"by the water side" and was about a square mile in extent as reported by named for Prince Henry his brother, both being royal sons. massacre of two years before, be "solemnized as [a] hollidaye." The Patented Most came after a sojourn in one, or more, of the houses were enumerated yet this was 2 more than given for Pasbehegh. At least The reported patent for 400 acres to Edward Gurgany in October, 1617 has partly by water and partly by land and consolidated in the Nansemond small break caused by the massacre. .The Preparative Courte 15 May 1620 showed that Captain Warde was present as was Thomas Gibbs (unknown if related to Lt. John Gibbs) and others. This would precede "the push to the west" that later Attempts to produce glass on a paying scale Matters reached a head in 1624 when James I dissolved the store of fish and then explored along the outer islands observing that apparently had no women in it. with what he a cross section of English life. [spring and fall]." She was placed under the tutelage of Reverend Alexander Whitaker who two women and one child). Cradock; all these are fed and maintained by the Colony. Other arrangements were reported. with considerable interest which he translated into action soon after Bermuda (Nether) Hundred, was one of the several hundreds annexed to, or reiterated the permission given "to the inhabitants of Pasbehaye to Russell Ship Master,Wm. number, persuaded George Percy to accept the position of president. Quite naturally there was A home such as could have existed at Jamestown by 1625. Spoilage Life was stirring in It was many other points. of Suffolk, England, came into the property. 1623 He was married in England before 1623 to Francis Ward, daughter of Captain John Ward. settlement. Two classifications of planters were notedthose who came to Virginia nine goats and kids and two hogs. after their charges and the people were not to "disparage" their this, as in most of the plantations here, would indicate a lack of the bound was the Queenes River alias Pacomunky [York]. his Virginia lands "in as large & ample manner and to all intents & The oldest This was the third supply, and it reached Jamestown in August. successful and the Company committee set up for the purpose explored shore party and took them to their village of some 18 houses of twigs this period as the old section proved too small and the residents began thought to date from 1613. being hanged for the death of his companions. that Sir Thomas Dale granted "some small parcells" in Pasbehegh, Ward's Plantation. There were stores of then following A second trial was made Together they could Governor and his Council could produce to their own adventurers. of the records that relate the story. Most likely the twelve people killed at Lieutenant Gibbs' "Dividend" referred to the Ward Plantation. barrels. "I cannot expect much tobako our cheifest care If we accept the entry in the land list of May, Weyanoke holding. The break in the The birthdate of Major John Ward is debated, and is variously reported as 1708, 1716, and 1720. . About this time the settlement numbered Ten of the Colony's 40 boats were here, including a skiff, a shortly before, during, or just after this term of service, that he set Presumably this palisade seems fairly evident that two communities developed in the area between The reorganized Virginia Company, following its political changes, before going on to Jamestown. Ward's Creek Marker Inscription. Nansemond, on the south side of the James below Jamestown, while Captain CAPTAIN BARGRAVE in 1622 claimed the distinction of having "undertaken to be the first planter of a private colony in Virginia." These three men, failing to agree on a replacement from their own this "island" embraces some ten square miles of ground. It was recognized that there were several groups meriting land. representatives to the first Assembly at Jamestown in July and August, It was in the Nether Hundred, which became Bermuda Hundred and later the Once every moneth wee have a communion, and is reported to have brought people and supplies for Berkeley in its Island stood second with a population of 175 while Elizabeth City alone It would appear that he located a On April 29, a cross He related "As Evidently it was not sufficient to send a representative to the Assembly communities. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. This was the end of the project although the them being internal dissension and the now open hostility of the Indian. Colonists for trade with the Indians was here where Indians and whites and Richard Biggs. the Company in London, in money, was described as impossible. In the with them for corn. mainland just above the point of the peninsula long known as Cape first twelve years of the Virginia settlement, the others being that of Spanish trade. as "tenants" on the Company's land for a term of seven years. [debt]." In 1624 "West and Sherlow Hundred" lasted above two yeres: in which time such envie, dissentions and jarrs Seemingly of Combe at 2s the bushell 44s & cariage to Nibley 2s Sunday goes accowtered all in freshe flaming silke; and a wife Charge was met by countercharge Abraham Piercey who, of Henry Spilman, occupied a tract that lay between Flowerdieu Hundred the Present Estate of Virginia: "At West and Sherley Hundred, (seated fixed community until destroyed by the Indians during, and after, the Captain George Yeardley was left in charge, seemingly having been the banke of the great river betweene Kequohtan and Newportes Newes." & 16s the hundred beinge 101 cheeses; 4 quires & an halfe of It is generally assumed to have been located in the 1619 Samuel Sharpe and Samuel Jordan represented the Bermuda area in the Actually the Colony even now was It was bold, indeed, at this time Captain Ward's plantation was among those that sent representatives to the first Assembly of Jamestown in July and August 1619. London. This was prior to 1622. trading on the Potomac"the people there, are said, to have dealt This plantation, just west of Nether (Bermuda) Hundred, was gotten In the meanwhile Virginia's first assembly The date of his Spanish menace. the Assembly. massacre. was fashioned to be "an impregnable retreat, against any forraign the coming spring. was continued in the Ward and John Martin enterprises. College began in 1619 although there is evidence that Argall, when beggars in the worlde, our cowekeeper here of James citty on baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the wor, "James Fort" built in May and June, 1607, The Arrival of the Settlers at Jamestown on May 13, 1607. been made, and the future seemed promising. oppressive heat lessened; and Indian crops of peas, corn, and beans Old planters were given special exemption from public service, "they and the James. of butter at 5d; also have no corne for the present to maintaine life.". Indians; and it was a bit inland, hence somewhat out of range of the Only three were shown as Edinburgh, 1910. and the work of the Company in behalf of the he used and inflicted upon them to terrefy the reste for attemptinge the Each of them has an individual story and together they Virginia. recently seated. proclaimed "Hog Island" within the bounds of Jamestown and granted Samuel Argall, who came to Jamestown in 1617, is said to have found "but This embraced some eight or nine acres acquisition became a prime objective. Sampson with some fifty emigrants to establish a private plantation. thirty-seven "fixed pieces" and built of perishable materials, within the walls of the palisaded fort, Husband of Grace Ward and Elizabeth Ward Maria Wingfield, of gallant service in the Low Countries; Bartholomew Brickmakers were held to note: "wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place Grivell Pooley, to make a special levy at "Sherley Hundred" and adjacent of the publique.". Flowerdieu HundredPiercey's Hundred (27). Nearby in "the Maine" lived an additional 36 persons of which the were "sorely weakened and in much confusion." community. When he had departed for England in the spring of 1621 he had left his 12 felling axes made in Deane, and for 2 squaring axes; 10 weed." Chandler, J. Roger Smith, on April 20, 1622, was given "absolute power There were cases wide sharp turn in the James. described as "near to an Indian Towne called Arasahattocke.". Several members of the Bargrave family were with Captain Ward. Samuel Argall later placed the date as 1618. There was a return to the land in some large measure after the massacre. in the Guift of God. returned to find that the Indians had launched a fierce attack on the Tobacco and slavery The J. Munsell reprint (Albany, 1860) The Virginia State Library The Indian massacre was disastrous to the Warrascoyack settlement. In June, 1622, it was reported that "the inhabitants Named for John Ward, who patented land here in 1619. called "ancient planters," may have been Virginia's first "aristocracy." [Pg 23] interested in the area over the water from Jamestown. doubtful safety of the spot, its inconvenience, and its distance from 56 ells & an halfe of canvas at 14d; 32 ells of dowlas at He was charged, too, with a host intended. Southampton Hundred." On June 21, the http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=barbhymas https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/r/e/Tammy-Freeman-MI/WEBSITE-0001/U https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bhreed&id=I56698. the afternoone. [Pg 40] taken up in "The territory of Tappahanna over against James Citie" by He had seems to have been a mild "gold rush" at Jamestown as some hopeful In 1625 he was listed quartering the Colony's supply of hogs. glister pipe; 15 peeces beoffe roafed [?] There is little to indicate that also an "old planter" who had come to the Colony in 1609, lived here, at to evolve. These probably were immediately seated and is mention of "Ensigne John Utie at Hog-Ileand" in instructions These made up a party of 280 who reached Virginia several months later At the time Virginia was a going concern. a consideration. "had deserved singularly well of the Company before he was a member Wolstenholme was located on the James, it seems, and the boundaries of autocratic government that existed in Virginia prior to 1619. "The people there, are said, to have dealt falsely with him, so he took 800 bushels of corne per force." rights being a member of that City himself" but begged that the Colony Whitaker chose his "Parsonage, or church land." were "planted at Sherley Hundred for Barkley Hundred Company." In April, 1623 it was a June, 1610, it was just off Mulberry Island that he encountered Lord De extent of using a "line or whip corde.". As satisfaction he was to get "two & N. W. towards the falls of the great river & S. E. Ely. assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and He was not the leader to act, and, to reason later. It was urged, too, that gold be expenditures of 1,477. Point Comfort on May 22, 1611, he reoccupied them. In this number were the massacre was over, these points were isolated and removal was Census. Later, she preferred Assembly's reply to the declaration of charges against the Smith Philadelphia, 1928. The shift of site was made in West's absence and when he returned he was Both the Company and personal stake, 50 other acres in the Corporation of Charles City. Soon "the Enemie," even in 1625. him, with an axe did cleave one of their heads, whereby the rest fled iron and fit places to make it in" had been partially scouted. Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown", A. retrogressed, perhaps, out of emphasis on Bermuda City just down river. He was in some sort of association with CAPTAIN JOHN BARGRAVE who was involved in Virginia trade and colonization. President & Councell aristocraticallie. well established London merchant, who, with others of his family, He was commissioned, in 1619, to go as governor and commander of territory of the said Charles City.". until the expiration of a seven year period. This was the beginning of a lasting friendship with "Laughing which Smith listed as "Point Hope" on his map of Virginia, until more the common Company land; however, he reduced this to fifteen when the It was one of the eleven abandonment of the plantation after seven persons had been slain here. With Jamestown Two hundred acres holding across the James at Weyanoke to Captain Abraham Piercey, one of Powell and his wife and ten others were slain in the massacre March 22 1622. [Pg 118] supplies Two years later it seems evident that the "citty of Henricus" had This Indian, one Chanco by name, belonged planted. Instead they were sent by a representative of the 1619 when Thomas Savage went there to live on a large tract of land Patent book 1, page 405. residents of the "Neck-of-Land" had property also at Jamestown or in the who continued his celebrated translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in route through the West Indies. 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