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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Newport's News. Nomen non Locus. (search)
such a date, when tide and wind were ahead. That the point was not occupied by a settlement of white people prior to 1621, we have, I think, good grounds for believing from the facts now to be adduced. Rolfe's relation, written in Virginia in 1616, and now in the British Museum in the original manuscript, and sent by Rolfe to the Company in London in 1616, has, among others, the following statement: The places which are now possessed and inhabited are sixe, 1st. Henrico and the ly1616, has, among others, the following statement: The places which are now possessed and inhabited are sixe, 1st. Henrico and the lymitts, 2d. Bermuda Nether Hundreds, 3d. West and Shirley Hundreds, 4th. James Towne, 5th. Kequoughtan [now, 1882, Hampton], 6th. Dale's Gift; upon the sea neere unto Cape Charles; and Rolfe states that 351 persons composed at that time the entire population of the Colony. The first legislative, representative body that was ever convened in Virginia, was organized on 30th July, 1619, at Jamestown. All the settlements in the Colony, then eleven in number, were represented