Download or read book The Descendants of Four Members of the First Colony of Virginia in 1609 written by Francis Campbell Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Seventeen Years written by Charles E. Hatch and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A permanent settlement was the objective. Support, financial and popular, came from a cross section of English life. It seems obvious from accounts and papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was being settled for the glory of God, for the honor of the King, for the welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its individual members.
Download or read book James Watkins and His Descendants written by William A. Hinson and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Size 8 1/2" x 11" Softback Book - "James Watkins And His Descendants" by William A. Hinson, copyright 2017. James Watkins (1565-1623) the son of Francis Watkins (1535-1571) and Elizabeth Lee Watkins (1543- ) a carpenter & soldier, in Talgarth, Breconshire (Brecknockshire), Wales, arrived on HMS "Phoenix" to the Colony of Virginia last from London, England on April 20, 1608. James Watkins name is on the list of passengers on the first supply ship arriving at Jamestown on April 20, 1608. He is listed as a laborer. His name does not appear in the 1623 census list. As a soldier, James Watkins is mentioned on two occasions. First, in June of the same year of his arrival, he accompanied Captain John Smith on his first expedition up the Potomac River. Second, while on Captain Smith's second expedition along the Rappahannock River, Smith's group were threatened by Indians on shore. At that time, an Indian who was being held hostage on the ship jumped overboard in an attempt to escape. James, who had been told to guard the hostage, shot the Indian. It does not state whether he killed the Indian or not, but, it appears that he did.Captain John Smith founder of the Jamestown colony in 1607. Smith named Watkins Point (near Jamestown on the Eastern Shore) for James Watkins who accompanied him on his expedition, which was in 1608. He was a member of the first surveying party of Captain John Smith, of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. There is a statue of James Watkins located at the original site of the Jamestown Fort, listing dates and his occupation as a carpenter.National Park Service Historical Narrative: 1624...John Smith's First Chesapeake Bay Voyage. Smith selected fourteen companions for his first voyage, probably for their skills. James Watkins and Anas Todkill were soldiers. On June 17, an ambush, however, with several hundred men emerging from the woods to shoot arrows at the Englishmen,...agreed to anexchange of hostages. Soldier James Watkins was given up to the Native men, and a parlefollowed. Smith's Second Chesapeake Bay Voyage, Smith reduced the number of men from fourteen to twelve, and soldiers James Watkins and Anas Todkill,...also joined the second."Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (1624) ...Many bravadoes they made, but to appease their fury our captain prepared with as seeming a willingness (as they) to encounter them. But the grazing of our bullets upon the water (many being shot on purpose they might see them) with the echo of the woods so amazed them asdown went their bows and arrows; and exchanging hostages, James Watkins was sent six miles up the woods to their king's habitation. We were kindly used of those savages of whom we understood they were commanded to betray us, by the direction of Powhatan; and he so directed from the discontented at Jamestown because our captain did cause them stay in their country against their wills..."This book is about James Watkins and his many descendants who built a new life in a new world. The book contains many stories and photos of his descendants, as well as many Civil War documents and history. Many of James Watkins' descendants married into Native American relationships during those early years in Virginia and North Carolina. This book will be a treasure for anyone interested in the early history and descendants of the Watkins family of Virginia and North Carolina.
Download or read book The Colonial Virginia Register written by and published by Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell's sons. This book was released on 1902 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Robert Bell and His Early Virginia Colony Descendants written by James Elton Bell and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Bell was born between 1520 and 1539 in England. He married three times and had twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in England and Virginia.
Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present written by Clarence R. Geier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.
Download or read book American Birdsong Ancestry written by Dean John Birdsong and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Birdsong was born in about 1683, probably in England. He married Elizabeth and they had four known children. They lived in Charles Parish, York County, Virginia. He died in about 1750. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Missouri.
Download or read book Colonial Surry written by John Bennett Boddie and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1966 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of genealogical data from important name lists for Colonial Surry, which once encompassed almost the entire southern part of the state of Virginia (i.e., fourteen present-day Virginia counties). Noteworthy lists include Surry land grants, 1624-1740, and various Surry and Sussex censuses and marriage bonds.
Download or read book America s First Family the Savages of Virginia written by August Burghard and published by Dorrance Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Savage (d.1633) immigrated from England to Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. Descendants lived in Virginia, Florida and elsewhere.
Download or read book 1619 written by James Horn and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly--the first gathering of a representative governing body in America--came together. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. This portentous year marked both the origin of the most important political development in American history, the rise of democracy, and the emergence of what would in time become one of the nation's greatest challenges: the corrosive legacy of racial inequality that has afflicted America since its beginning.
Download or read book History of Plymouth Plantation 1620 1647 written by William Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Planters of Colonial Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and published by Princeton : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century written by Warren M. Billings and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and research volume. Warren Billings brings together more than 200 period documents, organized topically, with each chapter introduced by an interpretive essay. Topics include the settlement of Jamestown, the evolution of government and the structure of society, forced labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebellion. This revised, expanded, and updated edition adds approximately 30 additional documents, extending the chronological reach to 1700. Freshly rethought chapter introductions and suggested readings incorporate the vast scholarship of the past 30 years. New illustrations of seventeenth-century artifacts and buildings enrich the texts with recent archaeological findings. With these enhancements, and a full index, students, scholars, and those interested in early Virginia will find these documents even more enlightening.
Download or read book Love and Hate in Jamestown written by David A. Price and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.
Download or read book A Land As God Made It written by James Horn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history Although it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous settlers have been overshadowed ever since by the pilgrims of Plymouth. But as historian James Horn demonstrates in this vivid and meticulously researched account, Jamestown-not Plymouth-was the true crucible of American history. Jamestown introduced slavery into English-speaking North America; it became the first of England's colonies to adopt a representative government; and it was the site of the first white-Indian clashes over territorial expansion. A Land As God Made It offers the definitive account of the colony that give rise to America.
Download or read book Savage Kingdom Virginia and The Founding of English America Text Only written by Benjamin Woolley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007.
Download or read book Jamestown the Truth Revealed written by William M. Kelso and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting. In Jamestown, the Truth Revealed, William Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown colony began, unearthing footprints of a series of structures, beginning with the James Fort, to reveal fascinating evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, of their endeavors and struggles, and new insight into their relationships with the Virginia Indians. He offers up a lively but fact-based account, framed around a narrative of the archaeological team's exciting discoveries. Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators estimated the likely site for the fort and began to unearth its extensive remains, including palisade walls, bulwarks, interior buildings, a well, a warehouse, and several pits. By Jamestown’s quadricentennial over 2 million objects were cataloged, more than half dating to the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Kelso’s work has continued with recent excavations of numerous additional buildings, including the settlement’s first church, which served as the burial place of four Jamestown leaders, the governor’s rowhouse during the term of Samuel Argall, and substantial dump sites, which are troves for archaeologists. He also recounts how researchers confirmed the practice of survival cannibalism in the colony following the recovery from an abandoned cellar bakery of the cleaver-scarred remains of a young English girl. CT scanning and computer graphics have even allowed researchers to put a face on this victim of the brutal winter of 1609–10, a period that has come to be known as the "starving time." Refuting the now decades-old stereotype that attributed the high mortality rate of the Jamestown settlers to their laziness and ineptitude, Jamestown, the Truth Revealed produces a vivid picture of the settlement that is far more complex, incorporating the most recent archaeology and using twenty-first-century technology to give Jamestown its rightful place in history, thereby contributing to a broader understanding of the transatlantic world.
