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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 ...
Thomas Todd (January 23, 1765 – February 7, 1826) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia , he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky , where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice.
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.
As a boy, he was considered one of the captain's 17 servants. [2] Elizabeth City County, Virginia was established in 1634, reportedly with the support of William's parents. It is now Hampton, Virginia [2] His parents were freed around 1635 (when William was about 10 or 11 years of age) and they established a farm in Kent County, Virginia. [3]
Local court records revealed, that he was the brother of Andrew Stone and Captain John Stone, who had been trading, on the Eastern Shore, since 1626. By 1634, William Stone had become a commissioner of the county court. Sometime, prior to February 1636, he married Verlinda Graves, the daughter of Captain Thomas Graves. William went on to become ...
One historian has noted two men who may have been his sons, or distantly or unrelated. Several years after this man's death, in 1655, Thomas Peirce lived on Mulberry Island in Warwick County, who may have been the same Thomas Peirce who in March 1676 patented 1655 acres on Mulberry Island. This William Peirce had patented land on Mulberry ...
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]
In November, Powhatan ambushed and killed Captain John Ratcliffe and 32 other colonists, who had gone to Orapax to buy corn, and the colonists began to starve to death. [5] After being shipwrecked on Bermuda for nearly a year, Thomas Gates finally arrived in late May 1610 with meager and insufficient supplies. Gates saw the state that the ...