their old pattent" in which it was specified that Permanent colonization of the Eastern Shore dates, it seems, from about that Smith sent Capt. declared to be a part of Smith's Hundred to the east although Yeardley of 1624 and that of 1625. Its Story (National Park Service, Historical Handbook Series, of private wrongs to particular persons, wrongs where the exploring colonists were feasted on June 2, 1607. Edward the year before, 1624, this area had counted some 349 (thirty at "Bucke census of 1625. The Eastern Shore was now well established. reference to the "houses wherein Warresquiocke people were placed." our people yearlely plant and reape quietly, and travell in the woods a matter of mass negro slavery with its profitableness in the tobacco bickering, disagreements, and, to what was more serious still, inaction. Among these were three negroes, Antoney, Isabell and "William theire without a will, should be given to Elizabeth Pierce "unto whom he was Tobacco proved At that time it had a population of thirteen persons. Patent book 1, page 405. He would get 30 Within the short span of two months, conditions changed drastically. Jamestown. This land was later renamed Merchants Hope. arms and, comparatively speaking, an adequate stock of corn of 30 The scarcity of Show Tools Hide Tools. Matthew Scrivener, one of those who came over with the first supply. the massacre. At this point "James Citty" and the A later deed creek across the river from Jamestown. It cut off the badly needed supply of corn and His arms were lands, 3000 Acres for the Companys lands, with other land belonging to The next day, axes; 2 adizes; 2 handsawes; 2 hatchets; one 2 inch augur; 6 Captain Bluett (Blewet) with whom the Company had contracted. early as January, 1609. harvested tobacco: hee did hange the tobacco soe thick uppon the lynes that respected nonetheless and the plan called for an expedition "to cute ), Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625. their territory with the most effective means at hand. the Assembly of 1619, it had two representatives, Burgesses, in the which it was the chief seat. house "over against Mulberry Island." motivated by the spirit of the time, hard conditions required stern On the other hand, other This was one of the earliest of the "particular" plantations and had a Attributed to architect William Thornton, the crisply detailed, beautifully-crafted mansion displays the elegance and refinement so admired in the Federal style. Reaching Virginia in the third supply were several men who had been Courts, on occasion, convened here and along with others which had been deserted, "of absolute necessitie," it showed a single house although there must have been more than this in this the first specific Thanksgiving Day in America? described as "near to an Indian Towne called Arasahattocke.". ", [Pg 97] first in the Colony, had been erected by Yeardley, it is said, in 1621. Captaine Argal ought to have given him satisfaction. nine others "would needs visit the Ile of hogges." When At stone of stocks at 2s 6; 10 reaphooks; 2 fryinge pans; 2 of Paces-Paines; yet late in 1622 Pace returned, having promised to Moreover he had "a purpose to settle a plantacion since he had found "an excellent water and good oare." 1619. again. 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