Gov. William Harwood

Governor of the Martin's Hundred settlement.

Children seen as Joseph Harwood, Sr. but dates seem off.

William Harwood came to America from England aboard the ship the "Francis Bonaventure" in August of 1620 and was promptly appointed to the colony called Martin's One Hundred. He was referred to as the "Governor and was appointed to the colony's governing council.

This settlement was a thriving settlement located on 20,000 acres. In 1622 it was almost totally wiped out by the Indians of Tidewater, Virginia. They had risen against the English, killing the settlers and buring their houses and crops. In Martins One Hundred, 78 people were killed, the highest death toll anywhee. William Harwood was not killed in the Indian attack as there are court records of him at Martin's One hundred in 1629. It is possible he was in England on business when the attack occurred.Martin's One Hundred was discovered by excavation in 1970 when archeologist at Colonial Williamsburg were directing an excavation on the James River in conjunction with the restoration of Carters Grove.

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1. The THURLBY-JAMESTOWN line of immigrant GOV. WILLIAM HARWOOD (c. 1598 -- aft. 1628), who sailed from England in August 1620 on the Francis Bonaventure to Jamestown, VA. There he became chief of Martin's Hundred Colony, survived the Good Friday Indian Massacre of 1622, and founded the Charles City line of numerous Harwood descendants in VA, NC, TN and other places.

Gov. William's brother, CAPT. THOMAS HARWOOD (c. 1603 London - c. 1652 Warwick Co. VA), sailed to VA in 1622 on the Margaret and John, married GRACE c. 1623, led expeditions in 1627 to protect the settlers from Indians, and founded the Warwick Co. Harwood line. Capt. Thomas Harwood's grandson William in 1769 built the historic Harwood Plantation now called Endview and located at Newport News, VA. We would very much like to have a test from a descendant of either Gov. William or Capt. Thomas to verify this line back to Thurlby.

Governor of Martin's Hundred colony. Member of Jamestown's governing council. Arrived in America in 1620.

References

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWCK-8NY : 24 March 2020), Willm Harwood, christened 27 Aug 1589, Waddington. ??
• http://hdhdata.org/cgi-bin/showpage.pl?d2557&f00004 (dead link) (no children listed)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%27s_Hundred “Martin's Hundred was one of the subsidiary "particular" plantations of the joint-stock Virginia Company of London. It was owned by a group of investors known as The Society of Martin's Hundred, named for Richard Martin, recorder of the City of London,[1] (not to be confused with his near-contemporary Richard Martin who was the father of Jamestown councilor John Martin).[2] Sir John Wolstenholme was among its investors. William Harwood was governor of Martin's Hundred settlement. The administrative center of Martin's Hundred (hundred defined a subdivision of an English county) was Wolstenholme Towne, a fortified settlement of rough cabins.”
• https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/crgis/images/9/9b/1974-06-23_Daily_Press... his wife Elinor came to Virginia in 1634, but remained in America only for a short duration.
• http://www.jamestowne.org/1623-lists-of-living--dead.html
• ‪Discoveries in Martin's Hundred‬ ‪Ivor Noël Hume‬, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1983 - History - 64 pages. Excavations on the site of Martin's Hundred revealed the remains of one of English America's earliest settlements and a spectacular trove of artifacts.‬ GoogleBooks
• “The First Seventeen Years: Virginia, 1607-1624” By Charles E. Hatch. Page 106. GoogleBooks
• https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/vajames.html#carter Wolstenholme Towne (1619 - 1622), Carter's Grove A trapezoidal palisaded fort, about 93 by 130 feet, was located at the main village of Martin's Hundred Plantation (aka Martin's Hundred Fort), named after Richard Martin, attorney for the Virginia Company; and Sir John Wolstenholme, an investor of the company. A watchtower was in the southeast corner, a one-gun bastion in the southwest corner, and a possible bastion in the northwest corner. Most of the settlers were killed in the March 1622 Indian raids along the James River. Excavated from 1976 - 1980, with artifacts at the Winthrop Rockefeller Archaeology Museum. A modern reconstruction on site was operated by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, located on the grounds of Carter's Grove Plantation. (NOTE: Carter's Grove was permanently closed to the public in 2003 and put on the market for private sale. The reconstructed fort was soonafter demolished.) John Boise's Fort, a palisaded house with a swivel gun, was located about 600 feet downriver from the main fort.
• https://nautarch.tamu.edu/class/313/pipes/new_clues_hume.pdf
• ” Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Volume 51” By Arthur Roland Maddison. Page 458. “Harewood of Thurlby.” GoogleBooks
• ”The Visitation of London: Anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635. Made ..., Volume 15”. By Henry St. George, Sir Henry Saint-George. Page 349. “Harewood.” GoogleBooks
• Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary By Martha W. McCartney GoogleBooks William Harwood returned to England 1635. No children noted.
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/106727244/person/3...