Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua
The Bona Nova Voyages~1618 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Ship and Passenger Information: Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia: Hopson, Thomas~Age 12 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Walters, William~Age 27 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Departed in August, 1619, with 120 passengers. Sent by the Virginia Company. (Source: The Voyage...To Verginia 1619 by Ferdinando Yate) November, 1619 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Source: "Hotten's Lists" Burthen: 200 tons (Source: The Voyage...To Verginia 1619 by Ferdinando Yate) Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia: Barry, William (Sgt.)~See name in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Brocke, John~Age 19 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Calder, Thomas~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Claxon, John~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Crowder, Mr. Hugh~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Dickson, Stephen~Age 25 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Evands, William~Age 23 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Gaskoyne, Thomas~Age 34 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Goodman, Robart~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Gyffith, Ambrose~Age 33 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Hattfild, Joseph~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Hill, Francis~Age 22 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Hobson, Edward~See name in Virginia Muster, January 23, 1624/5 Levett, George~Age 29 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Mansfeild, David~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Morris, John~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Osborne, Ralph~Age 22 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Osborne, Thomas (Lt.)~See name in Virginia Muster, January 23, 1624/5 Rimwell, Adam~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Rookines, William~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Seirson, Cutbert~Age 22 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Sherley, Daniell~Age 30 in Virginia Muster, January 23, 1624/5 Smith, Susanna~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 (Her husband, John, arrived on the Elsabeth in 1611) Vaghan, John~Age 23 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Weldon, William~See name in Virginia Muster, January 23, 1624/5 Wynwill, Christopher~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 1620 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia Banum, Elizabeth~Age 43 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Barrett, Walter~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Davis, Richard~Age 22 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Dorie, Gregory~Age 36 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Gany, Anna~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Gayne, William~Age 36 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Hall, Thomas~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Hampton, William~Age 40 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Hill, John~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Knight, Benjamin~Age 28 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Lane, Alice~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Longe, Elias~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Mitchell, Maudlin~Age 21 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 More, John~Age 36 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Mountney, Lenord~Age 21 in Virginia Muster, February 7,1624/5 Penrise, Robart~Age 12 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Pilkinton, William~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Popeley, Richard~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Robisonn, Richard~Age 22 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Salford, Mary~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Smith, Osmond~Age 17 in Virginia Muster, January 24, 1624/5 Spilman, Hanna~Age 23 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Stockton, Jonas~Age 40 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Stockton, Timothey~Age 14 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Thrasher, Robart~Age 22 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Tyos, John~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 White, Edward~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Willcockes, John~See name in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 1621 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia. (The Bona Nova departed Virginia May [16], 1621.2) Sources: (1) "Hotten's Lists", Virginia Musters (2) Letter, dated May [16], 1621, from Jabez Whittaker, in Virginia, sent to Sir Edwin Sandys, London, on the departing Bona Nova. (S.M. Kingsbury, "Records of the Virginia Company", 1933, v.III, page 297) Ship and Passenger Information: Browne, John~Age 28 in Virginia Muster, January 21, 1624/5 Dore, James~Age 19 in Virginia Muster, January 21, 1624/5 Hampton, William~Age 34 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Lauckfild, John~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Smith, Nicholas~Age 18 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5~Entered in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 April, 1622 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia: Ship and Passenger Information: Boyse, Allice~See name in Virginia Muster, January 24, 1624/5 (Her husband. Luke, arrived on the Edwin in May, 1619) Chamberlin, Rebecca~Age 37 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Chambers, John~Age 21 in Virginia Muster, January 20, 1624/5 Forth, John~Age 16 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Harwood, Paule~Age 20 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Upton, Georg~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, January 20, 1624/5 Worlidge, William~Age 18 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 Before 1624/5 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia before February 4, 1624/5, but voyage date not specified: Addams, Robert~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Barrett, Francis~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Benett, Thomas~See name in Virginia Muster (his wife Margery arrived in the Gift or Guift) Browninge, William~See name in Virginia Muster Campion, Robert~See name in Virginia Muster Crouch, Thomas~Age 40 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Floid, Nathaniell~Age 24 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Jefferson, John~See name in Virginia Muster Jones, Thomas~Age 35 in Virginia Muster Leak, Augustine~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 (His wife, Winifred, arrived on the George in 1623) Marloe, Thomas~See name in Virginia Muster Moore, Leonard~See name in Virginia Muster Ottowell, Thomas~Age 40 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Phillips, Thomas~See name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Raughton, Ezekiah~See name in Virginia Muster (his wife Margrett arrived in the Warwick) Rogers, Georg~Age 23 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5 Russell, John~Age 19 in Virginia Muster Shelley, John~Age 23 in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624/5
Hudleston /Huddlestone/ (I have found many variations of the Surname-usage interchangeable, i.e., Origin or Meaning of Hiddleston 1. "one who came from Huddleston", a park township in the parish of Sherburn, West Riding in Yorkshire. 2. "Huda", Hun", originally denoted "a fence or encloseure" which became "enclosure round a house, a homestead, village of town. When you look at the trips of the Bona Nova, you find a trip from England to Virginia was made almost yearly. 1618 (1618 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia), 1619 (Departed in August, 1619, with 120 passengers. Sent by the Virginia Company. (Source: The Voyage ... To Verginia 1619 by Ferdinando Yate), 1621 ( 1621 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia. (The Bona Nova departed Virginia May [16], 1621.2) Letter, dated May [16], 1621, from Jabez Whittaker, in Virginia, sent to Sir Edwin Sandys, London, on the departing Bona Nova. (S.M. Kingsbury, "Records of the Virginia Company", 1933, v.III, page 297), 1622 (April, 1622 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia) but the last trip known of the Bona Nova from London to Virginia is showned to be-Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia before February 4, 1624/5, but voyage date not specified. Ships and Passengers from London, England to the Americas Ship Index 300 Ships from England to New World, 1587-1688. The history of education in Virginia during the seventeenth century., Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield), 1823-1893. Page 11 Capt. Huddlestone arrived at Jamestown sixteen days after the first great massacre of the whites by Indians. In June, 1622, he was fishing off the coast of Maine, and sent a boat to the Puritans of Plymouth Rock with a letter containing the sad news. He said, " I will far inform you that myself with many good friends in the Southern Colony of Virginia have received such a blow, that 400 persons large will not make good our losses." See-Bradford. 1622 April Bona Nova 200 tons Capt. John Hudleston
(We know Captain John Huddleston knew Allice Boyse from April 1622 when she boarded the Bona Nova till the court date of 19th. of February 1626)
There have been Huddlestons in London for a long time. Bell Yard WC2 UG: Temple Bus: 4 11 15 23 26 76 171A Bell Yard runs directly along the east side of the Law Courts, from Fleet Street at the southern end to Carey Street at the northern. Only just inside the City of London, Bell Yard is a thoroughfare where the dimensions are of sufficient width to accommodate the passage of single file vehicles, although as Fleet Street offers no exit its use is for access only. The Yard dates back to the early 15th century when a tavern or inn known as 'Le Belle' stood at the southern end. It was pulled down around 1580 and some years later was replaced by another tavern also called the Bell, but that too has long since gone.
In Annette Hudleston Harwood's 'Lines of English Hudleston' John Hudleston, knight 10b of Millom shows up in London in Procat Records
C 1/45/125 Thomas Wyssheton, servant to Sir John Huddelston, knight. v. The mayor and sheriffs of London.: Arrest of complainant at the suit of the landlord of the `Belle,' Fleet Street, on an obligation given him as an indemnity for the loss of certain plate which was ultimately found to have been stolen by his own servants. 1386-1486 C 1/172/11 John Tomson, late servant of John Huddelston, knight. v. Christopher Ursewyk, clerk, and Robert Southwell, knight, executors of the said Sir John.: Unpaid wages. 1486-1529 C 1/202/49 Harry Frenshe v. Sir John Huddelston, knight.: Detention of 100 marks, given by Dame Katerine, late the wife of Sir Richard Harcourt, to Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Harcourt, for her marriage, and delivered in trust to defendant. 1486-1529 C 1/298/29 William Clayton, clerk, cousin and heir of Oliver Huddelston. v. William Urchynnette: Detention of deeds relating to land in Lincoln.: Lincoln. 1500-1515 C 1/1004/29 Richard, son of William HARTILPOOLE, attendant on the earl of Surrey, v. Richard, son and executor of John COPLAND, and the sheriffs of LONDON.: Action on a bond for a loan to carry on a suit for lands against the master and brethren of Rotherham College, which loan was not made. 1538-1544
Based on the Patent information by the House of Commons Journals, Records of the Virginia Company based on those same Pattents and that Sir Ferdinando Gorge was William Huddleston and Elizabeth Hartepoole's neighbor in 1605, I believe Captain John Huddleston was the son of William Huddleston and Elizabeth Hartepoole. We can place Anthony Huddleston and his wife Marie Barentyne in London between 1556-1558 C 1/1437/8-11 John HARCOURT and Francis STONER, knights, v. Anthony HUDDELSTON, Mary his wife, and others.: Reviver of a suit on a counterbond for a debt of Francis Barentyne, deceased, whose goods have come to complainant's hands.: LONDON. 1556-1558. C 1/1233/35 William HEYWARD of Santhurst and Joan his wife v. Anthony, son and executor of Sir John HUDDELSTON.: Price of corn bought of Giles Banaster, former husband of the said Joan.: [GLOUCESTER.]. 1544-1551 This would make Anthony Huddleston son William Huddleston son Captain John Huddleston.
John MATHEWS lived at Blunt Point at the mouth of Deep Creek, Warwick County. While under age he received a patent, 29 March 1678, for 2944 acres on Deep Creek as grandson and heir of Samuel Mathews, Exq. He was still under age, 24 Jun 1679 when William Cole, Esq was "Guardian to Mr John Mathews, but had reached his majority by April 1682 when he served as a member of the House of Burgesses. Copyright 2003 by Mary Love Berryman. All rights reserved.
When you join two these passages together; You find Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Nova in 1624 and Thomas Huddleston in 1764 which is 120 years being almost in the same place in Virginia. It is merely bridging that gap in geneaology.
As given by Bradford, the story is as follows: Amidst these streigths, and ye desertion of those from whom they had hoped for supply, and when famine begane now to pinch them sore, they not knowing what to doe, the Lord (who never fails his) presents them with an occasion, beyond all expectation. This boat which came from ye eastward brought them a letter from a stranger, of whose name *Capt. John Huddleston commanded the ship Bona Nova, of 200 tons, and performed many voyages to Virginia in the interest of the Virginia Company. He patented lands in Virginia in the "territory of Tappahannock over against James Cittie", and at Blunt Point, near Newport News. In 1624, he was reported as dead.
Samuel Morgan Sr. was established in Amelia County as early as 1754 when he bought 200 acres upper side Winticomack Creek, from Robert Coleman. (deed bk 5/6 p 188) In 1764 a Thomas Huddleston is listed as living below Deep Creek in Raleigh Parish. Samuel Morgan Sr. is also listed as living below Deep Creek in Raleigh Parish in 1762. Sandra Baxter ssbaxter@txucom.net
The reference in Hening (II, p 14) to the "orphan heir of Col Mathews" must have been to him (John) whose guardian till 1671, when she died, was Mrs. Anna Bernard. Then Peter Jenings was guardian, and in 1679 William Cole, Esq, was guardian. He had arrived at age before 1682. Copyright 2003 by Mary Love Berryman. All rights reserved. Although the tract had been known as Denbigh Plantation as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, its period of historical importance had ended nearly fifty years before. At that time it seems to have been named Mathews Manor, it was owned by Samuel Mathews (c 1600-c 1657), who settled in Virginia before 1622 and eventually became one of the most prominent men in the colony. He was a long-time member of the council, and in 1635 was one of the leaders of the popular mutiny that ousted Governor Sir John Harvey. In the spring of 1637 Mathews and three others were sent home to England to stand trial for Treason in the Court of Star Chamber, but the charges were eventually dropped and Mathews returned to Virginia in 1639. Meanwhile, Harvey had been reinstated as governor by Charles I and had seized and dispersed much of Mathews' property, and also sanctioned the ransacking of his house. But when Mathews returned, his property was restored to him by order of the King, and Harvey was evicted.
Samuel MATHEWS, Jr, Governor of Virginia, was born in Virginia about 1630 to Samuel MATHEWS and Frances GREVILLE. He attained the military rank of Lieutenant Colonel by 1652 and was appointed to the Council in 1655, a position he held until 1657. He was married and had one child: 1. John, died before 1 May 1706, VA; married Elizabeth TAVERNOR, 24 Mar 1684. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marylove/Mathews/Mathews.html
Robert Johnson belittled Indian cultures in Nova Britannia in order to articulate a mandate for the English presence in Virginia. In his formulation, the Indians would welcome an English presence in exchange for lessons in "civilization." Even though stockholders in the Virginia Company saw Jamestown as an experiment, many were nonetheless disappointed that they were making no profits from the colony. Lack of profits was an even greater issue in the Company's attempt to raise additional funds to support Jamestown and to send more colonists. In 1609, they therefore began what we might call a "media blitz." Nova Britannia was one pamphlet written as part of this public relations campaign. Nova Britannia: Offering Most Excellent Fruites by Planting in Virginia Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8. Virginia Records Manuscripts. 1606-1737. Susan Myra Kingsbury, editor. Records of the Virginia Company, 1606-26, Volume III: Miscellaneous Records Page 23 Whereas Peticon hath made by the friends of John Tavernor Capemarchant of the forte and store in Virginia for his retorne vppon some vrgent occasion and for some time into england we require you to license him so to do if it be his desire when you ariue there, And we do nominate and appointe Thomas Wittingham into his Roome and office beinge one in whose sufficiency and honesty we haue greate confidence:
Alderman Robert Johnson. Declaration of the Prosperous State of the Colony. Early in 1623 (?). By 1616, Smythe, a London alderman, had been sometime governor of the East India, Muscovy, French and Somers Islands companies. His son-in-law was Robert Johnson, a director of the Levant and East India companies who became a governor of the Bermuda Company. Smythe became one of the leading merchants of the Virginia Company of London, but he remained interested also in the East India Company. The Rich family, Earls Warwick, had a large interest in Bermuda; and second Earl Warwick became governor of the Bermuda Company in 1628. Alison Olson, Making The Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790. London, Harvard University Press, London. 1992., p. 17. Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8. Virginia Records Manuscripts. 1606-1737. Susan Myra Kingsbury, editor. Records of the Virginia Company, 1606-26, Volume III: Miscellaneous Records Page 4 The military offensive was accompanied by a propaganda war: Alderman Robert Johnson published Nova Britannia in 1609 which compared Native Americans to wild animals - "heardes of deere in a forest". While it portrayed the Powhatans as peace loving, it nevertheless threatened to deal with any who resisted conversion to Anglicanism as ennimies of 'their' country. (Johnson was the son-in-law of Sir Thomas Smith, leader of one of the court factions within the Company in London.) Encyclopedia
Author: Osgood, Herbert L./td Title: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Citation: New York: Columbia University Press, 1904. Subdivision: Volume I. Part I. Chapter IV. Page 80 VIRGINIA AS A PROPRIETARY PROVINCE. THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF SANDYS AND THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON The Argall incident contributed toward an important change in the administration of the company. It strengthened the resolve of Lord Rich to remove the merchants Smith, Johnson, and their friends from its control. This for the time was favorable to the prospects of Sir Edwin Sandys, who by his ability had risen to be the leader among those in the company who favored a liberal policy toward the plantation. With him were associated the Earl of Southampton, Lord Cavendish, who was also at the head of the Somers Islands company, John and Nicholas Ferrar, and many other prominent and able men. Sandys and his associates were also closely identified with the so-called “country party,” the opposition in parliament. There they worked against the corrupt policy of favorites, undue Spanish influence, monopolies and impositions, and strove to counterbalance in all ways the large power of the crown. This fact brought them into opposition to Sir Thomas Smith and Alderman Johnson, who at this time identified themselves to an extent at least with the court. Sir Thomas Smith, who was already well advanced in years, accepted the office of a commissioner of the navy. He had already served for ten years in succession as treasurer of the London company. These facts, together with his many other interests, caused him to decline reëlection for the year 1619, and to desire that his accounts might be audited and fully adjusted before he died. His wish was gratified by the company, the friends of Rich and Sandys cooperating toward the result. Sandys was elected treasurer, with John Ferrar as deputy in the place of Alderman Johnson. The auditors were set to work
German Sawmill Wrights at Jamestown in 1620 by Gary C. Grassl, President The German Heritage Society of Greater Washington, D.C. The records of the Virginia Company of London for June and July 1620 show that four unnamed but "very skillful" sawmill wrights came from "Hambur rough" [Hamburg] to London for service in the Jamestown Colony. "Men skillful for sawmills were procured from Germany and sent to Virginia at the Company's great charge," wrote Alderman Johnson. By 1620, the Colony had advanced beyond Jamestown, leaving small settlements up and down the James River. The Company was anxious to establish sawmills in the Colony so that planks and boards could be cut for building houses and constructing ships. However, Captain Thomas Nuce wrote from Virginia in May 1621 that the Germans were facing great difficulties. Swift streams were required to power the wheels of a sawmill, and the sawmill wrights had difficulty finding any in Tidewater Virginia. The natives, who were poised for a general uprising, still controlled the upstream areas, which made them dangerous for colonists. In addition, the Germans had great difficulty finding people to help them construct the sawmills. They even had difficulty obtaining sustenance. [It may be added that the elegant volumes on the Berkeley family, prepared by John Smyth, of Nibley, show that Captain Thomas Neuce, who had charge of the company's lands at Elizabeth City, in Virginia, married Anne Seymour, daughter of Sir Thomas Seymour, who was descended from the Berkeleys. Berkeley Manuscripts; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 3, 1898]
Captain Nuce complained that the Germans couldn't build the sawmills and at the same time "look after their own livelihood." The company bade Governor Sir Francis Wyatt of Virginia "to take care of the Dutch sent to build sawmills, and seat them at the falls [of the James river], that they may bring their timber by the current of the water." The Company told the governor in July 1621, "And here we earnestly commend unto your care the Dutchmen sent for erecting of sawing mills, a work most necessary, since the materials for housing and shipping cannot otherwise without much more trouble, pains and charge be provided." The Company repeated its entreaty to the Governor and Council of Virginia to aid the German sawmill wrights: "... we commend unto your care our Saw Mills, a work of such importance as it deserves your special furtherance, and therefore we desire the Dutchmen sent for the fabric of them may be extraordinarily well used, and carefully provided of apparel out of the new Magazine, which we would have paid for by the Company's tobacco. As for such necessaries as they want, especially beer, which we can now be shipped for want of time and tonnage, we have desired Sir Francis Wyatt to supply them with, which shall be repaid, and thus supplied we hope they will be encouraged to bring that so much desired work to perfection." In August 1621, the Company reiterated its appeal.
The sawmill wrights from Hamburg faced dauntingly difficult conditions in Virginia. The colonists were barely able to subsist, and many died from diseases against which their bodies had developed no immunities. As a matter of fact, 4 out of 5 colonists died within a few years of their arrival. "How so many people sent hither of late years have been lost, I cannot conceive unless it be through water and want ...." wrote Captain Nuce. Alderman Johnson reported that the men "procured from Germany ... spent 7 or 8 months to find out a convenient place to set the mills on, which at last being found, the poor Dutchmen being disheartened by their unkind entertainment [treatment] in Virginia and almost famished by their mean provisions and being utterly disabled to bring that work to perfection without the help of many hands which an order of Court [of the Virginia Company] made here [in London] could not help them in Virginia. They oppressed with these and many other difficulties too great for them to overcome fell grievously sick of the diseases incident to the country...."
We learn from the records of the Virginia Company that "whereas they hired heretofore certain Dutch carpenters of Hamburrough for making of sawmills in Virginia, whither they being sent, died within a short time after (and only one returned) having effected nothing in that business ...." The one who returned was the son of one of the mill wrights who had died in Virginia. He asked to return to Europe when he was the only one of the four left alive. The German widows of the three men who perished in Virginia after a stay of about a year asked for compensation, and the Virginia Company paid them altogether 27 pounds.
This was also a problem faced by the Germans at Fort Germanna. The company bade Governor Sir Francis Wyatt of Virginia "to take care of the Dutch sent to build sawmills, and seat them at the falls [of the James river], that they may bring their timber by the current of the water. This is also the general site of the first iron furnace. John Blankenbaker www.germanna.com
Chesterfield County, Virginia was formed from Henrico County in 1749 and received its name from the Fourth Earl of Stanhope, England's famed Lord Chesterfield. Chesterfield has historically been a leader in industry. Falling Creek was the birth place of two great American industries, iron and coal. The first iron furnace in the United States was built in Chesterfield. Opechancanough's Indians put an end to the Falling Creek iron works in the Great Massacre of 1622 in which iron workers and their families were killed and the iron furnace was destroyed. [John Berkeley was sent by the London company of England to establish iron works at the Falling Creek, which empties into the James River not far below Richmond. But in 1622 the works were broken up by the Indians, who killed Berkeley and all his employees, except a boy and girl, who managed to hide in the bushes. (See Proceedings of the Virginia Company of London, Virginia Historical Collections, Vol. I., p. 9, 50, 60, 61, 62, 63, 122, 123, 168, 170 and Vol. II., pp. 148, 252)] William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3. (Jan., 1898), pp. 135-152. The iron works site remained a wilderness until 1928 when DuPont erected its $10 million fibers plant nearby. The first recorded commercial coal mines in North America were operating in the northwestern part of the county by 1709. This is the first record in the United States of coal being mined for purposes other than local use.
Page 81 on Smith's accounts, but they found them so defective and intricate 1 as to make it impossible to disentangle them. As late as 1623 Smith was urging their settlement, but it was then declared to be an impossibility, and no proof is extant that they ever were cleared up. Though apparently the transfer of control from Smith to Sandys was made with ease, it laid the foundation for prolonged strife. The attitude of Sandys toward Argall, combined, it is probable, with many other causes, soon broke the temporary union with the Rich or Warwick faction, and formed a natural alliance 2 of the latter with Smith and Johnson. As time passed their union with the court became more intimate, and all important measures of the company came to be affected not only by the struggle between these factions, but by English politics as well. The complications, however, to which this led belong to another division of the subject. It remains at this point to trace the policy of the Sandys-Southampton party in so far as it immediately affected the colony.
The records show that Sir Edwin Sandys was an almost ideal administrator, and not a little of his wisdom appears in the fact that he fully recognized the merit of Gates and Dale. 3 Sandys at the outset devoted himself to the task of reclaiming “the public” or company”s land from the exhausted condition in which Argall had left it. This he considered the root or body of the tree, and private plantations the branches. 4 In pursuing his object he sought in all directions for tenants with whom to people it. 1 Recs. of Va. Co. II. 84, 220. 2 Brown, First Republic, 356, 522; Neill, History of the Virginia Company, 120. 3 Recs. of Va. Co. I. 21. 4 Ibid. 20 et seq., 64 et seq.
To understand the significanse of John Tavernor we return to page 226 of the 'Records of the Virginia Company' James Citty Nouembr 11th 1619 and find the Capemerchant witnessed the breakup of the 600 bushells sent on the Bona Noua and Captain Weldon was a passenger on the Bona Noua. Then on page 227 we find the first mention of Captain Mathewes in the 'Records of the Virginia Company.
yt is most convenient to seat Captaine weldinge wth his remayinder at Harrowtox in Consortship wth Captaine Mathewes, both for his ease in buildinge ther beinge two howes allready builte to his hand and for his securitye against Indians tell he haue better strenthe and meanes to seatt vpon the Colledge land for wch purpose he went to the same place wth Captaine Mathewes on Tewesday Night Nouemb 15: 1619: Lieftenant whitakers Nouembr 16th went wth his remainder to seat himselfe vpon the Companies land some fower milles from James Citty westward toward the mouthe of the Chickahominie riuer: [the next day John Jefferson, passenger aboard the Bona Noua, President Thomas Jefferson's ancestor was one of the four chosen to set the price of tobacco as a tobacco tester]
Captain John Huddleston born 1587 of Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, London, England till after 1642 of Nevis Island wife Marriage Microfilm 0375028 24 SEP 1616 Saint Gregory By Saint Paul, London, London, England Name Church of England. Parish Church of Stepney (Middlesex) Titles The marriage registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the county of Middlesex Memorials of Stepney parish : that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 ... Miscellaneous records from Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney in the county of London ... The parish registers of Stepney, Middlesex Parish registers of the Stepney parish church,1568-1929 Barbara Poulter of Stepney. William Huddleston born before 1640 of Jamestowne, Virginia till after 1666 of Onancock, Accomac county, Virginia could have possibly had the wife Anne Bishop of York county, Virginia who was the widow of Henry Bishop.
William1 and wife Ann Bowen, and children, Mary, William2, and David. William Bowen found in Accomack/Northampton Co first in 1643. He died there in 1660 in Hungars Parish, VA. In 1661 Ann remarried to Lt Henry L. Bishop. IGI shows Henry Bishop to be born about 1636 of Hungars Aof. Could William Huddleston, servant be born the same time in 1636? Ann Bowen Birth: 1640 Hungars Aof, Northampton, Virginia marriage to Henry Bishop 12 MAY 1662, Northampton, Virginia. Film or fiche number 0822893
An Elizabeth 'Ridley' Morgan was in Germanna, Spotsylvania, Virginia in 1720, according to the IGI. Elizabeth Ridley Morgan 3 [1782.3.8], called “Ridley,” married Thomas Tabb Willis in Amelia County 14 June (bond) 1774. Amelia County, Viginia, Marriage Bonds John Morgan, Simon Morgan, and Charles Wilson witnessed Samuel’s consent for his daughter to marry. • Elizabeth Morgan 3 [1782.3.9] (20 April 1732) married — Huddleston Bristol Parish Records and I believe that was Constable Robert Huddleston's first wife. Copyright © 2001-2004, John W. Pritchett. All rights reserved. June 13 1774, Thomas Tabb Willis, Elizabeth Ridley Morgan, Amelia County, Dad Samuel Morgan Virginia Marriage Records. Jan. 1. 1770 to Dec. 31. 1774
I believe that with the marriage of Constable Robert Huddleston and Elizabeth Morgan that the son Robert Huddleston shown actually born in 1734 (2 years after the Constable was married) as evident by the birth of his wife Elizabeth Carter in 1738 and they married in 1759. John, as the inheritor, must have been older probably 1732 because he shows up early in the Spotsylvania deeds.
In Film or fiche number 1553493 Batch Number: F511832 THOMAS HUDDLESTON Birth: About 1736, Virginia Spouse: MILLY TANNER Birth: About 1740 Of, Virginia Marriage: 12 Apr 1774 Raleigh Parish, Amelia, Va wife Mildred 'Millie' Tanner.
I believe that by 1759 Constable Robert Huddleston and Elizabeth Morgan's first son Robert Huddleston born 1734 and wife Elizabeth Carter of Saint George Parish was in Amelia County, Virginia because the grandson of Constable Robert Huddleston and Elizabeth Morgan was born there and later the grandson was called Robert Huddleston, the Revolutionary Soldier. Thomas Huddleston, Jr born about 1778 son of Thomas Huddleston, Sr and Milly Tanner of Amelia county, Virginia who died after 1860 wife Marriage: 10 Aug 1799, Amelia, Va Martha 'Patsy' Tanner. Confederate Captain John Branch Huddleston born about 1816 of Amelia county, Virginia who died in 1891 Prentiss, Mississippi wife Amelia Rowland Marriage: 1837 in Mississippi who moved from Virginia to Marshall county, Mississippi. Robert Elam Huddleston born September 22, 1853 of Itawamba county, Mississippi who died in 1933 wife Marriage: 18 Dec 1878 Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi Cyrena Josephine Ryan. Elbert Elam Huddleston born February 1884 of Itawamba, Mississippi wife Marriage: 22 Oct 1901 Booneville, Prentiss, Mississippi Mary Belle Timmons. Flavus Forest Huddleston born 21 Jan 1903 of Booneville, Prentiss, Mississippi who moved from Mississippi to Alabama and died in Red Bay, Alabama May 1959 wife Marriage 1924 Lillie Palmer. Staff Seargeant James Hayward Huddleston born February 17, 1931 in Hamilton, Alabama who died in El Paso, Texas in 1997 wife Margaret Milton.
Samuel MATHEWS was born in about 1600 probably in England. He came to Virginia before 1618 as a servant to Sheriff Johnson of London. He was first in James Towne but went to live in Sherley hundred. 'But one of the best seats is already planted by Captain Mathews for the vse of Sr Thomas Midleton & Alderman Johnson & another Chalenged by Thomas Dows by a graunt from Captain Argoll one of them beinge now ready for the plough & the other most conuenient for pasture both of them nere the place of my plantation & most fittinge for presnt vse.'
Depositions in the Court of Common Pleas, 17 November 1621. the depositions are made by John Mennys, gent., of Sandwich, Kent; John Huddleston, gent., of Ratcliff, Middlesex, master of the Bona Nova; William Jackson of Ratcliffe, gunner of the Bona Nova; John Ward of Ratcliffe, mariner; and George Hooper of Ratcliffe; mariner. The depositions state the deponents were in Virginia during the period January-June, and that they had learned of the death of Mr. William Tracy of Berkeley, Shirley Hundred, Virginia, apparently during or earlier than January. One deposition refers to a Captain Powell, who had married William Tracy's daughter.
Five years later, Captain Samuell Mathews' divided planted. Captain John Hurleston's [Huddleston's] dividend planted. And then the council action-21 July 1626-King Privy Council Action: An order was directed to the Governor of Virginia to assess the value of the Estate of Captain Nathaniel Powell, decd., and to send value of it in tobacco to England, a petition having been made by Thomas Powell, brother and admistrator of said Powell, decd, stating that in consideration of the poverty of said Powell's brothers and sisters, that proceeds of the said Captain's Estate should be paid unto them. The Virginia Company had certified that one William Powell, no way kin to the decedent, had taken out Letters Of Administration of the said Captain's Estate and had seized the goods of Captain John Huddleston in Virginia. The said William Powell then died, and Nathaniel Powell's Estate came into the hands of Mr. [Edward] Blaney who married William Powell's widow. Thomas Powell, eldest brother of the said Nathaniel Powell, dced had taken out Letters Of Administration for the decedent in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. [(Acts of the Privy Council of England (1613-1631), as cited by Coldham, 1:72
Edward Blaney, or Blayney, came from England to James City, Virginia, in 1620 on the "Francis Bonaventure", a vessel of 240 tons sent by the Virginia Company of London with 153 passengers and a magazine of goods in charge of Blaney, who was then about 25 years of age, for barter to the colonists for tobacco. The vessel sailed the last of April or the first of May and arrived after the middle of June. Having disposed of most of this magazine of goods and collected the greater part of what was due for it, Mr. Blaney returned to England in May 1621 on the "Bona Nova," leaving the disposition of the remainder of the goods and the collection of what little debt was due to a Mr. Keyme. Mr. Blaney was sent out again in Sept 1621. On 11 April 1623, George Sandys, the treasurer in Virginia, wrote to John Ferrar, formerly deputy treasurer in London: "Mr. Blainie is now married in Virginia ..." Edward Blaney married Mrs. Margaret Powell, widow of Captain William Powell, who was killed by the Indians in Jan 1623. Edward Blaney was a member of the House Of Burgesses of Virginia in 1623 as a representative of the "Marchants," and again in 1625 as a representative of the "Plantacions Over ye Watter," the name by which the early settlements on the southerly side of the James River opposite James Island were known. According to the Virginia census of 1624-25 Edward Blaney was the owner of one of these plantations. ...(All of the above is extracted from a 20-page paper on "Edward Blaney of Virginia" written by my husband's grandfather, Charles Crosby Blaney.)
Followed by the court case: A COURT at James Citty the 19th. of February 1626, being sent Mr. Doctor Pott. Capt. Smyth. Capt. Matthews. Mr. Secretary. Mr. ffarrar. It is ordered that there shall be a warrant sent up unto Sherley Hundred in ye Maine, that John Ewins & Jane Hill should be sent downe to James-Citty, & there to be examined concerning such leud behavior as hath bin betweene them. Patrick Kennady marriner sworne & examined sayth that as concerning those words which Mrs. Allice Boyse taxeth Capt. Hudleston to have accused her with at Capt. Martins plantation, viz that he say Capt. Hudleston should there say that Capt. Epes had the use of her body that night that he lay in James Slights house, or else said he never had the use of his owne wife, more then Capt. Epes had of her yt night; this deponeth sayth he did not heare Capt. Hudleston speake the same words, but that Capt. Hudleston sayd there was very unfitting behavior between them.
April 6, 1626 is the last day of the last letter of the book, 'Records of the Virginia Company'. For Martin-Brandon, Captain John Martins Plantation Charles E. Hatch, Jr., America's Oldest Legislative Assembly and its Jamestown Statehouses - Appendix II Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619, National Park Service Interpretive Series History No. 2, Washington: Revised 1956.
When you read Mary's page one can wonder who Jane Hill is in Captain John Huddleston's case by Mary Hill and Thomas Hill on Captain Samuel Mathews's case. Samuel was first married to Frances GREVILLE after 24 Mar 1627. Frances was born in England and came to Virginia in the Supply when she was less than 20 years old in 1620. She was first married to Nathaniel WEST by whom she had a son named Nathaniel and later to Abraham PIERSEY. Samuel and Frances had two sons: 1. Samuel, Jr, born about 1629, VA; died Jan 1659/60, VA 2. Francis, died 16 Feb 1674/5, VA; married ____BALDWIN Frances died by 1633 when Mary Hill was appointed administratrix of the estate of her father Abraham PEIRSEY, the executrix, his late wife, having died. Thomas Hill and his wife Mary charged Samuel Mathews with having altered the estate of Peirsey after his marriage to the widow. The case was dismissed. (Thank you so much Mary for letting us add the information to our web page.)
De Hudlestons
Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven: Pennington Family of Muncaster Gosforth FILE- Charter from Isabella del Howe granting to William de Huddleston all her lands and tenements in Bolton with appurtenances-ref. D PEN/BUNDLE 24/3-date: 1402 4th Jenry IV Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters: Lowther Family of Lowther, Earls of Lonsdale [D LONS/L3-D LONS/L5/1] Threlkeld deeds FILE-Marriage settlement-ref. D LONS/L5/1/50/5-date: 1343\_ [from Scope and Content] John de Huddleston, lord of Millom\_ [from Scope and Content] Marriage of John de Threlkeld and Alice de Huddleston Nottinghamshire Archives: Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers[DD/FJ/1/196-DD/FJ/1/298] DEEDS OF TITLE. YORKS: MILFORD (SOUTH): also LUMBY (see also Steeton) FILE [no title]-ref. DD/FJ/1/247/3-date: n.d. (c.1250)\_ [from Scope and Content] Witn.: Sir Rich. de Hudleston, Sir Rob. de Barkeston and Sir. Hen de Stikeswald, kts., etc. FILE [no title]-ref. DD/FJ/1/247/4-date: n.d. (c.1250)\_ [from Scope and Content] Witn.: Sir Rich de Hudleston, Wm. de Widendon, steward, Wm. de Winchecumb, bailiff of Sherburn, etc. FILE [no title] - ref. DD/FJ/1/247/5 - date: n.d. (c.1250)\_ [from Scope and Content] Witn.: Sir Rich. de Hudleston, etc. Tyne and Wear Archives Service: Williamson of Whitburn and Monkwearmouth\_ [from Scope and Content] Incomplete. First skin only of a series recording all extracts from historical records relating to the family which have been recorded by the College of Arms. This skin records the text of a letter sent by the Earls and Barons of England, including John de Hudleston, Lord of Aneys, to the Pope, concerning "the affair of Scotland" in 1301 West Yorkshire Archive Service, Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Newman and Bond Collection of Barnsley Deeds Brampton, p. Wath FILE-Feoffment-ref. MD244/65-date: n.d. medieval\_ [from Scope and Content] Witnesses-Adam de Novo, merchant, Henry his brother, Thomas de Reinevilla, Robert de Lasayeeas, Ralph le Francis, Ralph de Waht, Lot de Wath, Alexander de Adewic, Peter de Hudleston et al Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven: Pennington Family of Muncaster Waberthwaite FILE-Charter of William de Waybuthwayt Rector of the Church of Waybuthwayt- ref. D PEN/BUNDLE 14/4-date: 1386 10th Richard II\_ [from Scope and Content] Granting unto Sir John de Hudleston all the lands and tenements of the said William and the moiety of his Salt pits of Esk which he had of the Gift and Feoffment of John de Vaybuthwayt his father within certain bounds and Divisions of the said Manor of Waybuthwayt Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven: Pennington Family of Muncaster Bretby FILE-Quit Claim from Adam de Singleton to Richard de Hodleston-of all right and claim to all the lands and tenements called le Gretynes in the Town of Bretby-ref. D PEN/BUNDLE 28/2-date: 1372 46th Edw.III C 143/376/22 Peter Belasise, John de Huddleston, and Nicholas de Cameryngham of Lincoln to grant messuages and rent in Lincoln to a chaplain at the altar of St. Mary in the church of St. Peter-at-Pleas there, the said Peter and John retaining messuages and cottages in Lincoln. 45 EDWARD III. DL 10/380 Exemplification of the recovery, 8 Edward III, by the prior of Cartmel against Richard son of John de Huddlestone of the advowson of Whittington, co. Lancs. Westminster, 1419.
DL 25/2823 Richard de Hudleston to Henry de Lascy, Earl of Lincoln : Grant of land in Saltfleetby : (Lincs) DL 25/385 John de Hodleston, knight to Furness Abbey: Renunciation of his right in Angerton Moss, except in the tenements which Adam son of Ralph de Kirkby held therein: (Lancs) 25 Edw.I DL 25/461 Agreement, indented, by John de Hodleston, son of Sir Richard de Hodleston, to pay to Furness Abbey, as rectors of Millom church, 2s. yearly in lieu of a tithe of fish: (Lancs) 1338
The Bona Nova
Sir Ferdinando George helps to explain it; Henry Earle of Southhampton, Sr Edwin Sandy knight, John fferar, Thomas Knightley, Gabrielle BarboR and John Delbridge sent it, Sir Ferdinando Yates wrote about it and Captain John Huddleston was the master and Governor of it.
'Sir Edwin Sandys reporteth from the Committee, being but a sub-committee for the Matter of Money.' Sir Edwin Sandys, a leading force in the Virginia Company, strongly supported the headright system, for his goal was a permanent colony which would enlarge British territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, and expand the market for English goods. Sir Thomas Smith, as the Company's Treasurer, had a different dream: the Virginia Company's mission was to trade and to make a profit. Jamestown Historic Briefs. One has to appreciate Sir Edwin Sandy's insight into the Fishing monopoly. It certainly gets to the heart of the matter. page 591 House of Commons Journal Volume 1 25 April 1621 Sponsor: History of Parliament Trust Publication: House of Commons Journal Volume 1 Author: Year published: 1802
From the same journal on page 598 01 May 1621 Merchant Adventurers. Mr. Delbridge:-That the Sub-committee, appointed to consider of the Merchant Adventurers Patent, &c. may have liberty to send for any other publick Books, or any Merchants, to inform them; and particularly, the Book of Impositions. -And Ordered.
SANDYS, Sir Edwin, English statesman, born in Worcester in 1561; died in Northborne, Kent, in 1629. His father, of the same name, was bishop of Worcester, and afterward archbishop of York. The son was educated at Oxford, supported the claims of James I. to the English throne, and was knighted in 1603. He became an active member of the first London company for Virginia, led in reformatory measures, and introduced the vote by ballot. He was elected treasurer (the chief officer of the company) in 1619, and established representative government in the colony, whose security and prosperity he did much to promote. Through Spanish influence, King James, in violation of the charter, forbade his re-election in 1620, but his successor, the Earl of Southampton, continued his policy. He published "Europa Speculum, or a Survey of the State of Religion in the Western Part of the World" (best ed., 1637). His brother, George, poet, born in Bishopsthorpe in 1577: died in Boxley abbey, Kent, in March, 1644, was educated at Oxford, and in 1621 became colonial treasurer of Virginia, where he built the first watermill, promoted the establishment of iron-works, and in 1622 introduced ship-buihling. His translation of the last ten books of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," which he accomplished during his stay (London, 1626), is the first English literary production of any value that was written in this country. In his dedication to Charles I. he says it was "limned by that imperfect light which was snatched from the hours or nig'ht and repose." He returned to England in 1624. Sandys is well known as a traveller from his "Relation of a Journey" in the countries on the Mediterranean sea and the Holy Land (London, 1615), and he also published metrical versions of the Psalms (1086), the Song of Solomon (1089), and other parts of the Scriptures. A collected edition of his works has been published (2 vols., London, 1872). See his life by Henry a. Todd, prefixed to selections from his metrical paraphrases (1839). Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM Sandys, Sir Edwin 1561-1629, English statesman, leading promoter of the colony in Virginia; son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys. He studied law and was first returned to Parliament in 1586. His Europae Speculum (1605), published after an extended tour abroad beginning in 1593, revealed a remarkably tolerant attitude toward Roman Catholics for an Englishman of that period. Sandys was knighted (1603), reentered Parliament (1604), and became a leading figure in the parliamentary opposition to King James I. He was a member of several chartered companies, including the London Company, of which he became treasurer in 1619. As leader of the liberal faction within the company, Sandys was responsible for many of the progressive features that characterized the last years of the company's control over Virginia, including the introduction of representative government in the first house of burgesses (1619). The king prevented his reelection as treasurer in 1620, but despite opposition from this and other formidable quarters he continued to wield great influence until the king annulled the company's charter in 1624. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition Copyright ?1994, 1995 Columbia University Press.
We have established that the Sandys and Huddleston families were neighbors at one time. Sir Edwin Sandys sent the Bona Nova and is on Captain John Huddleston's commission. Bishop Sandys and Sir Edmund Huddleston both spent time in Marshalsea prison. Sir John Huddleston and Bishop Sandys were both in John Foxes' Book of Martyrs. Richard Huddleston of Elford through the Neville side was distantly related to Elizabeth Edith Sandys. William Huddleston and Elizabeth Hartepool had Sir Ferdinando George as a neighbor. Sir Ferdinando George and Sir Edwin Sandys were at the House of Commons. Richard Huddleston, Treasurer was son of Lord Richard Huddleston of Elford. Lord Richard Huddleston was brother to John Huddleston of Sawston. Their line goes back to the Millom Huddlestons. Bishop Sandys (also named Sir Edwin Sandys) had another son named George Sandys. Richard Huddleston, treasurer's wife maiden name was Williams who was the daughter of Lord Williams. House of Lords' records show her to be married to Richard Huddleston, treasurer as Lady Weynerman and as Weyman and as Wenman in 1576. George Sandys got his brother's old job that his brother had gotten from Sir Thomas Smythe. Sir Edwin Sandys was the treasurer in 1619 and Sir Thomas Smythe was the treasurer until 1618. Together Smythe and Sandys got into trouble with the King over their books. SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, was born on the 2nd of March 1578. He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, but took no degree. On his travels, which began in 1610, he first visited France; from North Italy he passed by way of Venice to Constantinople, and thence to Egypt, Mt. Sinai, Palestine, Cyprus, Sicily, Naples and Rome. His narrative, dedicated, like all his other works, to Charles (either as prince or king), was published in 1615, and formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology. He also took great interest in the earliest English colonization in America. In April 1621 he became colonial treasurer of the Virginia Company and sailed to Virginia with his nieces husband, Sir Francis Wyat, the new governor. When Virginia became a crown colony, Sandys was created a member of council in August 1624; he was reappointed to this post in 1626 and 1628. In 1631 he vainly applied for the secretaryship to the new special commission for the better plantation of Virginia; soon after this he returned to England for good. In 1621 he had already published an English translation of part of Ovids Metcimorpizoses; this he completed in 1626; on this mainly his poetic reputation rested in the I7th and 18th centuries. He also began a version of Virgils Aeneid, but never produced more than the first book. In 1636 he issued his famous Para phrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments; in he translated Christs Passion from the Latin of Grotius; and in 1641 he brought out his last work, a Paraphrase of the Song of Songs. He died, unmarried, at Boxley, near Maidstone, Kent, in 1644. His verse was deservedly praised by Dryden and Pope; Milton was somewhat indebted to Sandys Hymn to my Redeemer (inserted in his travels at the place of his visit to the Holy Sepulchre) in his Ode on the Passion. See Sandys works as quoted above; the travels appeared as The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. iio, in four books (1615); also the Rev. Richard Hoopers edition, with memoir, of The Poetical Works of George Sandys; and Alexander Browns Genesis of the United States, pp. 546, 989, 992, 994-995, 1032, 1063; article, Sandys, George, in Dictionary of National Biography. http://18.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SA/SANDYS_GEORGE.htm Captain John Huddleston married Barbara Poulter at St. Dunstan on September 24 1616 and Edwin Sandys was at St. Dunstan on September 14 1616 when he was the sherriff Edwin Sandys. Edwin Sandys possibly met Captain John Huddleston then days before John Huddleston and Barbara Poulter got married.
SP 46/62/fo 96 William Nelson to Sir Edwin Sandys. His arrearages. Slating of the chancel. Repairing of the houses. Wishes to be re-admitted as his tenant. Kyrkby Wharfe. 15 Aug. 1608. SP 46/62/fo 98 Richard Woodward to Sir Edwin Sandys. Requests respite of Nelson's rent arrears. Repairs to chancel and his houses. Uskell. 20 Aug. 1608. Note added by Nelson. Explains how he will pay rent. The glebe husbandry. Wishes to continue as his tenant at Kyrkby and Uskell; offers security. SP 46/62/fo 222 Thomas Leedes to Sir Edwin Sandys. Sends vine roots, and pear and apple grafts. Explains his request for one year to be added to his lease. Wapping. 8 Mar. 1609. SP 46/63/fo 150 Richard Wainde to Sir Edwin Sandys. Reports state of payment of arrearages by divers persons. Foullerice. 27 Apr. 1613. Worcestershire Record Office: Quarter Sessions [1 James I - 14 James I] Quarter Sessions Rolls FILE-8 James I: Sheriff Sir Richard Grevis Knight. [no ref.]-date: 1610 item: Recognizance before Sir Edwin Sandys by George Riddinge alias Lillie of Morton Underhill Bartholomew Riddinge alias Lillie of Inkberrow and Bartholomew Blake of Fladbury for the appearance of the said George and Katherine his wife and for their keeping the peace towards John Joyner.-ref. 1/1/5/39-date: 24 August 1610 East Kent Archives Centre: Sandwich Borough Reference: Sa/ZB/2/64-68 Virginia papers (Transcribe in A. Brown, Genesis of the United States (1896)) Creation dates: 1611-1612 Scope and Content Including letter from letter from Sir Thos. Smith's house seeking financial backing for the Virginia Company, copy of registered list of adventurers with sums invested [about 300 names], list and numbers of tradesmen to be sent out with Sir Thos. Gates and two letters from Sir Edwin Sandys, one referring to £25 promised by the town Reference: Sa/ZB/2/74,75 Letter from Sir Edwin Sandys offering himself for choice as Burgess and a letter of recommendation for him Creation dates: 1628 Centre for Kentish Studies: Kent Quarter Sessions [QM/SI-QM/SIq] Indictments FILE-Since [William Blaydon], carpenter, having burgled the dwelling house of [ - ] Spracklyn, gentleman, at St. Dunstan's [Canterbury] was taken before Sir Peter Manwood, a justice of the peace and was committed by him to the custody of Warham Williams of St. Dunstan's, yeoman, keeper of the gaol at Canterbury Castle and in the custody of the sheriff, Sir Edwin Sandys, and on 14 Sept [1616] at St. Dunstan's escaped from custody, afterwards on 4 Oct [1616], Thomas Mabb, gentleman, under-sheriff, Thomas Kitchin and William Warham arrested William Blaydon at Deptford but allowed him to escape at Swanscombe. [Endorsed as coming before Epiphany Sessions at Canterbury 8 Jan 1616/7]-ref. QM/SI/1617/2-date: 4 Oct 1616 E 134/21Jas1/Hil12 Sir Richard Norclif, Knt., lord of the manor of Langton. v. Richard Lindley: Piece of ground called "The Carr," within the lordship of Langton. Right of common of pasture in Carr. Meets and bounds of Langton and Birdsall Manors. [The possessions of Christopher Lindley (defendant's father), and Sir Edwin Sandys, Knt. 21 Jas 1 1623 E 134/7&8Chas1/Hil8 Sir Robert Heath, knight (Attorney-General) v. Dame Katherine Lady Sandys, widow, executrix of the last will and testament of Sir Edwin Sandys, knight, deceased, James Eveleigh.: Prebend of Wetwang in the cathedral church of York and its possessions in Fymmer, Fridaythorp, Elloughton, Kirkby, and Uskelfe, &c. 7 & 8 Chas 1
Unlike Sir Edwin Sandys the brother George Sandys went to Virginia. The Virginia Company's treasuror, George Sandys had a plantation and a well-fortified stockade with 30 guns, a "peece" of ordnance, 20 swords, "powder, lead and shott and invluded armor Steele Coats and Coats of Male." I assume that this was necessary for the company's "bank." Bill and Linda [bilinbo@aol.com] found the following..."The 1624 Jamestown Census contains information that we have not seen in most published sources. There are a number of columns--name, age, status, head of household, location, ship, and dates--so it is necessary to scroll to the side of the page to read them all. In 1624, there were only about 450-500 people in Virginia, and most of these were men and boys. Twenty-four people lived on the plantation of George Sandis/Sandys. On the plantation there were only three heads of household: George Sandis, Robert Sheppard, and Zachary Cripps. We counted nine people in the household of George Sandis, all of them male servants, including one "hired" servant. There were two freemen in the household of Zachary Cripps, and nine freemen and one freewoman in the household of Robert Sheppard. William Benge, who arrived on the Marygold, was one of the freemen listed in the household of Robert Sheppard. http://www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/wmbenge.htm Document Number: AJ-084 Author: Title: Tragical Relation of the Virginia Assembly, 1624 Source: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (editor). Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907). Pages 421-426. Pages/Illustrations: 8 / 0 Citable URL: www.americanjourneys.org/aj-084/ Author Note The first Virginia Assembly gathered on July 30, 1619 under Governor George Yeardley. The Assembly was involved in the legislation of the colony with the Virginia Company until the company’s charter was revoked in 1624.
The members of the Virginia Assembly responsible for the document were: Francis Wyatt, George Sandis, John Pott, John Powntis, Roger Smith, Raphe Hamor, William Tucker, William Peerce, Rawley Croshaw, Samuel Mathews, Jabez Whittaker, John Wilcom, Nicholas Marten, Edward Blany, Isack Madisone, Clement Dilke, Luke Boyse, John Utie, John Chew, Richard Stephens, John Southerne, Samuel Sharpe, Henry Watkins, Nathanell Causey, Richare Bigge, Richard Kingswell, John http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-084/summary/index.asp
GEORGE SANDYS IN 1621 the Virginia Company found it necessary to set up a new office—a resident treasurer—in the colony to look after financial matters and to direct and to supervise the development of staple commodities. George Sandys, brother of Sir Edwin Sandys, was named to this post. And forasmuch as ther hath ben in theise late yeares great fault or defect in nott putting in execucon our orders of court and counsell for the setting upp & upholding those staple Comodities which are necessarie for the subsisting and Encrease of the Plantation which hath happned in part by the our [order] Chargeing the Governor with toe much buissnes, wee have uppon espetiall approvement of the industry and sufficiency of George Sandis esquire as also for his faithfullnes and plenaire intelligence of our intendments and counsells here (wherunto hee hath from time to tyme bein privie, not only elected and athorised him to bee Treasurer in Virginia, butt also committed to his spetiall and extreordinarie care the execution of all our orders Charters and instructions tending to the setting upp, Encrease and maytaininge of the said Staple Comodities: VIRGINIA COMPANY—INSTRUCTIONS TO THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL IN VIRGINIA. JULY 24, 1621.
George Sandys, a man of much energy, tried his hand at many enterprises while in Virginia, not the least among them being the translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES into English poetry. Much of this work he did at Jamestown, where his duties as treasurer and councilor confined him most of the time. The program, which he directed, for the introduction and development of "Staple Comodities" (iron, ship building, silk, glass, etc.) was not rewarded with a high degree of success. Virginia was, as yet, not able to maintain these enterprises, as the report of the glass project indicates. The ill successe of the glasse workes is allmost equall unto this [that of the shipwrights]: first the covering of the house, ere fully finished, was blowne downe, by a tempest noe sooner repaired but the Indians came uppon us, which for a while deferd the proceedinges. Then they built up the furnace, which after one forthnight that the fire was put in, few in peeces; yet the wife of one of the Italians (whom I have now sent home, haveinge receaved many wounds from her husband at severall times, & murder not otherwise to bee prevented, for a more damned crew hell never vomited) reveald in her passion that Vincentio crackt it with a crow of iron: yet dare wee not punish theise desperat fellowes, least the whole dessigne through theire stubbornesse should perish. The summer cominge on, Capt: Notron dyed with all saveinge one of his servants, & hee nothinge worth: The Italians fell extremely sicke: yet recoveringe in the beginninge of the winter, I hyred some men for that service, assisted them with mine owne, rebuilt the furnace, ingaged my selfe for provisions for them, & was in a manner a servant unto them. The fier hath now beene six weekes in the furnace, and yett nothinge effected, They complaine that the sand will not run. (though themselves made choise thereof, and likt it then well enought) & now I am sendinge up the river to provide them with better, if it bee to bee had, but I conceave that they would gladly make the worke to appeare unfeasable, that they might by that meanes be dismissed for England.
A LETTER FROM GEORGE SANDYS TO MR. FARRER, MARCH, 1622/3. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/source/sb5/sb5p.htm
THE END OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY
FOR a number of years before 1624 there was definite dissatisfaction with the policies and work of the Virginia Company of London. The movement gained momentum in England and in Virginia. This agitation culminated in the revocation of the company charter in 1624. With this Virginia became a royal colony directly under the Crown. It was on August 26, 1624, that King James I issued a statement setting forth the dissolution. And whereas our Commissioners after much care and paines expended in execucion of our said Commissioners did certifie us that our subjects and people sent to enhabite there and to plant themselves in that Country were most of them by Gods visitacions sicknes of bodie famine and by massacres of them by the native savages of the land dead and deceased and those that were living of them lived in necessitie and want and in danger by the savages but the Country for anie thing that appeared to the said Commissioners to the contr[ar]y they conceaved to be fruitfull and healthfull after our people had bin sometyme there, And that if industry were used it would produce divers good and staple comodities though in the sixteene yeares government past it had yealded fewe or none, And that this neglecte they conceaved must fall on the governors and companie here whoe had power to direct the plantacions . . . But because the said Treasurer and Companie did not submit their charters to be reformed our proceedings therein were stayed for a tyme untill uppon a quo warranto brought and a legall and judiciall proceeding therin by due course of laws the said charters were and nowe are and stand avoyded, and because wee were and are still resolved to proceed unto the perfecting of that worke which wee have begunne for the good of the said plantacion by a newe Charter to be made in such manner as shalbe found most fitt and convenient . . .COMMISSION TO SIR FRANCIS WYATT, GOVERNOR. AUGUST 26, 1624. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/source/sb5/sb5s.htm
Sir Ferdinando Gorges GORGES, Sir Ferdinando, proprietor of Maine, born in Ashton Phillips, Somerset, England, about 1565: died in England in 1647. He was engaged in the conspiracy of Essex, and testified against the latter at his trial for treason in 1601. During the war with Spain he served in the royal navy with distinction, and in 1604 was appointed governor of Plymouth. Being a friend of Sir Walter Raleigh, he became interested in the latter's plans for colonization in the New World; and when Weymouth returned from New England in 1605, bringing five Indians, Gorges took three of them, Manida, Sketwarroes, and Tafquantum, into his home, and after instructing them in the English language gained much information relative to their country, and determined to become a proprietor of land beyond the Atlantic. His efforts resulted in the formation of the Plymouth, which with the London company was incorporated in 1606. Between these was divided the territory extending fifty miles inland from the 34th to the 45th parallel of north latitude. Plymouth company had the northern portion, which was styled North Virginia. The patentees were authorized to maintain the government for twenty-one years, with permission to impose taxes, to coin money, and to exercise all the power of a well-organized society. After several unsuccessful expeditions, two ships were despatched from Plymouth in 1607, bearing a party who erected a fortified storehouse, near the mouth of the Kennebec, in Maine, which they called Fort George. Owing to the severity of the climate and many hardships, this colony was abandoned in the following spring. In 1614 Gorges engaged Captain John Smith, who had visited New England in the service of the Plymouth company. He set sail in March, 1615, with two ships. His own becoming dismasted, he returned to port, and the other made the voyage alone, but soon returned.
After other unsuccessful attempts, Gorges sent out a party under Richard Vines, in 1616, which en-camped on the Saco during the winter. In 1619 Dermer made a second voyage. The London company had now incurred the resentment of King James, and Gorges and his party formed a new corporation on 3 November, 1620, under the name of the "Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England in America," which was the foundation of all the grants made in New England. This corporation consisted of forty patentees, most of whom were persons of distinction, including thirteen peers. Gorges was styled the "father of colonization in America." He took grants with John Mason of the district called Laconia, and attempted settlements. In 1635 the council resigned its charter to the king ; but Gorges obtained a new charter in 1639, which constituted him lord-proprietary of the province of Maine, with extraordinary governmental powers, which were to be transmissible with the property to his heirs and assigus. He prepared to visit New England, but the company became embarrassed for funds, and was obliged to sell the ship and pinnace which had been built. Sir Ferdinando had also become interested in the Puritan colony of New Plymouth. Through the influence of his father and of Lord Edward Gorges, ROBERT, the youngest son of Sir Ferdinando, was commissioned lieutenant governor of New England. He had just returned from the Venetian wars, and was a share-holder in the grand patent. He also had a personal grant of a tract of land on the northeast side of Massachusetts bay, which had been made to him in consideration of his father's services to the company. He came to Plymouth in 1623, bringing with him an Episcopal clergyman, William Morell. He attempted to form a settlement at Wessagusset, which ended in a dispute with Weston, who had begun the colony there, and returned to look after it. Robert Gorges, having power to "restrain interlopers," began proceedings against him. He returned to England in less than a year, and his people dispersed--some to England, some to Virginia.
In 1631 a grant of land was made to several persons, including Ferdinando Gorges, a grandson of Sir Ferdinando. This territory was situated on the Acomenticus River, and several settlements were made there. These were subjected to no external government until the arrival of Captain WILLIAM as deputy governor of the province, which was called "New Somersetshire." The first meeting of the commissioners was held on 25 March, 1636, in Saco. then containing 150 inhabitants, and was the first provincial government for this section of New England. The charter of Maine covered the same territory as that of New Somersetshire, and Sir Ferdinando issued a commission for its government, and sent his nephew, THOMAS, to be deputy governor. The first general court of this government, which exercised the powers of an "executive, legislative, and judicial body in the name of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, late proprietor of Maine," was held in Saco, 25 June, 1640. After the Gorges government was established, in 1641, the borough of Acomenticus and the town of Gorgeana were incorporated. Thomas Gorges arrived in 1641, and settled in this town. He sailed for England in 1643, leaving Richard Vines at the head of the government. In that year the four New England colonies formed a confederacy, excluding the settlements of Gorges, for they "ran a different course both in their ministry and civil administration." On the death of Sir Ferdinando, the estate was left to his son, JOHN, who totally neglected the province. After writing repeatedly to the heirs and receiving no replies, the Gorges colonies formed themselves into a body politic for the purpose of self-government, and submitted to the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Sir Ferdinando's grandson, Ferdinando, born in Loftas, Essex, England, in 1629 ; died in England, 25 January 1718, petitioned the king against the usurpation of Massachusetts, and commissioners were sent out to adjust the affairs of the government. In 1677 he sold his rights to Massachusetts for £1,250. He published "America Painted to the Life" (London, 1659). Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM
Somerset-PRO Reference Title/Scope and Content Covering Dates C 1/264/8 Thomas Hodylston, haberdasher, of London. v. The mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge; John Wode.: Actions on obligations relating to the purchase of English saffron at Fulborne. Certiorari and subpoena.: Cambridge, London. C 1/368/32 William Urchynnett, of Lincoln, mercer, executor of Robert Hodylston, [mercer]. v. George Browne, of Lincoln, goldsmith.: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and land in St. Peter's parish, Lincoln, and others therein, devised for repairs of St. Peter's church. C 1/928/10 Christopher Walter of Prestbury, yeoman. v. John Hodylstone and Richard Lyggyn, sheriff, both knights.: Imprisonment on an outlawry obtained against complainant in a false name, the said Sir John being unable to obtain a verdict against him in his true name. 1538-1544 STAC 2/22/84 PLAINTIFF: John Hodylston DEFENDANT: The abbot of Wynchcombe, Richard Comley, John ap Thomas, John Hykkes, John Vele, and William Slaughterman PLACE OR SUBJECT: Messuage and land in Langley Field, Winchcomb COUNTY: Gloucester 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 2/24/167 PLAINTIFF: Richard, abbot of Winchcombe DEFENDANT: John Hodylston PLACE OR SUBJECT: Riot COUNTY: Somerset 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 Lancashire Record Office: Stanley, Earls of Derby (of Knowsley) [DDK/1-DDK/44] Grants, Family Deeds, &c FILE-The King to Thomas Earl of Derby-ref. DDK/2/8-date: 25th February. 4 Henry VII., A.D. 1488-9 \_ [from Scope and Content] Manors of (co. Somerset): \_ [from Scope and Content] The reversion of all the lands, tenements, rents, reversions and services lately forfeited by John Broughton, Esq., and held by Henry Huddleston for the term of his life: FILE-The King to George Stanley, Knight, Lord de Straunge-ref. DDK/2/12-date: 8th Mar., 4 Henry VII., A.D. 1489 \_ [from Scope and Content] Hasilbeare, Manor of (co. Somerset).
From Rosemary-St-legermay JOHN BROOKE was born in of Haselour, and died June 1571 in Haseler, Staffordshire. He married (1) ANNA SHIRLEY. She was born in of Staunton. He married (2) LUCIE HUDDLESTON 1557, daughter of RICHARD HUDDLESTON and MARGERY SMYTHE. She died Bet. 1557-1560. He married (3) ALICE Aft. 1557, daughter of JOHN CROKER. She died 1560 in Elford, Staffordshire. Notes for JOHN BROOKE: This John Brooke is described as the son of Sir Robert Brooke, knt., of Lapley in "The Antiquities of Staffordshire" but I have not yet found any proof of this. It is known that amongst his 17 children, Sir Robert Brooke did have a son and heir called John. Degge says that the first Brooke of Haselour was a "serving-man," and was promoted "from the stable to his young mistress's bed." The Manor of Haselour came to John Brooke through his marriage to Lucie Huddlestone, who had inherited Haselour from from her mother's family. She was co-heiress with her sister Anne, who inherited the manor of Elford. The Arms of Brooke of Haselour (1583) are described as: Or a cross Engr. party p' pale sa. and b. {? Argent, a cross engrailed per pale Sable and Gules, in the first quarter an annulet of the last}. The notes supplied by Grazebrook to the 1663-4 Visitation of Staffordshire seem to show that the correct surname of the family was "Brookes". The pedigree entered does not attempt to prove any connection with the Brookes of Norton, Cheshire, yet the Arms of that well-known family were allowed to the Haselour Brookes, differenced merely by an annulet gules in the dexter quarter. So it appears that they may well have been connected. In 1508 John Stanley died leaving no male heir, and for many generations the manor of Haselour passed through female inheritance. Finally it descended from the Huddlestones to the Brookes, when Lucy Huddlestone, who was co-heiress, married John Brooke in 1557. Her sister, the other heiress, married Sir John Bowes, taking as her share of the inheritance the manor of Elford. So the two manors became finally separated. The Brookes, who held Haselour for over 200 years, were there at the time of the Civil War.(Source: Notes on Staffordshire Families).
House of Commons Journal Volume 1 18 March 1581 Privilege-Order respecting Halle's Imprisonment, Sir James Crofte, Knight, One other of her Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, and Treasurer of her Highness's most honorable Houshold. House of Commons Journal 1 05 June 1604 (2nd scribe) Continuances of Statutes committed unto the former Committees, and unto all the King's Privy Council ... Sir Herbert Crofte. We have an older Sybill Crofte and a younger Sybill Crofte. The older one born 1451-1454 was the daughter of Richard Crofte and Elinor Bare and her spouse was Sir George Herbert. Sir George Herbert was the child of Sir William Herbert and Ann Devereaux. The younger Sybill Crofte 1490-1523 of Croft Castle married Richard Huddleston and was the daughter of Richard Crofte and Catherine Herbert. Film number 184621 Richard Croft married Catherine Herbert in about 1508 at Croft Castle. He was born about 1484 and died 01 Jan 1484. Catherine Herbert was born about 1486 at Blackhall, Montgomery, Wales. Richard Crofte parents were Edward Crofte and Joyce Skull.(C) Certificate of Muster Masters (1539)
This is the certificate of Sir George Gresley, knight, John Vernon and William Wyrley, esquires, three of the king's commissioners ... appointed for the trial and the view of all persons armed within the hundred of Ofelaw in the county of Stafford, above sixteen years, as well horsemen, footmen, bowmen, and billmen within the said hundred, whose names with their surnames and their weapons severally appeareth; and have given monition to every of them ... to be ready with their horse and harness, and to have their harness according to the king's statute thereof made. In witness we have subscribed our names and set to our seals the 27th day of April, 1539....[2] Elford and Hasulhowre Richard Huddilston — horse, harness, bill; able John Hervy — harness, without a horse, a bill; able Richard Wryght Rauf Massye Petur Foleshist John Janens — bowmen, able; without horse or harness John Melburne Thomas Smyth Alexander Hodson Philipp Wright — a bowman, not able Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 1901, p. 217.
AO 1/292/1097 Roll 1097 R. Huddlestone (per administrator), Treasurer at War of the Forces in the Low Countries. 11 Aug. 1585-1 June 1586. AO 1/292/1096 Roll 1096 R. Huddlestone (per administrator), Treasurer at War of the Forces in the Low Countries. 2 Aug. 1585-1 Feb. 1586/7 Cruickshank, C.G.. ELIZABETH'S ARMY. Oxford University Press, 1966 (2nd ed.). pp. 290-303 No. I o. Warrant for Paymcnt SIR P. SYDNY, knight. Theis are to require you to paie unto Sir Phillip Sidney knight captaine of a cornet of c. Iaunces for his owne enterteignment at viii- per diem, his Lieutenant at iiij per diem, his Guydon at ij- per diem, one Trumpet, one Clarcke and one Surgeon at xxd per diem le peece, fourscore ten launces, and ten dead paies at xviijd per diem ' Harl. MSS. 168, f. Iog. cr. s.P. Holland, Elu. 18, f. Io4b. ' Add. MSS. 5753, r. 177. 296 APPENDIXES le peece for iijcxxxiiij daies, beginning the xijth day of November, 1585, and ending the xjth day of October last past the some of two thowsande eight hundred twentie twoe pounds six shillings sterling. Provided allwaies that yow doe not only dcfaulk the some of Thir-teene shillinges and foure pens sterlinge checked within the said tyrne, but allso all former Imprests to him delivered and all victualls and munition, together with all other deductions defaulcable upon this Account by certificate from the ministers thereof approved by the captaines hand. And theis together with his Acquittance con- fessing the receipt of the same shalbe your sufficient warrant in that behalf. Geven at Gravenhage the viijth day of November Anno Reginae Elizabeth xxviijo R. LEYCESTER. To Richard Huddilston esquier, her majesties Threasurer at Warres. Ex. Tho. Digges. jkmviijcxxijli sixe shillings.1 Ex p. Edmond Hunte. No. II. Receipt for Payment2 RECEYVED by me Captayne Edwarde Cromwell at the hands of the ryght worshipfful Rycharde Hudleston esquyre treasurer at wares for her majesty in the Lowe Countryes the some of thirtye and eyght pownds ster. monye to be deffaulked owt of the first paye or impreste made to me and the companye under my leadynge wyttnes whereof I have suhscrybed this guyttance with my owne hand. Datted the daye of September anno dom. 1586. ED. CROMWELL. SP 46/34/fo 277 Henry, lord Norreys to Myldmay: Place conveyed his interest in Buck prebend to Richard Huddleston, whose estate Norreys has, but Place keeps the house. Will put in his bill if lord Henry Seymour will answer him; 29 Nov. 1587. Longleat House: Dudley Papers Plea of Sir Christopher Blount, Knt., and Lettice, Countess of Leicester, his wife, in answer to charges in the accompts of Richard Huddleston, Esq., and Sir Thomas Chester, Treasurers-at-war in the Low Countries, against Robert [Dudley], late Earl of Leicester, of £3619, moneys of the Queen not accompted for down to 30 Nov. 1587. [See above, DU/VOL III, art.24]. Without date.
Captain John Huddleston was born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (29th year of her reign =29 Eliz or 1587) and was in England till the death of King James I. Mary Queen of Scotts, Elizabeth's sister was executed 1587. As shown by the trips of the Bona Nova, Captain John Huddleston's first trip was in 1618. 1618 was the beginning of the 'Thirty Years War'. From the Catholic Enclopedia: The Thirty Years War (1618-48), though pre-eminently a German war, was also of great importance for the history of the whole of Europe, not only because nearly all the countries of Western Europe took part in it, but also on account of its connection with the other great European wars of the same era and on account of its final results.
Stepney Docks St Katherine's Dock
When the St Katherine's Dock was built 1250 houses were purchased and destroyed and 11,300 inhabitants removed, many being turned on to the streets. Few received compensation since they were renting their accommodation.
A vast fire, in 1794, had burnt down much of Ratcliffe, Shadwell and Stepney. It was on ground still half covered with the tents supplied by the Government's military stores at the Tower of London that the new slums of Stepney, Shadwell and Ratcliffe started to rise alongside the old.'
Many famed people lived in the parish including adventurers and explorers and many of these sailed from Stepney. Sebastien Cabot (1450-1498) who lead the search for the North West Passage in 1499. Sir Walter Raleigh's half brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-83), a navigator, was born at Buxham and lived, at one time, in Limehouse. He was the first Englishman to sail the Atlantic and founded the first English colony. Henry Hudson embarked upon his voyages from St Katherine's Dock and his final voyage and last attempt in April 1610 in the 70 ton 'Discoverie' to find the North West Passage was made from Blackwall. Martin Frobisher (1535-94), who helped defeat the Armada, left from Ratcliffe Cross in 1576 with 35 men on the 'Gabriel' and 'Michael', on his way to search for the North-West passage. Sir Hugh Willoughby, in 1553, sailed from Ratcliffe with a fleet of 3 ships to find a north east trade route to Cathey and India. He, along with the crews of 2 of the ships, were shipwrecked off Lapland and died. The third vessel, the 'Stephen Bonaventure', with Captain Stephen Borough at its head, found a passage to the White Sea and landed at Archangel. Following this the Muscovy Trading Company was formed. William Adams of Ratcliffe (died 1620) and John Saris of Aldgate were the first Englishmen to sail to Japan. They sailed in Dutch ships and Adams was never allowed to return to England. He left a wife and two children in Stepney and took a new family in Japan.
The St Dunstan marriage register 1609-1639 starts with the following note 'This book was bought by Mr Richd Phillips, Churchwarden, Ano 1612. Also hee and Mr Gisby built new of their owne chardges the weste Church porch of bricke & stone. He boughte also a new bible & a great parchment book for Christninges besides many other things. He deserveth great comendacons.' Richard was a yeoman of Limehouse, and a deputy churchwarden for Mr Richard March.
The St Dunstan vestry minutes of 1613 show that John Brockbancke the late clerk, perhaps through illness, had not recorded all the christenings, marriages and burials and Peter Wright was asked if he would bring them up to date by the following Easter for a payment of four pounds.
Stepney Folk The Black Death, the Plague and Churchyard
In 1617 it had been decided that in future there would be chosen in every hamlet 'two fit aged women to search and vew the bodies of everie one deceasing for the prevention of infection'. The searchers were to receive two pence for every body they viewed and searched.
The Plague of 1625-By July 1625 the order passed in April regarding burials in the churchyard had to be rescinded. Mary Oswell and Elizabeth Scott of Ratcliffe and Joane Hassam and Rose Write of Limehouse were chosen to be searchers of dead bodies 'in case & feare of Contagion of sicknes now suspected'. They would receive fourpence apiece for every body they viewed and searched. Robert Bell One of the earliest and chief members of the Honourable East India Company and very active in its affairs. The vestry was not happy with the way he was conducting vestry business in 1626 and he left the parish in disgrace. However he continued to be well thought of elsewhere and he was knighted in 1630. He had built ships for the Navy and helped crush piracy and at Court had been appointed a gentleman of the Privy Chamber. He had the 'privilege' in 1619 of lending money to Prince Charles (Charles I). Problems in 1626 Robert Bell was the subject under discussion at the April 30 1626 vestry. He was the churchwarden for Ratcliffe and had taken in money for Church duties which had been charged to help pay for the cost of the re-earthing of the churchyard. Because he would not part with the money the work had to stop. The parish would have to bear the cost of presenting a suit against him at the High Commission Court and Robert had to leave the parish with all his goods and moved to Rotherhythe.
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney-St Dunstans church remains an almost completely medieval church, the only one in the area. Until the 13th century the church served the whole of the Stepney area and stands half a mile in from the Ratcliffe shore. Fine houses once surrounded the church.
Stepney Notes-The River, the Barges and the Watermen-For centuries the traffic of goods to and from the City and surrounding area was mainly riverborne. 3500 river craft conveyed cargoes to and from the shore. The Pool was often filled with so many ships that boats could not get across. Barges carried goods along narrow rivers and canals down to the Thames where they offloaded their goods for the City or loaded ships. Barges have square section flatbottoms which give them a light draught in shallow waters. Originally they were very much like a punt. This allowed the carriage of maximum cargo and the flat bottoms allowed them to be beached upright between tides. Many were built in Kent and Essex and they were a common sight on the Thames and had been used for centuries to carry cargoes up shallow creeks direct to farm, quarry and dock. They required only a small crew and could get up a reasonable speed. Some, with sails, were able to navigate the Channel whilst others relied upon the tide. Those who steered these vessels, and some on the river today continue to do so in the same manner, knew the ways of the river and were able to gauge which way the ebb and flow, and the currents and eddies would take their craft. Coaches were introduced into England between 1555–80. In 16th-century England, poets described coaches as ostentatious vehicles employed by wantons and rakes, and the Thames watermen (boatmen), whose living suffered, also complained bitterly of them. The Thames watermen, who had been regulated since the 14th century, formed their own guild or company by 1603.
A Census of 1583 said there were 5000 aliens in the City of London and there were far more outside the walls. More and more of the Stepney area began to built on to house them and their skills were at first welcome for their standards were high but soon they began to rival the City of London and resentment from them and local traders and craftsmen grew.
At the end of the 16th century there was a period of rapid growth in population with the development of the riverside and eastern suburbs of the City. For civil purposes Stepney had been divided up into four hamlets - Ratcliffe, Limehouse, Poplar and Mile End, but because of the increase in buildings and inhabitants new hamlets were created. Bethnal Green (in 1597), Shadwell (in 1645), Spitalfields (in 1662), St. George in the East (in 1670), Mile End New Town (in 1691) and Bow (in 1719). Whitechapel and Bromley St. Leonard were already separate parishes.
RATCLIFF-A natural landing place on the north bank of the Thames between Wapping marsh and the Isle of Dogs, the reddish colour of the soil perhaps inspiring the Saxon name of "red cliff". The northern part of the hamlet of Ratcliff, which contained the parish church of St. Dunstan's Stepney, was quite rural until the 19th century; the southern part grew rapidly at an early period because of its position on the riverside. In the early 14th century the the village became devoted to the fitting out, repairing and victualling of ships rather than ship building. In Tudor times many voyages of discovery began at Ratcliff, notably those by Sir Hugh Willoughby in 1553 and Martin Frobisher in the 1570s. By 1610 Ratcliff was the most populous of the hamlets of Stepney with about 3,500 inhabitants. Ratcliff became part of the Borough of Stepney in 1900.
The center of the Tower of London consists of the original White Tower. The White Tower is a square structure with turrets on all four corners and a pepper-pot design on the top of the turrets. Surrounded by lesser towers, the White Tower has a very formidable appearance. A moat runs on three sides of the Tower and the Thames runs by the fourth. Anyone approaching London by river would have been awed by the majesty of the Tower (Rowse, 9). A great mystique surrounds the Tower. It was a common myth in early times that the Tower was built by the Romans. Shakespeare refers to that myth in Richard II when he writes "Julius Ceasar's ill-erected tower." In fact the Tower was designed and built by a Norman expert, Gundulf, who was brought by William I to build this great fortress (Rowse, 10). Probably the most familiar function of the Tower is that of a prison and a place of execution. Dudley also wrote a brief elegy to the people put to death at the Tower, "Martyrs: Here repose those victims of tyranny and religious persecution: John Fisher, Thomas More, Anne Bullen, Catherine Howard, Thomas Cromwell, Rob't Deveraux, Edward Seymour, Jane Gray, her husband, his father and grandfather. I'll mention no more. How many have bled on the fatal Hill!" (Dudley, 3). The Babington plot from which was written Tichborne's elegy was inspired by Mary Stuart. Anthony Babington set in motion a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, the plot failed, and Babington and his co-conspirators were executed for treason. Mary was also executed for giving her consent to the assassination (Rowse, 86). One of the most unique features of the Tower is the Tower Ravens. A throw back to the time when the Tower served as a zoo, the ravens have their own myth-- as long as the ravens stay in the Tower, London will never fall. The ravens are not friendly and often bite visitors. One story says that in the 1930s a Nazi official unfavorably compared London's ravens to Germany's eagles and was subsequently bitten by one of the ravens (Rowse, 255).
Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace near London. Her father was England's King Henry VIII; her mother was the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth had an older half-sister, Mary, who was the daughter of the king's first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Information taken from Queen Elizabeth, The Unwanted Queen Reigned 1558-1603
Although she returned the Church of England to power, she showed tolerance toward Catholics at first. Despite Catholic conspiracies to overthrow her and place Mary Stuart on the English throne, Elizabeth hesitated to execute her fellow queen. Mary became Elizabeth's prisoner in 1568, but it was not until 1587 that Elizabeth, confronted with evidence of Mary's participation in the Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth, signed Mary's death warrant. By this time Elizabeth had become more brutal in suppressing Catholics, although she continued to believe, in her words, "There is only one Christ Jesus and one faith; the rest is a dispute about trifles." In 1588 Spain's King Philip II, Elizabeth's brother-in-law and one-time suitor, assembled a great fleet of ships, the Armada, and tried to invade England. The ensuing battle between the Spanish and English fleets lasted nine days. At last the English routed their enemy, and most of the fleeing Spanish ships were destroyed by a storm. Mary was finally beheaded on 8 February 1587.
King James VI and I James was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband, Lord Darnley. He was born in 1566. The following year, his mother abdicated and he became King James VI of Scotland. In 1603, his mother's cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England died and James inherited her throne, uniting England and Scotland under one crown for the first time. In English history he is called King James I. He died in 1625 and was succeeded by his son, Charles I.
Hi Roy, I spent some time in Kendal Public Records Office in Westmoreland, England over the weekend, and had the opportunity of of looking at the Visitations of the county of Cumberland, the offical record of the Hudleston family pedigree. Arms; - A chevron between three bulls heads cabosed (untinctured). This is an ancient Cumbrian Family. At the beginning of the 17th century, George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland would have been their overlord. The north of England was still run on feudal lines in 1600. In 1588, George Clifford was put in command of the "Elizabeth Bonaventure", a ship of the Royal Navy, (i,e, in belonged to the Queen) of six hundred tons, in which he set out against the Spanish Armada, and after the decisive action off Gravelines, he is said to have carried news to the vicory to the Queen in the camp at Tilbury. The family pedigree shows; fferdinando Hudleston of Millom Castell = Jane, d. of Sr Raffe Gray of Chillingham Knt. in Com' Northumberland. William Hudleston = Bridgett,d/ of Joseph Pennington of Muncaster in Comb'land 1637 I A sonn A daughter named Mary ux. Christopher Philipsonn of Twatterden Hall in Com' Westmoreland Looking at all of the evidence you have supplied, including a marriage to ....... of Hartlipoole (a commoner) and the high living antics of the Earl (he separated from his wife because of affairs, was a gambler, big spender and was forced to sell a lot of his estates to pay for his voyages incl the voyage 1597-8 where they plundered various ships at the Canaries and Azores, going on to Dominica and thence to Porto Rico. (He was known as the Privateering Earl), plus the navigational skills of John Hudleston, I would suggest the "sonn" in the above pedigree is John Hudleston who went to sea with George Clifford (it would be regarded as an honour) as a boy and never got back to Cumberland. It is unusual to find the words "a sonn" in official family pedigrees. This Pedigree was written in 1666, after the Civil War during which tens of thousands of Royalists were killed 1640-1660. I am pretty sure that some of the passengers on John Hudlestons voyage 1622 to Virginia had passengers on board from County Durham, County of Yorkshire, and particularily from Darlington, Stockton, Hartlepool areas. Do you have the passenger list? Regards, Eric William Lamberton
July 9, 1610
Feature Name:Blunt Point Feature Type: cape State: Virginia County: Newport News (city) Latitude: 37.05556 Longitude: -76.51889 Old Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City County, VA - Old Records; Wm. & Mary Qtrly, Vol. 9, No. 2 OLD KECOUGHTAN. Page 83 There are in the records of Elizabeth City county the details of a suit in ejectment, which are interesting not only for the legal phases that illustrate the course of law in the colony, but for the information they give about the early settlement of Elizabeth City county. When the first emigrants arrived in Virginia, they found an Indian village near Point Comfort, called Kecoughtan, or Kicoughtan, or Kiccotan. There was in the neighborhood a large open country of two or three thousand acres in which the Indians raised their corn, beans and tobacco. Only July 9, 1610, because the Indians of Kecoughtan captured and killed Humphrey Blunt at the point on James River in Warwick county, Page 84 which still bears his name, Sir Thomas Gates set upon the Indians, whose chief was Pochins, a son of Powhatan, and drove them away from their habitations. To secure his new conquest, he erected, at the mouth of Hampton River, two small stockades, "about a musket shot apart," and about two miles from the fort, called Fort Algernon, already established in 1608 at Point Comfort, and called them Fort Charles and Fort Henry. Notes for EDWARD WATERS: Lieutenant EDWARD WATERS (1585-1630) left England, June 1609, in the service of Sir George Somers, accompanying him on the Seaventure, shipwrecked off the Somers Islands and was among those who reached Virginia, 1610, in the Patience built on the Islands. He is not to be confused with the "condemned man" Robert Waters a sailor, charged with mutiny and left behind with a companion Christopher Carter. The following year Edward Waters Accompanied Sir George Somers to get "hogs and other good things in the Bermudas," as much needed supplies for Virginia. Somers died there; his men embalmed the corpse and set sail for England, leaving Chard and Edward Waters on the islands with with Christopher Carter. Robert Waters returned to England, Entered the East India service and died at sea, 6 August 1614. The three men, Chard, Edward Waters and Carter, during explorations of the islands came upon a piece of ambergris, worth a fortune and the eventual source of much dissention. But, thereby, the Bermuda Company was formed in England and the ambergris was sent over in parcels at intervals when supplies and men to settle the islands were shipped from England. Waters was of the Council of six left to govern the islands, 1614. Two years later he sailed for Virginia to get supplies and never returned to the islands.
In the census of 1623, Waters, his wife and son are listed at Elizabeth City. In the meantime the Massacre of 1622 had occured and Edward Waters was listed as dead along with four others at his plantation of 100 acres near Blount Point. Instead of being murdered, Waters and his wife, who was Grace O'Neil, who came on the Diana in 1618, and married Waters about 1620, were taken prisoners and held among the Nansemond Indians on the south shore of the James River, but eventually escaped. The Original Waters plantation of 100 acres of record, 14 August 1624, lay in the area adjacent to the present Mariners Museum in the now city of Warwick. However, on 8 January 1626 Waters was granted permission to move his "seat" to the area of Elizabeth City which is now the location of the Kecoughtan Veterans Facility and his patent of 100 acres being "part of the Strawberry bancks," adjacent to the "look-out tree near John's Creek is of record 20 October 1628. Waters served as member of the Commission for holding monthly courts at Elizabeth City, 1623-1629, church warden of the parish, 1624, member of the House of Burgesses, 1625 (convention), 1627-28 and as Commander of plantations from Southampton River to Fox Hill. He made a trip to England, 1629 or 1630 and died there before 18 September 1630, at which time his brother John Waters was granted administration of his will. The will dated 20 August 1630 at Great Hornemead, Hertfordshire, recites he was of "Elizabeth City in Virginia" and mentions his wife, Son and daughter.