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William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]
William Tucker was born in Cornwall on January 7, 1588 or in 1589. [6] In 1610, he sailed on the ship Mary and Thomas (sometimes written as Mary and James) to Virginia. [7] [8] Tucker was married to Mary Thompson, who was born in 1599. [7] Her father was Robert Thompson of Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire and her nephew was John Thompson, 1st ...
Captain Daniel Tucker (baptized 10 April 1575, died 10 February 1625) was an English colonial sea captain, member of the Virginia Company, member of the Somers Isles Company, treasurer of the Jamestown Colony and the notorious second Governor of Bermuda.
Historian Vincent Tucker, president of the William Tucker 1624 Society, learned about his ancestors' history prior to being enslaved in the United States during a trip to Angola.
"Ancient planter" (sometimes called ancient colony men [1]) was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement was managed privately by the Virginia Company of London. A colonist received a land grant if they remained in Virginia for at least three years
1623: Captain William Norton arrives at the colony with skilled Italian glass workers [43] 1623: Conspiring with William Tucker, Dr John Pott feeds poisoned wine to 200 natives, killing them in retaliation to the previous year's massacre; Sept 1623: William Claiborne maps out "New Towne" for the growing Jamestown, now referred to as "James ...
The house eventually came into the hands of St. George Tucker who had moved from Bermuda to Williamsburg. Tucker was a lawyer and professor of law at the College of William and Mary and later became a state and federal judge. In 1796, Judge Tucker wrote a controversial pamphlet addressed to the General Assembly of Virginia.
George Tucker (August 20, 1775 – April 10, 1861) was an American author, educator and historian in Virginia, following early years as an attorney and politician.His literary works include The Valley of Shenandoah (1824), the first fiction of colonial life in Virginia, and A Voyage to the Moon (1827), which is among the nation's earliest science fiction novels.