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Ancient Planters: Passengers of the Mary and Margaret 1608

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  • Capt. Raleigh Croshaw, Ancient Planter (c.1570 - bef.1624)
    Raleigh Croshaw (sometimes spelled Crashaw or Crowshaw) was born in 1584 in [Croshaw, Lancashire] England. He was the son of Joseph Croshaw (b.1561).>There is no documentation he was of Lancashire. Nor...
  • Capt. Thomas Graves, Gent. (c.1584 - 1635)
    From the Graves Family Association page covering ongoing research into the Graves family history: CAPT. THOMAS GRAVES OF VA, ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS WHAT IS KNOWN: Not only is Capt. Thomas...

The following entiries were obtained from my Hotten book 8a from the Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625 chapters, pages 201 thru 265, which liss the muster captain, and what ship the individual arrived on.

  1. Ellis, David, at muster at Pasbehaighs, James City, wife Margaret on the Margaret & John.
  2. Graves, Capt. Thomas, 1607 voyage, muster at Eastern Shore.
  3. Laydon, Elizabeth, 1608 voyage, aged 30 at muster, Elizabeth City, wife of John on the 1606 Susan.
  4. Taylor, Richard, Sept 1608 voyage, 50 at muster at Neck of the Land, Charles City, with one servant. Wife Dorothy was on the London Merchant.
  5. Anne Burras, maid to Margaret (Martha) Forrest, formerly Margaret Foxe

Other passengers who arrived on the Mary and Margaret, 1608

Also arriving in 1608 was William Volday/Wilhelm Waldi, a Swiss German mineral prospector per http://www.germanheritage.com/Publications/Jamestown/first.html