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The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania. From the founding of the colony (1681/2) to the early post-revolution period (1820s), indentured servants contributed considerably to the development of agriculture and various industries in ...
Richard Frethorne was an indentured servant at Martin's Hundred, Virginia in 1622-1623. He is known as the author of letters detailing his miserable condition in Virginia. He is known as the author of letters detailing his miserable condition in Virginia.
Conjectural sketch of Mistress Forrest and Anne Burras arriving in Jamestown, Virginia (1608) Mistress Margaret Forrest was the first English woman settler who came to Jamestown in 1608. Margaret came alongside her husband Thomas Forrest and their maid, Anne Burras. She was also the first woman in Jamestown to give birth to a child.
The 150 Virginia-bound people become castaways on the uncolonized island, dubbed "Virginiola". [20] [21] c. summer 1609: In Bermuda, Stephen Hopkins is accused of mutiny for wanting to remain a Bermuda colonist, arguing the Virginia Company contract voided by shipwreck; c. fall 1609: Fort Algernon is built nearby Jamestown
Capt. Beheathland is listed among the 104 colonists on the Virginia Company of London's manifest. [4] He is included in Captain John Smith's list of 100 "Planters" (gentlemen) in his book The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, [citation needed] and mentioned as accompanying John Smith on a visit to Powhatan, the local indigenous leader.
Anne Burras (later, Anne Laydon) was an early English settler in Virginia and an ancient planter. She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter Virginia Laydon was the first child of English colonists to be born in the Jamestown, Virginia , colony. [ 4 ]
The Court Book Volume II. Washington, 1622–1624, Government Printing Office, 1906. At a Court held for Virginia at various dates in 1622 and 1623. Retrieved August 10, 2020 from Virtual Jamestown website. Southall, James P. C. "Concerning George Yardley and Temperance Flowerdew", William and Mary Quarterly, July 1947. Retrieved August 10, 2020