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Please add Geni profiles for early arrivers to the area of Virginia that became Isle of Wight, Virginia in 1634. Although officially to be known as Isle of Wight Plantation, the area continued under its old indian name for a good many years. What is certain is the total uncertainty of the English over the spelling of the word, 'Warraskoyak', which is in itself a phonetic spelling of the Indian ...
Walter Harris, Mary Fry and 6 children and 3 servants came on the Speedwell in 1637.Genealogy Data Page 1657 (Family Pages)Note: Walter Harris's English origins are unknown. But he sailed from Weymouth on Apr 22 1637 with "his wife, six children and three servants" on the ship Speedwell This would indicate that he came from a relatively prosperous background.He was made a freeman of the colony ...
Hector , England to Massachussets 1637From Ship Passenger Lists by Carl Boyer referencing a previous work by Isabel MacBeath Calder entitled Passengers on the Hector, 1637-38, The New Haven Colony pp. 29-31.The following is the passenger list for the vessel Hector, which brought the passengers accompanying John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton to Connecticut in 1637. There is another ship called ...