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The Hague (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 8.82
the Colonial authorities, also other papers from 1621 to 1625, and a smaller folio in manuscript containing copies of earlier papers. I have given this detail of the Rev. Mr. Neill's sources of information in order to show upon what authority I stand whenever hereinafter I shall cite him as a witness. And now let us revert to Mr. Grigsby's theory. On page 52 of Neill, it appears that John Chamberlaine wrote on the 18th December, 1611, from London, to Sir Dudley Carleton, ambassador at the Hague, as follows: Newport, the Admiral of Virginia, is newly come home, and brings word of the arrival there of Sir Thomas Gates, &c. On the same page, and in reference to Chamberlaine's foregoing remark, Neill says: After this, Newport was chosen one of the six masters of the Royal Navy, and was engaged by the East India Company to escort Sir Robert Shirley to Persia; and for his authority Mr. Neill quotes Howe's continuation of Stowe's chronicles of England. We have no record showing that
Henrico (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
England, he published in quarto form in London, A true Relation of such occurrences and acidents of noate as hath happened in Virginia. * * * Written by Captaine Smith, Coronell of said Collony, to a worshipfull friend of his in England, &a., &c. I have never seen this Relation. So the phrase Whittaker's News, would have some significance when mentioned by one Londoner to another in reference to Good Newes from Virginia, written in 1613, by the Rev. Alexander Whittaker, Minister of Henrico, Virginia, and sent by him in that year to the Company in London, and afterwards published there. I have not read from Newport's pen any account of his discoveries and acts in Virginia, but I have no doubt that on one of his early returns to England from Virginia, He sailed to and fro many times between England and Virginia in the four years elapsing between 1607 and 1611. he did publish a brief pamphlet respecting the affairs and prospects of the Colony, which probably was entitled or was
Warwick (search for this): chapter 8.82
shows how well established the name Newport's News had become as early as 1622 (only fifteen years after the foundation of the Colony), and utterly forbids the idea that either of those bodies supposed Sir William's surname had any place, or was intended to have any place, in the compound name. In the 18th year of Charles I, at a Grand Assemblie holden at James Cittie, the 2d of March, 1642, 1643, there was passed an Act (being the 15th Act of that session) defining the boundaries of Warwick County. In that Act occurs the following passage: * * * from the mouth of Heth's Creek up along the lower side, * * * with all the lands belonging to the Mills, and so down to Newport's News, with the families of Skowen's damms and Persimmon Ponds. --[Hening's Statutes at Large, Edit. 1809.] Creed Taylor and William Munford, authorized examiners, certify at Richmond, Va., on the 1st September, 1809, that they have carefully compared the laws in Hening's volumes with the original manuscript
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
ntended that the name was bestowed on the place by Captain Newport, to commemorate his own surname and the surname of the Knight-Marshal of Virginia, Sir William Newce. Before going very far into Mr. Grigsby's letter, I found he had not sufficiently posted himself on the subject, and that in consequence his theory was, for the most part, a draft on his own imagination. En passant--I here remark that this question was one of quite earnest public discussion by numbers of the literati of Eastern Virginia (including the late Honorable John Tyler of that State) in the twenties and thirties of this century; and it seems that merely from not having delved as deeply as they could have done, even at that day, down among the records of the past, they failed to arrive at a decision of the question, and so left the controversy, to give employment to the pens of their successors, of half a century later. As the overthrow of Mr. Grigsby's theory will be the defeat of the theories of all others
Southampton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
od's was locked up in a room of Sir John's house while he transcribed the minutes. After the work was done on sheets of folio paper, each page, in order to prevent interpolation, was carefully compared with the originals by Collingwood, and then subscribed Con. Collingwood, and the whole (bound in two volumes, the first of 354 pages and the second of 387 pages, containing the Company's Transactions from April 28, 1619, to June 7, 1624), was taken by Danvers to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who was President of the Company. Space does not permit me to trace here the travels of these manuscript volumes through the hands and ownership of different parties in England and Virginia, until they came at length into the possession of Thomas Jefferson, and after his death were purchased by the Government of the United States, and are now in their manuscript state, in the library of that goverment in Washington, D. C. Three days before the comparison was finished, judgment (in
East India (search for this): chapter 8.82
y. After his return to England from Virginia in December, 1611, and his subsequent appointment to a high position in the Royal Navy, it seems he sailed for the East Indies, engaging in the meantime to convoy Sir Robert Shirley's ship to Persia. It is highly probable that the ships did not sail so early as March, 1612, which woulds after the arrival of Newport from Virginia. But conceding that they did sail in March of that year, yet when we remember that in those days a voyage to the East Indies, out and home, consumed from two and a half to three years, we must admit, after making allowance for the detour to Persia, that Newport made good use of his tiore-mentioned letter to himself, in which Mr. Deane cites passages from letters written in London in July, 1614, stating that Newport arrived in London from the East Indies in that month and year. As before said, we have no record of his having visited Virginia after 1611, and we have the following good reason to believe why he
Saybrook, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
etter carelessly printed the word Nuse for News; pronouncing, in his mind, the word Nuse as if rhyming with Fuse, and therefore sounding, as to its last three letters, precisely like the sound of the last three letters of the word News. Mr. Grigsby, in his letter to Mr. Deane, cites the compound name Newport-Pagnall, in England, and the following compound names in this country, viz: Hampden-Sidney, Randolph-Macon, Wilkes-Barre, and Say-Brook, Written at the present day Wilkesbarre and Saybrook. in support of his theory; as if he should assert, by way of argument: Because those compound names are what they are, and were originated, as everybody knows, to perpetuate in each case the united surnames of two persons, therefore the compound name Newport's News is orthographically incorrect, and is but a corruption of what I assert is the true and original name, i. e. Newport Newce. I hardly ever saw an argument or an attempted argument that exhibited a more striking illustration tha
Scotia (search for this): chapter 8.82
gland, 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 nIreland 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 letterollowing passage: There arived heere about the 22d of November, a shipp from Mr. Gookin, out of Ireland, wholy uppon his owne adventure I. e., at his own cost. Mr. Gookin had, prior to this expeditect the locality where, or near where, he intended to plant his Company, before taking out from Ireland a Company of fifty emigrants, well furnished with all sortes of pvisione, [provision,] as well ith cattle, as is stated in that January-letter. To do this properly, and then to go back to Ireland and get up an expedition of that kind, could not have been well performed in less time, at the
Cape Charles (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
o 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 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 in that body, each settlement by two burgesses. I have the names of the eleven settlements now before me, but to economize space I do not here give them. Suffice it to say, that the name New
London (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 8.82
t made good use of his time in getting back to London in July, 1614, after an absence only of two yeat case, instead of applying to the Company in London, would have had recourse direct to the Coloniarom the Colonial Authorities to the Company in London, dated 20th January, 1622. In it is the folloetter takes it for granted that the Company in London were already perfectly aware that there was th be made there, while individuals returning to London from the Colony and masters of ships sailing between London and the Colony might, in their intercourse with members of the Company as private indinia, written in April, 1622, to the Company in London, giving an account of the great massacre that y the Virginia Authorities, but the Company in London, as early as 1622, put the first word (Newportned to England, he published in quarto form in London, A true Relation of such occurrences and acideand sent by him in that year to the Company in London, and afterwards published there. I have not[14 more...]
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