Henry Bagwell

Henry Bagwell
Birthdate:	October 29, 1589
Birthplace:	St Petrock, Exeter, Devonshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death:	February 11, 1660 (70) Northampton, Virginia Colony, British Colonial America
Place of Burial:	Northampton, VA, United States
Immediate Family:	Son of David Bagwell and Joan Bagwell Husband of Alice Chilcott Father of Rebecca Fisher; John Bagwell; Thomas Bagwell; Mary Stratton; Alice Bagwell and 4 others Brother of John or Andrew Bagwell; Elizabeth Bagwell; David "Davy" Bagwell and Dorothy Bagwell
Occupation:	Ancient Planter

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About Henry Bagwell

Arrived at Jamestown, VA, in May of 1610 on board the Deliverance, which, along with the Patience, was built with Bermudan cedar and recovered timber from the Sea Venture. The Sea Venture had blown off course by a storm in August 1609 as it lead a group of 8 other ships in the Third Supply of Jamestown. It wrecked off Bermuda and its passengers lived on Bermuda for ten months. Once the Deliverance and Patience were built, they sailed to Jamestown to find only 60 survivors there. This experience inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest. One of Henry's fellow passengers was John Rolfe, who would eventually marry Pocahantas.

sources: http://www.bermuda-online.org/sirgeorgesomers.htm http://prettyman.hoosierroots.com/getperson.php?pid=429

On the 1623 census of Jamestown:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/jamestown/census/1623cens.txt

Was a court official and sheriff in Accomack, VA.

source: http://books.google.com/books?ct=result&id=Rz_T29d4JU8C&dq=%2B%22he...

There are many other online sources about Henry.

Henry Bagwell was baptized October 29, 1589 at Saint Petrock’s Church at Exeter in Devon. In a deposition later given in 1633 he indicated he was from Devonshire or Somerset England. In June of 1609 he embarked on the flagship “Sea Venture” with a fleet of seven vessels and 500 to 600 new settlers intended to replenish the new settlement at Jamestown in Virginia. On July 24th, the fleet was caught in a tremendous hurricane, lasting several days. The seams of the new flagship were forced apart by the waves and the ship began taking on water, eventually taking nine feet in the hold. Intentionally running the vessel aground on the reef off Burmuda, the crew and settlers reached the shore, where they lived for a number of months. Eventually they constructed two smaller ships from timbers salvaged from the Sea Venture, and sailed on to the struggling settlement at Jamestown, where they arrived in May of 1610. Arriving there on the heels of the infamous “starving time” [from the winter of 1609 -1610], they found stores depleted, and in June, all the settlers abandoned Jamestown to sail back to England. Waiting for the tide to turn at the mouth of the James, they encountered the first wave of Lord De Le Warr’s relief expedition, on which everyone returned to Jamestown, which was to continue on.

By 1623 Henry Bagwell had moved a few miles upriver to West and Shirley Hundred, where he appears in local records. Around 1624, he patented fifty acres of land at Charles City County. By 1629, he had moved back down the James; and crossed the Bay, he settled in Accomack County, on the eastern shore. He served as a Member of the House of Burgesses in Jamestown, representing Accomack County in 1629-30 and in September of 1632, Henry served as the first clerk of the County Court in the County of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia from 1632 to 1640. On August 13th, Henry had 400 acres of land patented to him in Accomack County, on Old Plantation Creek and Johnny Boyes Branch, near William Berryman.

Before January 1st, 1636: Henry Bagwell married Alice (Hawkins) widow of Thomas Stratton; the bride was the daughter of William and Ann Hawkins, who was born after 1604 in England. Henry left no will, and the date of his death is not know, but records show title to his land passing to his eldest son. Alice Stratton Bagwell (born Hawkins) died prior to November 11, 1646.

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