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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 ...
Sir Thomas Dale (c. 1570 – 19 August 1619) was an English soldier and colonial administrator who served as deputy-governor of the Colony of Virginia in 1611 and again from 1614 to 1616. Dale is best remembered for the energy and the extreme rigour of his administration in Virginia, which established order and in various ways seems to have ...
This is a list of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1619 to 1775 from the references listed at the end of the article. The members of the first assembly in 1619, the members of the last assembly in 1775 and the Speakers of the House are designated by footnotes.
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.
[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).
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]
[2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2] His parents were servants to Mary and Captain William Tucker, who was an envoy to the Pamunkey Native Americans for the colony. [2] [a] The Tucker plantation was located at or near the current site of Bluebird Gap Farm in Hampton. [7]
A 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story building of brick laid in Flemish bond. An L-shaped house with a center stair hall, and two flanking rooms in the long arm and a subsidiary stair hall and another room in the wing. Toddsbury is a 17th-century house with 18th-century additions. The land was patented by Thomas Todd in 1657 but later went to the Tabb family.