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Samuel Jordan (died 1623) was an early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown. He arrived in Virginia around 1610, and served as a Burgess in the first representative legislative session in North America. Jordan patented a plantation which he called "Beggar's Bush", which later became known as Jordan's Journey.
Cecily Jordan Farrar was one of the earlier women settlers of colonial Jamestown, Virginia. She arrived in the colony as a child in 1610 and was established as one of the few female ancient planters by 1620. After her husband Samuel Jordan died in 1623, Cecily obtained oversight of his 450-acre plantation, Jordan's Journey. In the Jamestown ...
Died on Bermuda, c. 1609-1610 Stephen Hopkins: merchant and tanner Sea Venture: Protested leaving Bermuda, was almost executed for mutiny. [additional citation(s) needed] Died 1644. Elizabeth Joons: Girl Jones, E. Sea Venture: Probably aged 9 or 10 Samuel Jordan: Captain, gentleman Sea Venture [66] [additional citation(s) needed] Silvester Jourdain
August 9, 1610 De la Warr sends Percy with 70 colonists to attack the Paspahegh and Chickahominy villages, burning buildings, destroying crops, and killing up to 75 natives. This ignites the first of the Anglo-Powhatan Wars. June 19 1610: George Somers and Samuel Argall sail for Bermuda to gather wild hogs for Jamestown. [10]
Cecily Jordan (known in some accounts as Cecilia, Cecily or Sisselye) was born in 1600 and came to the Jamestown colony as a child aboard the ship Swan in 1610. [17] [18]: 97 Living in the household of William Farrar and Cecily Jordan at the time of Jamestown Muster was a female age 7, name of Temperance Baley . [19] [20]
True Reportory is the short-title of a 24,000 word early American colonial narrative, A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warre, Iuly 15. 1610. [1]
Opossunoquonuske (variant forms: Oppussoquionuske or Opposunoquonuske) (birthdate unknown – 1610) was a Weroansqua of an Appomattoc town near the mouth of the Appomattox River. [1] Weroansqua (or Weroance) is an Algonquian word meaning leader or commander among the Powhatan confederacy of Virginia coast and Chesapeake Bay region.
The Starving Time was an event that took place during years 1606–1610. It resulted from shortages of food, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors. The colonists struggled to maintain enough food to sustain themselves, putting them in dire nee