John Lightfoot

JOHN LIGHTFOOT, b. abt. 1580, Eng; d. 1628/19; marr. UNKown; ISSUE: 1. Alice Notes for John & Alice Lightfoot: 1) 21 Jan 1628/29, General Court, probate of nuncupative Will of John Lightfoote (who owned land adjoining William Spencer in James City Island). Nicholas Spencer (brother of William) testified that about three hours before John Lightfoote died he called for William Spencer, who came, and Lightfoote gave William Spencer his whole estate. Nicholas Atwell and Edward Willoth also testified. Nicholas Atwell testified that William Spencer had asked John Lightfoot whether he had any friends or brothers in England on whom he wished to bestow anything and John Lightfoot replied, "No, I will give you my whole estate." [Note: It is assumed by this that William Spencer was John Lightfoot's only relative he wished to bestow any part of his estate; thus making William Spencer's wife Alice a 'relative' of Lightfoot's. Alice appears to have been in VA before 1620 and could have been the daughter of John Lightfoot, or perhaps (less likely) a younger sister.] Source: "Southern Colonial Families", Vol. 2,

2) "John Lytefoote, Ancient Planter, came over in the ship "Sea Venture" with Sir Thomas Gates, and the "third supply" in 1609. After spending a couple of years in Bermuda building new ships from the lumber of the wrecked "Sea Venture", John Lytefoote and his companions arrived in Jamestown in 1610 on Ship "Patience." John Lytefoote was listed in the 1624 tax list of James City County, Virginia.

3) 1624, Aug 14 John Lytefoote obtained 12 acres on Jamestown Island and was a neighbor of WILLIAM SPENCER (LVA Patent 1, p.10)

4) Alice Lightfoot, Immigrant in 1609, Ship "Patience" Source: Jamestown, Southern Virginia Counties ... by Mary Louise Donnelly, Page 10

5) "Of those send under the royal charter in 1609-1615: John Lightfoot, William Spencer et al (p. 613); "Private Lands. There were many parcels of land granted on Jamestown Island & lots in town: John Lightfoot, William Spenser, et al (p. 621) [Source: "The First Republic in America", by Alexander Brown (google ebook)

• http://www.coveytrees.com/LightfootTree.pdf
• jamestown muster Name Muster Status Location Corporation Age Ship Date of Arrival Muster Date Notes John Lightfoot Hamor Raph Capt servant James Citty James Citty Seaventure not given 24 January 1624/5

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XXX. CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS: ANCIENT PLANTERS: INTRODUCTION

The following list includes those who are known to have come to Virginia before the close of the year 1616, survived the massacre, appear in the Muster of 1624/5 as then living in Virginia, and to most of whom the term "Ancient Planter" may with justification be applied....

John Lytefoote, of James City, Yeoman "who came in the Seaventure with Sir Thomas Gates," patent, Aug. 14, 1624, p. 5. He left his estate to Wm. Spencer by a noncupative will, see JCGC*, Jan. 21, 1628/9.

• Journal of the Council and General Court

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1 Part I; Pg 3

JOHN LYTEFOOTE, 12 acres, Aug. 14, 1624, Page 10. An old planter who came over in the Sea Venture with Sir Thomas Gates "and hath abode hitherto in this country." Within the island of James City, towards Goose Hill, near the land of Wm. Spencer. Being part of his first devident of 100 acs. measured by Wm. Clayborne. Fee Rent: 3 pence.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/statewide/history/other/abstract25...

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"Colonial Virginia, its People and Customs", by Mary Newton Stanard.
J. B. Lippincott Co., 1917

II— THE LATER EMIGRANTS The Census of 1624-25 forms a good starting point for a study of the classes of emigrants to Virginia, for by that time the colony had assumed, in a rudimentary way, its later form.

The Census shows many names of men long afterward active in colonial affairs. There were then in Virginia six hundred and eight free people, four hundred and fifty- seven white servants, and twenty-three negroes….

…While no doubt very many of the servants named in this Census were laborers and menials, it is plain that many others were of a different grade from those brought over later. On account of the small amount of land which could be cultivated in Virginia there was not in the early days that intense desire for labor which later caused numerous examples of kidnapping in England and the shipping to the colony of people gathered up in the streets of London.

Among the thirty servants of whom a little is known were…. …JOHN LIGHTFOOT (not ancestor of the later family of the name), who must have been a hired and not an indentured servant, as in a grant of land to him in 1625 he is described as "an ancient planter who came in the time of Sir Thomas Dale "

http://archive.org/stream/colonialvirginia00stanuoft/colonialvirgin...

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No known connection to John and Phillip Lightfoot, brothers, who came to Virginia in 1670.

This man is sometimes confused with their father, Hon. John Lightfoot (1596-1648), son of Rev. Richard Lightfoot. However, this cannot be the same man.

The Hon. John Lightfoot was 13 years old in 1609, an unlikely age for a passenger on the Sea Venture with no accompanying parents. He is documented as living in England at the time the other John Lightfoot was living in Virginia: he graduated from Lincoln's College, Oxford in 1615 and was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1617. The Hon. John Lightfoot died in London c1648 (his will was proved 24 March, 1648).

Hon. John L. Lightfoot, Mariner