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The area and the parish has since been continuously occupied. Renamed St. John's Episcopal Church in 1830, the parish is the oldest English-speaking parish in the US today. The current church, constructed in 1728, is the fourth built for the parish. [2] Kecoughtan became part of Elizabeth River Shire in 1634, and Elizabeth City County in 1637.
William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]
On June 20, 1619, he was elected to represent Kecoughtan for the first General Assembly of Virginia. [8] He was a member of the Colony of Virginia in 1620. [7] In 1623 and 1634, Tucker was a member of the House of Burgesses. Called Captain William Tucker, he was an envoy to the Pamunkey Native Americans for the colony. [7] [9]
Elizabeth Cittie, known initially as Kecoughtan (a Native word with many variations in spelling by the English), also included the areas now known as South Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore. In 1634, a local government system was created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King of England.
Elizabeth City was originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kecoughtan [1] and Kikowtan), presumably a word for the Native Americans living there when the English arrived in 1607. They were friendly to the English, but Sir Thomas Gates either worried about safety (including potential attack by the Spaniards and the Dutch) or coveted their corn ...
William Capps settled at Kecoughtan on the west side of the Hampton River. This site is in present-day Hampton, Virginia, and is opposite of the grounds of Hampton Institute. There is a street called "Capps Quarters" [5] in this area that is almost certainly part of William Capps' original tract of land. A Virginia historical marker is posted ...
By 1610, the English colonists had established a permanent settlement in the Kecoughtan area of what was to become Elizabeth River Shire. Now located within the corporate limits of the independent city of Hampton, Virginia , it is the oldest known continuously occupied English settlement in North America.
In 1610, Sir Thomas Gates took possession of a nearby Native American village which became known as Kecoughtan. In 1619, the area of Newport News was included in one of four huge corporations of the Virginia Company of London , and became known as Elizabeth Cittie , which extended west all the way to Skiffe's Creek (currently the border between ...