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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Newport's News. Nomen non Locus. (search)
and, and was never in the Colony after 1611, and we have no record of his ever having visited Ireland while Sir William Neuse was a planter in Ireland before going to Virginia [Neill], and he did not visit that Colony until the autumn of 1621, when he went out as Marshal, but died two days after reading his patent and commission in public--[Stith, p. 159]. The Colonial Authorities, in a letter to the Company in London, dated 20th January, 1622, announce, among other things, the death of Sir William Nuce, who, they say, did not, above two days, survive his reading of his Patent. --[Neill, p. 363.] As the performance of that ceremony usually took place (for obvious reasons) within a very short period after the advent into his field of official action of a public functionary, it is highly probable that Sir William died before he had been five weeks in Virginia. [Neill says that he died in a few days after his arrival in the Colony.] This fact effectually disposes of Mr. Grigsby's drea