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Dale (search for this): chapter 8.82
rounds 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 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 th
John Chamberlaine (search for this): chapter 8.82
s 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 Newport ever returned to Virginia after 1611, and we have the following very strong grounds for believing that he never did return after that year to t
Thomas Neuse (search for this): chapter 8.82
a foot-note to Mr. Grigsby's letter to himself, Mr. Deane says, that Newport News is mentioned in a letter from Virginia under date of February, 1622, 1623. And Mr. D. adds, Another letter of April 8th of that year, (the same which speaks of the death of Captain Nuse, referred to in a note further on,) is dated from Newport News. That the writer of the last mentioned letter did not use the last word (News) of the compound name as a form of spelling the surname of Sir William or of Captain Thomas Neuse, we know when we find him adverting to Captain Nuse's death in that very letter. This shows conclusively that he understood the name of the point was compounded of Newport's surname, and of the common noun news. Where, in the few instances in private letters of those early days, the first word of the name is written in the nominative case, while all the public official letters present the word in the possessive case, we have in this last mentioned fact, the best of grounds for bel
Robert Shirley (search for this): chapter 8.82
here 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 Newport ever returned to Virginia after 1611, and we have the following very strong grounds for believingurn after that year to the Colony. 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 would be only three months after the arrival of Newport from Virginia. But conceding that they did sail in March of that year, yet when w
Rolfe (search for this): chapter 8.82
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 tRolfe 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, representatits now before me, but to economize space I do not here give them. Suffice it to say, that the name Newport's News, as in Rolfe's list, does not appear among them. This shows that Newport's News was not inhabited by white people as late as July, 16
A. J. Grigsby (search for this): chapter 8.82
William Newce. Before going very far into Mr. Grigsby's letter, I found he had not sufficiently palf a century later. As the overthrow of Mr. Grigsby's theory will be the defeat of the theoriesther preliminaries, to open my batteries on Mr. Grigsby's position. Mr. Grigsby says: Newport wahonor of the Royal Standard of St. George. Mr. Grigsby also depicts Newport, (being then at last s, and under the fervors of his imagination, Mr. Grigsby represents Newport as then bestowing his owmontory in question. Be it observed that Mr. Grigsby commits himself to the position that the prDe La Warr's long boat coming up the river, Mr. Grigsby says: Now, Newport was really present on th Colony.] This fact effectually disposes of Mr. Grigsby's dream of Newport's retirement in 1621 frowhose History of Virginia appeared in 1705. Mr. Grigsby says, that of all writers on the history ofNewport) named it in November, 1621. But Mr. Grigsby's authority, (Beverly,) while against his t[11 more...]
Wesley M. Campbell (search for this): chapter 8.82
letters present the word in the possessive case, we have in this last mentioned fact, the best of grounds for believing that the writers of those few private letters were careless as to affixing the sign of the possessive case, or the type-setters omitted the sign through inattention; for while Newport News is a senseless collocation of words signifying nothing, the combination Newport's News would have some meaning, like the two first words in the title Smith's News from Virginia, to which Campbell, at page thirty-nine of his History, refers, and which, in a pamphlet form, John Smith probably published in London soon after his return from Virginia in 1609. As early as 1608, and of course before Smith returned to 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 Rela
Christopher Newport (search for this): chapter 8.82
and to commemorate the joint surnames of Captain Newport and Captain Thomas Nuce or Newce. The hat the name was bestowed on the place by Captain Newport, to commemorate his own surname and the swritten in London in July, 1614, stating that Newport arrived in London from the East Indies in thah befell the Company in 1624. I think that Newport departed this life prior to the 17th Novemberm the fact as he could have been when he said Newport landed an expedition on Newport's News in Novwith this view of the case, and to prove that Newport was regarded as a great schemer, full of proj Stith, at page 76 of his History, says: Captain Newport was in reality an empty, idle, interestedects; and at p. 82 he says, the vanity of Captain Newport's conduct at this time was so ridiculous ir families out of what you sent us, and that Newport hath a hundred pounds a yeare for carrying ne bearing the name Newce, but not knowing that Newport was even acquainted with either of them, inve[12 more...]
Newporte (search for this): chapter 8.82
e corporation, the creature of the government, and liable at any moment to be deprived of all power and authority, and of its very existence, by the act of the royal government; a fate which befell the Company in 1624. I think that Newport departed this life prior to the 17th November, 1619, for the following reason: At a great and generall courte of the Company in London, held on that day, the following minute was entered of record: Whereas, the Company hath formerly granted to Captain Newporte a Bill of Adventure This was the same kind of instrument that in the United States is now called a Land Warrant. It authorized the holder to locate land at a fixed valuation per acre. If at two shillings sterling per acre (the probable price at that day), Captain Newport's Bill of Adventure would have entitled him to 4,000 acres. of fower hundred pounds, and his sonne John Newport, the only son and heir.--[Nell.] now desyringe order from this Courte for the layinge out some part o
Nell (search for this): chapter 8.82
ed of record: Whereas, the Company hath formerly granted to Captain Newporte a Bill of Adventure This was the same kind of instrument that in the United States is now called a Land Warrant. It authorized the holder to locate land at a fixed valuation per acre. If at two shillings sterling per acre (the probable price at that day), Captain Newport's Bill of Adventure would have entitled him to 4,000 acres. of fower hundred pounds, and his sonne John Newport, the only son and heir.--[Nell.] now desyringe order from this Courte for the layinge out some part of the same; Mr. Treasurer was directed and authorized by this Generall Assembly to write to Sir George Yeardley and his Counsell of State [in Va.] for the effecting thereof.--[Neill.] This minute is, I think, inconsistent with the theory, that Captain Newport was living when it was entered of record; for if he had then been alive, and had conveyed to his son, by deed of gift or of bargain and sale, a part or all of his
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