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Through Fort Algernon and the Kecoughtan settlement, Hampton can claim to be the oldest continually occupied English-speaking settlement in the United States, by virtue of Jamestown (which usually claims this distinction) having been abandoned for two days in June 1610, [3] and also because after 1698, when the capital of the Virginia colony ...
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]
Kecoughtan (settled 1610) became part of the Town and later independent City of Hampton, though a nearby area incorporated as a town under the same name became part of the city of Newport News in 1926. Keyser Run became part of Shenandoah National Park; Kopp became part of Marine Corps Base Quantico
Captain Yeardley was co-commander of the early Forts Henry and Charles at Kecoughtan--present-day Hampton, Virginia. In October 1610, Lord De La Warr ordered Captain Yeardley and Captain Edward Brewster to lead 150 men into the mountains in search of silver and gold mines.
As the eldest son of the 2nd Baron De La Warr, Thomas West received his education at Queen's College, Oxford.He served in the English army under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and, in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against Queen Elizabeth I, but acquitted of those charges. [5]
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 ...
In June 1610, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr arrived in Jamestown and with a commission to serve as the colony's governor. De la Warr appointed Percy to the council and named him captain of the Jamestown fort. In August 1610, De la Warre sent Percy and seventy men to attack the Paspahegh and Chickahominy tribes. The force ravaged the tribal ...
1607 - April 30: European settlers arrived at Old Point Comfort and established settlement of Mill Creek (later Phoebus) just outside the Algonquin village of Kecoughtan; 1610 July 9 - European settlers permanently drove out the Native Americans from Kecoughtan. [1] Fort Algernon, Fort Charles, and Fort Henry were built. [2] St. John's Church ...