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[2] On February 8, 1627, Captain Francis West, Governor of Virginia, ordered that Thomas Graves have a commission to command the Plantation at Accomac. Graves was the second Commander. As an "ancient planter" he received one of the first patents there on March 14, 1628, consisting of 200 acres (0.81 km 2).
The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
Captain, sergeant-major Lion: Thomas Whittingham ️ Cape merchant (treasurer) [78] Sea Venture → pinnace (ship's boat) Lost at sea (or killed by Native Americans) after sailing a pinnace (with Henry Ravens) for help after marooning on Bermuda, 1609 [78] Thomas Wood [79] Captain Unitie: George Yeardley: Captain of the guard for Thomas Gates ...
Thomas Yale was born in New Haven Colony around 1647, to Mary Turner and Capt. Thomas Yale, members of the Yale family, and future namesake of Yale College. [1] [2] [3] His father was one of the cofounders of New Haven Colony with his step-grandfather, Gov. Theophilus Eaton, the colony's first governor, and his step-grand uncle, minister Samuel Eaton.
While back England, Thompson came to know Squanto and Thompson sailed with Captain Thomas Dermer and Squanto to back to New England in 1619. [6] Thompson helped rescue a stranded Native American boy on the Isle of Shoals during his 1619 trip, and the boy was given to Thompson as a servant by the local sachem. [6]
The settlement was abandoned after the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. [2] The area is now called Sandy Point in Charles City County, Virginia . The first General Assembly (which became the House of Burgesses ) in 1619 included two representatives for Smythe's Hundred Plantation: Captain Thomas Graves and Walter Shelley .
Capt Jim Kittrell told Alabama’s 93.1 radio station that this wasn’t the first time he had encountered the group. “This is the same group that comes every year. They’re from Selma.
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]