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 i...

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Capt. Peirce came to Virginia in 1609 on the ill-fated Sea Venture with Capt. Gates. Jone Pierce, his wife, and children : William, Jone, and Thomas, came to Virginia in 1611 on the Blessing. Jone al...

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Edward Waters started out for Virginia with the Third Supply flotilla out of Falmouth in 1609, aboard the Sea Venture (found on passenger list). He had an adventurous time of it: "Thirty two people f...

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Additional Curator's Notes It is extremely important when working with the Proctor immigrants to Virginia and Massachusetts to trace the line back to England as well as forward to the Colonies. ALL o...

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Samuel Jordan, born in England, arrived in America in 1610 after a 14-month journey. The ship had been wrecked on an island in the Bermudas where nine months of hard labor were spent building a new ves...

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The Third Supply was the "Sea Venture" (also called the Seaventure or Sea Adventure) sailed as part of a flotilla of nine ships commanded by Admiral Sir George Somers. Intended destination was Jamest...

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Temperance Flowerdew is documented as a wife of Governor Sir George Yeardley. Alice Bradley and Sarah NN are not. Sir George Yeardley (1587 - 1627) was a plantation owner and three time colonial Gove...

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Virginia immigrants and adventurers, 1607-1635: a biographical dictionary By Martha W. McCartney; pg. 271. Edward Eason and pregnant wife were aboard the Sea Venture, bound for Virginia Colony, in 16...

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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate ... By Lorri Glover, Daniel Blake Smith The wives of Rolfe, Horton and Eason were identified only by their relationship to t...

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Virginia immigrants and adventurers, 1607-1635: a biographical dictionary By Martha W. McCartney. pg. 271: Lists Edward Eason and pregnant wife as new colonists aboard the Sea Venture. While stranded o...

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Rolfe, John 1585 – He was born this year in Norfolk, England. At the time, Spain held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade within Europe. Most Spanish colonies in the New World were loca...

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Curator Note: Capt. Christopher Newport was married three times, to Katherine Proctor, Ellen Ade and Elizabeth Glanfield. He had four children -- Christopher, Jane, John and Elizabeth. Contrary to po...

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1. Stephen Hopkins was christened in Apr 1581 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England. He died on 6 Jun 1644 in Plymouth, MA. Stephen married (1) Mary in 1604. Mary died in 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire...

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Thomas Gates Sir Thomas Gates (fl. 1585–1621), followed George Percy as governor of Jamestown, the English colony of Virginia (now the Commonwealth of Virginia, part of the United States of America...

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Bucke may have returned to England at least once. It is possible that his wife died and that he remarried, perhaps to a woman named Bridget. Bucke had three sons and one daughter born in Virginia betwe...

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Daughter Elizabeth married Jamestown burgess Thomas Crumpe, who patented 750 acres between the James City Parish glebe and Powhatan Creek, directly above the Buck patent. Later he became burgess for th...

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Richard Buck sailed June 1609 with wife, Miss Langley and four Buck children. Marooned for 9 months embarked for Virginia from Bermuda 10 May 1610. Arrived in Jamestown 21 May 1610. He was a minister...

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Curator's note: While many sources will list Bridget Bucke as the daughter of Rev. Thomas Bucke, the math doesn't work. Thomas would have been a father at 13 and would not have become a scholarship stu...

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Richard Bucke was an Anglican minister who came to Jamestown in 1610, performed the marriage ceremony for Pocahontas and John Rolfe in 1614, and in 1619 opened with prayer the first legislative assembl...

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