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Humphrey Harwood
Humphrey Harwood (ca.1649-1700) was a soldier, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia. Early life The son and heir of planter and former speaker of the House of Burgesses Thomas Harwood was a young boy when his father died, so William Whitaker became guardian for him and his two sisters.John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004)) vol. 2, p. 299 His father and great uncle William Harwood (councillor), William Harwood had both arrived in the earliest days of the Virginia colony, and became political leaders as well as major planters. Humphrey Harwood (for whom this man would name his heir) had arrived in the Virginia colony in 1621 to become "governor" of the Martin's Hundred plantation and survived the Indian massacre of 1622, massacre of 1622 as well as served on the Governor's Council until he was recalled to England in 1635. In that year, still long before this boy's birth, his man's fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Hith Plantation Complex Site
The Queen Hith Plantation Complex Site is a historic archaeological site in the Oakland Farm area of Newport News, Virginia. It is the site of the central complex of Thomas Harwood's extensive plantation, established some time after his arrival at Jamestown in 1622. The plantation was about in size, and extended along the banks of Skiffe's Creek Skiffe's Creek is located in James City County, Virginia, James City County and the independent city of Newport News, Virginia, Newport News in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States. .... The site includes the foundational remnants of his 1643 house. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport News, Virginia References Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Newport News, Virginia {{NewportNewsVA-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peirce (burgess)
William Peirce ( to ), emigrated with his family to the new Colony of Virginia, where he became a valued soldier, as well as a planter, merchant and politician. Although Peirce fought in several skirmishes with Native Americans and served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly as well as helped topple governor John Harvey, today he may best be known as one of the first slave owners in the colony. available at https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/peirce-william-d-btw-1645-and-1647/ , publisher= Encyclopedia Virginia/Dictionary of Virginia Biography, accessdate=18 July 2023, Early life Pierce was born and married in England. In June 1609 he sailed for the two year old Virginia Colony with his wife and daughter (both named Joan) in a nine-boat flotilla. While the women arrived in the colony by the end of the year, Peirce's ship, the '' Sea Venture,'' shipwrecked in Bermuda, and he did not arrive until 1610. Another passenger on the wrecked vessel was John Rolfe, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Colonial Virginia
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People From Warwick County, Virginia
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House Of Burgesses Members
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1700 Deaths
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William Harwood, Jr
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William Harwood (burgess)
William Harwood (d.June 2, 1737) was a landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia,who thrice represented Warwick County in the House of Burgesses.Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Cyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1 p. 254John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004) vol. 2, p. 299 Early and family life One of the sons of Ann Needler and her planter and burgess husband Humphrey Harwood. He was likely named for his great-uncle William Harwood who had governed Martin's Hundred and served on the colony's governor's council as well as a burgess. Their father had apparently died by 1704, and this man outlived his brothers Humphrey (d. by 1713) and Thomas (d. by 1729). Another brother, John Harwood, paid taxes on 750 acres in Warwick County in 1704 and received a government subsidy for "taking up Jack an Indian boy" a decade later. Although he held no public offices and no probate record for him r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth City, Virginia
Elizabeth City (or Elizabeth Cittie as it was then called) was one of four incorporations established in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the proprietor, the Virginia Company of London, acting in accordance with instructions issued by Sir George Yeardley, Governor.Foley, Louise Pledge Heath (1978, 2002 reprint). ''Early Families Along the James River'', p. vi. Genealogical Publishing Co. The plantations and developments were divided into four political divisions, called "incorporations", "burroughs", or "cities". These were James City, Charles City, Henrico City, and Kiccowtan or Kecoughtan (later Elizabeth City). Each of the four "citties" (sic) extended across the James River, the main conduit of transportation of the era. In 1634, under the authority of Charles I of England, Virginia was divided into eight counties, or shires. One of them was Elizabeth City Shire, later Elizabeth City County. Elizabeth City County existed until 1952, when it was incorporated as the independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native Americans out of Virginia. Thousands of Virginians from all classes (including those in indentured servitude) and races rose up in arms against Berkeley, chasing him from Jamestown and ultimately torching the settlement. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists. Government forces arrived soon after and spent several years defeating pockets of resistance and reforming the colonial government to be once more under direct Crown control. Bacon's rebellion was the first rebellion in the North American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part (a somewhat similar uprising in Maryland involving John Coode and Josias Fendall took place shortly afterwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Massacre Of 1622
The Indian massacre of 1622, popularly known as the Jamestown massacre, took place in the English Colony of Virginia, in what is now the United States, on 22 March 1622. John Smith, though he had not been in Virginia since 1609 and was not an eyewitness, related in his ''History of Virginia'' that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us". The Powhatan then grabbed any tools or weapons available and killed all the English settlers they found, including men, women, children of all ages. Chief Opechancanough led the Powhatan Confederacy in a coordinated series of surprise attacks, and they killed a total of 347 people, a quarter of the population of the Virginia colony. Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the site of the first successful English settlement in North America, and was the capital of the Colony of Virginia. Its tobacco economy, which quickly degraded the land and required new land, led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick County, Virginia
Warwick County was a county in Southeast Virginia that was created from Warwick River Shire, one of eight created in the Virginia Colony in 1634. It became the City of Newport News on July 16, 1952. Located on the Virginia Peninsula on the northern bank of the James River between Hampton Roads and Jamestown, the area consisted primarily of farms and small unincorporated villages until the arrival of the Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1881 and development led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington. With the railroad came the coal piers, several local stations in Warwick County for passenger service and shipping produce and seafood to markets, and a branch link to the resorts and military facilities in neighboring Elizabeth City County at Old Point Comfort. The community at the southeastern edge on the harbor of Hampton Roads became Newport News in 1896, hosting the world's largest shipyard. At the outset of World War I, the U.S. Army facility whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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