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Jamestowne Society is an organization founded in 1936 by George Craghead Gregory for descendants of stockholders in the Virginia Company of London and the descendants of those who owned land or who had domiciles in Jamestown or on Jamestown Island prior to the year 1700. Their website: Please add Geni profiles of qualifying ancestors to this project. You may wish, additionally, to tag profi...
==Jones Families of Virginia== A disambiguation project. Any are welcome to join, resources material especially appreciated. The profiles attached as children of* NN Jones and Jones were NOT the children of Col. Robert Jones, of Northumberland and Elizabeth Jones Or the children of Elizabeth Jones and Col. Robert Jones, of Northumberland Or the children of Sheriff Maj. Peter Batte Jones, III an...
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 ...
Highlanders and Lowlanders The Scots are not to be confused with the Scotch-Irish, who were Ulster Irish and emigrated from Ireland Scotch-Irish Americans and not in not this Project - We are tracing our ancestors who were born in Scotland and emigrated directly from Scotland to the American Colonies, Canada, and Jamaica. Large-scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after ...
Bacon's Rebellion Please add Geni profiles of the participants of this conflict to the project. Date: 1676 Location: Jamestown, Colony of Virginia Goals: Indian policy Methods: Demonstrations, vigilantes Parties to the civil conflict: Colonial settlers, Royal Colonial Governor Lead figures: Nathaniel Bacon, William Berkeley Deaths: 23 hanged[1] Injuries: Arrests: Deaths: Injuri...
Berkeley Hundred in the Virginia Colony comprised about eight thousand acres (32 km²) on the north bank of the James River near Herring Creek in an area then known as Charles Cittie (sic). In 1619, Berkeley Hundred was the site of America's first Thanksgiving Day. It later became known as Berkeley Plantation, and was long the traditional home of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of...
4 July 1635 “The under-written names are to be transported to Virginea imbarqued in the Transport of London Edward Walker, master. Certificate from the Minister of Gravesend of their conformitie to the orders & discipline of the Church of England." Alphabetical order:# Adams Andrew 18# Anderson Richard 17# Anley Nathan 28# Armstrong Henry 22# Arp Jo 19# Ashon George 22# Atkinson Richard 21# Bak...
==Tobacco brides >In 1619, 90 young single women from England went to Jamestown to become wives of the men there, with the women being auctioned off for 150 pounds of tobacco each (to be paid to the shipping company), as that was the cost of each woman's travel to America.[1] All 90 of them did indeed become wives.[2] The youngest, Jane Dier, had been fifteen or sixteen years old when she left,...