Some entring their howses vnder colour of trucking, and some taking their advantage, others drawing our men abroad upon fayre pretences, and the rest suddaynly falling vpon those that were at there labours . . .
1624
Chronological History of Warwick County Virginia
The following information was abstracted from the book "Newport News Virginia, 1607-1960" by Annie Lash Jester published 1961
1610 July 9- Humphry Blunt killed by a band of Indians on the James River. This location there after was known as Blunt/Blount Point
1611 Captain Newport's last voyage to Newport's News bringing Sir Thomas Dale who was responsible for reorganizing the colony
1619 Nov. 11- Records of the Virginia Company of London identify the colonists settlement as Newport's News
1622 March 22- Newport News was defended by Daniel Gookin and 35 men following the Great Indian Massacre
1624 Richard Stevens is involved in a dual that fatally wounded Lt. George Harrison
1624 August 14- Edward Waters patented land on Waters Creek, now Lake Maury in the grounds of the Mariners Museum.
1626 Bolthrope, a tract of some 500 acres is patented by Richard Stevens
1627 Earliest record of a church building (Mulberry Island) located adjacent to Thos. Harwood's plantation, Queen's Hith, in Stanley's Hundred on Baker's Neck.
1628 An area of land, known as "The Forest" is patented by Zachariah Cripps. This land later acquired by the Cary family and became part of an area called Richneck.
1628 The plantation at Merry Point, the home of William Parker, is first recorded.
1629 Denbigh, best known of the Warwick Plantations was so named and was the seat of Capt. Mathews, who in 1626 is recorded as having taken up land in the Blunt Point area, calling his plantation "Mathew's Manor". He served as governor of Virginia from 1657-1660. A portion of the Denbigh plantation is now the Newport News City Farm.
1631 Monthly court first established in the Warwick River area. The following commissioners were named: Capt. Samuel Mathews, Capt. Richard Stephens, Capt. Thomas Flint, John Brewer, Zachariah Cripps and Thomas Ceeley
1930 June 2- The Mariners Museum founded by Archer M. Huntington began acquiring some 880 acres in Warwick fronting the James River to establish a park and museum.James City County, VA Williamsburg, The Old Colonial Capital; Wm. & Mary Qrtly; Vol. 16, No.1
Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project Williamsburg The Old Colonial Capital William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1. (Jul., 1907), pp. 1-65. Page 1
I. MIDDLE PLANTATION.
For twenty-three years after the landing at Jamestown, the English settlements in Virginia were confined to the valley of the James and to the Accomac peninsula. Nevertheless, the need of a colony on York River, to act as a curb to the Indian tribes, seated on a branch of the York River, known as Pamunkey River, had long been recognized. As far back as 1611, Sir Thomas Dale, then governor, in a letter to the Earl of Salisbury, recommended the establishment of a fortified settlement at Chickiack, some twenty miles from Point Comfort. But probably on account of the peace concluded in 1616 with the Indians by Dale, nothing was immediately done in furtherance of the suggestion. Chiskiack attracted attention again after the appalling massacre of 1622, when, of the settlers in Martin's Hundred, situated opposite on the James, seventy-three were slain, and the plantation there was so alarmed and weakened that it was temporarily abandoned. Then, in 1623, Governor Wyatt and his council wrote to Earl of Southampton that they had under consideration a plan of "winning the forest" by running a pale between the James and York from Martin's Hundred to Chiskiack.
In March, 1624, when the royal commissioners, sent over by the king to report upon the colony, enquired of the authorities in Virginia "what places in the country are best and most proper to be fortified or maintained," their reply was that "the running of a pale from Martin's Hundred to Chiskiack, which is not above five miles, and planting upon both rivers, would be the best means to protect the Colony."
Page 2 In 1626, Samuel Mathews, of Denbigh, and William Claiborne, of Kecoughtan, offered to build the palisades, and construct houses, at short intervals, between Martin's Hundred and Chiskiack. They placed the whole cost at L1,200 sterling, and the annual expense of maintaining the work at L100. As a condition of their contract, they required that a grant be made to them of six score yards, on both sides of the palisades.(1) While it is not believed that the offer was accepted, the general assembly, in February, 1630, upon the arrival of Sir John Harvey as governor, passed an act to send and maintain a company of men to plant corn at Chiskiack. At a meeting held at Jamestown, October 8, 1630, Sir John Harvey and his Council, "for the securing and taking in a tract of land called the forest, bordering upon the cheife residence of ye Pamunkey King, the most dangerous head of ye Indyan enemy," did "after much consultation thereof had, decree and sett down several proportions of land for such commanders, and fifty acres per poll for all other persons who ye first yeare and five and twenty acres who the second yeare, should adventure or be adventured to seate and inhabit on the southern side of Pamunkey River, now called York, and formerly known by the Indyan name of Chiskiack, as a reward and encouragement for this their undertaking."
Under this order houses were built on both sides of King's Creek,
and extended rapidly up and down the south side of York River. During
the very next year after Chiskiack was settled, William Claiborne,
with one hundred men, settled Kent Island, 150 miles up Chesapeake
Bay from Jamestown, and at the general assembly which met at Jamestown,
February, 1632, Captain Nicholas Martian took his seat as the
representative of "Kiskyacke" and the Isle of Kent. By September,
1632, population on the south side of the York River had become
considerable enough to claim two representatives in the assembly. The
region on the York was divided into two plantations -- one retaining
the old name, Chiskiack, and the other styled "York," settled by Sir
John Harvey at the mouth of Wormeley's creek, about three miles
below the present Yorktown. (1) Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, I., 300.
Page 3. The plan of running a palisade across he Peninsula was no longer deferred, and Dr. John Pott blazed the way by obtaining, July 12,
1632, a patent for 1,200 acres at the head of Archer's Hope Creek,
midway between Chiskiack and James River. September 4, 1632, the
general assembly directed that the encouragement of land offered two
years before to inhabitants at Chiskiack, should be granted to all
persons settling between Queen's Creek and Archer's Hope Creek. Then
in February, 1633, it was enacted that a fortieth part of the men in
"the compasse of the forest" east of Archer's Hope and Queen's Creek
to Chesapeake Bay should be present "before the first day of March
next" at Dr. John Pott's plantation, "newlie built," to erect houses
and secure the land in that quarter. Under this encouragement,
palisades, six miles in length, were run from creek to creek, and, on
the ridge between, a settlement called Middle Plantation, (afterwards
Williamsburg), was made. Sir John Harvey's enterprise is described (2)
in the following extract from a letter written in 1634, from Jamestown, by Captain Thomas Yonge.
When the Governor came first hither, he found James River only inhabited and one plantation on the eastern side of the Bay, but now he hath settled divers good plantations upon another river which lieth northerly from James River and hath caused a strong palisade to be builded upon a streight between both rivers and caused houses to be
built in several places upon the same, and hath placed a sufficient
force of men to defence of the same, whereby all the lower part of
Virginia have a range for their cattle, near fortie miles in length
and in most places twelve miles broade. The pallisades is very neare
six miles long, bounded in by two large Creekes. He hath an intention
in this manner to take also in all the grounde between those two
Rivers, and so utterly excluded the Indians from thence; which work
is conceived to be of extraordinary benefit to the country and of no
extreame difficulty in case he may be countenanced from England in his
good endeavours by the State of England and assisted by the inhabitants
heere, who for the present are very destitute of all manner of Arms and
munitions for the defence of the country.
Dr. John Pott, who received the first patent for land at (2) Massachusetts Hist. Society Coll., ix (fourth series), III.
Page 4. was a skilful physician, and doubtless recognized the sanitary advantages of the country around. As the ridge between the creeks was remarkably well drained, there were few mosquitoes and but little malaria, and the deep ravines penetrating from the north and south made the place of much strategic value. The only possible road down the Peninsula is over this ridge, and this road is easily defended. Not much is known of the early years of the settlement beyond the fact that it was kept walled in with strong palisades, and served as a place of refuge from Indian attack. In 1639, Middle Plantation was commanded by Lieutenant Richard Popeley, who patented 1,250 acres west of the palisades. He was born in 1598 in the parish of Wooley, Yorkshire, England, and in 1620, came in the Bona Nova to Virginia, where, in 1624, he was living at Elizabeth City. Though of little book education, Popeley won a high position in the colony by his valor and decision; and upon the request of the governor the council gave him, in 1627, 1500 pounds of tobacco, "he being a man, that both heretofore and is still ready to do good service to the colony." When Claiborne made his settlement at Kent Island in 1631, Popeley, who at the time was living near Claiborne's house at Elizabeth City, was one of his company of a hundred men; and a small island, now called Poplar Island, near Kent Island, was honored with his name.(3) In 1637, he was again residing at Elizabeth City; but in 1639 he was captain at Middle Plantation, where he died before 1643, leaving a widow, but no children to lament his loss.
Popeley, Richard~Age 26 in Virginia Muster, February 7, 1624/5 (Information from the passenger list of the Bona Nova-top of page) At this time William Huddleston, servant of Jamestown appears in the records in 1640. continuing on with text
On April 27, 1644, occurred the second Indian massacre, and in consequence Captain Robert Higginson was directed, in 1646, to run a new pale at the settlement, as the old was out of repair. In June of that year the court of York County entered an order, referring the difference between Captain Robert Higginson and one John Wethersford to the next court,"in regard ye dangerousness of the tyme will not permitt him (i.e. Higginson) to leave the charge and Care of his underkinge (3) Maryland Archives, v. 225.
Page 5. at the Middle Plantation pale this prsent Court." And on October 26, certain persons living at the lower end of York Parish were ordered to pay each 35 pounds of tobacco to Captain Higginson for "not sending up a man to the Middle Plantation for that genrall worke in setting up a pale there according to former order."
Captain Higginson was the son of Thomas Higginson, of London, and
was a man of importance. It is recited in a grant for 100 acres at
Middle Plantation, that it was allowed him "for some certain service
by him performed to the Country Anno. 1646." It is, moreover, stated
on Lucy Burwell's tombstone in Gloucester County, that she was the
daughter of "the gallant Captain Robert Higginson, of the ancient
family of the Higginsons, one of the first commanders that subdued
the country of Virginia from the power of the heathen."
From the records in the land office in Richmond, and the deed and will books of Yorktown, we learn the names of some of the first residents of Middle Plantation. Among them was John Clerke, or Clark, nephew of Sir John Clerke, of Wrotham, in Kent County, England, of whom there is a long pedigree in the "Visitation of 1621." He purchased 850 acres from Lieutenant Popeley, but died in 1646, without any heirs in Virginia. Two other settlers were Edward Wyatt and his brother, George, sons of Rev. Hawte Wyatt, minister of Jamestown, and nephews of Sir Francis Wyatt, governor of Virginia in 1621-1626, and again in 1639-1642. Stephen Hamlin had 400 acres at the head of Queen's Creek adjoining the land of Lieutenant Popeley, while George Lake had 250 acres at the head of Archer's Hope Creek, adjoining another portion of Popeley's land.
Southwest upon George Lake, northeast upon Captain Popeley's land,
and southeast upon the palisades, Henry Tyler, ancestor of President
John Tyler, patented 254 acres, occupying the present site of the
"Mattey School" of William and Mary College, and extending westward so
as to take in the property called "Northington," lately owned by
Judge R. L. Henley, now deceased.
Page 6. In 1643, Richard Kempe, Secretary of State, patented 4,332 acres on both sides of Archer's Hope Creek, consisting of several former grants, viz.: 1,200 acres called "Rich Neck," formerly the property of George Menifie, Esq., situated on the west side of the creek, and four tracts adjoining, of 100, 840, 2,192 and 500 acres respectively. The whole is described as partly on the east and partly on the west of the creek, bounded "East-south-east upon the said creek and the palisades, north-east-by-east and South east-by-east upon George Lake's Land, north upon the horse path, north-west-by-north upon the branches of Powhatan swamp, and South upon the Secretarie's Land,"(4) In the Virginia Historical Society rooms is preserved a plat of this land, which shows a portion of the palisades making up from Archer's Hope Creek, as also the horse path along the ridge, where, at present, runs Duke of Gloucester Street.
About 1660, this property, which comprised the present college land, passed to Thomas Ludwell, Esq., one of Kempe's successors in the secretary's office. He lived at "Rich Neck", where some old brick tiles mark the site of his habitation. In 1644, Henry Brooke, merchant of London, purchased from Captain Popeley 500 acres, which, in 1646, he sold to Nicholas Brooke, Jr., who, in 1649, conveyed the land to his father, Nicholas Brooke, Sr., which last, in 1652, sold 200 acres to Sam'l Fenn, of Martin's Hundred, describing it as beginning "att the creek upon the old pallasadoes, for length unto the land of Captain Robert Hickenson
(Higginson) claimed, and for breadth unto the forrest."
After the restoration of Charles II., in 1660, we find resident at Middle Plantation such men as Peter Efford, whose daughter Sarah married Major Samuel Weldon; Otho Thorpe, who was of the same family as George Thorpe, massacred by the Indians in 1622; Colonel John Page, who ws founder of the distinguished Page family of Virginia; and James Bray, a prominent merchant and later member of the council. In Bacon's Rebellion, which happened in 1676, Middle Plantation figured next to Jamestown as the theatre of politics. (4) The "Secretarie's Land," comprised 600 acres on Archer's Hope Creek, between Jockey's Neck and Archer's Hope.
1625
A census for this year records that there are ten Africans living on Jamestown island. March 5. King James I dies and is succeeded by Charles I. May 13. King Charles declares Virginia, the Bermuda Islands, and New England to be royal colonies directly dependent upon the crown. The Jamestown Assembly petitions Charles I for permission to retain their legislature and is refused.
May 1625 On this date Sir Francis Wyatt sends to England a list of land titles in Virginia (which appears to be somewhat out of date). It lists both of John Baynham’s holdings. In the “Teritory of Tappahanna over against James Citty” are listed John Baynham (200 planted), Mr. George Sandys (300 planted), and Edward Grindon (150 planted), all “by Pattent”. At “Blunt Point” is listed “John Baynham 300 by patent”. [Kingsbury, Volume IV, p555 and p557.]
12 Dec 1625 Capt. Ralph Hamer counseller of estate desireth of the courte to have five hundred acres of land scytuate on the northe side of Blunt Point river, about three miles upp the saide river & abbuttinge westerlie upon a creek dividing it from the land of John Baynum gent., and thence extendinge easterlie two hundred and fiftie pole along the bank of the said Blunt point river…[McIlwaine, p79.] This is a fairly precise description of the location of John Baynham’s land.
22 Feb 1625/6 Ordered that Mr. John Baynam shall bringe the accoumpts to Mr. Weston [owner of the ship Sparrow] and deliver unto him such goodes and depts [debts?] as the said John Baynam by order from Maunder [purser of the Sparrow] hath received in this countrey. [McIlwaine, p96.]
8 May 1626 Court orders a patent of 500a for Mr. William Cleybourne “towards the head of Blunt poynte river and abuttinge southerly on the land of John Baynum…” {McIlwaine, p103.]
7/8 Aug 1626 Monthly courts were this day established at Charles Hundred and Elizabeth City “for the determinge of pettie controversies not excedinge the value of 200 lb. of Tobacco and for the punishinge of pettie offences… Comissioners nominated for Elizabeth City court: Capt. Tucker, Capt. Martin, Mr. Jonas Stogden, Livt. Purfrey, Mr. Edward Waters, Mr. John Baynam, Mr. Salforde. [McIlwaine, p106.]
12 Oct 1626 Court record: John Hart had posted a bond as security for “delivery of one man unto John Bainham gent at or uppon the 25th day of Decemb 1625”. The man was not delivered, and the court ordered George Menefy, a Jamestown merchant, to retain 400 pounds of tobacco belonging to Hart. The servant man was “now alledged to bee sent & shipped on a ship from Ireland, Mr. Fells master.” The court ordered that, if the man was not delivered to John Bainham by 25 December 1626, “then the said 400 lb of Tobacco be paid to the said Mr. Bainham in full satisfaction of said bond.” [McIlwaine, p118.]
11 Jan 1626/7 Whereas by the complaint of Thomas Weston, merchant, it doth appeare to the court that John Bainham of Elizabeth Citty hath paid unto James Carter, master of the Anne deceased, seventy and fowre pounds of Tobacco which was of the estate of Edward Maunder now in England & was appointed by order of the court to be paid unto the said Thomas Weston as to him belonging of right, therefore the court hath ordered that the said Bainham, in reguard that the said payment made to James Carter was without any warrant or order, shall repay againe the said seventy fowre pounds of Tobacco to the said Mr. Weston. [McIlwaine, p133.]
At this court was proved the will of John Bainham, deceased, by the oaths of Rowland Graine, minister, and Jaques Pastall, planter, and that the said John Bainham was in perfect sense and memory at the making thereof. Alsoe at the same tyme Mr. Robt. Sweete brought in the inventory of the said John Bainham’s estate & desired to renounce the executorshipp of that estate, whereupon a letter of administration was graunted unto Elizabeth Bainham the widow and relicte of the said John Bainham. [McIlwaine, p185.] Although we can’t tell for sure, it would appear that John Baynham died in late 1628 or early in January 1629 since there was time for his partner to make an inventory. There is no further mention of Elizabeth, although she surely remarried. The will itself is lost. Same court: Lt. Edward Waters testifies that “the inventory of Capt. Crotias now brought into this court … is the true inventory of the said Capt. Crotias and that the said inventory was taken by him this deponent and John Bainham deceased”. [McIlwaine, p186.]
Captain Rawley Croshaw (the more common spelling) had come to Virginia in 1608 (and his wife had arrived with Elizabeth Baynham in the Bona Nova in 1620, according to his patent of 1623). He served as a Burgess from Elizabeth City. Exactly when he died is unknown, but it would appear from this entry that John Baynham had probably died within a few weeks of this court date. Copyright © 2001-2003 Robert W. Baird, All Rights Reserved
The earliest record of this surname is from 1200, Richard de Hudelsdun is recorded in the "Curia Regis Rolls" of Yorkshire . William Hudleston was residing in Yorkshire in 1379. In 1587 William Hudleston is mentioned in the "Lancashire Wills at Richmand". The marriage of John Huddleston and Elizabeth Holy is registered in St. James Clerkenwell in 1711 ). Huddleston Family Tables by George Huddleston ISBN: 083289236X Title: Huddleston Family Tables Author: George Huddleston Publisher: Higginson Book Company Edition: Hardcover Huddleston Family Tables by George Huddleston ISBN: 0832892378 Title: Huddleston Family Tables Author: George Huddleston Publisher: Higginson Book Company Edition: Softcover HUDDLESTON FAMILY TABLES COMPLIED BY GEORGE HUDDLESTON (b182) BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 1933 Printed In The United States Of America At The Rumford Press, Concord, N. H. Permission granted by George Huddleston's daughter Mrs. Nancy Huddleston Packer COPYRIGHTED FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY Huddleston Family Tables by George Huddleston 1933, reprinted 1973. 1998 by Don Cordell, 1221 Herzel Avenue, Lancaster, CA 93535.
Captain John Huddleston master of the Bova Nova, who served the Virginia Company in 1620 had tracts of land in Jamestown, Virginia and also Nevis Island, in the Carribeans. Hudleston, John, Captain, 26V246; 28V324.
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office: Braunstone Estate Documents MIDDLESEX
Reference: 16 D 66/461 Creation dates: 16th June, 1603 Scope and Content Declaration of uses. William Huddleston, sen., of Little Haseley, Oxon., gent. Recital: 4th June, 1595. Bargain and sale. (i) William Hartilpoole of St James', Clerkenwell, Middlesex, gent., son and heir of the late Richard Hartilpoole. (ii) Richard Bell, yeoman, now servant to William Huddleston, sen. Property: 2 messuages in St James', Clerkenwell, occupied by Sir Ferdinando Gorge, Kt., and Isabel Percey. To the use of William Huddleston, jun., son of William Huddleston, sen., and his male heirs, George Huddleston, another son of William Huddleston, sen., and his male heirs, Elizabeth, mother of William, jun., and George, and any more sons of her and William Huddleston, sen., and Elizabeth Huddleston, daughter of William Huddleston, sen. Confirmation of the above uses (including a third son, Barantine, after George), as William, jun., George, Barantine, and Elizabeth are the natural children of William Huddleston, sen., by Elizabeth, whom he has now married. Piece details: STAC 2/25/337 : quick reference PLAINTIFF: Richard Hartipoole DEFENDANT: Richard Poole, vicar of Thatcham, John Sendall, and others PLACE OR SUBJECT: Title to the vicarage of Thatcham COUNTY: Berks 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 5/H58/29 Hartipool v Smith & Goodcole, and others 12 Eliz.
LANCASHIRE CLERGY. Creation dates: 1604 The Names of the Parishes. Dalton - A Viccaridge; the Patron, the Chancellor of the Duchye. The Incumbent, Mr. Gardner, noe Preacher. The farmor there, Mr. Joseph Hudleston, gent. Croston - A Viccaridge; the Patron, Sir Edmund Huddleston, Knight; the incumbent, a preacher. The farmor, the said Sir Edmund Huddleston, Knight. Boulton in the Moores - An Impropriation belonging to the Lord Bishop of Chester, who is patron; the Incumbent, Mr. Sanderson, a preacher. There is allsoe Mr. Gosnall, a preacher, maintained by the parish. Sanderson, John, of Hardhornend Newton; 232. Mr., a preacher; 11. ID: I96 Name: Agnes SANDERSON Sex: F Birth: in Dalton In Furness, Lancashire, England Note: Lancashire Record Office: Lancashire County Quarter Sessions [QSB/1/201 QSB/1/250] FILE-Recognizance Roll: Lancaster, Epiphany, 1638/9 ref. QSB/1/208 date: 1638/9 item: DALTON-in-FURNESS Agnes Sanderson likewise ref. QSB/1/208/9 date: 1638/9 Marriage 1 Thomas HUDDLESTON b: in Dalton In Furness, Lancashire, England 7 OCT 1582 Lincolnshire Archives: Reeve Deeds removed from Leadenham bundle REEVE 1/1/2. FILE-Marriage settlement.-ref. REEVE 1/3/7/2-date: 30 Nov. 2 Chas., 1626 \_ [from Scope and Content] Property: all those 30ac. of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Fulbeck which he purchased of William Huddleston the son of Robert Huddleston late of Fulbeck deceased. Leicestershire, miscellaneous. FILE-Copy of abstract of title- ref. REEVE 1/16/1/1-date: no date \_ [from Scope and Content] De la Fountaine, Meres, Pettus, Sherard, Sanderson, Sedley
SP 46/183/fo 139 Draft bond of Thomas Huddlestone, haberdasher, William Tumlinson, goldsmith, and Thomas [torn] an, tailor, all of London, to the Earl of Ormond in 5 marks, to be paid by 24 June following. 1504 14 Feb
We will read about Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua and how Captain Nuce saw him in Captain Nuce's letter to Sir Edwin Sandy starting on page 455 to page 458 in the Records of the Virginia Company, later.
Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8. Virginia Records Manuscripts, 1606-1733 CLXXIII. Privy Council. Order Regarding Freedom of Fishing Page 459 June 18, 1621 Privy Council Register, James I, Volume V, Page 58 Document in Privy Council Office, London List of Records No.251 Att Whitehall the 18th of June. 1621 Present Lo: Archbishopp of Canterburie, Lo: Treasurer, Lo: Privie Seale, Lo: Steward, Lo: Admirall, Lo: Chamberlaine, E. of Arundell, Lo: Vic. Doncaster, Lo: Vic. Falkland, Lo: Carew, Mr Secretarie Calvert, Mr Chancellor of th'Excheqr, Mr of the Rolles, Mr of the Wards & Mr Deane of Westminister Whereas there was a peticon ehibited vnto his Matie in the name of the Pattentees and Adventurers in the plantation of New England concerning some differences between the Southerne & Northerne Colonies, the wch petition was by his Matie referred to the consideration of the Lords. Their Lopps vpon the hearing & debating of the matter att large and by the consent of both Colonies did establish and confirme two former orders,
Page 460 the one bearing date the 16th of March 1619 agreed vpon by the Duke of Lenox and the Earle of Arundell (to whom the busines was referred by the Board) the other of the 21st of July 1620 ordered by the Board, whereby it was thought fitt, that the said Colonies should fish att Sea wthin the Limitts and bounds of each other reciprocally, wth this Limitation that it bee onely for the sustentation of the people of the Colonies ther, and for the transportation of people into either Colonie (as by the said order more att large appeareth) And further it was ordered att this present by their Lopps, that they should haue freedom of the Shore for drying of their netts, and taking and saving of their fish, and to haue wood for their necessary vses, att (crossed out) by the assignment of the Governors att reasonable rates. Lastly that the Patent of the Northerne plantation shalbe renewed, according to the premises, And those of the Southerne plantation to haue a sight thereof before it be ingrossed, And the former Patent to be delivered into the hands of the Pattentees.
Cavaliers And Pioneers-Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666 Abstracted and Indexed by Nell Marion Nugent Copyright, 1963 by Genealogical Publishing Company originally published Richmond, 1934 page 44 Capt. Christopher Calthropp, 100 acs., being a second devdt., according to a graunt signed by Sir Georg Yeardly to John Hudleston, Marriner, 26 Apr. 16, 1621 & assigned by Richard Cox, Atty. to sd. Hudleston, to sd. Calthropp. 5 July 1636, p. 368. Adj. to the first devdt., whose bounds were, viz: W. upon Waters his Cr. E. upon land of Robert Hutchins, S. the river & N. into the woods. Same. 100 acrs. Chas. Riv. Co., same date & page. Within the new Poquoson at the head of Powells Cr., Nly. upon sd. Cr., Ely. to land formeley graunted to him. Trans. of 2 pers: Christopher Watts, Senr., Christopher Watts, Junr
Early Virginia Immigrants, pg 346 Watts, Christopher (Junior), 1636, by Capt. Christopher Calthropp, Charles River Co. Watts, Christopher (Senior), 1636, by Capt. Christopher Calthropp, Charles River Co.
The Plymouth Colony had not over one hundred and fifty settlers, and these were in a starving condition, from which they were rescued by the ship of Captain John Huddleston, a member of the Virginia Colony. The letter of the noble Captain*, which was carried ashore, and his conduct in sharing his scanty store with the Pilgrims, is worthy of all praise, and yet I do not remember ever seeing this beautiful incident, which connects the two colonies, referred to in any of the modern histories of the Plymouth Colony.
As given by Bradford, the story is as follows: Amidst these streigths, and ye desertion of those from whom they had hoped for supply, and when famine begane now to pinch them sore, they not knowing what to doe, the Lord (who never fails his) presents them with an occasion, beyond all expectation. This boat which came from ye eastward brought them a letter from a stranger, of whose name *Capt. John Huddleston commanded the ship Bona Nova, of 200 tons, and performed many voyages to Virginia in the interest of the Virginia Company. He patented lands in Virginia in the "territory of Tappahannock over against James Cittie", and at Blunt Point, near Newport News. In 1624, he was reported as dead. Page 54. they had never heard before, being a captaine of a shop come ther a fishing. This leter was as followeth. Being thus inscribed.
"To all his good friends at Plimoth, these, &c. Friends, cuntrimen, & neighbors: I salute you, and wish you all health and hapiness in ye Lord. I make bould with these few lines to trouble you, because unless I were unhumane, I can doe no less. Bad news doth spread it selfe too farr; yet I will so farr inform you that my selfe, with many good friends in ye south-collonie of Virginia have received shuch a blow that 400 persons large will not make good our losses. Therefore I doe entreat you (allthough not knowing you) that ye old rule which I learned when I went to school may be sufficiente. That is, Hapie is he whom other men's harmes doth make to beware. And now againe and againe, wishing all those yt willingly would serve ye Lord, all health and happiness, in this world, and everlasting peace in ye world to come. And so I rest, Yours, JOHN HUDDLESTON."
By this boat ye Govr returned a thankfull answer, as was meete, and sente a boate of their owne with them, which was piloted by them, in which Mr Winslow was sente to procure what provissions he could of ye ships, who was kindly received by ye foresaid gentill-man, who not only spared what he could, but writ to others to doe ye like. By which means he gott some good quantitie and returned in saftie, by which ye plantation had a double benefite, first, a present refreshing by ye food brought, and secondly, they knew ye way to thos parts for the venifite hereafter. But what was gott, & this small boat brought, being HOW THE PLANTERS FROM VIRGINIA SAVED THE PLYMOUTH COLONY; Wm. and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1
When, in December, 1619, in the court of the London company, John Delbridge applied for permission to fish at Cape Cod,1 Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who was also a member and was present, objected on the ground that the petitioner should have applied to the patentees of the northern colony. Sir Edwin Sandys, then treasurer, declared in reply not only that the sea was free to both companies, but that it was clear from the letters patent that each might fish along the coasts of the other. Gorges affirmed his belief that the rights of each were exclusive, and offered to submit the point to the council of both companies. This was agreed to, and the council, the majority of whom in attendance may quite probably have been members of the London company, supported the view of Sandys. License was thereupon given to the society of Smith”s Hundred “to go a-fishing.” But certain of the patentees of the northern colony were not satisfied, and insisted upon considering the question further. It seems to have been referred to the Duke of Lenox and the Earl of Arundel, who failed to reach a decision satisfactory to either party. 1 Recs. of Va. Co. I. 27.
Chancery Records. Town Depositions Public Record Office Class 1630-1631 Pages 1 & 2 No. 50 John Hart c. John Deldridge. See C2 Charles II H 26/62 & D 23/70 CLASS C 24/565 Depositions on behalf of hart: 1p Tristram Conyman, July 6, 1630, Describes the voyage of the "Bona Nova" to Canada to fish in November 1623. Not sure if any tobacco was laden aboard in Virginia. Page 2 p.5 Thomas Biare, April 2, 1631, Was employed by Mr. Farrar, Mr. Barker and Delbridge to fit out the "Bona Nova" for a fishing voyage. Praises the part played by Hart in the fitting out. p.6 Humprey Barrett, April 6, 1631, Hart managed the whole business of setting out the ship. p.7 Gabriel Barbor, April 12, 1631, Describes arrangements for the voyage of the "Bona Nova", "Hopewell", and the "Darling". "Bona Nova" returned in September 1622 and fitted out for a second voyage to Canada.
Chancery Proceedings. Series I. Charles I Public Record Office 1628-1629 CLASS C2 Charles 1 H42/64 John Hart c. John Delbridge did in May 1622 agree to set forth several ships for a fishing voyage to New England. They approached Hart to organize the voyages and to keep the accounts. Afterwards Mr. John Ferrar became partner with Delbridge and Barbour, each having a one-third share. It was agreed that Hart should be paid L40 for his services. Ferrar and Barbour have each paid him L15 but he has not received the L10 from Delbridge. In November 1633 he was again employed in settling out the "Bona Nova" for fishing in New England.
Chancery Depositions. Elizabeth I to Charles. Public Record Office 1630/31 Page 2 of 2 Survey Report No. 10719 1p Depositions on behalf of Delbridge. Nicholas Delbridge. In 1622 he and Hart were employed in fitting out the "Bona Nova" from Plymouth to Canada on a fishing voyage. Believes Hart was employed by John Delbridge.
Page 516 & 517 CXCVII. Council And Company For Virginia. A Commission Granted To John Huddleston November 21, 1621 Additional Manuscripts, 14285, Folios 75a-76a Document in British Museum, London List of Records No. 277 [75a] A Comission graunted by the Counsell and Company for Virginia to John Huddleston for a Voyadge to Virginia and for a free fishinge on the Coast of America. To all whome these present shall come to be seen or heard the Counsell and Company for Virginia send greetinge whereas the right HONOble Henry Earle of Southhampton Sr Edwin Sandy knight John fferar Thomas Knightley Gabrielle BarboR and John Delbridge haue for the advancement and supporte of the Colonie in Virginia furnished and sett out the good Shippe called Bona Noua of the burden of 190 tun to transporte and carrie ouer into Virginia fortie fiue persons there to plant and inhabite together with sundrie necessarie prouisions aswell for the said Passengers as also for the benifitt and advancement of the Colonie and haue ordained John Huddlestone to be the GouernoR and Captaine ouer the said Shippe and Marriners as also of all the Passengers ...
Sir Ferdinando George
House of Commons Journal Volume 1 14 November 1621 American Fishing Mr. Granvyle moveth, to speed the Bill of Fishing upon [the] Coasts of America; the rather, because Sir Fer. Gorge hath executed a Patent sithence the Recess.-Hath by Letters from the Lords of the Council, stayed the Ships ready to go forth. Mr. Neale, accordant.-That Ferd. hath be sides threatened to send out ships, to beat them off from their free fishing, take considerations hereof. Sir W. Neale;-That this true; but my Lord Treasurer hath given Order, that the Ships shall go forth presently, without Stay. Edw. Coke:-That the Patent may be brought in. And Sir Tho. Wentworth:-That the Party may be sent for.(The Bona Nova departed Virginia May [16], 1621.2) Sources: (1) "Hotten's Lists", Virginia Musters (2) Letter, dated May [16], 1621, from Jabez Whittaker, in Virginia, sent to Sir Edwin Sandys, London, on the departing Bona Nova. Page 441 & 442 of 'Records of the Virginia Company'. (S.M. Kingsbury, "Records of the Virginia Company", 1933, v.III, page 297) Page 109 & 110 'Records of the Virginia Company' (Source: The Voyage...To Verginia 1619 by Ferdinando Yate) November, 1619 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Source: "Hotten's Lists" Burthen: 200 tons Records of the Virginia Company)Page 516 & 517 CXCVII. Council And Company For Virginia. A Commission Granted To John Huddleston November 21, 1621 Additional Manuscripts, 14285, Folios 75a-76a Document in British Museum, London List of Records No. 277 [75a] A Comission graunted by the Counsell and Company for Virginia to John Huddleston for a Voyadge to Virginia and for a free fishinge on the Coast of America.
The Plymouth Company
WHILST French and English colonists from free Holland were planting settlements on the Delaware and Hudson Rivers and the borders of Cape Cod Bay, a seed-time had again begun on that portion of the soil of New England now covered by the States of New Hampshire and Maine. Sir Ferdinando Gorges was the chief promoter of this cultivation. He had been the controlling spirit in the Plymouth Company from the beginning, and the chief instrument in procuring the despotic charter for the Plymouth Council. For its existence and powers he contended fearlessly before the hostile Parliament, standing firmly upon the king's prerogative. In that contest he had a powerful coadjutor in Sir George Calvert, a representative of Yorkshire, and who afterward became the founder of Maryland. Educated at Oxford; taught wisdom by travels; fostered in public life by Sir Robert Cecil, and through him advanced to the honors of knighthood; employed as one of the Secretaries of State when the Pilgrims were preparing to depart for America, and being possessed of a handsome person, winning manners and fluency of speech, he was very popular among all classes, and had been elected to a seat in the House of Commons by an immense majority. He had sought refuge from controversy (privately at first) in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church. As that Church paid all due deference to the king as sovereign, it was not regarded with disfavor by James, and Sir George was an ever-welcome guest at the palace, for he was a thorough courtier.
It was a notable scene in the House of Commons, then convened for the first time in seven years, when Gorges appeared before that body to show cause why the charter should not be annulled, or its despotic powers abridged. The King was present to defend his prerogative if it should be assailed. Gorges and Calvert were opposed by Sir Edwin Sandys, the wise statesman and friend of Virginia, and by the then venerable Sir Edward Coke, who had been Lord Chief-Justice of England. Coke was a member of Parliament and of the Privy Council, and he then began his famous contest with the king, which resulted in a curious exhibition of wrath and despotism on the part of James. Coke had procured the opposition of Parliament to the proposed marriage of the Prince of Wales to a Spanish princess, as dangerous to Protestantism in England. The angered king denounced the address which the House of Commons presented to him on the subject as an unlawful interference with his prerogative; mentioned the name of Coke, the author of it, as a culprit; and in a letter to the Speaker, declared his intention to "punish any man's misdemeanor in Parliament as well during the sitting as after." This threat was aimed at Coke, who immediately moved a protestation for the privilege of the House, setting forth the right of every member to freedom of speech, and like "freedom from all impeachment, imprisonment or molestation," on account of anything said or done in Parliament. It was carried and entered in the journals. On hearing of this act, the king immediately prorogued or dissolved Parliament, sent for the journals of the House, and with his own hand tore out the offensive record. Then he caused the arrest of Coke and others, in execution of his threat, and confined him in the Tower several months, when he was released on the petition of Prince Charles.
In the matter of the charter, Sandys pleaded for the freedom in fishing and of general commerce, which was then becoming the staple of wealth for England. "The fishermen hinder the plantations," replied Calvert; "they choke the harbors with their ballast, and waste the forests by improvident use. America is not annexed to the realm nor within the jurisdiction of Parliament; you have therefore no right to interfere." "We make laws for Virginia," said another member; "a bill passed by the Commons and the Lords, if it receives the king's assent, will control the patent." Sir Edward Coke argued with numerous references to the statutes of the realm, that as the charter was granted without regard to pre-existing rights, it was necessarily void. This attack upon his prerogative aroused the angry monarch, who was sitting near the Speaker's chair, and he blurted out some silly words about the "divine right of kings," when the Commons, in defiance of his wrath, passed a bill giving freedom to commerce in spite of the charter. That bill had not gone through all the forms of legislation when the king broke up the Parliament for reasons just mentioned.
James, in the exercise of his prerogative, issued a proclamation forbidding any vessel to approach the shores of North Virginia without the special consent of the Plymouth Company. The Company commissioned Francis West admiral of New England, and sent him to protect their chartered rights. His police force was too feeble for so wide a domain, and the fishermen, in their fast-sailing shallops, eluded his grasp. The next Parliament proceeded to perfect what the former one had begun. The House was led by Coke, lately released from the Tower. "Your patent," he said to Gorges from the Speaker's chair, "contains many particulars contrary to the laws and privileges of the subject; it is a monopoly, and the ends of private gain are concealed under color of planting a colony." In debate, he said, "Shall none visit the sea-coast for fishing? This is to make a monopoly upon the seas, which want to be free. If you, alone, are to pack and dry fish, you attempt a monopoly of the wind and sun." The bill passed, but never received the signature of the king. The monopolists, discouraged by the opposition of the Commons, lowered their pretensions, and many of the patentees withdrew their interests in the Company. Those who remained, like Gorges, now did little more than issue grants of domain in the north-eastern parts of America.
This was the first debate on American affairs in the British Parliament; and it is a singular fact that in the course of it the supreme authority of the National Legislature over the American colonies was plainly asserted, the attempted exercise of which, in the matter of taxation, led to the old war for independence, one hundred and fifty years afterward, and the dismemberment of the British empire. Return to Our Country, Vol. I
Coke, Sir Edward
(kk) (KEY) , 1552–1634, English jurist, one of the most eminent in the history of English law. He entered Parliament in 1589 and rose rapidly, becoming solicitor general and speaker of the House of Commons. In 1593 he was made attorney general. His rival for that office was Sir Francis Bacon, thereafter one of Coke’s bitterest enemies. He earned a reputation as a severe prosecutor, notably at the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, and held a favorable position at the court of King James I. In 1606 he became chief justice of the common pleas. In this position, and (after 1613) as chief justice of the king’s bench, Coke became the champion of common law against the encroachments of the royal prerogative and declared null and void royal proclamations that were contrary to law. Although his historical arguments were frequently based on false interpretations of early documents, as in the case of the Magna Carta, his reasoning was brilliant and his conclusions impressive. His constant collisions with the king and the numerous enmities he developed—especially that with Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere, the chancellor—brought about his fall. Bacon was one of the foremost figures in engineering his dismissal in 1616. By personal and political influence, Coke got himself back on the privy council and was elected (1620) to Parliament, where he became a leader of the popular faction in opposition to James I and Charles I. He was prominent in the drafting of the Petition of Right (1628). His most important writings are the Reports, a series of detailed commentaries on cases in common law, and the Institutes, which includes his commentary on Littleton’s Tenures.
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We know that Sir Edmund Huddleston's son, Henry Huddleston was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot but exonerated.
Trial, Execution and Aftermath: The details of how the other conspirators were rounded up need not concern us here. One by one they admitted their part. Dragged through the crowd, they were to be hung, drawn and quartered at Westminster on 30th and 31st January 1606, excepting Tresham who died of illness in the Tower of London. The show trial of the conspirators took place in Westminster Hall, Sir Edward Coke, Attorney-General, prosecuting for the King. The King indeed observed the trial from a secret hiding place. All were condemned. Coke fulminated at the conspirators: they stood no chance of being spared. On 30th January 1606, Sir Everard Digby was the first to mount the scaffold, then Robert Wintour, John Grant, Thomas Bates. Tom Wintour and Guy Fawkes, Ambrose Rookwood and Robert Keyes followed on 31st. One by one the conspirators had been interrogated and tortured by manacles or by the rack. They all, except Bates, had denied any priestly involvement, but Bates’ testimony involved a Fr Garnet, a Jesuit, who had ministered under various pseudonyms, for many years in England and who had learnt in terrible consternation under the seal of Confession, what was to happen, but was powerless to do more than to counsel him forcefully against it; he had no success.
Questions were asked, as ever, about Jesuit involvement. Why had none been produced in the show trial of the conspirators which followed in the January of 1606? Finally Fr Garnet’s safe place of hiding was discovered. Along with the chaplain of Hindlip House, he had been hiding in a confined space, fed with soup through a straw pushed through a stone in the wall in the most appalling conditions. He was taken to London in stages but treated with care. At his trial on 28th March 1606, he pleaded not guilty. Coke, the prosecutor again said "I will name it the Jesuits’ treason as belonging to them." He dragged up Queen Elizabeth’s excommunication, the Spanish Armada, Spain, indeed anything he could. Fr Garnet declared: "I have always abhorred this wicked attempt." He was accused of misprision (knowing about a crime - the plot - but doing nothing about it). He was executed on Saturday 3rd May 1606. Fr Garnet had been a native of Heanor in Derbyshire.(See note 10) http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/fawkes/fawkes4.html Sir Edward Coke (pronounced "cook") (1 February 1552 - 3 September 1634) was an early English colonial entrepreneur and jurist whose writings on the English common law were the definitive legal texts for some 300 years. He is credited with having established the legal basis for slavery in the English colonies. Between becoming a Member of Parliament in 1589 and again in 1620, he served as England's Attorney General (1593-1606) under Elizabeth I of England and as its Lord Chief Justice (1613-1616) and a Privy Councilor (1614-1616, 1617-1620) under James I of England. His speeches, in the House of Commons, against governmental abuses of the people's rights so angered King James that he held Sir Edward prisoner in the Tower of London for nine months in 1622. In 1606, Coke helped write the charter of the Virginia Company, a private venture granted a royal charter to found settlements in North America. He became directory of the London Company, one of the two branches of the Virginia Company. As director, he proposed a means by which slavery could be legalised in the new Virginia Colony. Fearing opposition if the issue was publicly debated, Coke was responsible for Calvin's Case in 1608, which ruled that "all infidels are in law perpetual ennemies". Here he was borrowing from a legal tradition rooted in canonical law and apologetics for the crusades. In this way Coke played a significant part in the development of New World slavery. On January 2, 2003, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom refused to make a public apology for the long history of slavery under the British Empire on the basis that it was legal at the time. Writing via assistant private secretary Kay Brock, she said "Under the statute of the International criminal Court, acts of enslavement committed today . . . constitute a crime against humanity. But the historic slave trade was not a crime against humanity or contrary to international law at the time when the UK government condoned it." Copies of Coke's writings arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620, and both John Adams and Patrick Henry cited Coke's treatises to support their revolutionary positions against the Mother Country in the 1770s. Under Lord Coke's leadership, in 1628 the House of Commons forced Charles I of England to accept Coke's Petition of Rights by withholding the revenues the king wanted until he capitulated. Quotes
The quote is believed to have led to the "castle exception" of self-defense: "A man's house is his castle - for where shall a man be safe if it be not in his own house?" His famous quote about the common law:
"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . The law which is perfection of reason." (First Institute) Resources The Lion and the Throne, a biography (ISBN 0-316-10393-4) of Coke by Catherine Drinker Bowen, won the National Book Award.
Records of the Virginia Company)Page 516 & 517 CXCVII. Council And Company For Virginia. A Commission Granted To John Huddleston November 21, 1621 Additional Manuscripts, 14285, Folios 75a-76a Document in British Museum, London List of Records No. 277 [75a] A Comission graunted by the Counsell and Company for Virginia to John Huddleston for a Voyadge to Virginia and for a free fishinge on the Coast of America.
American Fishing. Sir Edw. Coke reporteth from the Committee for Grievances.-Have condemned One, viz. Sir F. Gorge his Patent, for a Plantation in New England.-Their Counsel heard, the Exceptions being first delivered them. Resolved, by Consent-The Charter dated 3o Nov. 18o Jac.-That the Clause in the Patent, that no Subject of England shall visit the Coast, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the Ship and Goods :-The Patentees have yielded, the English Fishermen shall visit; and will not interrupt any Fisherman to fish there: For he no new Discoverer ; Fishermen of this, and other Nations, having fished there before his Patent. Drying of Nets, Salting of their Fish, &c. Incident to their Fishing: Whereunto he also agreed. After he was gone, after Debate, over-ruled, the Fishermen might take Timber for Repair of their Ships : 1. Quia incident: 2ly, Taken so before his Patent: 3ly, Fishermen never take any Timber with them: 4ly, Bring in great Store of Money for their Fish.-Resolved, English Fishermen shall have Fishing, with all Incidents of drying Fish, Nets, Timber, &c.-2ly, That the Clause of Forfeiture, being only by Patent, and not by Act of Parliament, void. Resolved, upon Question, That the House thinketh fit, the Fishermen of England shall have fishing there, with all the Incidents necessary, of drying Nets, and salting, and packing. Upon the second Question, in the Opinion of this House, una voce, the Clause of Confiscation void, and against Law. Upon the third Question, in the Opinion of this House, the Fishermen of England may take necessary Wood and Timber, for their Ships and Boats Use of Fishing there, [a]. From: British History Online Source: House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 17 March 1624. House of Commons Journal Volume 1, (1802).
From: British History Online Source: House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 25 May 1624. House of Commons Journal Volume 1, (1802). © Copyright 2003 University of London & History of Parliament Trust American Fishing.The Debate concerning the Fishing in New England, renewed. Sir W. Earle, - for the Planters ; who more beneficial to the Commonwealth, than the Fishers. A Proviso, in Parchment, tendered to this Bill : Which read. A second Proviso tendered by Mr. Guy: Which read. Sir Edw. Coke :- Sir F. Gorge his Patent condemned, for the Clause, that none should visit with fishing upon the Sea Coast. This to make a Monopoly upon the Sea, which wont to be free. A Monopoly attempted of the Wind, and the Sun, by the sole Packing and Drying of Fish. Mr. Secretary :-That free Fishing, prayed by this Bill, overthroweth all Plantations in these Countries. That Liberty by this Bill to cut down Wood within One Quarter of a Mile of a Dwelling house ; which exceeding prejudicial to the Planters. So for Newfound-land. Mr. Glanvyle :-The first Stage worth Ten of the rest. The Provision for Timber, in New found-land, omitted, because that an Island, having no Rivers : But New England hath divers Rivers into it. Both the Provisoes, upon Question, rejected.The Bill, upon Question, passed.
From: British History Online Source: House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 24 May 1624. House of Commons Journal Volume 1, (1802). © Copyright 2003 University of London & History of Parliament Trust American Fishing. L. 1a. An Act for the freer Liberty of Fishing, and Fishing Voyages, to be made and performed on the Sea-coasts and Places of Newfound-land, Virginia, New England, and other the Sea-coasts and Parts of America. Concealments. Mr. Glanvyle:-To have a new Day for the Bill of Concealments, now sine die; and to have some more Committees added to the former. All the Lawyers of the House added to this Committee: And this Committee to meet at Two of the Clock this Afternoon, in the Exchequer Chamber. Grievances. Mr. Neale;-Five Ships of Plymouth under Arrest, and Two of Dartmouth, because they went to fish in New England. This done by Warrant from the Admiralty.-To have these Suits stayed, till this Bill have had his Passage.-This done by Sir Ferdinando Gorge his Patent. Ordered, This Patent shall be brought in to the Committee of Grievances, upon Friday next.
From: British History Online Source: House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 25 February 1624. House of Commons Journal Volume 1, (1802).© Copyright 2003 University of London & History of Parliament Trust American Fishing. Sir Edw. Coke reports from the Committee of Grievances, a Petition by the Fishermen, against Sir Ferdinando Gorge his Patent.-Their Counsel heard. Resolved by the Committee, That the Fishermen may freely fish there, and take sufficient Wood and Timber for their Fishing, and Repairing of their Ships. And resolved also, That this Clause of the Patent, that no Englishman shall visit that Coast, upon Pain of Confiscation of Ship and Goods, was against the Law.-They desire to have this approved by the Opinion of the House. Resolved, upon Question, as the Opinion of the House, That our Fishermen ought to have free Liberty of Fishing in New England, with all Incidents thereunto. Resolved, also, upon a second Question, as the Opinion of the House, That the Clause of the Patent, of Confiscation of Ships and Goods, is a void Clause in Law. Resolved also, upon a third Question, as the Opinion of the House, That our Fishermen may take necessary Timber and Wood for their Fishing there. Conference. A Message from the Lords, by Serjeant Davies and Attorney-general:-The Lords signify to this House, that the Duke is returned from the King, and hath brought, his Majesty's Pleasure concerning that, which was delivered by him on Sunday last; and therefore desire a present Conference with the Committee of this House, in the Painted Chamber, if it may stand with the Pleasure and Leisure of this House. Answer: This House will presently give a Meeting, as is desired. Ordered, That no Members of this House shall go out, till the Committee be gone up. The Committee sent up to the Lords. Mr. Solicitor to make report from this Conference.
ELIZ HARTEPOOLE Spouse: WM HUDDLESTON Marriage: 1601 Great Haseley, Oxford, England Record extracted from Oxfordshire Marriage Transcripts, 1538-1837, compiled by J. S. W. Gibson. (The index was based on the groom index, film numbers 54,396 to 54,397.) Elizabeth Hartepoole Birth: 1545 Thwaite Hall, Yorks, England
RICHAD HERTTYPOOLE Spouse: URSLEY NEWMAN Marriage: 16 JAN 1581 Saint Margaret, Westminster, London, England 6903677 Number of Fiche: 3 "THWAITE'S HALL, a farm house in the township of Hunderthwaite, and parish of Romaldkirk; 6 miles from Barnardcastle, (Dur.)" [Description(s) edited from Langdale's Yorkshire Dictionary (1822) and Baine's Directory of the County of York (1823)]
ANTHY HUDLESTONE Spouse: MARIE BARRANTINE Marriage: 1541 Great Haseley, Oxford, England Record extracted from Oxfordshire Marriage Transcripts, 1538-1837, compiled by J. S. W. Gibson. (The index was based on the groom index, film numbers 54,396 to 54,397.) The index has no additional information. Anthony Huddleston Birth: 1519 Thwaite Hall,Yorks, England Death: 05 JUN 1598 Father: JOHN HUDDLESTON Mother: JOAN SEYMOUR
C 1/320/51 Jane Huddelston, late the wife of John Huddelston, knight. v. John Daston, trustee: Refusal to take possession of the manor of Temple Guiting and of messuages and lands in Poer Dowdeswell, Pekellysworth, Maisey Hampton, Wormington, Shipton Sollars, Barton, Kynton, Elkstone, Weston-on-Avon, Hareford, Frampton-on-Severn, Dumbleton, Notgrove, Gretton, Alston, Winchcombe, and Cornwell. 1500-1515
John HUDDLESTONE Birth: Abt. 1467 Spouse: Jane SEYMOUR Birth: Abt 1469 Of, Wolfhall, Wiltshire, EnglandSTAC 2/17/109 PLAINTIFF: Charles Pennyngton DEFENDANT: John Huddelston PLACE OR SUBJECT: Amercements COUNTY: Cumberland 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 2/18/227 PLAINTIFF: John Huddelston DEFENDANT: Richard, abbot of Wynchcombe PLACE OR SUBJECT: Messuage and lands COUNTY: Gloucester 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 2/18/65 PLAINTIFF: John Huddelston DEFENDANT: Richard, abbot of Wynchcombe PLACE OR SUBJECT: Messuage and lands COUNTY: Gloucester 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 2/32/50 PLAINTIFF: Charles, bishop of Hereford DEFENDANT: John Huddelston and Kenelm Wetherby PLACE OR SUBJECT: Forcible entry and killing of deer in Prestbury Park, breaking of a pound, &c. COUNTY: Gloucester 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 3/10/65 PLAINTIFF: John Pennyngton DEFENDANT: John Huddelstone PLACE OR SUBJECT: Assault and building a house on plaintiff's land in Monkmore (Interrogatories) COUNTY: Cumb 28/01/1547-06/07/1553 STAC 7/4/32 Plaintiff: Postellthwaite, Elizabeth. Defendant: Anthony Huddelston. Place or Subject: Caldbeck: Forcible ejection from tenancy in the manor of Swinside, and seizure of hay. County: Cumb 17/11/1558-24/03/1603
1. Anthony Huddleston 1518-1598 marr. 1541 Marie Barentyne of Haseley Oxfordshire They had 5 children: Francis 1545 d. infant; 2 daus also d. inf. William b.c 1549 Joyce bc. 1557 marr. Sir Edward Lawrence. 0f the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Also an illegit. dau Albina, probably dau. of his half sister, Anne. 2. William bap 25 July 1549 at Haseley. Marr. Mary Bridges of Gloucestershire (she d. 1601 M) At least 13 children several of whom were illegimate. Ferdinand bap. 10 July 1577 H d.c.1646 Anthony bap. 1578 at H Barentyne bap. 1580 H d.1636 M sp William bap.1580 H d.1625M sp Other children included Thomas d. 1663 M; John b and d. 1605 M; George bap. 1594 H d. 1628 M Daughters: Dorothy b and d.M Frances bap 1600 H d.1680 M Mary (marr. Christopher Philipson) and d. 1670 M Margaret m. Anthony Latus 1614 M and d. 1631 M Ellen mar. Anthony Lamplugh pre 1625 and d. c.1678/80 Albina bap 1602 H d. 1653 M
"Oxford Church Depositions 1592-1596..."...church wardens of Haseley qnd curate Thomas Jones...had been summoned by Hudleston to baptise a child in his house...Jones had since been told....now commonally reported...that the child had been unlawfully begotten by Hudleston on Elizabeth a single woman who had had other children by him..." William, his wife Mary, and mistress Elizabeth had a "menage a trois" at Haseley, until his father Anthony died , when they moved to Millom. Mary (nee Bridges) d. 1601 at Millom. William died 1628 at Millom. Elizabeth Hartepole (now Hudleston) marr. 2ndly 1631 Samuel Knipe William Huddleston [birth 1549 death 4 March 1627][(All information above) From "All The Days of my Life" by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr-An Autobiography-1913 D. Appleton & Company; lists him as William Hudleston, Esq., Knight of the shire in the 43 Elizabeth, who married Mary, daughter of Bridges, Esq., of Gloucestershim][Annette Hudleston Harwood in her article "Lines of English Hudleston" lists him as .13 William 1549-1628 marriage 1.) Mary Bridges of Glousc. d. 1601 Several children 2.) Elizabeth Hartepoole, his mistress. Several children.] & Elizabeth Hartepoole [birth about 1545]-marriage date about 1566 of Thwaites Hall, England.
Mary Bridges Birth: About 1552 Avening, Gloucester, England Spouse: William Huddleston Marriage: <1573>William Huddleston Death: 04 MAR 1627The copyhold manor of Thwaite, which is united with Hunderthwaite, anciently belonged to the Fitz Alans, lords of Bedale. Matilda, daughter and co-heir of Brian Fitz Alan, married Sir Gilbert de Stapleton. After four descents, it was conveyed, by the marriage of an heiress to Sir John Huddleston, and it remained in the possession of this family 400 years. In 1741 it was purchased by G. Bowes, Esq., of Streatlam Castle, from whom it has descended to the Earl of Strathmore. On this estate, in 1784, a leaden jar containing a large quantity of old English pennies was found by some workmen who were engaged in turning up the sward of an ancient pasture. Many of the coins were cut into halves and quarters, which were legal tenders before the issue of halfpence and farthings. Singularly enough, a dim tradition of some hidden treasure had induced several persons to dig about the place previously. Thwaite Hall was one of the seats of the Huddlestons, whose principal residence was Millom Castle.
ff.38vo-4040ro. 11 May 1620. Evidence given by William Wye of Limehouse, sailor, aged 25, son William plaintiff. Statement similiar to others. ff.67vo-70ro. 17 June 1620. Similiar evidence given by John Johnson of Limehouse, Nauta. ff.67vo-70ro. 18 June 1620. Evidence of John Cuff, London Merchant, aged 40. ff.71vo-72ro. 18 June 1620. Evidence of Richard Wiseman, London Merchant, aged 31. ff.72ro-73vo. No date. Further examination of Thomas Hopkins ff.73vo-75ro. 22 June 1620. Similiar evidence of William Bens of Somers Island, aged 35. f.75ro. 22 June 1620. Similiar statement from William Ewens of Limehouse, Nauta, aged 40. ff.75ro-75ro. 22 June 1620. Like evidence given by John Huddleston, sailor, aged 33. Survey Report No. GL.5 References Crick and Alman Guide, pp.64-65. Vol.V No.65 Depositions in the Court of Common Pleas, 17 November 1621. the depositions are made by John Mennys, gent., of Sandwich, Kent; John Huddleston, gent., of Ratcliff, Middlesex, master of the Bona Nova; William Jackson of Ratcliffe, gunner of the Bona Nova; John Ward of Ratcliffe, mariner; and George Hooper of Ratcliffe; mariner. The depositions state the deponents were in Virginia during the period January-June, and that they had learned of the death of Mr. William Tracy of Berkeley, Shirley Hundred, Virginia, apparently during or earlier than January. One deposition refers to a Captain Powell, who had married William Tracy's daughter.
New River Notes WILLIAM TRACY of Berkeley Hundred, Va. was a Council Member in 1620 Born in England. Killed, March 22, 1622. in Indian Massacre.
In 'Records of the Virginia Company', on page 145 William Wye received his commission June 17, 1619 and on page 620 of the same book, he was in court proceedings May 6, 1622, Virginia Company vs Wye, Defense of Wye. Since Captain John Huddleston's birthdate is base on this, the dates become important.
Procat Records E 134/11Jas1/East29 Otho Mawditt v. Thomas Lord Delawarr, Sir John Crofts, knight.: Mortgage of the farm of Middleton made by Thos., late Lord Delawarr, to plaintiff.: Southampton 11 Jas 1 1612-13 E 134/11Jas1/Hil19 Otho Mawdit v. Thos. Lord Delawarr: Redemption of a lease of the farm of Middleton. Repair of premises.: Southampton. 11 Jas 1 1613 E 134/5Chas1/Mich3 George Widley, clerk, Robert Drew, John Kent. v. Lady Cicely Delawarre, Lady Isabel Delawarre, widow, George Stronge, William Roseblade, senr., Henry Dowling, John Bente.: Rectory and parsonage of Goode and Goodworth Clatford (Southampton), seized for a debt to the Crown due to James I. 5 Chas 1 E 134/5&6Chas1/Hil20 George Widley, clerk, Robert Drew, John Kent. v. Cicely Lady Delawarr, Isabel Lady Delawarr, Geo. Strong, William Roseblade, senior, Henry Dolyn, John Bent.: Rectory and parsonage of Good and Goodworth. Clatford (Southampton) seized by the Crown for debt. 5 & 6 Chas 1 E 134/13Geo3/Mich5 Interrogatories, Depositions taken at Kingsclere 2 Nov 13 Geo 3 ,1772. Charles Powlett, Clerk. v. Thos. Bates, Wm. Flower, Richd. Peirce. Depositions for Plaintiff and Defendants. Concerning the Rectory Impropriate, Vicarage and parish of Kingsclere (Hampshire) and farms in said parish occupied by the Defendants called Perch farm, Sandford Farm, and Cannon Court Farm, formerly in the possession of James Seward, Farmer Gunnell and Thomas Smith. 13 Geo 3 Mich
STAC 2/24/336 PLAINTIFF: Lord Delawarr and other justices of the peace DEFENDANT: Francis Dyngley, John Grygge, John Coke, and Edward Palmer PLACE OR SUBJECT: Embracery COUNTY: Sussex 22/04/1509-28/01/1547 STAC 5/D2/17 Delawarre v Cleydon, Haugh, Bowker, Travis, Dosterdyne. 17 Eliz STAC 5/D29/3 Delawarre v. Fylde, Cooper and Billingweste 29 Eliz STAC 5/D30/19 Delawarre v. Grey, Newman and Cromwell and others 13 Eliz STAC 5/D39/8 Delawarre v Grumell, Prickett. 12 Eliz
VI 11 Virginia Council. "Instructions orders and constitucons to Sr Thomas West knight Lo: La Warr," 1609/10(?). 24 (Records of the Virginia Company Volume III page 24) In this article, Lord La Warr is identified as Sir Thomas West and he is to become the first Governor of Virginia. He becomes responsible for three ships. The commission bears the date February 28 1609. Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8. Virginia Records Manuscripts. 1606-1737. Susan Myra Kingsbury, editor. Records of the Virginia Company, 1606-26, Volume III: Miscellaneous Records On page 30 we learn that he still holds both titles because he is called Lord Governor.
House of Lords Record Office: House of Lords [HL/PO/PB/1/1509/1H8n16-HL/PO/PB/1/1695/7&8W3n81] Catalogue Ref. HL
Creator(s): House of Lords Records of the Parliament Office, House of Lords Records of the Private Bill Office, House of Lords House of Lords: Private Bill Office: Original Acts [Access Conditions] Open. All the Acts for 14 & 15 Hen. VIII and for 21 Hen. VIII have been lacking from the class since the 16th century. Certain other Acts have been lacking since at least 1850. For conservation reasons, a surrogate (ie microfilm or printed version) will be supplied to researcher in the first instance where one exists, rather than the original manuscript. Private Acts, 32 Henry VIII FILE-Private Act, 32 Henry VIII, c. 74-ref. HL/PO/PB/1/1540/32H8n69-date: 1540 \_ [from Scope and Content] An Act concerning the Lord La Warr. Private Acts, 18 Elizabeth I FILE-Private Act, 18 Elizabeth I, c. 13-ref. HL/PO/PB/1/1575/18Eliz1n30-date: 1575 \_ [from Scope and Content] An Act for the Confirmation of an Arbitrament to be made by certain Persons, touching a Controversy between Richard Huddleston, Esquire, and Dame Isabell Weyman his Wife on the one Part, and Francis Weyman, Gentleman, on the other Part.
History of the Croft family
1086: At the time of the Domesday Survey Croft was held by Bernard under William of Ecouis. The family were called de Croft for 400 years and it is now thought that they were Normans introduced to Herefordshire before the conquest. 1243: The earliest recognised Croft is Hugh de Croft, who helped rescue Prince Edward from Simon de Montfort and deliver him to Wigmore. Williams’ brother Herbert was dean and bishop of Hereford, and his son was granted baronetcy as recognition of the sacrifices made by the Crofts. 1296-1727: The Crofts were also represented in Parliament, mainly for the Shire of Hereford or the Borough of Leominster. 1462: the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross was held nearby on land belonging to the Croft family. This battle was decisive in putting the Yorkist King Edward IV (a Mortimer) on the throne. Sir Richard Croft, who fought at the battle, was a Knight for the Shire and Sheriff of the County of Hereford. 1471: Richard Croft captured Prince Edward at the battle of Tewkesbury and was made a Knight Banneret upon the field of Stoke by Henry VI. Under Henry VII Richard was made Receiver-General of the Earldom of March and Knight Banneret at the Battle of Stoke (1487). He was also Steward to the young Prince Arthur and Treasurer to the King’s Household. Edward IV and Richard III appointed Thomas Croft as ranger of Woodstock Park; he was deprived of this honour in 1491 because he had committed a ‘ detestable murder’ in the Marches of Wales. 1535: In Leland's Itinerary vlo V he describes the castle as: "…the manor of the Crofts, sett on the browe of a hill, somewhat rokky, dychid and waullyd castle like." 1542: James Croft was MP for Herefordshire. 1551: James was made Lord Deputy of Ireland by Edward VI, he retained this position for 1 year. 1552: He was made Deputy Constable of the Tower of London, most probably at the favour of Lady Jane Grey. Edward removed him from this position in 1553 because he had been foremost in demonstrations in favour of Queen Jane. In 1554 he was a prisoner at the Tower but he escaped with his life and was released on the 1st of January 1555. Queen Elizabeth appointed James Croft Governor of Berwick. At the siege of Liege he repelled the foe but in a 2nd advance the English were worsted and James was blamed and ousted. Queen Elizabeth kept him as privy counsellor and controller of her household. 1558: Sir James Croft is buried in Westminster Abbey under a plain gravestone. The House of Croft-O.G.S Croft, 1949.
Croft Castle, Herefordshire-Diana Uhlman, National Trust, 1978.
"Hic iacet Johanna Croft una dominorum de la Holt in comitatu Wigorn". Habington has been unable to read the date of her death, but in a note he suggests it should be 1463, which is probably correct, for in 1472 we find dealings with the manor of Holt by Thomas Croft and Elizabeth, his wife (F. of F. Div. Cos., 76/82). From the A2A-FILE [no title]-ref. ZMI/B23/VII/7-date: 16th April, 3 Hen. IV. 1425 [from Scope and Content] Wit.: William Fraunde, Kt. Henry Morley, John Hardebene, Robert Formane, Robert Manly, Thomas Crofte and others. Seal: 1 red wax on tag. (Papers of the Middleton family of Belsay. Catalogue Ref. ZMI Creator(s): Middleton family of Belsay [Access Conditions] ZMI B1/II/1-ZMI B1/II/10 Missing since 1962 FILE [no title]- ref. [from Scope and Content] Grant of a toft in Caneby, and other lands belonging to him. Wit.:Thomas Wadde of Norton, John Acgent of Herpeswell, Thomas Croft, John Wastne of Glentham. (Parchment) From Procat Records we get: SP 46/28/fo 220 The Council to the Treasurer and Chamberlain: since Sir Ralph Sadleir, treasurer of wars in the north, has made up his account Sir George Bowes' allowance for service in the rebellion with men at Barnarde Castle, is to be paid by the Exchequer; Hampton Court; 16 June 1570; Signed by Bedford, Clynton, Howard, Knollys, Croft and Cecill; with Mildmay's minute to Petre; SP 46/35/fo 235 Petition to Burghley by William Bradricke, citizen and embroiderer of London, nephew, and Jane Sigswithe, daughter, of Matthew Sigswithe, for an injunction for possession of lands in Hudswell, co. York, held of the honour of Midlamn Castle. On Matthew's death the lands passed to Sir James Croft's patentees, with whom they compounded, and preferred a bill against the tenant, Edward Maxwell; 28 Apr. C 1/731/26 William Barbor of Siefton [in Culmington], yeoman. v. Thomas Croft, constable of Wigmore castle.: Price of 63/4 yards of feathers (?), and loan.: Salop. 1538-1544. Possible parents of Sybil Crofts could be Thomas Croft and Joanna. Gratley Manor, and properties in Bristol Catalogue Ref. 8016 Deeds concerning properties in Bristol FILE [no title]-ref. 8016/1-date: [1479] [from Scope and Content] Lease of two closes of land in the suburbs of Bristol, next to the church of St. Michael, Bristol-Edward Grey, Lord de Lisle and Elizabeth, his wife to Thomas Croft, 23rd February 18 Edward IV.
Thame Local History
Elizabethan Dates (1560 - 1603) 1572 Queen Elizabeth I made Sir Henry Norreys Baron Norreys at Rycote Palace. Sir Francis Knollys erected mansion in Thame High Street. Sir Richard Wenman, son-in-law to the late John Williams, died. 1596 Richard Wenman, grandson of John Williams' son-in-law, knighted at Cadiz. Thame supplied one of the leaders of an abortive agrarian revolt. Vol VII, 1962, p 160 also p 190 refers to high price of corn, an armourer from Thame being a ringleader, and Lord Norreys of Rycote being a target of the revolt. The years after 1588 saw many food riots in England, due to the price of corn. Locally enclosure of land for pasture was also a cause for grievance. Commonly referred to as the 'VCH', the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire is widely regarded as the definitive academic reference. It draws on the work of archaeologists, archivists and historians and includes a wealth of footnotes and references. Volume VII, Dorchester and Thame Hundreds, published by Oxford University Press in 1962 is a major source of historical information for Thame. Local History Research Group Thame, Oxfordshire, England Information@ThameHistory.net
Isabella WILLIAMS Born: 1522, Rycote, Oxfordshire, England Died: 1587, Carswell, Berkshire, England Father: John WILLIAMS (1º B. Williams of Thame) Mother: Elizabeth BLEDLOW Married: Richard WENMAN (son of Thomas Wenman and Ursula Giffard) Children: 1. Thomas WENMAN (Sir) (b. ABT 1550-d. 22 Jul 1577) (m. Jane West) 2. Henry WENMAN 3. Francis WENMAN (We see him as Francis Weyneman in House of Commons Records and in 'Records of the Virginia Company') 4. Elizabeth WENMAN 5. Margaret WENMAN 6. Frances WENMAN. We notice that Thomas Wenman married Jane West.
Jane WEST Born: 1558 Died: 1606, Norfolk, England Notes: Sir Ralph Shelton was fourth husband of Jane West. She was about two years older than Sir Ralph. Father: William WEST (1º B. De La Warr) Mother: Elizabeth STRANGE (B. De La Warr) Jane West's brother family is interesting, too. Thomas WEST (2° B. De La Warr) Born: ABT 1556, Wherwell, Hampshire, England Died: ABT 24 Mar 1602 Father: William WEST (1º B. De La Warr) Mother: Elizabeth STRANGE (B. De La Warr) Married: Anne KNOLLYS (B. De La Warr) 19 Nov 1571, Wherwell, Hampshire, England Children: 1. Walsingham WEST 2. Anne WEST 3. Helena WEST 4. Catherine WEST 5. Leticce WEST 6. Elizabeth WEST 7. Robert WEST 8. Thomas WEST (3º B. De La Warr) 9. Penelope WEST 10. Francis WEST (Gov. of Virginia) 11. John WEST (Gov. of Virginia) 12. Nathaniel WEST (Lt. Col.)
From the book, "All The Days Of My Life" by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr published by D. Appleton and Company; Mary Huddleston, daughter and heiress of FERDINAND Huddleston (#16), married Charles West, Lord Delawarr, 5th heir to the title. This couple had no issue. So on her father’s death, the family representation passed to her cousin, SIR RICHARD Huddleston (#16), son of Colonel John Huddleston. [Colonel John was the 2nd son of FERDINAND Huddleston (#14) and Jane Grey and his brother was Colonel William Huddleston who is shown in the House Of Common Records: 18 November 1643 Colonel William Hudleston House of Commons Journal Volume 3 18 November 1643 page 314 ].
Thomas, Lord De La Warr, First governor of Virginia. He was born July 9, 1557 and was married at St. Dunstan's in the West, Nov. 25, 1596 to Cecily, daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Sussex. This 3rd Lord De La Warr was made Governor of Virginia in 1609 and he owned large grants called Shirley and Westover but these had passed out of the possession of his descendants long before the colonial mansions of these names, now in existence, had been built. He died on his third voyage from England off the coast of Delaware, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry who became 4th Lord De La Warr. Thomas' children remained in England. Henry, Lord De La Warr was born Oct. 3, 1603 and died June 1, 1628. He married Isabella, daughter of Sir Thomas Edmunds in March, 1624/5. He was succeeded by his son, Charles, Lord De La Warr, 5th heir to the title, who was born in Feb., 1625/6. He died Dec. 22, 1687. His wife was Anne Wild whom he married Sept. 25, 1642. Information for the above outline has been obtained from: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. The Complete Peerage by Vicary Gibbs, Vol. 4. Of Sceptered Race by Annah Robinson Watson, pp. 191, 219.
Henry WILLIAMS (Sir Knight) Born: 1516 Died: 1551 Buried: 20 Aug 1551, London Notes: undoubtedly owed his knighthood of the shire for Northamptonshire in 1547 to the influence of his father who was present at the election: the father owned or was steward of several manors in the southern part of the county, and himself sat in this Parliament for Oxfordshire. When returned, the son was young and inexperienced; he may have been the Henry Williams of the stable who served in the army against France in 1544 but he had played no part in civil affairs, so that it was doubtless his father who as ‘Mr. Williams’ had several bills committed to him. In Aug 1548 Henry Williams and his younger brother Francis were in Padua, but he may have returned to England in time for the second session of the Parliament as in Oct he was named an overseer of the will of Robert Burdett. He died of the sweating sickness, s.p., and was buried in London on 20 Aug 1551, ‘with banners of arms, coats of armour and four dozen escutcheons’. His brother's death in the same epidemic left their father without a male heir. An epitaph on Henry Williams was written by Thomas Norton. It is not known who replaced him in the House. Father: John WILLIAMS (1º B. Williams of Thame) Mother: Elizabeth BLEDLOW Married: Anne STAFFORD Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)Born: 1521, Rycote, Oxfordshire, England Died: Dec 1599 Father: John WILLIAMS (1º B. Williams of Thame) Mother: Elizabeth BLEDLOW Married: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote) BEF 1544
John Williams was buried with great pomp at Thame on 15 Nov 1559, and his tomb remains in the church. His sons having predeceased him, the barony became extinct and the heirs to his property were his sons-in-law Henry Norreys and Richard Wenman. To his wife Williams left several manors, his house at Elsingspital and cups given by the Queen, the Duchess of Norfolk and Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, at the christening of one of her children; she later married in turn William Drury and James Croft. To Bedford he left his personal armour and to Sir Robert Dudley a black mare called ‘Maud Mullford which mare I take to be the best mare in England’. Several rectories were assigned for the endowment of a free school at Thame and provision was also made for the restoration of the footway between Oxford and Botley and the support of Botley road upon stone arches: a bill for the amendment of causeways and highways had been committed to Mr. Williams, either Sir John or Thomas Williams, a Member for Oxford, in the Parliament of Oct 1553. The executors included Sir Walter Mildmay and the supervisors the Earl of Bedford and Sir William Cecil. Sources: Elton, Tudor Revolution in Government C. A. J. Skeel, Council in the Marches of Wales.
House of Commons Journal Volume 1 10 March 1576 Lady Weyneman, &c. Mr. Doctor Barcley and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Confirmation of an Abitrament to be made between Richard Huddlestone Esquire, and Dame Izabell Weyneman his wife, on the One Part; and Francis Weyneman Gentlemen of the other Part; are sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary Smythe and others. (Three times before this Lady Weyneman's Bill was read and she shows up the 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13 of March 1576) A Sir Rich. Weyneman is admitted to the commons one day and sent to the Tower later and so is a Sir Tho. Weyneman sent to the Tower. House of Commons Journal Volume 1 01 May 1621.-To carry him to the Fleete, and whip him.-And hopeth, upon Search of his papers, to find Matters to hang him. PRO Reference Title/Scope and Content Covering Dates E 115/405/5 Wayneman, Wainman, Waynman, Wenman, Weyneman, [Lady Ann]: Oxford. Records of the Virginia Company XX, Shareholders in the Virginia Company From 1615 To 1623 Volume III Page 62 June 28, 1620 Sir Ferdinando Weynman allowed upon Acc to his daughter for 100 adventured wth Lo: Lawarr 4 shares January 29, 1621 Mr Geo: Sandis to Francis Weyneman 2 shares.
In considering Captain John Huddleston's parents to be Isabel Williams Weyneman (Wenman) (who died the year he was born) and his father, PCC Richard Huddleston Esq. of Thame Park, Oxon, the administration given to Henry Norris Kt. Lord, of Rycote Park, Oxon (near Thame) in 1590 and again 1598. Richard Huddleston "Her Maj, Treasurer of War" in 1586, died three years later; we are left with a problem. Isabel Williams Wenman Huddleston was 65 years old when Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Nova was born.
According to the LDS there was a Mathewe Huddleston who had a son John Huddleston who was christened 1592. [JOHN HUDDLESTONE Christening: 10 DEC 1592 Saint Katherine By The Tower, London, London, England Father: MATHEWE HUDDLESTONE P001441 1584-1695 0845261, 0845262 Film 6903590 Film IGI Individual Record. Definition: [n] giving a Christian name at baptism; noun the Christian sacrament of baptism or the ceremony in which this is conferred Source: The Collins English Dictionary © 2000 HarperCollins Publishers. MATHEW HUDELSTON Spouse: CHRISTIAN STORME Marriage: 02 APR 1581 Saint Mary The Virgin Aldermanbury, London, London, England 6903665 Number of Fiche: 1 Extracted from microfilm copies of parish registers and parish register transcripts on film nos. 0374991, 0845245 it. 3-4 (v. 61-62), 0845246 it. 1 (v. 65) or book no. 942 B4ha v. 61-62 and 65. Also known as St. Mary Aldermanbury. England, London, St. Mary Aldermanbury-Church records-Indexes 1539 John, Matthew, Peter, William, Robert and Bartholomew are tenants of Whitby Abbey in Robin Hoods Bay. 1565 Same names appear in documents selling Abbey possessions to the Cholmleys. 1603 First reference to a Storm, Robert d.1603, in Parish Records begun 1600. Derived from the book STORM AND COMPANY by ALAN STORM MA., B.Com., PhD who is also the author of:-FAMILY AND MARITIME COMMUNITY: ROBIN HOODS BAY c1653-c1867 now in the library of Leicester University. The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury Twice destroyed by fire, is part of the Winston Churchill Memorial. The Church, which dates from the 12th century, was redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677, after the Great Fire of London. Nearly three centuries later a German incendiary bomb left it in ruin. Slated for demolition, Wren's graceful masterpiece was saved by a bold idea. The structure would be rebuilt on the campus of Westminster College as a permanent reminder of Churchill's visit to the college and his prophetic speech. Stone by stone, architects and craftsmen dismantled the Church and painstakingly reconstructed it again at its present site. Today visitors from around the world may enter Wren's beautiful, light-filled sanctuary. Located on the campus of Westminster College in historic Fulton, Missouri. Ludlow Broad Street and Brand Lane
FILE [no title]-ref. 2705/12-date: 10 February 1624 \_ [from Scope and Content] Whereas by an indenture 31 October 1604 Edward Fox, esq., Jane his wife, Edmond and William their sons, demised to Mary Hughes a tenement (late Thomas smith, cutler) Nicholas Rawlings sadler, and the garden backside and appurtenances in Broad Street, Ludlow, between the messuage called by the sign of the Crown on the north and the tenement of John Candlend gent on the South, and extending to Narrow Lane, to hold for 80 years, for yearly rent of 20/- and 2 hens, which said lease was made by Richard Stirme at his cost to Mary Hughes. She then alienated it to David Moris, John Andris and Richard Edwards, not withstanding the trust reposed in her not to do so, so the property reverts to Richard Storme. The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of Shropshire Archives. Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown, © 2001-2003. The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of Shropshire Archives.
CHRISTIAN STORME Christening: 01 DEC 1552 Aldringham, Suffolk, England Mother: MGARETT STORME Parish register printouts of Aldringham, Suffolk, England ; christenings, 1551-1782 Film or fiche number 1238657
We can assume Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua was Catholic based on study of the English Huddlestons. From his letter to Jamestown, Virginia we can infer he was religious and had went to school.
Stepney in Other Days From "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. II, no. 19 (September 1932) It is not easy to imagine either the appearance of the riverside or the rural condition of the mother parish of Stepney four hundred years ago, when it was possible to view afar over field, meadow and marsh the little ships of sail passing up and down the silver reaches of the Thames, with the green hills of Kent and Surrey beyond. To-day most of that which is seen in the streets of East London has been developed since the making of the great docks early in the nineteenth century and the building of wharves and warehouses. The beginning of the change that altered the character of the whole district occurred, however, in the second half of the sixteenth century, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, when England, awakened by the spirit of adventure, took to the sea, and laid the foundations of its maritime power, the Indian Empire, and the oversea Dominions. In this great enterprise Stepney played no mean part. In the words of honest John Strype: "It is further to be remarked that the Parish of Stepney, on the Southern Parts of it especially, that it is one of the greatest Nurseries of Navigation and Breeders of Seamen in England, the most serviceable Men in the Nation; without which England could not be England for they are its Strength and Wealth." Previous to this era there was, between the Precinct of St. Katherine's by the Tower and Blackwall (just under six and a half miles) nothing but marshland, having a sparse population, except at Ratcliff, where from time immemorial people had gathered and carried on waterside occupations.
DUDLEY PAPERS. Catalogue Ref. DU Creator(s): Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, 1532-1588 DU/Boxes I-IV Deeds, etc., of Lettice, Countess of Leicester, and of Sir Christopher Blount her third husband, viz. FILE [no title]-ref. DU/BOX IV/82-date: nd \_ [from Scope and Content] Plea of Sir Christopher Blount, Knt., and Lettice, Countess of Leicester, his wife, in answer to charges in the accompts of Richard Huddleston, Esq., and Sir Thomas Chester, Treasurers-at-war in the Low Countries, against Robert [Dudley], late Earl of Leicester, of £3619, moneys of the Queen not accompted for down to 30 Nov. 1587. [See above, DU/VOL III, art.24]. Without date. FILE [no title]-ref. DU/VOL. I - date: 1559-1572 \_ [from Scope and Content] 80. Leonard West, on the "unnaturall dealenges" of his nephew Lord La Warr; London, 13 May, 1571. f.234. FILE [no title]-ref. DU/VOL. II-date: 1571-1588 \_ [from Scope and Content] 30. William [West, Lord] De La Warr, protesting his ability to serve Leicester in Hampshire as well as either Mr. Horsey or Mr. Wallop; White Friars, 27 June, [1572]. f.113. The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of Longleat House. Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown, © 2001-2003.
Captain John Huddleston carried over President Thomas Jefferson's ancestor John Jefferson in the Bona Noua and President Thomas Jefferson saved this information which later became to be known as 'Records of the Virginia Company' and Series 8: Virginia Records, 1606-1737. According to the Jefferson website, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Jefferson believed that the Court Book ended up in the hands of the Earl of Southampton, a member of the Company and an ally of Edwin Sandys, treasurer during the period covered by the Book, and that it was then purchased from Southampton's executor in London by one of the Byrd family. It was a part of the third William Byrd's library when he died in 1777. With that as a question to be answered, I believe the House of Commons Journals covering 1544 to 1650 to be a prerequisite to Series 8 and that the 'Records of the Virginia Company, 1607-1737 is the sequel to those 'House of Common Journals'. John Jefferson shows up on page 154 as a representative for Flowerdew Hundred in Volume III in July 30, 1619. On February 4 1624/25 he shows up in the Virginia Muster. (The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia before February 4, 1624/5, but voyage date not specified.) Volume I is a published edition of the manuscript volume 16, the Court Book, Part A, and volume II is of the manuscript volume 17, the Court Book, Part B. Volumes III and IV publish documents from manuscript volume 20, Miscellaneous Records, 1606-26, and documents from many other repositories in the United States and Great Britain. "While the Court Book of the Virginia Company, published as Volumes I and II presents minutes of the meetings of the corporation," Volumes III and IV "vivify its decisions and decrees, explain the difficulties met and overcome by that redoubtable group of adventurers, reveal the petty jealousies of the administrators, and especially record the controversy between the company and Crown that resulted in the dissolution of the corporation and the creation of the first crown colony of Great Britain" (Kingsbury, page vii). (What Susan Kingsbury calls petty jealousies can also can be called family squables; When you see how these folks are related.)
1. Port Book. Port of London. Collector of Public Record Office Class 1618-1619 Survey Report No. 3658 f.57v. page 2 On 31 July 1619, in the BONA NOVA of London, John Huddlestone being its master, bound for Virginia, Sir Edwin Sands, treasurer, and company shipped 1/2 ton of lead in eight pigs, 400 pairs of shoes for women and children, 18 "snapp hance" birding pieces, 16 pairs of boots, 130 iron hoes, 70,000 "head" nails, 40 small locks for chests, 50 hinges, 70 pairs of hooks and hinges, 26 pairs of "crosse garners"' 50 bolts and keepers, and 4 cwt 90 lbs of copper for trade, in 14 rundletts and 2 barrels. The value of the consignment was L72-12s-8d, and the duty paid L3-12s-7d.
2. Port Book. Port of London. Surveyor of Public Record Office Class 1620-1621 Page 4 of 4 Survey Report No. 3660 f.218 5 October 1621 10. In the BONA NOVA from Virginia, John Hudleston being its Master, Hue Hopkins imported 20 lbs. of pudding tobacco valued at L10, the duty in each case being 10s.
3. Letter: Abraham Piersey to Sir Edwin Sandys Magdalene College, 24 May 1621 page 1 of 1 CLASS Ferrar Paper Box IX, No. 362 He expects he has now safetly received his last letter which he sent by "The Tryall" of London. Title Letter: Abraham Piersy to Sir Edwin Sandys from James City, by "Bona Nova"
4. Letter: John Pory to Sir Edwin Sandys, from Magdalene College, 13 January 1619/20 Page 2 of 2 By "The Bona Nova" he sends copies of such grants of lands as they have passed that they may amend the form if they do not like it.
5. Letter: John Pory to Sir Edwin Sandys, from Magdalene College, 14 January 1619/20 page 1 of 1 CLASS Ferrar papers, Box IX No. 856 Title Letter: John Pory to Sir Edwin Sandys, from James City. Until the last moment he had forgotten to send a list, both of the Colony men and the passengers which came in "The Bona Nova"...Captain Welden says that the Company gave him passage for Thomas Smyth and Edward Kerby, gentlemen, but the Governor will not take this sufficient warrant without certificate from the Company.
6. Letter: John Rolfe to Sir Edwin Sandys. From. Magdalene College, January 1619/20 Survey Report No. C.52 page 2 of 3 4 November "The Bona Nova" arrived at James City by way of the West Indies, with all her passengers well. The proportion of victualls brought for these 100 men fell so short that the Governor and Council advised 50 should be boarded out at the rate of 3 barrels of corn and 55 lbs. of tobacco per man. By these means the men will be able to proceed to their own business next year nd can reach neewcomers. About 25 men have gone with Captain Mathewes 3 miles from Henrico, 25 with Mr. Whithakers within 4 miles of James City on the company's land.
7. Letter: Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar Magdalene College, 20 September 1619 Ferrar papers, Box X No. 965 Title Letter: Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar. From Northborn He asks him not to swerve from his former order of payment, viz: first for the "Bona Nova", secondly freight and wages for "The Diana". thirdly old debts for "The Diana"...
8. Jabez Whittaker. Letter to Sir Edward Sandys. Magdalene College, [16] May 1621 CLASS Ferrar papers, Box XI No. 1044 Title Jabez Whittaker. Letter to sir Edward Sandys. From Virginia by "The bona Nova", to Edwyn Sandys, St. Martin's Lane, London; endorsed by Nicholas Ferrar, who lists the main points.
9. Sir George Yeardley. Letter to {Sir Edward Magdalene College, [1619] page 1 of 2 Survey Report No. C.91 CLASS Ferrar papers Box XII No. 1249 Title Sir George Yeardley. Letter to [Sir Edward Sandys]. Captain Nuce and his men have arrived safely at Elizabeth City, whither Yeardley has gone to help them to settle and persuade the resident settlers to vacate their houses and build on the land allotted to them. A report on the affairs of Captain Argall has been sent and a final report is promised by the "Bona Nova".
10. Letter. Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar Magdalene College, 18 September 1620 CLASS Ferrar papers Box No. 972 Title Letter. Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar. From Northborn. He writes to describe the greatest peril of his wife in child-bed. On Thursday, 7 September, when the "Bona Nova" sailed from the Downs and was met beyond the Nesse, her travail began and continued until Sunday morning, when she was delivered of a dead boy.
11. Sir George Yeardley. Letter to Sir Edwin Magdalene College, 16 May 1621 Page 1 of 1 Survey Report No. C.94 CLASS Ferrar papers Box XII No. 1252 Yeardley states that he placed Sir Lawrence Hyde's servants, Sir Lawrence's brother Nicholas, and their mean and provisions, with John Boys, warden of Martin's Hundred. Endorsed by John Pory: "It agreeth wth th' original"; Copie of Sir G. Yeardleyes letter to Sir Edwin Sandys, in answer to that of Mr. Nicholas Hyde, &c. sent for England by the "Bona Nova", 16 May 1621.
12. Sir George Yeardley. Letter to the New Magdalene College, 16 May 1621 Page 1 of 1 Survey Report No. C.95 CLASS Ferrar papers Box XII No. 1253 Title Sir George Yeardley. Letter to the New Magazine Company. Yeardley, in reply to the New Magazine Company's letter of 20 April 1620 regarding the sale of their goods sent with Mr. Blaney states that Blaney intends to return to England by the present ship (The Bona Nova), leaving only one debt (one belonging to Mr. Deputy Ferrar) uncollected. endorsed by John Pory: "Copie of Sir George Yeardleyes letter to the newe Magazin Company by the Bona Noua 16 Maij 1621."
13. Sir George Yeardley. Letter to Sir Edwin Magdalene College, 16 May 1621 Page 1 of 1 CLASS Ferrar papers Box XII No. 1254 Title Sir George Yeardley. Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys. From James City by "The Bona Nova" 16 May 1621 to Sir Edwin Sandys
14. The expulsion of tenants that came by The Bona Nova Magdalene College, 11 and 12 November 1619 Page 1 of 2 CLASS Ferrar papers Box 'Virginia' No. 1367 Marginal Note: Aboard "The Bona Nova" were shipped 600 bushells of English meal, of which 36 were sent to Smith's Hundred and 20 to Mr. Ferrar's plantation, leaving only 544 bushells for the two companies of Captain Weldon and Lieutenant Whitaker. Concerning the 100 new men sent by "The Bona Nova" (50 under the command of Captain Welding and 50 under Lietenant Whitaker): as their supply of 544 bushells of english wheat would last (at 2lbs. per man per day) no more than 5 1/2 months, and to ensure that they keep well and be properly housed, it was agreed by the Governor and Counsil that Weldon and Whitaker be advised to rent out most of their people for a year as from Christmas for 3 barrells of Indian corn and 55 lbs. of tobacco per man.
15. Letter. George Thorpe to John Ferrar. From Magdalene College, 15 May 1621 Page 1 of 1 CLASS Ferrar papers Box X No. 1022 P.S. The Cooper of the "Bona Nova" is willing to bring over some of his trade to settle. He asks Ferrar to procure him a passage, as coopers are very necessary men.
16. Smyth of Nibley Papers Public Libraries, 1619, 1621 Page 1 of 1 Survey Report No. GL.5 Title Smyth of Nibley papers Vol.V No. 65 Depositions in the Court of Common Pleas,17 November 1621. The depositions are made by John Mennys, gent., of Sandwich, Kent; John Huddleston, gent., of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, master of the "Bona Nova"; William Jackson of Ratcliffe' gunner of the "Bona Nova"; John Ward of Ratcliffe, mariner; and George Hooper of Ratcliffe, mariner. The depositions state that the deponents were in Virginia during the period January - June, and that they had learned of the death of Mr. william Tracy of Berkeley, Shirley Hundred, Virginia, apparently during or earlier than January. One deposition refers to a Captain Powell, who had married William Tracy's daughter.
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17. Chancery Records. Town Depositions Public Record Office Class 1622 Page 4 of 4 Survey Report No. 9947 1p Thomas Greene, May 22, 1622, Describes agreement between Brett and Shackell. Small parcel of tobacco sent back on the "Bona Nova" for payment of Brett's wages. Brett went to Virginia on the "Sampson" which is now the "Temperance".
18. Chancery Records. Town Depositions Public Record Office Class 1630-1631 Pages 1 & 2 No. 50 John Hart c. John Deldridge. See C2 Charles II H 26/62 & D 23/70 CLASS C 24/565 Depositions on behalf of hart: 1p Tristram Conyman, July 6, 1630, Describes the voyage of the "Bona Nova" to Canada to fish in November 1623. Not sure if any tobacco was laden aboard in Virginia. Page 2 p.5 Thomas Biare, April 2, 1631, Was employed by Mr. Farrar, Mr. Barker and Delbridge to fit out the "Bona Nova" for a fishing voyage. Praises the part played by Hart in the fitting out. p.6 Humprey Barrett, April 6, 1631, Hart managed the whole business of setting out the ship. p.7 Gabriel Barbor, April 12, 1631, Describes arrangements for the voyage of the "Bona Nova", "Hopewell", and the "Darling". "Bona Nova" returned in September 1622 and fitted out for a second voyage to Canada.
19. Chancery Proceedings. Series I. Charles I Public Record Office 1628-1629 CLASS C2 Charles 1 H42/64 John Hart c. John Delbridge did in May 1622 agree to set forth several ships for a fishing voyage to New England. They approached Hart to organize the voyages and to keep the accounts. Afterwards Mr. John Ferrar became partner with Delbridge and Barbour, each having a one-third share. It was agreed that Hart should be paid L40 for his services. Ferrar and Barbour have each paid him L15 but he has not received the L10 from Delbridge. In November 1633 he was again employed in settling out the "Bona Nova" for fishing in New England.
20. Chancery Depositions. Elizabeth I to Charles. Public Record Office 1630/31 Page 2 of 2 Survey Report No. 10719 1p Depositions on behalf of Delbridge. Nicholas Delbridge. In 1622 he and Hart were employed in fitting out the "Bona Nova" from Plymouth to Canada on a fishing voyage. Believes Hart was employed by John Delbridge.
21. Manchester Papers Public Record Office Class 1616-1647 Page 14 of 52 Survey Report No. 1101 page 14, 16 & 20 of 53 Survey Report No. 1101 page 14 3 May 1619. A commission for the "Bona Nova" to go to Virginia, the first ship sent by Sandys. page 16 [First half of 1620?] Postscript [to a letter of Governor Nathaniel Buttler's], which mentions the voyage of the "Treasurer" to the West Indies and of the "Bona Nova" to Virginia. The latter was carried southwardby contrary winds as far as the Savage Islands, where there was an exchange of 14 negroes. page 20 1620. "A Note of the shipping, men and provisions, sent and provided for Virginia, by the Right Honorable, the Earle of Southampton, and the Company, this yeare, 1620." The ships despatched between August 1620 and February 1620-1 were the "Bona Nova", the "Elizabeth", the "Mayflower", the "Supply", the "Margaret and John", and the "Abigall", carying 600 persons in all.
In studying the books of "The Records of the Virginia Company" we can notice that it is a a four volume work; the first volume covering years 1606 to 1626. [Right Honorable means the Earle of Southampton was a member of the House of Lords.] But the official end of it is later according to the Thomas Jefferson time line. In May 1624, The Virginia Company of London loses its charter. Since 1606, approximately seventy-three hundred emigrants have sailed for the colony, and 6,040 have died either en route or after arrival. However, the Privy Council argues that that the colony has had a net increase of only 275 people since its founding. The colony suffers from chronic food shortages and seems unable to get a subsistence from its own efforts. The greatest death rate has occurred between 1621 and 1623, during the period of the Great Migration. The causes of the colony's low condition are numerous: over-cultivation of tobacco; conflicts with the Powhatans, caused or aggravated by the colonists' dependence on them for food; poorly coordinated arrivals of colonists and supplies; and an unhealthy location and bad water supply that causes chronic ill health and high death rates. The Company is bankrupt and divided between factions led by Sir Edwin Sandys and Sir Thomas Smith. In sum, the problems are complex and various, and the Company, riven by factional fighting, is unable to resolve them. Despite the loss of its charter, the Company lingers on until 1630. Series 8: Virginia Records, 1606-1737. Volume I is a published edition of the manuscript volume 16, the Court Book, Part A, and volume II is of the manuscript volume 17, the Court Book, Part B. Volumes III and IV publish documents from manuscript volume 20, Miscellaneous Records, 1606-26, and documents from many other repositories in the United States and Great Britain. "While the Court Book of the Virginia Company, published as Volumes I and II presents minutes of the meetings of the corporation," Volumes III and IV "vivify its decisions and decrees, explain the difficulties met and overcome by that redoubtable group of adventurers, reveal the petty jealousies of the administrators, and especially record the controversy between the company and Crown that resulted in the dissolution of the corporation and the creation of the first crown colony of Great Britain" (Kingsbury, page vii).
Early Huddleston Tudor Connections
Sir John Huddleston (1517-1557) Privy Councillor (1553–1557)(Bindoff, Commons) One of the signatories to a letter, dated 27 November 1554, sent from the Privy Council to Bishop Bonner, informing him that Queen Mary was pregnant and ordering him to have prayers and Te Deums said throughout the diocese (1563, pp. 1014-15; 1570, p. 1647; 1576, p. 1405; 1583, pp. 1475-76). Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Foxe calls him 'John Huddilstone'.
Second Book of Common Prayer and Beyond The 1552 Book finally banished all prayers for the dead. Theologically speaking, the dead were only spoken about and not directly to, since there is no basis for purgatory in Scripture. The final, major act of the Second Book of Common Prayer was to order the monasteries, churches, abbeys, and chantries to give to Edward all the remaining Church plate in England “for...the King’s Majesty had neede presently of a mass of money.” Despite the rules of this book, many parishes refused to cooperate or got away with whatever they could without incurring consequences from the government. John Huddlestone refused to take part in the commission as he had in 1549, and the commissioners for Lincolnshire waited until 18 June 1553, less than three weeks before Edward’s death, to act. But whatever the efforts of certain individuals, the process moved forward relatively quickly. And just in time for Mary’s ascension to power, the houses of God were empty of the rich Catholic heritage and tradition, including most, if not all, of the religious pieces indispensable to Catholic worship. Inventories of Church Goods for Yorkshire, xiv, cited in Duffy 476-477.
John Huddleston of Sawston c.1517-1577 1. "Eamonn Duffy" "The stripping of the Altars" pg.477, pub. 1992 Yale Univ. Press "John Huddleston, whose family was to have a long history of recusancy helped to compile the Cambridgeshire inventories of 1549 but refused to assist in the confiscations" (n. 65 "Huddlestone signed all the 1549 certificates for Cambs. but none of the subsequent acts of the commission") These inventories were of all the church possessions during the "Dissolution of the monasteries" and consquent requisition by the government of the day under Edward 6th. 2.)On the accession of Queen Mary (1553) Sir John was appointed a Privy Councillor and later Vice Chamberlain and Captain of HM's guard (King Philip of Spain, when married to Mary. He was made a KB in 1553:was MP for Cambridgeshire Oct. 1553; April 1554 and Nov,. 1554, Apparently did not attend a meeting of the Privy Council after July 10th. 1556. He died Nov. 1557. Married pre April 10th.1542 Bridget, dau. of Sir Robert Cotton of Lanwade. Three children: Edmund (his heir) William (d.1563) Alice, marr, to Sir Thomas Lovell of East Harling, Suffolk. Lady Bridget died 1577, at the home of her daughter, Lady Lovell. Annette Hudleston Harwood
The House of Common Journals: Mary Tudor is soon introduced. Mary realized that a plot was being hatched to place Jane on the throne. She had been urged by some friends to flee the country since they feared her life would be in danger. Mary knew that if she fled, she would forfeit all chances of becoming Queen and returning England to Catholicism, so she chose to remain and make a stand for her crown. Edward died on Jul 6, 1553. Shortly afterwards, Duke of Northumberland informed Jane at Syon house that Edward had left the crown to her and that she was now Queen of England. Mary, meanwhile, was in East Anglia. Northumberland and three of his sons went to take Mary into custody. Mary was at this time moving around with a growing army of supporters. She knew that he must have confirmation of her brother's death, because it would be treason to declare herself Queen otherwise. She received news from a reliable source that Edward was indeed dead, and promptly sent proclamations throughout the country announcing her accession to the throne. Mary went to Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, which was better fortified. Her number of supporters was increasing and Mary took time to inspect her troops personally. The people of Suffolk were flocking to Mary and many of the leaders who were supposed to take her into custody instead went and begged for her pardon. By this time, the Privy Council in London realized their error in going along with Northumberland's plot and declared Mary the true Queen of England. She left Framlingham for London on Jul 24. Queen Jane ostensibly mediated the reconciliation between the princess Mary and the king. In the correspondence which ensued between the father and daughter, about twenty days after the marriage of Jane Seymour, she is frequently mentioned by the princess as "her most natural mother the queen:" she congratulates her on her marriage with the king, praying God to send them a prince. These letters were chiefly dictated by Thomas Cromwell, whose son afterwards married a sister of the new qneen. Mary certainly regarded Jane Seymour as her friend; nevertheless, the terms were so cruel on which Mary was restored to her father's presence, that her majesty had not ventured very far in her intercession between them.
From one of Mary's earlier letters, it is evident that she had known Jane Seymour previously to her marriage, and had been treated kindly by her. [Hearne's Sylloge] The Roman catholic historians have mentioned queen Jane with complacency, on account of her friendliness to Henry's ill-treated daughter; the Protestants regard her with veneration as the mother of Edward VI. and the sister of Somerset; and thus, with little personal merit, accident has made her the subject of unlimited praise. Her kindness to Mary bears an appearance of moral worth, if the suspicion did not occur that it arose entirely from opposition to Anne Boleyn. The princess Mary was permitted to visit her step-mother at the palaces of Richmond and Greenwich, 1536-7. That season was saddened to queen Jane by the loss of her father, Sir John Seymour. He died in his sixtieth year, the preceding December, leaving his family at the very pinnacle of exaltation -- his eldest daughter the triumphant queen of England; his eldest son created lord Beauchamp, and lord chamberlain for life. The queen's aunt, Joanna Seymour, [Lysons' Cumberland] was the wife of Andrew Huddleston; their son Andrew obtained a command in Henry VIII.'s guards, called gentlemen at-arms, and riches, favour, and honour were showered profusely on every member of the house of Seymour.
Andrew Hudleston of Faringdon c.1532-1601 Andrew was the younger son of Sir John Hudleston of Millom (Cumb) (d. 1547)and Southam (Glos)and his 3rd. wife Joyce Prickley of Worcestershire. Sir John's 2nd. wife was Joan Seymour, aunt to the (later) Queen Jane Seymour. Andrew knew Sir John of Sawston and his son Edmund...(they were 2nd. cousins)indeed had recommended to Queen Mary that she rested at Sawston when she was being pursued by the forces of the D. of Norfolk and Lady Jane Grey in 1553. When Andrew married Marie Hutton in 1564, he had been living with his elder brother Anthony(son of Joan Seymour) at Millom. His sister Bridget (widow Askew)now married to William Pennington of Muncaster, gave him her house at Seaton (formerly a Priory). Several of Andrew's children were born there,and at Millom and other houses on the Cumberland coast belonging to Millom, but in c. 1583, he was offered on a perpetual lease on a house and estate at Farington Hall, Lancashire, near Preston, which belonged to his cousin Edmund of Sawston. This estate was sold c.1605/6 to pay the debts of Sir Edmund, and was bought by the son of Andrew, Joseph, who later acquired the estates of Hutton John from his uncle Thomas Hutton. Bridget Pennington was a staunch Catholic, while her brother was a "temporiser" or "crypto Catholic". The family remained Catholic till after the Restoration of Charles 2nd. while the Sawston Huddlestons remained Catholic till the 20th. cent. Annette Hudleston Harwood
The story of Elizabeth's entry into the Tower is an interesting one. She was deathly (pun intended) afraid of the Tower, probably thinking of her mother's fate in that place, and when she was told she would be entering through Traitor's Gate, she refused to move. She had been secreted to the Tower in the dark so as not to raise the sympathy of supporters. That night was cold and rainy, and the Princess Elizabeth sat, soaking wet, on the stairs from the river to the gate. After her governess finally persuaded Elizabeth to enter, she did so and became yet another famous prisoner of the Tower of London. Elizabeth stood in grave danger as her very existence was considered a threat to the Queen and to the Spanish marriage. Renard urged her execution. But the lack of evidence against Elizabeth, Wyatt’s declaration of her innocent as he went to the block, and Elizabeth’s increasing popularity (the crowds greeted her with warm cheers and gifts) worked in her favor. Elizabeth was no longer seen as a significant threat when Mary had become pregnant, and she decided that Elizabeth should no longer be kept in the Tower of London in 1554 she was sent to the palace at Woodstock starting on 19th May. The first night of the journey was spent at Richmond, the second at Windsor and the third at West Wycombe with Sir William Dormer. The following night was spent at Rycote with Sir John Williams of Thame and she arrived at Woodstock on 23rd May. On the return journey from Woodstock to Hatfield Elizabeth may have spent the night at Ascott Manor again under the auspices of Sir William Dormer. Mary Tudor was nearly 40 years old when the new of her "pregnancy" came. After a few months, her belly began to swell, but no baby was ever forthcoming. Some modern historians think that she had a large ovarian cyst, and this is also what lead to her failing health and eventual death in Nov 1558. On her deathbed and at her husband’s request, Mary reluctantly accepted Elizabeth as heir to the throne. After Elizabeth, the most powerful claim to the throne resided in the name of Mary, Queen of Scots, who had not long before married Francois, the French heir to the throne and enemy of Spain. Thus, although Elizabeth was not Catholic, it was in Felipe and Spain’s best interest to secure her accession to the throne, in order to prevent the French from obtaining it. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutElizabeth.htm (It is hard not to feel the love in this family. Mary's father threatened her with execution. Mary put her own sister, Elizabeth in the Tower and Jane Seymour was executed.)
But rememembering Andrew Huddleston's wife was aunt to Queen Jane Seymour. From the text above we about Elizabeth: The following night was spent at Rycote with Sir John Williams of Thame and she arrived at Woodstock on 23rd May. John Williams of Thame was the father of Isabel Williams. Isabel Williams Married: Richard WENMAN (son of Thomas Wenman and Ursula Giffard). She later married Richard Huddleston of Thames. Getting back to Sir Edmund Huddleston, we find him in this inquistion with an Andrew Huddleston. Inquisition Post Mortem 1584 D.L. 7/14. Award delivered in the Chancery 21 Nov. A.D. 1584...
Lancaster. Indented inquisition taken at Leyland in the county aforesaid on Thursday namely the third day of September in the 26th year of the reign of Elizabeth, by God's grace Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., before William Farrington, esq., Andrew Huddleston, esq., and Gilbert Moreton, Gent., Foedary of the lady Queen in the county aforesaid, committed by the said lady Queen by virtue of a commission of the same lady Queen in the nature of a writ of Mandamus after the death of Robert Wearden, gent., deceased, directed to the same commissioners and annexed to this inquisition, (by) the oath of John Cureden, gent., William Banester of Wrightington (?), gent., William Craston, gent., Richard Farrington, gent., Richard Walton, gent., John Singleton of Ingolhard (?), gent., John Diconson, gent., William Sonnes, gent., James Stopforth, gent., Robert Farrington, gent., Thomas Wearden, gent., Roger Farrington, gent., and Richard Kellet, gent., jurors. Who say on their oath that the aforesaid Robert Wearden... on the day of his death was seised in his demesne as of fee tail, namely to him and the heirs issuing from his body, of and in one messuage, one cottage, 7 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow and ( ) with appurtenances in Clayton in the county aforesaid. And of and in one messuage, 6 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, and 6 acres of pasture with appurtenances in Cophull in the county aforesaid. And of and in 3 acres ( ) of meadow and 2 acres of pasture with appurtenances in Leylonde in the county aforesaid. And the foresaid Robert Wearden, being so seised of all and singular the premisses with appurtenances, died seised thereof of such estate. And further the jurors aforesaid say on their oath that the aforesaid messuage and rest of the premessis with their appurtenances in Clayton aforesaid are held at the time of the death of the aforesaid Robert Wearden were held of Edmund Huddleston, knight, and Dorothy, his wife, as of their manor of Clayton, by what service the jurors foresaid are utterly ignorant. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~worden/inquisition_post_mort.htm From Lines of English Huddleston, Sir Edmund Huddleston (13) of the Sawston Line knew Andrew Huddleston, esq (12) of the Hutton John Branch.
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John Huddleston Monk of the Order of St. Benedict;
b. at Farington Hall, Lancashire, 15 April, 1608; exact date of death unknown; buried at London, 13 September, 1698. He was the second son of Joseph Huddleston of Farington Hall, Lancashire, and Hutton John, Cumberland. All that is known of his youth is contained in his statement made on applying for admission to the English College, Rome, in 1632. This document is given in full in Foley's "Records of the English Province S.J.", but Foley, following Dr. Oliver, confuses Dom John Huddleston alias Sandford, O.S.B., with Father John Stafford, S.J., and has accordingly largely reconstructed the Huddleston pedigree to fit in a "Fr. John Huddleston alias Sandford S.J." who never existed; for the true pedigree see Jackson, "Papers and Pedigrees relating to Cumberland and Westmoreland" (2 vols., Kendal, 1892). In his statement Father Huddleston mentions that he was educated at the school of Great Blencow, near Hutton John, until his fifteenth year. In his twentieth year he was sent to St. Omer's College, and on 17 October, 1632, entered the English College at Rome. It has been stated that he served for some time in the royalist army as a volunteer; in reality it was another John, his second cousin, the son of Ferdinando Huddleston of Millom Castle, Cumberland, who served under King Charles. On 22 March, 1637, Dom John was ordained priest in St. John Lateran's, and left Rome for England on 28 March, 1639. Dodd declares that he was educated and ordained priest at Douai College, Flanders; but his name does not appear in the "Douay Diaries".
There is a tradition that on arriving in England he acted as chaplain at Grove House, Wensleydale, Yorkshire (Barker, "Three Days of Wensleydale", 96). In 1651 he was residing at Moseley, Staffordshire, as chaplain to the Whitgreave family. After the defeat at Worcester on 3 September, 1651, Charles II was conducted by Colonel Gyfford to Whiteladies, where he was sheltered by the Penderell family, and it was while seeking for some safer hiding place for the king that John Penderell happened to meet Father Huddleston. Accordingly Charles was disguised as a peasant and removed to Moseley during the night of Sunday, 7 September. To guard against surprise Huddleston was constantly in attendance on the king; his three pupils were stationed as sentinels at upper windows and Thomas Whitgreave patrolled the garden. On Tuesday, 9 September, Cromwell's soldiers came to search the house. The king and Huddleston were hurriedly shut away in the priest's hiding place, and the troops, after first seizing Whitgreave as a fugitive cavalier from Worcester, were eventually convinced that he had not left the house for some weeks and were persuaded to depart without searching the mansion. That night the king left for Bentley, after promising to befriend Huddleston when restored to his throne. Some time after this Huddleston joined the Benedictines of the Spanish Congregation, being professed while on the mission in England. This event took place before 1661, in which year he was elected to the titular dignity of cathedral prior of Worcester by the General Chapter of the English Benedictines held at Douai. In the next general chapter, held also at Douai, in 1666, he acted as secretary.
At the Restoration in 1660, Huddleston was invited to live at Somerset House, London, under the protection of the Queen Dowager, Henrietta Maria, shortly after whose death in 1669 he was appointed chaplain to Queen Catherine, with a salary of 100 pounds a year besides a pension of like amount. In 1671, with Dom Vincent Sadler, O.S.B., he visited Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of the eminent antiquary Anthony a Wood. During the disturbances produced by Titus Oates's pretended revelations the House of Lords, by a vote on 7 December, 1678, ordered that Huddleston, Thomas Whitgreave, the brothers Penderell, and others instrumental in the preservation of his Majesty's person after the battle of Worcester, should for their said service live as freely as any of the king's Protestant subjects, without being liable to the penalties of any of the laws relating to Popish recusants. Barillon and Burnet state that Huddleston was exempted by name from all Acts of Parliament against priests, but this is a mistake, though such an exemption is found in a bill drafted at this period, which, however, never became law.
When Charles II lay dying "upon Thursday the fifth of February, 1684-5, between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening" the Duke of York brought Huddleston to his bedside, saying, "Sire, this good man once saved your life. He now comes to save your soul." Charles received him gladly, declaring that he wished to die in the faith and communion of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Huddleston then heard the King's confession, reconciled him to the Church and absolved him, afterwards administering Extreme Unction and the Viaticum. On the accession of James II, Huddleston continued to reside with the Queen Dowager at Somerset House. Shortly before his death his mind failed and he was placed in the charge of "the Popish Lord Feversham", one of the few persons present at Charles II's reconciliation to the Church, who managed his affairs as trustee. To this arrangement is probably due the unusual circumstance that the probate of his will was obtained the day before his funeral.
He was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary le Strand (Parish Register, MS.). Snow's "Necrology of the English Benedictines" gives 22 September as the date of his death, but this is obviously wrong. Numerous contemporary writers, including Anthony a Wood and Samuel Pepys, mention Huddleston with respect and there seems no reason for Macauley's statement that he was ignorant and illiterate. He published "A short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church" (London, 1688), a little treatise written by his uncle Richard Huddleston, O.S.B., and read by Charles II in manuscript while hiding at Moseley. The volume also contains the famous "Two papers written by the late King Charles II", found in his closet after his decease, and "A briefe account of Particulars occurring at the happy Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II". At the end, under a separate title page, is "A summary of Occurrences Relating to the Miraculous Preservation of our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles II after the Defeat of his Army at Worcester in the Year 1651. Faithfully taken from the express testimony of those two worthy Roman Catholics, Thomas Whitgreave. . .Esq., and Mr. John Huddleston, Priest of the Order of St. Bennet". The whole work was reprinted by Dolman (London, 1844) as vol. II of the "English Catholic Library" edited by Canon Tiernay, and again later (London, 1850). The account of the death-bed of Charles II is also reprinted in the "State Tracts" (London, 1692-3); its truth in every detail is confirmed by the rare contemporary broadside "A true Relation of the late King's death, by P(ere) M(ansuete) A C(apuchin) F(riar), Chaplain to the Duke".
Several portraits of Huddleston exist; the best, by Houseman, 1685, "aetatis suae anno 78", is still preserved at Hutton John; another at Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire, was engraved for the "Laity's Directory" of 1816. Father Huddleston seems to have spelled his name with a single or double "d" indiscriminately, and at times to have used the name "Denys" (Dionysius) after John, having presumably adopted it on receiving the Benedictine habit. BRITISH MUSEUM, MSS. Additional, 5871, f. 27b; HUDDLESTON, Short and Plain Way (London, 1688); BLOUNT, Boscobel (London, 1660); re- edited with valuable notes by THOMAS (London, 1894); Account of the Preservation of King Charles II after Worcester (London, 1666), dictated by himself to S. Pepys, with notes by the latter, obtained at personal interviews with Father Huddleston and others, reprinted in THOMAS'S ed. of BLOUNT, Boscobel; DOLAN, Weldon's Chronological Notes of the English Benedictine Congregation (privately printed, Stanbrook, 1881); OLIVER, Collections Illustrating the. . .Catholic Religion in Cornwall, etc. (London, 1857), 518; HEARNE, Thomae Caii Vindiciae (Oxford, 1730), II, 598; FOLEY, Records of the English Province S. J. (London, 1879), V; A WOOD, Autobiography, ed. BLISS (Oxford, 1848), I, 176; SNOW, Necrology of the English Benedictines (London, 1883), 78; Catholic Magazine and Review, V, 385-394; Laity's Directory for 1816 (London, 1815); BARKER, The Three Days of Wensleydale; HARLEIAN SOCIETY, Visitation of Cumberland (London, 1872); JACKSON, Papers and Pedigrees Relating to Cumberland and Westmoreland (Kendal, 1892); HUGHES, Boscobel Tracts (Edinburgh, 1857); FEA, The Flight of the King (London, 1897); Catholic Record Society: Proceedings (London, 1905), I; see also the standard histories for this time. G. ROGER HUDLESTON Transcribed by Herman F. Holbrook In memoriam: David James Martin, Priest, of the London Oratory. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VII Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company
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The Two Jane Seymours
Jane SEYMOUR Born: ABT 1469, Wolfhall, Wiltshire, England Father: John SEYMOUR Mother: Elizabeth DARRELL Married: John HUDDLESTONE
Jane SEYMOUR (Queen of England) Born: ABT 1505, Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire, England Died: 24 Oct 1537, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England
Born ABT 1525, first son of Henry Norreys of Bray by Mary, dau. of Thomas Fiennes, 8th Lord Dacre of the South. Kntd. 6 Sep 1566. Official of royal stables by 1546; gent. privy chamber by 1547; butler, port of Poole 1553; j.p. Berks. 1558/59, Oxon. 1561-91; sheriff, Oxon, and Berks. 1562-3; ambassador to France 1566-70; 1566-70; cr. Lord Norreys 1572; keeper of the armoury and porter of the outer gate, Windsor castle 1578; high steward, Abingdon c. 1580, Wallingford 1588; jt. ld. lt. Oxon. and Berks. c.1585-99; capt. of light horse, the Queen's bodyguard Jul 1588. The Norreys family owed its eminence to Sir John Norreys, keeper of the great wardrobe to Henry VI. He acquired the manor of Yattendon through his wife and bought many neighbouring estates. These lands descended through his son Sir William to his various grandchildren, of whom three died comparatively young, so that much of the inheritance was reunited under Sir John Norreys, Sir William's eldest son by his second marriage. John had already received Yattendon, where he lived, while his younger brother Henry, father of the Member, was making his way at court. After attracting Henry VIII's favour, the elder Henry Norreys rose rapidly, only to be arrested on 1 May 1536, on a charge of adultery with Anne Boleyn, and beheaded on the 17th. He left one son and one daughter by a wife who had died five years earlier. The early years of this son, the younger Henry, are obscure. His patrimony was restored to him by an Act of 1539 (31 Hen. VIII, c.22), and in Dec 1542 his uncle Sir John Norreys of Yattendon, who was childless, was licensed to settle his estates in reversion on Henry, who was his ward, and on Margery, the younger daughter of Sir John Williams, and their heirs. The couple must therefore have been betrothed by this date, and by 26 Aug 1544 they were married. Norreys was then described as a royal ‘servant’, and since Margery was to become the coheir of her wealthy father, who in the same year became treasurer of the court of augmentations, his prospects were bright. The couple received several properties, all but one formerly monastic, and as Williams was continuing to acquire land in Berkshire, as well as Rycote in Oxfordshire, the deaths of his uncle and father-in-law would greatly increase Henry Norreys's already considerable wealth. These advantages notwithstanding, Norreys's youth and inexperience made him an unusual choice as knight of the shire for Berkshire in 1547. He is not known to have been a partisan of the Duke of Somerset, although his cousin Sir William Wroughton was described by the Duke as a kinsman and had been a ward of Sir John Seymour, and he seems to have taken no part in local administration under Edward VI and to have received no land or office. He is not known to have sat in the Parliament of Mar 1553, for which the names of many Members are lost, but on 21 Jun he was among the King's gentlemen who witnessed the device settling the crown upon Lady Jane Grey. After the succession crisis Mary did not hold this act against him as she approved his appointment as butler of Poole in the autumn, but he was to take little part in public affairs during her reign save for an interlude in 1554 when he is said to have helped to guard the Princess Elizabeth at Woodstock. Norreys was to prosper under Elizabeth, who took the view that his father had died for his loyalty to Queen Anne and who bestowed her friendship on him and his wife. On the death of Lord Williams in 1559 he received much Oxfordshire property, and settled at Rycote, where he died on 27 Jun 1601.
The state of Virginia's assembly from the dissolution of the company in 1624 until 1639 is difficult to trace. It appears that until 1637 the King governed Virginia through committees in the Privy Council. During this period there were various efforts to derive a system of administration for the colony. It would appear that the royal commission set up to make recommendations concerning Virginia in 1631 assumed that an assembly was functioning in the colony. Even though assemblies convened after 1628, the planters, it would appear, were none too sure of their rights in this matter. Charles M. Andrews, in his study of the evolution of the assembly in The Colonial Period in American History, has concluded that the Virginia planters themselves were largely responsible for the establishment of self-government in the royal colony of Virginia. Charles I did not purposely intend to deprive Virginia of its assembly, yet he seemed reluctant to give it his seal of approval. The colonists, acting without direct or explicit consent, yet with something of an implied sanction, proceeded to keep the assembly alive through regular meetings—through action and then explanation. Over a 15-year period a precedent was established, and the King came slowly to a decision. The case was settled in Wyatt's instructions of January 1638/39 when he was instructed "Once a year to call a General Assembly and the Governor therein to have a negative voice." For 20 years before 1639 the General Assembly had been functioning in Virginia, but there was as yet no especially designated building to house this body. The colony was still without a capitol building—still without a statehouse. The explanation for this fact may lie, in part, in the early insecurity and uncertainty of the assembly itself, for it should be remembered that at an early date provisions had been made only for accommodating the permanent features of the colony, such as church and governor.
THE FIRST STATEHOUSE
In a relatively short time this double building, the western section of which became the first statehouse, was officially known as the capitol building. It was referred to in the land records and became a landmark at Jamestown. The fact that this structure had been used for court meetings before acquisition and had in all probability witnessed council meetings, even assembly meetings, over a period of years, may be the reason that it had already become fixed in the minds of the colonists. The acquisition of this statehouse was merely a change in title and not so much one of actual use. It evidently remained the colony's statehouse for the next 14 years. From 1641 until 1656 it can be assumed that the first statehouse functioned as the center of government for the colony—the place where assemblies met, courts were held, and council sessions were called. Although considerable activity must have taken place before 1641, during the interval that followed all important events of the day must have been associated with this brick statehouse. From it must have come the "Remonstrance of the Grand Assembly" against the recharter of the old company in 1642, the repeated legislative acts to encourage western exploration, and heated reverberations of the Virginia-Maryland boundary dispute. History No. 15: The Oldest Legislative Assembly in America & Its First Statehouse THE ASSEMBLY, 1620-39
The creation of legal distinctions between blacks and whites served to further effectuate the diminution of blacks to the status of chattel. Foreshadowing the slave codes, blacks were denied the important right and obligation to bear arms in 1640. Also in 1640, the first statutory indication of outright enslavement appeared in Virginia when three runaway servants, two white and one black, were recaptured after absconding to Maryland. The General Court ordered the white servants to serve their master for one additional year and then the colony for three more. The black servant, however, was sentenced to "serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere."1 Thus, thirty-three years into Virginia's existence, the law affirmed a practice in which many Virginians were already engaged. "After 1640, Virginia county court records began to mention Negroes, and" sales for life, often including any future progeny, were recorded in unmistakable language."2 1. Henry R. McIlwaine, ed., "Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia p. 466," http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/practise.html 2. Jordan, 312-313.
SIR Thomas Smith, Knt. was treasurer and Governor of the Company during the first twelve year which ended the 18th of November, 1618. The administration of Sir Thomas Smith must be understood as confined to a presidency of the council and company in England while the affairs of the colony were managed by one council resident there. He was never actually governor in Virginia −−− (see Burk's his. Virg. vol. I. pa. 92) During the time that Sir Thomas Smith was Treasurer and president of the company in England, the following were the presidents of the council, and governors in Virginia: 1st president of the council, Edward Maria Wingfield. 2d. John Radcliffe. 3d. John Smith. 4th. George Percy. 1st. Governor, Lord De la War. 2d. Sir Thoams Dare. 3d. Sir Thomas Gates. 4th. Sir Thomas Dale. 5th Capt. George Yeardley. 6th. Capt. Argall. Hening's Statutes At Large
In 1623/24, courts were kept in Charles City, Elizabeth City, and James City. In February 1631/32, the General Assembly added five more shires. The eight original shires were: {1} Charles City {2} Henrico {3} James City {4} Elizabeth City {5} Warwick River {6} Warrosquyoake, later Isle of Wight {7} Charles River, later York {8} Accawmacke (Accomack). The creation of the shires, which later became known as counties, was to make the administration of justice more easily accessible to the colonists. There were six kinds of courts in Virginia: {1} Magistrate’s court {2} Parish court {3} Monthly court {4} General court {5} General Assembly {6} Court of Admiralty. As the settlements expanded, courts were needed closer to the people, and new counties continued to be formed. The House of Burgesses first created official local governmental units in 1634. The decision reflected the population growth of the colony, which created a need for official decisions that were local and not of concern to the entire House (or appropriate to delay until the next session of the House of Burgesses). The local units of government were called "shires" only in the original act. Ever since, they have been described as "counties." The original eight shires included Charles City, James City, Elizabeth City, Accomacke-became Northampton 1643, Henrico, Warwick, Isle of Wight and York. Credits: The Library of Virginia, Signs of History - Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer, Mercer On Line, Franklin-Simpson County Chamber of Commerce, How It All Began For Trimble County by Dr. Richard A. Edwards, Lexington Herald-Leader 01/01/2000, The Rockbridge County, VAGenWeb Project, Whitley County Kentucky Genealogy, Ralph Eddie Coppage - Harrison County County Clerk, Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum, Thelma Taylor
Life in Plymouth Colony
The Pilgrims received legal rights to settle at Plymouth under a patent granted by the Council for New England in 1621. Governor Bradford received a new patent, the Warwick Patent, in 1630. It granted him all the land south of a line between Narragansett Bay and Cohasset. Under this patent, Bradford could have claimed ownership of the entire colony, but he shared control with the other settlers. He turned the patent over to all the freemen (voters) of the colony in 1640. A few years later, surveyors marked off an area corresponding to the present counties of Bristol, Barnstable, and Plymouth as the colony of Plymouth. In November 1621, the ship Fortune arrived with 35 new colonists. Other ships brought additional settlers but the population grew to only 300 settlers in 10 years. Some of the colonists decided to move from Plymouth to better lands. Some went north and established the towns of Duxbury, Marshfield, and Scituate. Others moved west to Rehoboth, or farther east on Cape Cod to settle Sandwich, Barnstable, Yarmouth, and Eastham. The Massachusetts Bay Colony's superior harbor at Boston helped draw trade and settlers from Plymouth Colony. Boundary and trade disputes increased among the colonies that had formed in the area. The Pilgrims also faced the danger of attack by nearby Indians and Dutch and French colonists. In 1643, Plymouth Colony joined the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies in forming the New England Confederation. This alliance worked to settle disputes and provide for the common defense. Contributor: Joan R. Gundersen, Ph.D., Prof. of History, California State Univ., San Marcos. SOURCE: IBM 1999 WORLD BOOK In Winter, 1626/1627 The "Sparrowhawk" is wrecked on Cape Cod, and its passengers are given refuge in Plymouth. © Plimoth Plantation, Inc. 1999
Survey Report No. 1101 page 14 3 May 1619 A commission for the Bona Nova to go to Virginia, the first ship sent by Sandys. Survey Report No. c.52 page 2 4 November 1619/20 4 November The 'Bona Nova' arrived at James City by way of the West Indies, with all her passengers well. The proportion of victuals brought for these 100 men fell so far short that the Governor and Council advised that 50 should be boarded out at the rate of 3 barrells of corn and 55 lbs. of tobacco per man. By these means the men will be able to proceed to their own business next year and can reach newcomers. About 25 men have gone with Captain Mathews 3 miles from Henrico, 25 with Mr. Whitakers within 4 miles of James City on the company's land. Survey Report No. 116 page 16 (First half of 1620?) Postscript [to a letter of Governor Nathaniel Butler's], which mentions the voyage of the 'Treasurer' from Virginia to the West Indies and of the 'Bona Nova' to Virginia. The letter was carried southward by contrary winds as far as the Savage Islands, where there was an exchange of 14 Negroes. Virginians are mentioned as "extraordinary and unlooked for Guests" when they arrived on board the 'Garland', together with the 'Treasurer's' company, the 14 Negroes and the Dutchmen of the wreck. (These survey reports are the edited works of Dr. Kingsbury found at the Library of Virginia and in the 4 books volumes of 'The Records of the Virginia Company'.) Note on translations The Portuguese "Ilhas Salvagens" translates as "Savage Islands" in English. However, this is often mistranslated as "Salvage Islands" in English-language citations. © 2002 Don Macnaughtan. Island Bibliographies no. 2 Niue[n´] Pronunciation Key, coral island (1990 pop. 2,532), c.100 sq mi (260 sq km), South Pacific, freely associated with New Zealand. Alofi is the capital. The inhabitants are mainly Protestant Polynesians. Niue, once known as Savage Island, has fertile soil and exports coconut milk, copra, honey, and fruit. The island has an autonomous internal government. Pacific Islands Political Geography. From Cabo Finisterre, the NW tip of Spain, the course to Cape Verde, the westernmost tip of Africa, passes through the Canary Islands, but before arriving there it passes a tiny group of islands of volcanic origin, the Ilhas Selvagens (the "Savage Islands"), a 160 nautical miles (300 km / 185 statute miles) SSE of Madeira. Information obtained partly from Nautical Publication Nr. 1, Africa Pilot, Vol I, 13th ed. 1982 and Supplement 7th ed. 1999, British Admiralty, Hydrographer of the Navy, Ministry of Defense, Taunton, England
I asked Isolde Martyn about her book: Historical novels: The Maiden and the Unicorn (Bantam, USA) The Lady and the Unicorn (Bantam, Australia) Winner of the Rita for 'Best First Novel' USA and 1999 Romantic Book of the Year in Australia. She researched Sir Richard Huddleston and Margaret Neville and the novel is based on them. I haven't had a chance to read the novel but asked her about her research. I thought I would share some of her email to me by putting her words in quotations. "Much of my information has been from ferreting over the years as the Yorkists have always been one of my major interests. There are potted bios of Margaret Neville and Richard Huddleston in The Coronation of Richard III (most university libraries would have a copy) which is where I first came across mention of them both. I had an amateur sleuth do some research for me in Cumbria and I also had an article from the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society on the family's connection with Millom castle. I can give you the reference if you wish. I guess ease of accessing the info depends on where you are living. A lot more is known about Richard's brother, John, than about Richard. I discovered after my novel was published that Richard's younger brother did change loyalties at Barnet and died fighting for Edward IV. Margery died around 1498-99. Her son, abducted by his future mother-in-law, Lady Dacre, only outlived his mother by a few years and had no children of his own. His married sisters, Margaret Salkeld and Joan Flemying were his heirs. Mention of Sir Richard Huddleston ceases after 1485 so he may have died that year possibly on Bosworth Field. Margaret Huddleston remarried. It is possible that there is a branch of the Huddleston family that may have more detailed family archives but, if so, the Richard III Society has never published anything. Maybe that's a future PHD for someone. Kind regards, Isolde Martyn"
The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including Those From the Visitation of Cheshire Made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald, with an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, Made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceaux King of Arms, and a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms Edited by John Paul Rylands, F. S. A. London 1882 Edited from London, British Library, MS Harley 1424, fol. 77b and MS Harley 1505, fol. 81 [Rylands, p. 130] Elizabeth, daughter to Adam Birkenhed: See Adam Birkenhead in The Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Birkenhead of Huxley. Alice, vxor Richard Nuthall of Cattenhall: See Alice, sister to Richard Hurlton in The Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall. Isabell, daughter to Sir Thomas Poole of Werrall: See Isabell vxor Hurlton or Hudleston in The Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Poole of Poole, in Werrall. Grace, daughter to Sir Edward Fitton of Goseworth: See Sir Edward Fittton of Goseworth The Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Fitton of Goseworth. Isabell vxor~Hurlton or Hudleston: This was Humfrey Hurlton. See Isabell, daughter to Sir Thomas Poole of Werrall in The Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Hurlton, alias Hurlston, of Picton Edited from London, British Library, MS Harley 1424, fol. 77b and MS Harley 1505, fol. 81 [Rylands, p. 130]
On page 27 of this book http://www.scfhs.org.uk/visitations/BookVC1580/p017.htm We find Richard Huddleston and his wife Margery with daughter Lucy Huddleston who marries John Brooke as well as information on Anne Wilbraham which is also mentioned as Wilbram.
The ridge of high land on which Brierley stands separates the valleys of the river Aire to the north, and the river Don to the south. These rivers together with the marsh land of Thorne Moor in the east and the Pennine hills to the west, mark out an area that formed the southern section of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet, which extended northwards to the river Wharfe. Elmet was a small kingdom formed at the fall of the Roman Empire. It survived until the battle of Winwaed in AD. 654/5. This was the last in a series of battles which saw Elmet become part of the expanding Kingdom of Northumbria. The site of the battle is lost but it may have been in southern Elmet, probably on the banks of the small river Went which runs east from Nostell. Brierley to 1086 http://www.brierley59.freeserve.co.uk/ Huddleston Forum information that helps to bring in Captain John Huddleston: Lucie Huddleston (who married John Brooke) was the daughter of Richard Huddleston (b. 1490) and his wife Margery Smythe. Also, it was Lucie's sister Anne Huddleston who married Sir John Bowes of Elford. Sir John Bowes' second wife was Susannah Cave and their daughter was Elizabeth Bowes who married Sir Nicholas Heveningham. Lucie inherited the Haselour estate, which had no doubt devolved on her father Richard Huddleston from his wife Margery Smythe, whose grandmother was Margery Stanley. Anne Huddleston was co-heiress with her elder sister Lucie and inherited the Elford estate which then devolved to the Bowes and Heveningham families. Both Elford and Haselour had previously been Stanley properties of which family Lucie Huddleston was descended.
Since Captain John Hudleston of the Bona Noua is mentioned with the Ferrar Family, it seems logical to see if there was mention of any Ferrars at Elford: Reference: MS 3878/57 Exemplification of Recovery by Humphrey Ferrers, esq., George Gresley, esq., William Chetwyn, esq., George Griffith, esq., John Vernon, Edward Boughton, gent., Henry Lee, gent., and Edward Ferrers, gent., plaintiffs, against William Wyrley of Hondesworth Handsworth, gent., deforciant, being tenant to the praecipe of William Smyth, the first vouchee, of the Manor of Elford and lands and appurtenances in Elford, Haslow and Okeley Oakley all in co. Staff. Seal of Court of Common Pleas. Creation dates: 25 November 1522 Reference: MS 3878/61 Bond from Walter Smyth of Elford co. Staff., esq., and Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth co. War., es., to Richard Huddleston esq., to secure performance of covenants. Creation dates: 8 March 1529/30 Reference: MS 3878/66 Testimony of Sir Humfry Ferrers, Sir George Graysley and others in a dispute between Geoffrey, late Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and William Smyth, esq., late Lord of the Manor of Elford, co. Staff., concerning a meadow called Wylford meadow in Elford, co. Staff., With map of the Manor of Elford, attached. Creation dates: 2 August 1534 Reference: MS 3878/78 Grant from Walter Devereux, knt., Lord of Ferrers and Chartley, to John Bowes, esq., Dorothy, his wife, and John, their son, of a meadow in Okeley, Co. Staff., the said Walter appointing Paul Gressham, gent., and Richard ?Standynought, clerk, attorneys to deliver seisin. Creation dates: 4 September 1546
Remembering John Bowes is the husband of Anne Huddleston and John Brookes is the husband of Lucy Huddleston: Reference: MS 3878/93 Bond from John Broockes co. Staff., gent., to John Bowes, of Elford, co. Staff., esq., to secure possession of lands in Elford and Haselor, co. Staff. Creation dates: 5 November 1559 Reference: MS 3878/94 Covenant between John Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., esq., and John Brookes of Hassellor, co. Staff., gent., concerning the division and partition of land in Elford, Tamworth, Hassellor and Okeley co. Staff., and Lughborowghe and Querne, co. Leic. Creation dates: 10 April 1560 Reference: MS 3878/95 Copy of an agreement between John Bowes of Elford, esq., and John Brookes of Hassellor, co. Staff., gent., to partition the manor of Elford, co. Staff. Creation dates: 10 April 1560 Reference: MS 3878/96 Lease for life from John Boas of Elforde, co. Staff., esq., to John Brokes of Asullor, Staff., gent., of 2 pastures in Elforde, co. Staff. Creation dates: 2 March 1560/1 Reference: MS 3878/97 Grant from John Brokes, gent., to Stephen Verney, esq., and William Asker, gent., of a manor or capital messuage in Haselor Haselour, Co. Staff., and a water mill called Elford mylne in Elford, together with meadowland, and free fishing rights in the River Tame. Creation dates: 15 September 1561 Reference: MS 3878/99 Bargain and Sale from John Brokes of Haselor co. Staff., gent., and James Weston and Robert Thicknes gent., of lands in Okeley and Croxall co. Staff. Creation dates: 20 Sept 1563 Reference: MS 3878/106 Quitclaim from Thomas Smythe of London, gent., and William Stoke of Wolvey co. War., gent., to Roger Toone of Elford co. Staff., husbandman of a cottage and land in Elford co. Staff. Creation dates: 25 August 1568 Reference: MS 3878/124 Exemplification of a fine between William Glossop, plaintiff, and John Brocke, and Lucy, his wife, deforciants, of the moiety of two messuages and lands in Leicestre, Loughborow, Querne, Sylebye, Prestwolde, alias Prestold, and Burton, co. Leic. Creation dates: 23 January 1579/80
We know that researching the book the Virginia Company that a Thomas Smythe is involved and the Ferrer Family is involved, too. Sir Thomas Smythe of the line of William Smythe is the same Sir Thomas Smythe who was the treasurer of the Virginia Company. We start with page 33 of Volume III of the 4 book series Records of the Virginia Company. Volume III is also part of the works of President Thomas Jefferson which he saved. IX. Sir Thomas Smythe. A letter to Sr Raphe Winwood April, 1611 Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury Manuscripts, Winwood Papers, volume 9 (Courtesy of Duke of Buccleuch) Document of Buccleugh at Boughton House. Right HonBLE I have receyed yoR Lynes, but aquainted the Lords, (And the rest of the Counscell for Virginia) wTh them we made members (Whereof yU are made a member) who all do roturne their kind thanks, for yoR loue and affection to this worthie plantation, and for yoR readye willingnes to contrybute to the same, the cH I haue receyed to the some of 75ll and delyered a Bill of Adventurers for the same. And we do entreate yoR Lo: solicitacon, and best furtherance, to styrre vpp ye rest of those worthie c[omman]ders that as we haue the hopes of good successe to be raysed amongst them; so we may enioye the fruites of ther g[ood] wishes in due tyme, to the vphoulding of the most HonBLE worke, wCH no hath nede of the assistaunce of such or[t]h[i]e spirittes, who desire the enlargmT of Christian religion, to yE glorye of God, and renowne and honR of oR King and Englishe NatU Ad the wishing yU an increase in all honoR and happynes I rst YoR LoRS euer readye to do yU seruce Tho: Smythe London, Aprilis 1611. Transcript by Maj. C. A. Markham, of Northampton November 30, 1613 XVIII. Virginia Company Vs. William Levenson. the answer of William Levenson to the Bill of Complaint Chancery Proceedings, James 1, bundle U, Nos 2/55 Document in Public Record Office London List of Records No. 29 (The document starts on page 52 but doesn't apply to Sir Thomas Smythe until page 53) On page 53 taken from context: Sir Thomas Smithe tresurer of the said Companye On page 59 March 6 1615/16-June 9, 1623 May 28 1619 Giuen vnto Sr Thoms Smith for a gratificacon On page 68 In so doing both ourselves shall have a grea cause to thank you and the Plantation to acknowledge your love and kindness towards the same. Thomas Smythe (There is more about Sir Thomas Smythe but I am covering the highlights but as treasurer he as partly responsible for the lottery. One sees that this money is for the business of the Virginia Company and getting people from England to Virginia.) On page 70 John Hudson sometimes Provost MarshLL General for diverse crimes this Colony & Comen weale was at 2 Marshall & misdemeanors comitted agT the just & sacred Articles laws & Goument of Courts comdem'd to die and according to Lers from Sr Tho: Smith TreasR foR yE CompA to Sr Thom: Dale GovR reprieved in hopes of Amendmt And now has been guilty of more Errors therefore to prevent ye danger in HarbRS so ungratefull a Viper in the young & tender bosom of this so religious & lawful an action He is Exiled & banished & if he returns to be put to death without further Judgmt 7 June 1617
Reference: MS 3878/167 Lease for 21 years from Richard Bowes of Elforde, co. Staff., esq., and John Bowes, his son, to Thomas Smith of the same, husbandman, of a messuage and land in Elforde. Creation dates: 12 March 1610/11 Reference: MS 3878/101 Mandamus from Mathew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury to secure the presence of Paul Gresham, one of the executors of the Will of John Bowes, late of Hackney in London, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to prove the said will. Creation dates: 8 February 1564/5 Physical characteristics: Seal of the Archbishop of Canberbury. broken, good impression. (We know Captain John Huddleston was born in Middlesex, England) Reference: MS 3878/161 Revocation by Richard Bowes of Elford co. Staff., esq., son of John Bowes, knt., deceased, of a bargain and sale to Sir Jerome Bowes of the parish of St. Martin in the Field co. Middlesex, the manor of Elford co. Staff. with all lands rights, courts and appurtenances. Creation dates: 13 May 1609 Reference: MS 3878/162 Covenant between the Rt. Hon. Robert, Earl of Salisbury, Lord High Treasurer of England, Master of the Kings Court of Wards and Liveries, Sir Roger Wilbraham, Knt., surveyor of the said Court of Liveries, and Richard Bowes esq., concerning a special livery to be granted to the said Richard of the lands inherited from his father Sir John Bowes. With a survey of the said lands in Elford, Okeley and Hasley, co. Staff, attached. Creation dates: 23 October 1609 Reference: MS 3878/167 Lease for 21 years from Richard Bowes of Elforde, co. Staff., esq., and John Bowes, his son, to Thomas Smith of the same, husbandman, of a messuage and land in Elforde. Creation dates: 12 March 1610/11 Reference: MS 3878/172-173 Indenture between Richard Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., esq., Joan, his wife, Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth co. War., knt., Robert Nichols of Seckington, co. War., gent., and others being a deed to lead the uses of a recovery to be suffered of the Manors of Elford and Okeley, co. Staff., together with the advowson of the churches there and all lands belonging to the said Richard in cos. Staff., and Derby. Another copy of MS 3878/172 Creation dates: 3 November 1612 Reference: MS 3878/174 Indenture between Richard Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., esq., Joan, his wife, Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth, co. War., and others, being a deed to lead the uses of a fine to be levied on the Manor of Elford and Ikely, co. Staff. Creation dates: 3 November 1612 Reference: MS 3878/176 Letters Patent of James I being a licence of alienation from Richard Bowes esq., and Joan, his wife, to John Ferrers knt., and Robert Nichols gent., of the Manor of Elford, lands in Elford, together with the advowson of the Church. Creation dates: 1 December 1612 Reference: MS 3878/183 Counterpart of indenture between Richard Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., esq., Joan, his wife, Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle, co. War., knt., Robert Niccholls of Seckington, co. War., gent., Richard Frampton of London, esq., Thomas Ashmole of London, gent., being a deed to lead the uses of a recovery of the Manors of Elford and Oakley, co. Staff., together with lands of the said Richard Bowes in cos. Staff. and Derby. Creation dates: 23 May 1620 Reference: MS 3878/184 Indenture between Sir John Ferrers of Walton upon Trent co. Derby, knt., Robert Nicholls of Seckington co. War., Richard Bowes of Humberston co. Leic., esq., John Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., gent., and William Phillipps of London, Taylor, George Nicholls of Seckington, being a deed to create a Tenant to the precipe for a Recovery to be suffered on the manors of Elford and Okley, co. Staff. Creation dates: November 1622 Reference: MS 3878/185 Indenture of mortgage between Richard Bowes of Humberston, co. Leic., esq., Sir John Ferrers of Walton upon Trent, co. Derby, knt., Robert Nicholls of Seckington co. War., gent., and George Nicholls of Seckington, gent., and John Bowes, of Elford, gent., son of the said Richard, of the moiety of the manor of Elford. Creation dates: 4 December 1622 Reference: MS 3878/187 Appointment by Richard Bowes of Humberstone, co. Leic., esq., John Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., gent., Sir John Ferrers of Walton upon Trent, co. Derby, knt., and Robert Nicholls of Seckington, co. War., gent., of Henry Pigott of Walton upon Trent, gent., as attorney to deliver seisin to William Edwards and Robert Dale, both of Elford, yeomen, the manors of Elford and Okeley, co. Staff. Creation dates: 19 January 1622/3 Reference: MS 3878/188 Counterpart of a lease for 21 years from John Bowes of Elford, co. Staff., esq., to Thomas Smyth of Elford, husbandman, of a messuage and land in Elford. Creation dates: 23 March 1623/4 Among the post-restoration monuments to be noted is that to William Brooke of Haselour, grandson of Lucy Huddlestone of Elford, dated 1641. This may be seen above the Staunton effigy in the Sanctuary.
http://www.measevalley.org.uk/elford.htm St. Peter's Church, Elford It is of passing interest that this mill site has a long history-Birmingham Central Library contains a manuscript which is a Grant from Leouca, Lady of Elleford to the monks at Mirau (Merevale, Warks) of the mill about 1140 A.D. This manuscript has the distinction of being the oldest document held by the Library.
We can connect Captain John Huddleston with the Shirley Plantation with the court document mentioning Allice Boyse and Sir Thomas Smythe with the sale of the Huddleston Farm. We can connect Captain John Huddleston with the Virginia Company and Sir John Ferrer with the Elford Huddlestons.
Isabel Williams bc.1530 d.1587 dau. and coh. of John, Lord Williams of Thame c.1500-1559 (created 1554) Politician and courtier married 1) Sir Richard Wenman a wealthy wool merchant of Witney, Oxon. Children: Thomas, Henry and Francis also 3 daus. Francis alive 1575 described as "gent" therefore younger brother of Sir Thomas, who was father of Sir Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount of Thame Park 1573-1640 (created 1628) who marr. Agnes Fermor (a devout Catholic implicated in the Gunpowder Plot of 1604-1606 though her husband was a Protestant.) As yet I have no dates for this 1st. Sir Richard or his sons Thomas and Francis and Henry, though he must have died pre 1573/4/5---hence the lawsuit of 1575 probably regarding the property at Thame Park (inherited by Isabel) Therefore Isabel must have married 2.) Richard Huddleston as her 2nd. husband---the Cambridgeshire Visitation of 1615 being incorrect - after c. 1573.It is doubtful if Richard and Isabella had any children Margery Williams, sister of Elizabeth and coh. marr. Henry Norris of 1525-1601, (son of Sir Henry Norris who was executed , accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn)created Baron Norris of Rycote Oxon 1573 (Thame Park and Rycote are very close ) Hence "PCC administration 1590 and 1598 of estate of Richard Huddleston Esq. of Thame Park Oxon" to Henry Norris Knt., Lord ,vice (instead of /on account of) John Norris Knt. decd.(son of Sir Henry)"d.b.n.grant of 1598 (dbn =died bona notabilia, ie. considerable goods) Sir John Norris ?1547-1597 military commander Ireland and the Low Countries. Died in Ireland. He probably knew Richard Huddleston "Treasurer of War 1585/6/7 Low countries." Dead by 1590 The administration PCC infers that Richard died without heirs, and Thame Park passed to Sir Richard Wenman. Richard probably held it in right of his wife Isabel Williams.
The Gunpowder Plot (1604-1606)
Lady Agnes Wenman of Thame Park, site of the former Cistercian abbey, was also in trouble as a result of the Gunpowder Plot. Her husband Sir Richard Wenman was a Protestant, but she was a member of the Catholic Fermor family and related to Elizabeth Vaux, a great supporter of the Jesuit superior, Fr Henry Garnet. (Interestingly, Fawkes is a variant of the name Vaux.) A letter Elizabeth Vaux had written to Agnes Wenman implied inside knowledge of Jesuit operations. Unfortunately it was found by her mother-in-law, who passed it to the authorities. Subsequently Elizabeth Vaux and Agnes Wenman met to discuss their position. The venue was the home of Elizabeth Vaux's son-in-law, Sir George Simeon, at Brightwell Baldwin (3 miles W. of Watlington). This was presumably the former residence of Sir Adrian Fortescue.
James I: Volume 16 November, 1605 Author: Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) Year published: 1857 Nov. 8. 1605 31. Examination of Henry [Huddleston alias] Hurleston, of Paswick, Essex, son of sir Edm. Huddleston, as to his previous proceedings; visit at Lady Vaux's; meeting with John Wright, Catesby, and Percy, & c.
Nov. 10. 1605 Elizabeth Vaux to Sir John Roper, her father. Is amazed at his suspecting her of knowing anything of the Plot. Confident that none of her letters can implicate her. Her son would have gone to London about his match with Lady Suffolk's daughter, had not Sir George Fermor and his lady brought news of "this pitifull and tragicall intendment." [G. Plot bk., No. 226.] Nov. 10?] The same to Rich. Verney, Sherriff of Warwickshire. Earnestly entreats him to give a pass for Lancashire to two gentlemen from her house, whom she describes, and who, she fears, are apprehended. His niece Mary would rather give her portion than have the younger of them called into question. Mrs. Huddleston, who is with her, begs that her husband may go up to London with the Lord Lieutenant. [Ibid., No. 227.] Nov. 12. 1605 53. Justices, &c., of Warwickshire to Salisbury. Have apprehended and sent up Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Percy, and the wives of other conspirators. Divers servants of rebels taken, also Mr. Huddleston, and some persons known to be priests. Nov. 18. 1605. 88. Anne Lady Markham to [Salisbury]. Hen. Huddleston can tell him best about Gerald, and Sir Everald Digby about Walley. Knows not where Mrs. Vaux is. Chris. Parker, and embroider, and Brian Hunston a painter, removed with Gerald or imprisoned. The "Plot hath taken deep and dangerous root; " many will not believe 'that holy good man' [Gerald] was an actor in it. Death of her father. Nov. 18. 1605 Examination of Elizabeth Vaux. Does not know Gerald the priest. The visitors at her house were Rob. Catesby, Sir Ever, Digby, Hen. Huddleston, Sir George and Lady Fermor, and Greene and Darcy, priests: heard of the broils in London by G. Fermor and Sir Griffin Markham's brother's servant; wrote to Lady Wenman laster Easter, and said that "Tottenham would turn French, " &c. [G. Plot kk., No. 103.] Nov. Copy of the above, annotated [Sir Edw. Coke.][Ibid., No. 104.] Nov. 18. 1605 Declaration of Lady Tasburgh. Mrs. [Eliz.] Vaux wrote the letter to Lady Wenman, bidding her to be of good comfort, for there should soon be toleration for religion; Sir Rich. Wenman was dis-pleased with his wife's acquaintenance with Mrs. Vaux. The National Archives Publication: Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I Author: Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) Year published: 1857 Description: Supporting documents: Pages: 695-721
1 James I: Volume 17 - December, 1605 From: Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I. Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) (1857) December, 1605. "...m that Mr. Talbot said the rising was a foolish attempt; never named the Plot to Huddleston; particulars of the Plot. [Ibid., No. 146.]..." 2 James I: Volume 16 - November, 1605 From: Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I. Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) (1857)
November, 1605. "...31. Examination of Henry [Huddleston alias] Hurleston, of Paswick, Essex, son of Sir Edm. Huddleston, as to his previous proceedings; visit at Lady Vaux's; meeting with John W..."
3 James I: Volume 26 - January-March, 1607 From: Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I. Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) (1857)
January-March, 1607. "...me to Salisbury. Concerning the grant to Sir John Leigh of the forfeiture of — — Huddleston, of Essex, recusant...."
4 James I: Volume 19 - March, 1606 From: Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I. Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) (1857) March, 1606. "...nge [to the Lords Commissioners]. The first news of the Plot was brought by Hen. Huddleston to Harrowden, on 4th November, Mr. Jarret [Gerard] and Mr. Singleton present; he left Harrowden and went to Henlip...." Index D-K Huddleston, Sir Edmund Huddleston, (or Hurleston), Henry, Dorothy Supporting documents: Pages: 695-721 The National Archives Publication: Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
Author: Mary Anne Everett Green (Editor) Year published: 1857
James 1; Volume 17 december 1605 Dec. 6. 1605 Serjeants' Inn Examination of Hen. Huddleston, alias Hurleston. Particulars of his journey to and from London; was overtaken by Catesby, John Wright, and Percy; met Gerald alias Brooke, Singleton alias Clifton, and Strange alias Fischer, and Greenway, priests, were there sometimes; Mrs Vaux told them from Sir George Fermor; on Nov. 7th, he, with Strange, singleton, and Batley, left Mrs Vaux's, and were taken to Kenilworth. Dec. 7? Dorothy Huddleston to Salisbury. begs favour for her husband, a prisoner in the Marshalsea, and to be allowed access to him. Dec. 7. Easton-neston Sir George Fermor to Lord Chief Justice Popham. Has answered his interrogatories. Lady Fermor wrote to Lady Wenman for Mrs Vaux's letter, but could not get it. [G. Plot Bk., No. 148.] Incloses, 1. Interrogatories by Popham, with Fermor's replies. Lord Vaux sent for him on Nov. 6; Mrs Vaux wished him to attend her son to London, but altered her mind, on account of of hearing of the broils; young Mr. Huddleston was there, but left the next morning; knew nothing of the treason intended, till his son Robert came to Mrs Vaux's, and told him; Mrs Vaux seemed not to have heard of it before. [Ibid., Nos. 149 and 150.]
FILM 92116 PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY 20 RIDLEY MARY FARMER (DAME) OF ESTON NESTON 1625 EXTRACT To my grandchild Anne Wenman all my buttons made of seed pearl and my other of gold and pearl and forty shillings to buy her a ring To have and to hold unto them the said Sir Thomas Wenman, Francis Saunders, Richard Trist and Thomas King immediately from and after my decease for and during the term of fourscore and nineteen years, from thence next ensuing, to be complete and ended, upon special trust and confidence notwithstanding and to the intent and purpose that they and the survivors of them and the Executors and Administrators of the survivors of them shall out of the rents, issues and profits of the said Manors and by the sale or otherwise of such other lands as I have appointed for that purpose, first satisfy & pay all such just debts as shall be by me owing at the time of my decease And to my daughter Killagree the hundred pounds formerly bequeathed unto her & such part of the four hundred pounds unpaid by me at the time of my decease to my son Sir. Richard Wenman Knight which I am bound to pay him in part of the portion of the said Lady Lister To my well beloved son Sir Thomas Wenman Knight one of my "Pursland" cups set in silver and gilt for a remembrance of my love and twenty pounds in money to buy him a gelding I give to his wife the young Lady Wenman six of my little plates of silver which are for sweet meats and six of my bigger silver plates Item I give to my grandchild Mr Edward Wenman all the books of Italian and French which were his grandfathers and my good George's, Sir George Farmor. And more I give him, ten pounds of lawful English money to buy him a gelding Item I give to Mr Phillip Wenman, youngest son to my daughter Wenman, if he shall then be living at my death, ten pounds of lawful money of England Item I give to my Goddaughter and my grandchild Marie Dinham, eldest daughter to my son Sir John Dinham ten pounds to buy her a ring to wear in remembrance of her grandmother. And I give her more, the blue sapphire which was her good grandmother's, my daughter Wenman's And whereas by one other deed indented dated the first day of August in the said one and twentieth year of the reign of our said late king over England, I have demised, granted, bargained and sold unto my said well beloved grandchild Sir Thomas Wenman, and to my said friends Francis Saunders, Richard Trist and Thomas King my wood or wood ground at Westoning aforesaid and all my messuages, lands and tenements in Helliden in the said county of Northampton for the term of diverse years to have commencement from and after my decease upon trust and confidence likewise for the payment of my just debts such legacies as I shall give by my last will and testament in money if my goods and chattles other than such as I do by my said will give away and dispose of in particular shall not be sufficient to satisfy and discharge the same The rest to my daughter the Lady Sanchar, and I appoint my well beloved daughter Dame Marie Sanchar, wife to the said Sir Barnaby Bryen knight my well beloved son in law, my said well beloved grandchild Sir Thomas Wenman knight and my aforesaid beloved friend and cousin Francis Saunders of "Sysim" aforesaid Esquire, executors of this my last will and testament entreating their care and pains in the performance of the same In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal dated the day and year first above written Mary Farmer, signed sealed and published the eighth day of April Anno Dom 1627 in the presence of Barnaby Brien, Christopher Sherland, Richard Lane, Edward Bruett, Owen Geltham, Wil. Rushton, Christopher Crouch, Humfrie Parkes, Edward Loggas* And whereas since the date of my will I have by one other deed given to my Lord North and others, diverse parcels of silver plate and other things in trust for my daughter Sanchar I do hereby likewise ratify and confirm the said gift Mary Farmor Probate granted 10th April 1627 *This name appears to be Boggas or Loggas
Local History Research Group Thame, Oxfordshire, England Information@ThameHistory.net Isobel Williams, daughter of Sir John Williams, married Sir Richard Wenman, a wealthy wool merchant from Witney. The name Wenman is said to derive from the family's early associations with wool wagons, or wains. The family was among many sixteenth century yeoman traders who rose to great wealth and power through the wool trade. Sir Richard and Isobel Wenman moved into Thame Park. Thame Park House consisted at this time of the Abbot's lodging and the somewhat delapidated ancient Abbey. Parts of the east wing of the house, adjoining the Abbot's lodging, date from the sixteenth century. Sir Richard's grandson, also called Richard Wenman, saw military service on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, and for this he too was knighted, at Cadiz in 1596. In the wake of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 both Sir Richard Wenman and his wife Agnes were questioned on their part in the conspiracy. No action was taken, as it appears that Agnes Wenman may have had several innocent dealings with Roman Catholics involved on the margins of the plot to assassinate the King and Parliament. In fact, under Charles I in 1628 Sir Richard was created the first Viscount Wenman. Thame Park, south east of Thame, has a long and remarkable history. It is reputed to contain some of the oldest enclosed parkland in England. Thame Park was home for four hundred years to a Cistercian Abbey, and a community of monks, founded at the time when the famous order of white monks was enjoying great wealth and power. It became the property of Lord Williams of Thame at the Reformation, and passed through his daughter into the Wenman family.
Reference: MS 3878/60 Indenture between Richard Huddleston, esq., Margery his wife, daughter of William Smyth knt., deceased, and Walter Smyth esq., and Dame Mary, his wife, formerly wife of the said William Smith, and Humphrey smith, son of the said William and Mary, being an agreement concerning the settlement of the manor of Elford, with lands in Elford, Okeley, Hasloore, Tamworth, co. Staffs, in dispute between the said parties. Creation dates: 8 March 1529/30 Reference: MS 3878/61 Bond from Walter Smyth of Elford co. Staff., esq., and Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth co. War., es., to Richard Huddleston esq., to secure performance of covenants. Creation dates: 8 March 1529/30 Reference: MS 3878/63 Indenture between Richard Huddlestone esq., Margerie, his wife, and Walter Smyth, esq., and Dame Mary, his wife, being a covenant between the said parties concerning the exchange of the Manors of Elford and Oakley, co. Staff., with the manor of Sybertoft Sibbertoft co. Northampton, and the manor of Quarnden, co. Leic. Creation dates: 27 October 1530 Reference: MS 3878/67 Quitclaim from John Gemme of Whytynton Whittington, co. Staff., yeoman to Richard Huddylston, esq., Lord of Elforde Elford co. Staff. of a river meadow with appurtenances near the River Tame. Reference: MS 3878/69 Testimony of John Deyster of Elforde, Elford co. Staff., husbandman, in a dispute between Richard Huddylston of Elforde, co. Staff., esq., and William Babynton of Tymmore Tamhorn, co. Staff., esq., concerning land in Elford, called Lolyms. Creation dates: 20 January 1538/9 Reference: MS 3878/73 Testimony of Thomas Wode, of Warrforde Warford, co. Cheshire, William Colyn of Fysherwyke Fisherwick, Co. Staff., and Roger Colyn of Drayton Bassett, Co. Staff., yeoman, in a dispute between Richard Huddylston, lord of Elforde, Elford, Co. Staff. and William Babynton of Tymmore, concerning a piece of land in Elford, called a holme. Creation dates: 14 March 1539/40 © 2002 The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of Birmingham City Archives Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown. In the Procat Records we learn more: STAC 2/3 PLAINTIFF: William Babyngton DEFENDANT: Richard Huddleston, Henry Smythe, Peter Fulces, and others PLACE OR SUBJECT: Forcible entry, &c. at Tymover (Tymmore)COUNTY: Stafford 22/04/1509-22/04/1547; STAC 4/9/33 PLAINTIFF: Anthony Babyngton DEFENDANT: Richard Huddleston, Thomas Cartwrit, alias Wall, Richard Carter, Peter Fulsere, and others PLACE OR SUBJECT: Assaults and destruction of property at Tymmore and Elford, and vexatious suits COUNTY: Stafford 19/07/1553-17/11/1558; and we find that Dame Mary was Dame Mary Huddleston: PROB 32/32/265 Deceased: Huddleston, Dame Mary, widow, St. Mary le Savoy, Middx. Letters of administration with will annexed. Issued by Court of Archdeacon of Middlesex 1692 July 8 PROB 36/6 Name of deceased: Huddleston, Dame Mary [unstated]Case title and other data: Cox alias Cocks con Staples alias Tufton 1692
Indenture between Richard Huddlestone esq., Margerie, his wife, and Walter Smyth, esq., and Dame Mary, his wife, being a covenant between the said parties concerning the exchange of the Manors of Elford and Oakley, co. Staff., with the manor of Sybertoft Sibbertoft co. Northampton, and the manor of Quarnden, co. Leic. Creation dates: 27 October 1530 Reference: MS 3878/67 Quitclaim from John Gemme of Whytynton Whittington, co. Staff., yeoman to Richard Huddylston, esq., Lord of Elforde Elford co. Staff. of a river meadow with appurtenances near the River Tame. Reference: MS 3878/69 © 2002 The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of Birmingham City Archives Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown.
The Ferrers, Ferrars, Smythes recorded in the House of Commons and the Records of the Virginia Company seem to fit together. Edwin Sandys' mention in the Elford records and above records seemed to back this up.
House of Commons Journal Volume 1 10 March 1576 (This would be nine years before Captain John Huddleston was born) Lady Weyneman, &c. Mr. Doctor Barcley and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Confirmation of an Abitrament to be made between Richard Huddlestone Esquire, and Dame Izabell Weyneman his wife, on the One Part; and Francis Weyneman Gentlemen of the other Part; are sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary Smythe and others. (Three times before this Lady Weyneman's Bill was read and she shows up the 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13 of March 1576) A Sir Rich. Weyneman is admitted to the commons one day and sent to the Tower later and so is a Sir Tho. Weyneman sent to the Tower. House of Commons Journal Volume 1 01 May 1621. -To carry him to the Fleete, and whip him.-And hopeth, upon Search of his papers, to find Matters to hang him. PRO Reference Title/Scope and Content Covering Dates E 115/405/5 Wayneman, Wainman, Waynman, Wenman, Weyneman, [Lady Ann]: Oxford.
C 1/274/30 Richard Wenman, of Witney. v. John Toly and Parnell, his wife.: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and land in the lordship of Coggs near Gylden Mill.: Oxford. C 1/588/37 Richard Wenman of Witney. v. Thomas Bele of Over Guyting.: Lands and rents in Over Guyting alias Temple Guyting.: Gloucester. 1518-1529 C 1/795/36-38 John Fetyplace. v. Thomas Wenman of Caswell [in Witney].: Obtaining from the Earl of Huntingdon a lease of a farm called Lord Hastings's Farm, with land, water, and fishing in Standlake, in prejudice of a lease to plaintiff.: Oxford. 1538-1544 C 1/908/1 Thomas Tailiour and William Paris of Otterton, executors of Alice Wenman. v. Thomas Lane.: Slanderous statement that complainants have forged the said Alice's will, and detention of goods.: Devon. 1538-1544 C 1/1169/36-38 Henry WAYNMAN (Wenman, Weyman), priest, v. Denise SANDES, late the wife of Walter Champion of London, draper.: Salary charged by the said Champion on his lands in Guildford, Godalming, and elsewhere, to find a priest to sing for his soul in the collegiate church of St. C 3/14/38 Bennet v. Wenman: Oxford. A.D. 1558-1579 C 3/191/50 Wenman v. Wenman: Oxford. A.D. 1558-1579 C 3/195/9 Wayneman (or Wenman) v. Wayneman (or Wenman): Gloucester. A.D. 1558-1579 C 3/195/13 Wenman v. Hanford: Buckingham. A.D. 1558-1579 C 3/196/23 Wenman v. Wenman: Gloucester. A.D. 1558-1579 C 3/197/33 Wenman v. Clarke: Gloucester. A.D. 1558-1579 C 3/220/89 Wenman v. Wenman: Wilts. A.D. 1579-1587 C 3/225/71 Huddilston v. Wenman: Berks. A.D. 1587-1591
In The Ballad of Bosworth Field Bennett, Michael. The Battle of Bosworth. St. Martin's Press, 1985, rev. 1993. This excerpt, pp. 170-175, is reproduced with the kind permission of the author. DATE: Earliest surviving copy mid-17th century, but prose summary of earlier version late 16th century; form and content indicate initial composition within living memory of battle. AUTHOR: Anonymous member of Stanley entourage, probably eye-witness. TEXT : B.L., Additional MS. 27,879, fos. 434-43; Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances, ed. J.W. Hales and F.J. Furnivall, 3 vols. (London, 1868), III, pp. 233-59; B.L. Harleian MS. 542, f.34 (prose summary). English; spelling modernis ed; readings from prose summary marked #.) John Huddleston ['Hurlstean', 'Adlyngton'#]. Against the armed might of all England two shires alone (Lancaster and Cheshire) stand for Henry Tudor. On Monday Lord Stanley leads the Lancashire men from Lathom to Newcastle. Sir William Stanley with troops from Cheshire and North Wales moves first from Holt to Nantwich, then on Tuesday to Stone, whence he rides across to meet Henry Tudor at Stafford. The narrative leaps several days to describe the triumphal entry of the pretender and the younger Stanley into Lichfield on the Saturday morning, but the latter abruptly leaves in the direction of Tamworth, where it is reported that Lord Stanley is about to be attacked by the king. The Stanleys are in position near a place called 'Hattersey'; Lord Stanley has the vanguard, and Sir William's company comes in as the rearguard. They remain in defensive formation through Sunday, expecting the royal advance, but Henry Tudor arrives first and finally meets Lord Stanley. Early the next morning the battle begins.
There was Sir Iohn Neuill of bloud soe hye, Sir Iohn Hurlstean in rich array, Sir Rodger Herne behind wold not bee, Sir Iames Harrington, sad att assay. -- 83.332 Bosworth Fielde Text from Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances, ed. J.W. Hales and F.J. Furnivall, 3 vols. (London, 1868), III, pp. 233-59. Reproduced by kind permission of Department of Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library. Keyboarding and HTML markup by Judie Gall; proofreading by Laura Blanchard).
Since Captain John Huddleston did not receive his commission to be master of the Bona Noua till 1620; We must question which came to Virginia first-the Bona Noua or Captain John Huddleston? Without question the Bona Noua is mentioned in records more often and first before Captain John Huddleston. Could Captain Weldon been a prior master of the Bona Noua before Captain John Huddleston? You will notice in the passenger list William Weldon is mentioned. Could Captain Weldon been termed 'Captain' in the Militia and Naval term of the word? Case in point is found on page 226 in the margin of the 'Records of the Virginia Company'. LXXXVI Aboard the Bona Nova there were shipped 600 bushells of English meale whereof 36 were sent to Smiths hundred and 20 bushells to Mr Farrars Plantation soe there remayned to the 2 Companys of C. Weldon and Lieve-Whitakers-544 bushel onely witness the Cape Merchant. We do know that from reading the 'Records of the Virginia Company' that the ships in the 1618-1620 era left London on the Thames River and arrived in Virginia in the Isle of Wight at Cowes and that Jamestowne in Virginia had its own separate port. We know that from this same passage that of 100 men aboard the first known trip of the Bona Noua, 50 were Captain Weldon's men and 50 were Lieutenant Jabez Whittaker's men. Was, according to this passage, Lieutenant Jabez Whittaker under Captain Weldon in terms of rank?
Finding Ratcliff, Middlesex, London, England was a difficult research for me but the following paragraph explains this place.
Public Record Office Online Catalogue E 134/22Jas1/East24 Sir Robt. Maunsel, Knt. v. Sir William Clavill, Knt.: Glass works in the Isle of Purbeck (Dorset), and at Ratcliffe (Middlesex). Touching an indenture of covenants made between Phillip Earl of Montgomery, Sir Thos. Howard, Knt., Sir Edwd. Zouche, Knt., Sir Thos. 22 Jas 1 1623-24 E 178/4180 MIDDLESEX: East Smithfield Inquisition as to houses built on encroached land between Lewen's Wharf and Ratcliff. 9 James I. E 178/4197 MIDDLESEX: Ratcliff Certificate of the sale of a forfeited ship called `the Hopewell.' 10 James I. LR 14/989 GRANTOR: William Stubbes of Ratcliff, co. Middlesex, gentleman. GRANTEE: Thomas Cleyton, mercer. PLACE OR SUBJECT: Assignment, indented, of his interest in the lease of the house and site of the Dominion Friars in Newcastle-under-Lyme. COUNTY: Staff. 24 Eliz. MR 1/248 Middlesex (now in London Borough of Tower Hamlets). Four plans of named areas 'with their several housings and wharfes', and showing names of proprietors. (1) Limehouse, from the north part of the street down to the River Thames, with houses and wharves on the south side. 1635 The County of Middlesex Trust: Middlesex-HISTORICAL FACTS About the time of Captain John Huddleston's birth the Public Online Catalogue gives a Huddleston case in Middlesex: C 3/226/35 Huddleston v. Dorchester: Middlesex. A.D. 1587-1591
Crofts Castle
The area around Croft Castle has been occupied for over two thousand years-there was an iron-age hill fort on the ridge to the north of the existing building- and the Croft family have lived here since before the Norman invasion. It is thought that the Norman family de Croft came over during the time of Edward the Confessor, and by the time of Domesday, a Bernard de Croft held the land. The de Crofts have a distinguished history; in 1103, Bernard de Croft endowed the Cluniac monastery at Thetford in Norfolk, and became a monk there and in 1100 Jasper de Croft fought in the Crusades and was knighted. In the thirteenth century, the Lord of Croft helped the captured Prince of Wales, later Edward I, to escape to Croft. John de Croft married a daughter of Owen Glendower and the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461 was fought on Croft land. When Henry Tudor came to the English throne, men from Wales and the Border Marches found favour at court and Sir Richard Croft became Treasurer of King Henry VII's household and later steward to his first son, Prince Arthur. During the Civil War, the Crofts fought for the King, and Croft Castle is known to have been dismantled by the Royalists to prevent its use by the Parliamentarians. The property and estate eventually left Croft hands in 1746, sold to Richard Knight of Downton to repay debts. It returned to the Crofts in 1923 when it was bought back by the Trustees of Sir James Croft. He was killed in action with the Commandos in 1941. Although now run by the National Trust, members of the Croft family still live in the castle and on the estate, thus continuing the ancient family association. Jonathan & Clare of West Yorkshire & Cheshire Copyright 1998-2003
Middlesex was first recorded in a Saxon Charter of 704 A.D. as "Provincia middleseaxon" (Province of the Middle Saxons) making it the third oldest recorded county name after Kent and Essex. Originally it was part of the Kingdom of Essex until the Danes overran Essex and captured London in the mid ninth century. In 886 A.D. Alfred the Great re-took London and established the boundary between the Saxons and Danelaw along the river Lea. Middlesex (including modern Hertfordshire) remained part of the Kingdom of Wessex until the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D. In the late ninth century the shires as we know them today were created. They were parts of kingdoms or provinces which were shorn off to create smaller units, thus Hertfordshire was detached from the Middlesex Province. N.B. Middlesex was never a shire. The Normans used the existing Saxon Divisions of the Country calling them Counties (units of account for the Domesday Survey in 1086 and being under the control of a compte or count) The County Town is the place from which the county is administered. From at least 1549 (earliest records) until the creation of county councils in 1889, Middlesex was administered by 'magistrates' from Clerkenwell. The Middlesex County Council which sat at the Middlesex (.Guildhall in Westminster, only existed for 76 years (1889-1965) and only represented 3/4 of the County. The only claim for Brentford being the County town is the fact that the County elections were held there during the 18th and 19th centuries. The 'magistrates' sat at Clerkenwell for at least 440 years and represented the whole county, giving Clerkenwell the only legitimate claim to be the County Town of Middlesex. The River Thames was the key to the history of Middlesex. From about 8000 BC traders and settlers used the Thames as their waterway. During the Iron Age (c. 500 BC) settlements existed at Brentford and Heathrow. In the Ist century BC Belgic tribes had established themselves in southeastern England, and Middlesex formed part of the Catuvellauni territory. The Romans set up outposts at what became Staines and Brentford. In the early 5th century AD the Saxons began to colonize the area. Positioned as it was between the East and West Saxons, the region soon obtained its modern name (meaning "middle Saxons"); the earliest written record of it is in the form Middelseaxan, in a charter of 704. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Middlesex
After the attempted invasion of Britain by the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the loyal Londoners raised a large band of men to help defeat the invaders, England became more politically stable. There was a marked increase in prosperity and the population of London grew accordingly. The core of the city was built around the lands seized from the church and we begin to see the richer citizens moving out to country estates to the west of the city along the Thames where many of the old bishops' palaces were rebuilt for use by the nobility. Tudor London By David Nash Ford The accession of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne, as James I in 1603, led to a major influx of Scots into London, which was to continue in succeeding centuries. In James' time and later in that of Charles I, Inigo Jones introduced town planning to the capital. He built the Queen's House at Greenwich Palace and the Banqeting House at Whitehall. However, the experimental developments at Covent Garden and Lincoln's Inn Fields were still in their infancy when Civil War broke out. Perhaps the most significant civic achievement of James I's reign was the provision of a clean water supply for the capital under the New River Scheme, overseen originally by the City Corporation and later by Hugh Myddelton with help from the King. James was not always a popular monarch however and his harsh anti-catholic laws led to an attempt to assassinate him at the opening of Parliament at the Royal Palace of Westminster in 1605. Fortunately, this 'Gunpowder Plot' was uncovered and the perpetrators rounded up. Stuart London By Margaret Johnson (Both articles taken from a history of London).
November 18, 1618 is a date to remember. Sir Thomas Smith is connected with the Elford Huddlestons and Millom Huddlestons since the Elford Huddlestons come from the Millom Huddlestons. SIR Thomas Smith, Knt. was treasurer and Governor of the Company during the first twelve year which ended the 18th of November, 1618. This coincides with the article that Edwin Sandys first boat to send is the Bona Noua. George Yeardley's instructions concerning the survey reports is November 18, 1618. The Bona Noua first landed in Pasbehay, Virginia on November 18, 1618. This information is derived from the Virginia Surveys which is found in the 'Records of the Virginia Company' and from Library OF Congress The Records of The Virginia Company of London The Court Book, From The Manuscript In The Library Of Congress Edited With An Introduction And Bibliography, By Susan Myra Kingsbury, A. M., Ph. D. Instructor In History And Ergonomics Simmons College Preface by Herbert Levi Osgood, A. M., Ph. D. Professor Of American History In Columbia University Carola Woerishoffer Professor Of Social Economy Bryn Mawr College Copyright Washington Government Printing Office 1906 & 1933 Volume I 1607-1622 & Volume II 1622-1624 Volume I page 94 March 1619 (saue onely 100 men sent in the Bona Noua Volume I page 185 After May 9, 1623 9 The late Ires: And the lists compared Wth the Booke of the Massac: The Farrars Aduenters in the Bona Noua, the Hopewell, the Furtherance, and the Abigaile &c some of these Shipps haue gone twice or thrice Wthin theise 4 yeares. The accent is on the word 'sent' meaning after the fact.
Argall's Gift lay about a mile north of Jamestown. See p. 275, note 1. First Hand Accounts of Virginia, 1575-1705 Sir George Yeardley , who had been a soldier in the Low Country wars, sailed for Virginia as captain of Sir Thomas Gates 's company in 1609. He was wrecked with Gates on the Bermuda Islands and reaching Virginia was deputy-governor from the departure of Dale in April, 1616, to the arrival of Argall in May, 1617. After Lord Delaware 's death he was appointed to succeed him as governor and captain-general. He convened the first legislative assembly in America. He served till November 18, 1621. In March, 1626, he was reappointed governor, and continued in that office till his death in November, 1627.
Then came there in a complaint against Captain Martin , that having sent his Shallop to trade for corn into the bay , under the command of one Ensign Harrison , the said Ensign should affirm to one Thomas Davis , of Paspaheighe, Gent. (as the said Thomas Davis deposed upon oath ,) that they had made a hard voyage , had they not met with a Canoe coming out of a creek where their shallop could not go . For the Indians refusing to sell their Corn , those of the shallop entered the Canoe with their arms and took it by force, measuring out the corn with a basket they had into the Shallop and (as the said Ensign Harrison said ) giving them satisfaction in copper beads and other trucking stuff . (An order of the General Assembly touching a clause in Captain Martin's Patent at James City , July 30, 1619) Aug. 4th, 1619. This day also did the Inhabitants of Paspaheigh, alias Argall 's town , (Argall's Town or Gift was situated on the north side of the river a mile from Jamestown in the old fields, where once stood the chief village of the Paspaheghs, but from which they had removed to Sandy Point not long before the coming of the white men. Argall's Town was established by Argall in 1617.) present a petition to the general assembly to give them an absolute discharge from certain bonds wherein they stand bound to Captain Samuell Argall for the payment of 600lb and to Captain William Powell , at Captain Argall 's appointment, for the payment of 50lb more. To Captain Argall for 15 score acres of woody ground, called by the name of Argal 's town or Paspaheigh; to Captain Powell in respect of his pains in clearing the ground and building the houses for which Captain Argal ought to have given him satisfaction. Now , the general assembly being doubtful whether they have any power and authority to discharge the said bonds , do by these presents (at the Instance of the said Inhabitants of Paspaheigh, alias Martin 's hundred people) become most humble suitors to the Treasurer, Council and Company in England that they will be pleased to get the said bonds for 600lb to be cancelled; for as much as in their great commission they have expressly and by name appointed that place of Paspaheigh for part of the Governor 's land . And wheras Captain William Powell is paid his 50 which Captain Argall enjoin d the said Inhabitants to present him with, as part of the bargain , the general assembly, at their entreaty , do become suitors on their behalf , that Captain Argall , by the Council and Company of England, may be compelled either to restore the said 50lb from thence, or else that restitution thereof be made here out of the goods of the said Captain Argall . Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1925 Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL.D. Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1907
It is interesting to note that Captain William Powell had acquired the goods of Captain John Huddleston. 21 July 1626-King Privy Council Action: An order was directed to the Governor of Virginia to assess the value of the Estate of Captain Nathaniel Powell, decd., and to send value of it in tobacco to England, a petition having been made by Thomas Powell, brother and admistrator of said Powell, decd, stating that in consideration of the poverty of said Powell's brothers and sisters, that proceeds of the said Captain's Estate should be paid unto them. The Virginia Company had certified that one William Powell, no way kin to the decedent, had taken out Letters Of Administration of the said Captain's Estate and had seized the goods of Captain John Huddleston in Virginia. The said William Powell then died, and Nathaniel Powell's Estate came into the hands of Mr. [Edward] Blaney who married William Powell's widow. Thomas Powell, eldest brother of the said Nathaniel Powell, dced had taken out Letters Of Administration for the decedent in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Acts of the Privy Council of England (1613-1631), as cited by Coldham, 1:72. Also, in 1626 the mention of James Slights house mentioned in the court document. A COURT at James Citty the 19th. of February 1626, being sent Mr. Doctor Pott. Capt. Smyth. Capt. Matthews. Mr. Secretary. Mr. ffarrar. It is ordered that there shall be a warrant sent up unto Sherley Hundred in ye Maine, that John Ewins & Jane Hill should be sent downe to James-Citty, & there to be examined concerning such leud behavior as hath bin betweene them. Patrick Kennady marriner sworne & examined sayth that as concerning those words which Mrs. Allice Boyse taxeth Capt. Hudleston to have accused her with at Capt. Martins plantation, viz that he say Capt. Hudleston should there say that Capt. Epes had the use of her body that night that he lay in James Slights house, or else said he never had the use of his owne wife, more then Capt. Epes had of her yt night; this deponeth sayth he did not heare Capt. Hudleston speake the same words, but that Capt. Hudleston sayd there was very unfitting behavior between them.
XLVII. Virginia Company. Instructions To George Yeardley November 18, 1618 (1) Miscellaneous Records, 1606-1692 pp. 72-83 (2) Randolph MSS., III, pp. 46-150 Document in (1) Library of Congress, (2) Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va. List of Records No. 87. On page 109 Each Survey to be set down distinctly in writing and returned to us under your hands and seals In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Company Seal Given in a great and general Court of the Council and Company of Adventurers of Virginia held the Eighteenth Day of November 1618 And in the years of the Reign of Our Soverain Lord James by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Vizt of England France and Ireland the Sixteenthe and of Scotland the two and fiftieth. Novr 18. 1618. [In the early seventeenth century, the land along the north shore of the James River from Jamestown Island to the mouth of the Chickahominy River was known as Pasbehay or Pasbehay Country. In 1618, the Virginia Company of London ordered that 3000 acres were to be set aside and planted for the benefit of the Company. In 1619, Sir George Yeardley arrived at Jamestown with tenants to settle on both the Governor's Land and the Company Land. In late 1619, Lieutenant Jabez Whittaker and perhaps as many as fifty men were sent by the Virginia Company to the Company's tract. According to Whittaker, he and his men built a 40' by 20' "guesthouse" to season new immigrants. They also erected other dwellings, and fenced in their acreage and livestock. The tenants who worked on the Company Land agreed to serve for seven years in return for 50% of the profits of their labor. Additionally, the Virginia Company provided the tenants with a year's supply of food and cattle along with clothes, weapons, tools, and other equipment. Over a 15 year period, disease, famine, Indian attacks, and other obstacles took a heavy toll. Of 14,000 settlers who arrived at the colony between 1607 and 1622, 13,000 died. The survivors increased trade with England to include timber, furs, tobacco, and other goods, and by 1614 the first sustaining shipment of trade goods was exported. Within 15 years, two other historically significant events occurred: In 1619, the colonists formed the first New World representative ruling assembly; and the first black slaves arrived. This year also marked the first westward movement of English settlers, as the community of Pasbehay was founded near the confluence of the James and Chickahominy Rivers. Source: THE SERENDIPITOUS HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT SURROUNDING THE "HOSPITAL POINT" AREA AND ITS NAVAL HOSPITAL IN PORTSMOUTH.
'Records of the Virginia Company' CXVI. John Pory. A Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys June 12, 1620 Ferrar Papers Document in Magdalene Colledge, Cambridge. Letter Signed List of Records No. 180 Page 305 Nowe as concerninge ye buylding of guest-houses, this tyme of ye year is most vnfittinge, in respect of ye tymbr to be felled, wch would nowe be full of sap in respect of ye heate, and lastly in respect of ye peoples attendinge their corn, where on depende ye lives of vs all. In winter some good wilbe done in that kinde. To drawe ye old planters also to assist in ye Iron workes wilbe harsh and difficult, And I doe verily knowe, and without flattery may [1b] confidently affirme, that ye governor yf he wer able would defray all these publique affaires out of his owne purse, and would not put ye people to so much as an howes worke. He hath allready by ye George and ye Bona Nova (ye wch I was much against) proffered his salary towards ye buyldinge of a forte at Poynt Comforte. If ye Company please they may apply that to ye buylding of guest-houses, and other publique vses, and to keepe ye old planters from losse and murmuringe.
On 15 December 1710, Spotswood wrote the Council of Trade:"I gave your Lordships an account in my last of a project intended to be laid before the next Assembly [House of Burgesses plus the Council] for carrying on an Iron Work, but that design did not meet with the countenance which was expected from the House of Burgesses, it being the temper of the People here never to favour any Undertaking unless they can see a particular advantage arising to themselves, and these Iron mines, lying only at the Falls of James River [saying in effect that no other deposits were known], the rest of the Country did not apprehend any benefitt they should reap thereby. Since therefore the Country hath so little inclination to make use of the advantages which nature has put into their hands, I humbly propose to Your Lordships' consideration whether it might not turn to good account if her Majesty would be pleased to take that work into
her own hands, sending over workmen and materials for carrying it on, and imploying therein the Revenue of Quitt-Rents which should be a
sufficient fund to bring it to perfection. I have been assured that the Oar has been tryed and found extraordinary Rich, and I have discoursed the Owners of the Land [the William Byrd family], and find them very willing to yield up their Right into her Majesty's hands without expecting any other consideration than such an Office in the management of the work as they shall be found capable of. The Iron might even be sent home as Ballast to Ships without any other charge than of Sloops or Lighters to put it on board, and by this means her Majesty may prevent its being manufactured in this Country, which is the only ill consequence that might have been feared if this work had been undertaken by the Inhabitants . . .[a new subject starts without a formal end to the previous thoughts]." [Commentary: This letter makes it clear that the iron ore mentioned in the previous letter to the Commissioners was not on the Rappahannock or Rapidan Rivers but on the James River. Being at the Falls [i.e., near present day Richmond], it is the location where a smelting furnace had been built in the 1620s and destroyed in the general Indian uprising of 1622. This is also the iron ore sent to England in the 1580s for testing. It was found to be very good ore. Therefore, it was not newly discovered iron nor had it been found by Spotswood. (John Blankenbaker from Note 1957) GERMANNA_COLONIES-L@rootsweb.com
William Weldon, a passenger on the Bona Nova was a Captain and wrote about his trip on the Bona Nova to Sir Edwin Sandys. Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8. Virginia Records Manuscripts. 1606-1737 Page 262-page 265. CII. William Weldon. A Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys March 6, 1619/20 Ferrar Papers Document in Magdalene College, Cambridge. Autographed Letter; Signed, with Seal List of Records No. 166 Harrowhattocke the 6th of March 1619. Honorable Sr May it please you to vnderstand that vpon the 10th of August wee set sayle from Deale & havinge a faire & prosperous winde held our Course toward the Caribo Islands & vpon the 27th of Septemb: fell wth Metallina & the 3th of Octob: anchored at Mem's from whence wee depted the 11th of Octob: & after some stormy & tempestuous wether ariued at Pointe Comfort vpon the 29th of Octob: the 4th of Nouemb: followinge anchored before James Citty where we landed all our people in as good or better health than they were when they came abord a wonderfull & miraculous passage the like wherof hath not bene knowne since the first plantation of this Country wherein the lord plainly sheweth that he loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob
Page 263 March 6 1619/20 (The letter continues.) blessed be his glorious maiesty for this & all other his mercies & may his loue euer continue to this his poore vine that the roote of it may fill the land & the hills may be couered wth the shadow of it. And truly the experience of his former mercies (in preseruinge vs in that extreame hot climate in a ship so excedingly pestered assureth me that he will doe this & much more for vs if or sins hinder him not. But honorable Sr the great defects of the provisions promised in England hath very much griiued me & almost dishartened my whole Company for whereas the tennants were promised 3 suits of apell for euery mann full armes & a competent provision of houshold stuffe I finde here but 2 suites of apell for a mann. (& one of them soe meane & vnseruiceable that it will not defend them from the iniury of the wether wth hath bene extreame Cold euer since our Cominge hether) but 30 muskets 5 iron pots & 1 small kettle for 50 menn. To omit the promises of kine & other thinges (wth I hope wilbe pformed) our maine provision of victualls is so short that the Gouernor & cape9chant seeing my Inuoice protested I had not a competent proportion for 50 menn for aboue 4 monthes havinge only 32 1/2 hhds of meale or any other English victualls. In regard whereof the Gouenor & Counsell thought it fitt to put out the one halfe of my Company for their victualls this yere & a proportion of Corne & Tobacco to victuall & apell them the next yere wth I was Constrained to doe to my owne great greife & the no small discontent of my whole company. All wch inconueniencies I pswaded them to beare wth no patience indure to heare of it bitterly Complayninge that they haue noe othermeanes to furnish themselues wth aparell for the insuinge yere but are likely as they say (and for ought I cann see) to be starued if they be debarred of it. In regard of wch necessity & to make them beare their present wants wth more alacrity & for that I am pswaded it is a thinge pleasinge to god that menn imploied in so a noble a busines should haue any Christian incoragement I am bold to intreat inlargement of my authority in that pointe & haue wth the allowance & good likinge of the Gouenor giuen them leave to plant some this yere but will restraine them to so small a quantity as possibly I cann by inioyninge them to so much corne as they shalbe able to attend.
Page 264 the land apointed for the Colledge is from Henrico to the falls of wch I may say wth Dauid her lot is fallen to her in a faire ground she hath a goodly heritage beinge as pleasant & frutfull a soyle as any this land yeeldeth. But one of the best seats is already planted by Captain Mathews for the vse of Sr Thomas Midleton & Alderman Johnson & another Chalenged by Thomas Dows by a graunt from Captain Argoll one of them beinge now ready for the plough & the other most conuenient for pasture both of them nere the place of my plantation & most fittinge for presnt vse. The Gouernor whom I haue found a noble fouorer & futherer of this busines hath giuen them both warninge to depte & take ground elswhere wch they haue hether to forborne to doe trustinge that the company will Confirme Captain Argoll his graunt wch I hope you will forbeare to doe in regard these 2 seats are the most conuenient & likely to proue the most benificiall for the present vse of the Colledge. There is small likelyhod of any proffit from my people this yere in regard the nombe of them is but small & some of them continually imployed in fetchinge vp our provisions & the rest of them I haue implyed in buildinge conuenient howsinge for themselues & the vse of supplies wch I expect wch I found great want & they shall receiue no small comfort ffor my owne pte I will doe my vttermost indeuour to make their labors profitable howsoeuer I haue hetherto receiued but small incouragement yet seeinge by former experience that god hath bene good to Iraell & beinge vndoubtedly pswaded that he will still continue to bee soe I haue comforted my selfe & am bold to incourage you to send such as haue bene grought vp to labor & those betwene 20 & 30 yeres of age for old menn either liue not or doe little seruice in this Country & aboue all let me intreat you to send them well prouided both of victualls & aparell for I cannot be suplyed here (vpon any termes) of such necessaries as my Company extreamly wanteth although I haue both spoken & sent & written to the Capemarchaunt In regard whereof I haue dealt wth the bearer here of Thomas Smith (beinge one of the 2 menn wch I brought ouer for my owne vse) who intendeth to bringe a ship & menn & necessaries as I shall want of my Company humbly intreatinge that he may haue a Comission to that purpose.
Page 265 April 5, 10, 1620 wh I hope you will not deny vnles some other order be taken to furnish the Company wth things necessary And thus not hauinge further to inlarge humbly Committinge yor worp & all yor indevors to god's mercifull protection & direction I rest Yors in all humility to Comand Willm Weldon [Indorsed by Sir Edwin Sandys:] Mr William Weldon 6 Martii 1619 from Virginia Voiage from 10 August to 29 October
Captain John Huddleston lived in the city of Poquoson (found in the book Cavaliers and Pioneers 1623-1666 abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent on page 44). Then, the county was known as Charles River County but later changed to York County, which was one of the first original shires(Places in Virginia History change names a lot). This Captain John Huddleston is the start of Series "B" of the "Huddleston Family Tables". Compiled by George Huddleston Birmingham, Alabama 1933 Scanned by Dick Huddleston 2002. Alan Huddleston has these Tables on his website: http://www.geocities.com/huddlestonfamilyhistory/id3.html ).
First Hand Accounts of Virginia, 1575-1705 By his Majesties Counseil for Virginia. 22. Junij. 1620. London Printed by T.S. 1620. A NOTE OF THE Shipping, Men, and Provisions sent to VIRGINIA, by the Treasurer and Company in the yeere, 1619. Part 2.1 The Bona Nova of 200. Tun sent in August 1619. with } 120 persons. The Duty, of 70 Tunne, sent in January 1619. with } 51. persons. The Jonathan, of 350. Tun, sent in February, 1619. with } 200. persons. The Triall, of 200. Tun, sent in February, 1619. with } 40. persons & 60. Kine. The Faulcon, of 150. Tun, sent in February, 1619. with } 36. persons, and 52. Kine, and 4. Mares. The London Merchant, of 300 Tun, sent in March 1619. with } 200. persons. The Swan of Barnstable, of 100. Tun, in March 1619. with } 71. persons. The Bonaventure, of 240. Tun, sent in Aprill, 1620. with } 153. persons. Besides these, set out by the Treasurer and Company, there have been set out by particular adventurers for private Plantations. The Garland, of 25. Tunne, sent in June, 1619, for Mr. John Ferrars Plantation, with } 45. persons. Who are yet detained in the Summer Islands. A Ship of Bristoll, of 80. Tunne, sent in Septemb. 1619. for Mr. Barkleys Plantation, with } 45. persons. There are also two Ships in providing to be shortly gone, for about 300 persons more, to be sent by private Adventurers to Virginia. } 300. persons. © Copyright 2000 by Crandall Shifflett. All rights reserved. A part of Virtual Jamestown XML searching and web delivery provided by the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center
Captain John Huddleston helped the Pilgrims in 1622, See Bradford's Of Plymouth Colony, page 150 and Young's Chronicles, page 293. For Captain John Huddleston to be a witness in regards to the Captain Wye and the 'Garland' he would either had to be aboard the Garland or in his ship, the Bona Noua. This information is from the Library of Virginia (typing verbatum) ff.38vo-4040ro. 11 May 1620. Evidence given by William Wye of Limehouse, sailor, aged 25, son William plaintiff. Statement similiar to others. ff.67vo-70ro. 17 June 1620. Similiar evidence given by John Johnson of Limehouse, Nauta. ff.67vo-70ro. 18 June 1620. Evidence of John Cuff, London Merchant, aged 40. ff.71vo-72ro. 18 June 1620. Evidence of Richard Wiseman, London Merchant, aged 31. ff.72ro-73vo. No date. Further examination of Thomas Hopkins ff.73vo-75ro. 22 June 1620. Similiar evidence of William Bens of Somers Island, aged 35. f.75ro. 22 June 1620. Similiar statement from William Ewens of Limehouse, Nauta, aged 40. ff.75ro-75ro. 22 June 1620. Like evidence given by John Huddleston, sailor, aged 33.
Procat Records concerning Wye: C 146/487 Grant by John Tommys and Thomas Strech, of Teukysbury, to Giles Wye, John Bette, Francis Bette, William Larans, William Stone, John Swayn, Thomas Frampton, Robert Wyzt and John Merten, of lands, &c., in Tewkesbury and Sowthewyk (which the grantors had by the grant of Alexander Beynham,knight, and others named) for the life of Anne Monyngton, late the wife of William Wye, with remainder to Richard Wye, and Eleanor his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. Tewkesbury, 4 April, 24 Henry VII. C 146/979 Grant by Alexander Beynham, knight, William Grevell, sergeant-at-law, William Tracy, Robert Wye and Richard Wye, to Nicholas Dobyns, of all their lands and tenements in the town of Tewkesbury which they formerly held with William Wye, the elder, and William Wye, the younger, deceased, &c. 2 April, 24 Henry VII C 146/1150 Attornment of Nicholas Dobyns, of Tuewksbury, to John Thomys and Thomas Streche, purchasers of lands &c., in Tewkesbury and Southwyck, which the said Nicholas held for his life by the grant of Alexander Beynam, William Grevell, William Tracy, Robert Wye and Richard Wye, who had sold the reversion to the said John Thomys and Thomas Streche: [Glouc. 3 April, 24 Henry VI C 146/3239 Release by John Brigges, son and heir of Thomas Brigges, late serjeant-at-law, to Robert Poyntz, knight, John Norewoode, esquire, William Wye, William Carsy and John Grenehill, of all his right in the manor of Wike and the advowson of the church, or free chapel, there, and in all lands &c. 19th January, 8 Henry VII
It may be argued that the commission may have came after the fact of the ships' departure. The Bona Noua made atleast four trips back and forth from England to Virginia. It stands to reason that Captain John Huddleston born by the docks of Ratcliff learned sailoring talents at the docks and probably sailed on ships in the river Thames before he ever was master of the Bona Noua. Since the Garland was sent in June 1619 and the Bona Noua sent in August 1619 and John Huddleston, sailor was a witness in the report of the Garland; it makes sense the two ships met in Bermuda or close by and Captain John Huddleston was already a master of the Bona Noua. The term sailor itself refers to a deckhand and certainly one would want a Captain of a ship to have been a sailor before becoming a Captain of a ship. But let us consider two different documents.
Colonial Records Project Survey Report No. 3996 ff.75ro-75vo. 22 June 1620. Like evidence given by John Huddleston, sailor aged 33. Survey Report No. GL.5 References Crick and Alman Guide, pp.64-65. Vol.V No.65 Depositions in the Court of Common Pleas, 17 November 1621.
Cavaliers And Pioneers-Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666 Abstracted and Indexed by Nell Marion Nugent Copyright, 1963 by Genealogical Publishing Company originally published Richmond, 1934 page 44 Capt. Christopher Calthropp, 100 acs., being a second devdt., according to a graunt signed by Sir Georg Yeardly to John Hudleston, Marriner, 26 Apr. 16, 1621 & assigned by Richard Cox, Atty. to sd. Hudleston, to sd. Calthropp. 5 July 1636, p. 368. Adj. to the first devdt., whose bounds were, viz: W. upon Waters his Cr. E. upon land of Robert Hutchins, S. the river & N. into the woods. Same. 100 acrs. Chas. Riv. Co., same date & page. Within the new Poquoson at the head of Powells Cr., Nly. upon sd. Cr., Ely. to land formeley graunted to him. Trans. of 2 pers: Christopher Watts, Senr., Christopher Watts, Junr.
We find Robert Hutchins listed above in John Hudleston's graunt also in this updated list showing John Hurleston below Blunt Point which is actually John Hudleston or in other words Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Nova.
ROY, Your HUDDLESTON land of 1621-1636 is reported by Nugent to be in CHARLES RIVER COUNTY, the name of which was changed to YORK COUNTY in March 1642/3. My reference to this is from Nugent I, which points to Henings Statutes I:240, from my notes, but possibly the page ref is garbled. Sorry. But for sure, your land was in what became YORK COUNTY, west of Chesapeake Bay, and not on the EASTERN SHORE. Also wondering if RICHARD COX may be the RICHARD COCKE who was in nearby HENRICO COUNTY about 1630s, and involved in many legal and social matters, a man of some influence. You can read about RICHARD COCKE in GENEALOGIES OF VIRGINIA FAMILIES From The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Co, 1981), Volume II "Claiborne - Fitzhugh", pages 104-165, etc. Best to you in your efforts.Rulon N. Smithson
The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660 Entries November 21, 1621 Commissions granted to: Daniel Gat(e)s to be master of the Darling and to fish on the coast of Virginia; John Huddleston to make a voyage to Virginia; and to have free fishing on the American coast; Captain Thomas Jones, master of the Discovery, to fish on the American coast and to trade furs in Virginia.
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 Undated 1607 Updated 1626. List of first settlers at Jamestown Island, Virginia, in 1607 as noted by Captain John Smith: Territory of Tappahanna. John Dodds [150]. John Burrows [150]. Richard Pace [200]. Francis Chapman [100]. Thomas Gates [100]. Mr. John Rolfe [400]. Captain William Powell [200]. Captain Samuell Mathews' divided planted. Captain John Hurleston's [Huddleston's] dividend planted. John Bainham [200]. Mr. George Sandys [300]. Edward Grindon [150]. William Ewens [1000]. Captain William Powell [550]. Ensign John Utie [100]. Robert Euers [100]. Below Blunt Point. Captain John Hurlestone[Huddleston] [100]. Robert Hutchins [100]. John Southerne [40]. Sir Francis Wyatt [500]. Morris Thomson [150]. John Salford [100]. Pharaoh Flinton [150]. Lieutenant Giles Arlington [100]. William Bentley [50]. Thomas Godby [100]. (PRO:CO1/4/pp.24-27).
On page 555 and 557 of 'Records of the Virginia Company' we see Captain John Hudleston listed as Captain John Hurleston with the same information as noted in the preceding paragraph with date May 1625 and additional information on Captain Samuel Mathewes that he was court ordered to plant his divident Page 557 in May 1625 at Blunt Point. An interesting note can noticed since Denbigh is listed below Blunt Point in Chronological History of Warwick County Virginia 1629 Denbigh, best known of the Warwick Plantations was so named and was the seat of Capt. Mathews, who in 1626 is recorded as having taken up land in the Blunt Point area, calling his plantation "Mathew's Manor". So in other words he moved south a year later. In 1626, Samuel Mathews, of Denbigh, and William Claiborne, of Kecoughtan, offered to build the palisades, and construct houses, at short intervals, between Martin's Hundred and Chiskiack. James City County, VA Williamsburg, The Old Colonial Capital; Wm. & Mary Qrtly; Vol. 16, No.1 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project Williamsburg The Old Colonial Capital William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1. (Jul., 1907), pp. 1-65. Page 2. And from the 1626 court document in James Citty concerning Captain John Huddleston and Allice Boyse; We know he was in James Citty, Virginia. A COURT at James Citty the 19th. of February 1626, being sent Mr. Doctor Pott. Capt. Smyth. Capt. Matthews. Mr. Secretary. Mr. ffarrar. On page 558 we find that Lieutenant John Cheeseman planted 200 acres on ye southernly side of Maine River against Elizabeth City. We can see from page 567 that Captain Samuel Mathewes was at James Citty June 15, 1625 from his name put in by a scribe on a document. Page 587 starts the index and the end of the book.
Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part 1, Page 4 MAURICE TOMPSON, 150 Acres, 4 March 1622, Page 20. Gent., a new planter, who first having trans. himself out of England has remained now 4 years in this country. Bet Newport News & Blunt Point. 100 acs. for trans. of: Georg Tompson & John Bembridge, out of England & 50 acs. for his own per. adv.
TEMPERANCE FLOWERDEW in Virginia, 1608; m. 1618, Sir George YEARDLEY; after his death, 1627; she m. Francis WEST, son of Lord DE LA WARR, who succeeded her husband as Governor of Virginia, 1627; she m. Francis WEST, 1628, d. 1629. "Virginia Magazine," Vol. 25, No. 2, April, 1917.) Sir Henry was the son of Sir William who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Philip CALTHORPE and Anne, dau. of Sir William BOLYNE. Sir Thomas BOLYNE, his son, was the father of Queen Ann BOLYNE and Mary who m. William CARY, their dau. Katherine CARY, m. Sir Francis KNOLLYS. She was first cousin to Queen Elizabeth; dau. Anne m. Thomas WEST, second Lord DE LA WARR; their son Francis WEST m. Lady Temperance YEARDLEY, 1628, in Virginia. COL. EDMUND SCARBOROUGH, d. 1671; Burgess for Northampton County, Virginia, 1642-1645, 1652-1655, 1660 and for Accomac, 1666; Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1645; High Sheriff of Accomac County, Virginia, 1660-1661; in command of the expedition against the Assateague Indians, 1659; Surveyor General of Virginia, 1655-1671; m. Mary CHARLETON, dau. of Stephen and Elizabeth HARLETON. Col. Stephen CHARLETON commanded in Indian Massacre, 1644; Vestryman, 1635, Accomake; Burgess Northampton County, 1644-1645, 1652; d. 1653; he m. November 1653, Ann WEST, widow of Anthony WEST, Gentleman, of the family of Thomas WEST, Lords DE LA WARR, as shown by Arms on tomb of Maj. Charles WEST, his gr. gd. son, at Onancock, Northampton County, Virginia. Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 6
In FamilySearch we find a John HUDDLESTON (AFN:11DD-XC3) Born: Abt 1580 Of, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England Married: 8 Jul 1618 to Grace Mrs WHITMORE (AFN:11DD-XD9) Born: Abt 1580 Of, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England and they have a daughter Grace HUDDLESTON (AFN:11DD-XFH) Christened: 25 Feb 1618/1619. I only mention this because of this John Huddleston's closeness to London, England and because the Bona Noua was sent from London, England to Virginia.
GOV. WEST AND COUNCIL TO SIR ROBT. HEATH James City, Feby. 27, 1627/8. Governor Francis West and the Council of Virginia to Sir Robert Heath, the King's attorney General. On receipt of his Majs letter and other instructions from himself (see Novr., 1627), They immediately caused divers ships to be stayed that were ready to depart, and altho' they could not, the tobacco being already put aboard, try the goodness of the same, or contract for it on his Majs behalf, they had delivered to them invoices of the several quantities laden aboard & they have taken security for landing the same at the port of London. Have given orders, in obedience to the King's commands, that the Burgesses should shortly be assembled at James City, that by the general and unanimous voice of the whole Colony his Majesty may receive a full answer to the several points concerning their tobacco, and as they will be more willing that his Maj. reap the benefit of their labours than any other, so they hope his Maj. will commiserate their poor estate and admit their just requests in those particulars, without which it is evident to them they cannot subsist and do otherwise fear the immediate decay and misery of the whole Colony. The goodness of their tobacco shall far exceed that formerly gone from hence. Implore his Maj: to admit of such a quantity, whereby they may be able to sustain themselves, the excessive rates of commodities here being considered and that the Colony hath lately received an increase of one thousand persons and the abundance of wares this year imported hath so deeply indebted the planters to the merchants. The King's letters received but five days since, and Mr. Capps being absent after the arrival of the ships fourteen days, on what pretence they know not, they could not by any other means come to any particular information concerning the other matters, but they conceive the price, his Maj. will be free of customs & all charges, freight excepted. Will advertise him by Capt. Preen of the rest of those things of which they can now say nothing. Desire his favour. They want the means and not the wills to raise those staple commodities proper for this Plantation, the charges of which should rather be supported by a royal hand sustaining us than by the weak and poor estates of the planters. Signed by Francis West, John Pott, Roger Smyth, Win. Claybourne, Win. Tucker, & Sam. Mathews. Certified copy by Robert Barrington, cler. (Colonial Papers, Vol. 4, No. 40.)
GOVERNOR WEST AND COUNCIL TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL James City, March 4, 1628 Have received their Lordship' letters concerning George Sandys petition against themselves in reference to certain tenants and goods belonging to the late company since November, 1623, but which Sandys enjoyed during his stay in the colony, tho' his three years commission (which he refused to show), expired in Oct., 1624. Explain the grounds of their order about same. Sandys two years absence from the colony and his not purposing to return, and he himself at his going away refusing to execute his office of Treasurer, saying he had nothing to do with it. He might have had remedy if he would from Capt. Whitaker, who presently departed the country unquestioned to the great damage of those to whom the moity belonged, signed by Francis West, John Pott, Roger Smyth, Sam. Mathews, Win. Claybourne, & Win. Tucker. (Colonial Papers, Vol. 4, No. 41.)
COMMISSION TO GOVERNOR HARVEY AND THE COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA. March 22, 1627/8. Commission reciting a previous commission of 26 Aug., 22. Jac. I. (which see) to Sir George Yeardley and appointing John Harvey, Esq., Governor of Virginia, to execute the same as fully as any Governor resident there within the space of three years last past, and Francis West, George Sandys, John Pott, Roger Smyth, Ralph Hamor, Samuel Mathews, Abraham Piersey, Will. Claybourne, Will. Tucker, Jabes Whitaker, Edward Blany and Will. Ferrar, the Council-and William Claybourne, the secretary of State in the colony, with this mem: "This is only the renewing of a former commission to sir George Yeardley, deceased, and others, with this alteration, that the said John Harvey is herein nominated to be Governor in the room of Sir George Yeardley. (Sign Manual Charles I, Vol. 6, No. 66.)
PETITION OF GOVERNOR, COUNCIL AND BURGESSES TO THE KING March 26, 1628 Petition of the Governor and Council together with the Burgesses assembled in Virginia to the King. They have according to his maj. command assembled themselves and returned answer that they shall he willing to accept for their tobacco delivered in the colony three shillings and six pence per pound, and in England four shillings, one half to be paid at ten days, the other half at three months, desiring his maj. to take in certainty 500,000 wt. yearly and if they make more, that they may export it in to other parts, the custom being paid. Implore the King to commiserate their poor estate, having continually for six years groaned under the oppression of unconscionable and cruel merchants by the excessive rates of their commodities, caused for the most part by unreasonable and unjust contracts, made wholly without their consents to the unspeakable prejudice of this colony; that they want the means and not the wills to raise those staple commodities proper for this plantation, which now they hope by the beams of his maj. favour reflected upon them will recover a new life and receive perfection by his Royal hand. Certified copy by Robert Barrington, cler. (Colonial Papers, Vol. 4, No. 44.) PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE COLONIAL SERIES Edited by Wm N. Sainsbury
19. Chancery Proceedings. Series I. Charles I Public Record Office 1628-1629 CLASS C2 Charles 1 H42/64 John Hart c. John Delbridge did in May May 1622 agree to set forth several ships for a fishing voyage to New England. They approached Hart to organize the voyages and to keep the accounts. Afterwards Mr. John Ferrar became partner with Delbridge and Barbour, each having a one-third share. It was agreed that Hart should be paid L40 for his services. Ferrar and Barbour have each paid him L15 but he has not received the L10 from Delbridge. In November 1633 he was again employed in settling out the "Bona Nova" for fishing in New England. From this information we know the "Bona Nova" was still seaworthy even as late as 1633. I can find no earlier evidence of the 'Thomas and John' before 1627 but the 'Thomas and John' certainly finds itself back in a shipyard in England in 1633 being equipped and with a Captain Richard Lambard in 1635 leaving for Virginia with a James Powell and a Thomas Sherly as passengers.
This gets us to the marriage of John Hudleston and Barbara Poulter Microfilm 0375028 24 SEP 1616 Saint Gregory By Saint Paul, London, London, England. Their son is shown by two records John Hudleston Christening: 18 FEB 1619 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England Age at Christening: 1 Death: 12 MAY 1628 and JOHN HUDDLESTONE Christening: 06 JUN 1625 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England Death: 12 MAY 1628. The death dates match up. With this information we can conclude that he was born 18 FEB 1619 and was christened 06 JUN 1619. 6902926 is the Film number given for both records but 1568-1620 is given for the first record and 1621-1641 is given for the second record. The day and month match up but there is 6 years between 1619 and 1625. Name Church of England. Parish Church of Stepney (Middlesex) Titles The marriage registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the county of Middlesex Memorials of Stepney parish : that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 ... Miscellaneous records from Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney in the county of London ... The parish registers of Stepney, Middlesex Parish registers of the Stepney parish church,1568-1929 © 2002 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. The IGI doesn't say where the child died. Gloucestershire Record Office: Muniments of the Rogers, Coxwell, Beale and Browne Families The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of Gloucestershire Record Office. Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown, © 2001-2004. Cockbury farm, Bishop's Cleeve: This property, which formerly belonged to the Huddleston family, was acquired by William Rogers in 1660. The title deeds begin in 1548 (D627/1-5). There is a fairly complete set of leases, 1680-1802 (D269/T228, D627/6-7). Interesting details of stock, crops and implements are contained in a survey of 1640 and in inventories and bills of sale, 1724-53 (D627/8-11). Reference: D269/A/T47 Creation dates: 1591-1679 Extent and Form: 8 Scope and Content Messuages including Ball Heyes with 1½ yardlands in Dowdeswell and Pegglesworth; Poulter's Meese with 1 yardland in Dowdeswell and land (5 a., field names) in Charlton Kings; Pillmore's House and land (70 a.) in Dowdeswell; 6 messuages and 13½ yardlands in Brockhampton and Sevenhampton, land (360 a.) in Sevenhampton, common of pasture for 30 beasts and 300 sheep in Puckham Wood, Brockhampton; messuage called Cockbury or Huddlestone's Cockbury and land (40 a., field names) in Bishops Cleeve.
The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia: Ship and Passenger Information: Boyse, Allice~See name in Virginia Muster, January 24, 1624/5 (Her husband. Luke, arrived on the Edwin in May, 1619). We can now know the wife Allice Boyse was referring to in her statement(1626 court case) and that she knew Barbara Poulter before she made the trip on the Bona Nova. This atleast covers Captain John Huddleston's birth in Ratcliff which is of Stepney and his marriage to Barbara Poulter which is of Stepney. The birth of their child John shows Stepney. From the marriage record of 1616 we can surmise he stayed in Ratcliff, Stepney from 1587 to 1616. This would mean he was 29 years old when he was married. We can see they had a child, John who died in 1628 with age at death 12. From the Bona Nova trip passages we can deduce that two years after that marriage he left England to Virginia. Also, we can speculate that on each trip back to London he remet Barbara Poulter. From her later marriage to William Herrick in 1641 and Captain John Huddleston having lands in Nevis Island in 1642 along with Allice Boyse's court information of him having a wife in 1626 and the possible birth of William Huddleston, servant unto Mr. Canhow in 1628; We must wonder if Captain John Huddleston didn't have a different wife in 1626 or atleast didn't have children by a different woman. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. Ch. X Author: Bruce, Philip A. Title: Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records. Citation: New York: MacMillan and Co., 1896 Subdivision: Chapter X Page 9
Could Captain John Huddleston have had relations with an Indian woman? He certainly was around a lot of Indians in the 1622 massacre. We just don't know because We haven't found any records of Captain John Huddleston and Barbara Poulter's divorce but he was noted as being dead in 1624/1625 and that is the last record of the Bona Noua making trips between London and Virginia. The Letters of Administration taken by William Powell to acquire the goods of Captain John Huddleston further admit this possibility. Maybe Barbara Poulter heard the same thing and she thought he was dead, too. She didn't do this lightly because she didn't get remarried to William Herrick to 1641.
The Bona Nova Voyages~1618 The Bona Nova, from London, arrived at Virginia Ship and Passenger Information: Passengers from the Port of London on the Bona Nova to Virginia. Paraphrasing Allice Boyse's statement "or else said he never had the use of his owne wife" shows a past tense and the possibility of a snide remark. We don't know if Barbara Poulter made the trip with Captain John Huddleston but with the death of child in Death: 12 MAY 1628 suggests the mother may have stayed in England. 1628 is also the year Valentine Huddleston was born. 08 JUL 1641 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England It looks like the same Barbara Poulter gets remarried to a WILLIAM HERRICK according to the IGI. Film Number 184179. The son, John Huddleston who died at age 12 death place is the same as the mother's, Barbara Poulter new marriage place to William Herrick. Interesting enough the last entry we have of the Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua in Nevis Island is 1642 and Barbara Poulter new marriage date is 1641. We wonder if she got a divorce? Could she be the mother of Valentine Huddleston? According to the IGI 1642 is also significant to Katherine Chatham, the wife of Valentine Huddleston and the IGI gives London, England as her birthplace. In an ancestral file associated with John Chamberlain, Catherine Chatham she is shown born about 1630.
In considering John Huddleston, the son of Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua and William Huddleston, servant of Jamestowne (later to be known as James Citty) to be brothers; We find that William Huddleston born before 1640 and John Huddleston born 1635 were probably born in New Poquoson, Virginia. This is based on Captain John Huddleston's deed from Yeardley. We can surmise that Captain John Huddleston left Poquoson City, Virginia and went to Nevis Island where he had property there in 1642. Captain John Huddleston was 48 in 1635 and in 1635 we know the 'Thomas & John' was in England with a new master.
In the book, "Grandfather's Chair" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, VII. The Quakers And The Indians page 1; "WHEN his little audience next assembled round the chair, Grandfather gave them a doleful history of the Quaker persecution, which began in 1656, and raged for about three years in Massachusetts. He told them how, in the first place, twelve of the converts of George Fox, the first Quaker in the world, had come over from England. They seemed to be impelled by an earnest love for the souls of men, and a pure desire to make known what they considered a revelation from Heaven. But the rulers looked upon them as plotting the downfall of all government and religion. They were banished from the colony. In a little while, however, not only the first twelve had returned, but a multitude of other Quakers had come to rebuke the rulers and to preach against the priests and steeple-houses. Grandfather described the hatred and scorn with which these enthusiasts were received. They were thrown into dungeons; they were beaten with many stripes, women as well as men; they were driven forth into the wilderness, and left to the tender mercies of tender mercies of wild beasts and Indians. The children were amazed hear that the more the Quakers were scourged, and imprisoned, and banished, the more did the sect increase, both by the influx of strangers and by converts from among the Puritans, But Grandfather told them that God had put something into the soul of man, which always turned the cruelties of the persecutor to naught. He went on to relate that, in 1659, two Quakers, named William Robinson and Marmaduke Stephen-son, were hanged at Boston. A woman had been sentenced to die with them, but was reprieved on condition of her leaving the colony. Her name was Mary Dyer. In the year 1660 she returned to Boston, although she knew death awaited her there; and, if Grandfather had been correctly informed, an incident had then taken place which connects her with our story. This Mary Dyer had entered the mint-master's dwelling, clothed in sackcloth and ashes, and seated herself in our great chair with a sort of dignity and state. Then she proceeded to deliver what she called a message from Heaven, but in the midst of it they dragged her to prison."
This site and all of its contents are © 2002-2003 by LoveToKnow, Inc. Quakers: Persecution in colonial Massachusetts Hubert H. Bancroft book published 1900 excerpt; "In 1651 a party of Anabaptists reached Massachusetts. The doctrines they advocated raised a storm of opposition in the colony; they were arrested, tried, fined, and one of them severely flogged, and a law was passed banishing from the colony any one who should oppose the dogma of infant baptism. THE treatment which the Quakers experienced in Massachusetts was much more severe [than that of the Anabaptists], but certainly much more justly provoked. It is difficult for us in the calm and rational deportment of the Quakers of the present age to recognize the successors of those wild enthusiasts who first appeared in the north of England about the year 1644 and received from the derision of the world the title which they afterwards adopted as their sectarian denomination.... When the doctrines of Quakerism were first promulgated, the effects which they produced on many of their votaries far exceeded the influence to which modern history restricts them, or which the experience of a rational and calculating age finds it easy to conceive." "On their first appearance in Massachusetts (July, 1656), where two male and six female Quakers arrived from Rhode Island and Barbadoes, they found that the reproach entailed on their sect by the insane extravagance of some of its members in England had preceded their arrival, and that they were regarded with the utmost terror and dislike by the great bulk of the people. They were instantly arrested by the magistrates, and diligently examined for what were considered bodily marks of witchcraft. No such indications having been found, they were sent back to the places whence they came, by the same vessels that had brought them, and prohibited with threats of severe punishment from ever again returning to the colony. A law was passed at the same time, subjecting every shipmaster importing Quakers or Quaker writings to a heavy fine; adjudging all Quakers who should intrude into the colony to stripes and labor in the house of correction, and all defenders of their tenets to fine, imprisonment, or exile.. The penal enactments resorted to by the other settlements [than Rhode Island] served only to inflame the impatience of the Quaker zealots to carry their ministry into places that seemed to them to stand so greatly in need of it; and the persons who had been disappointed in their first attempt returned almost immediately to Massachusetts, and, dispersing themselves through the colony, began to proclaim their mystical notions, and succeeded in communicating them to some of the inhabitants of Salem. They were soon joined by Mary Clarke, the wife of a tailor in London, who announced that she had forsaken her husband and six children in order to convey a message from heaven, which she was commissioned to deliver to New England. Instead of joining with the provincial missionaries in attempts to reclaim the neighboring savages from their barbarous superstition and profligate immoralities, or themselves prosecuting separate missions with a like intent, the apostles of Quakerism raised their voices in vilification of everything that was most highly approved and revered in the doctrine and practice of the provincial churches. Seized, imprisoned, and flogged, they were again dismissed with severer threats from the colony, and again they returned by the first vessels they could procure. The government and a great majority of the colonists were incensed at their stubborn pertinacity, and shocked at the impression which they had already produced on some minds, and which threatened to corrupt and subvert a system of piety whose establishment, fruition, and perpetuation supplied their fondest recollections, their noblest enjoyment, and most energetic desire. New punishments were introduced into the legislative enactments against the intrusion of Quakers and the profession of Quakerism (1657) and in particular the abscission of an ear was added to the former ineffectual severities. Three male Quaker preachers endured the rigor of this cruel law.
In July, 1656, the ship Swallow anchored in Boston harbor with two Quaker women from Barbados on board. The two women, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, had come to Boston to share their Quaker faith. When they landed, however, they were kept on board the ship while their belongings were searched and over 100 books were confiscated. They were then hurried off to jail where they were stripped of their clothing and inspected for signs of witchcraft. Five weeks later, the captain of the Swallow was placed under £100 bond to take the women back to Barbados. But two days later, another ship with eight more Quakers came to dock! These Quakers were imprisoned for eleven weeks before they were shipped back to England. They were able to convert one man to their Quaker faith, Nicholas Upsall, but he fled to Rhode Island to avoid punishment. Because of the influx of Quakers, on this day October 14, 1656, Massachusetts enacted a law against the "cursed sect of heretics lately risen up in the world, which are commonly called Quakers..." It declared that any shipmaster bringing a Quaker into the colony would be fined £100. Any colonist possessing a Quaker book would be fined £5. Any Quaker coming within the jurisdiction of the colony would be arrested, whipped, and transported out of the colony without conversing with anyone. Yet, some Quakers felt they simply had to share their beliefs in Massachusetts. Robert Fowler built a small craft, the Woodhouse, and loaded it with Quakers bound for New England. They landed in Rhode Island, and some entered Massachusetts to spread their views. Quaker Mary Clark went to Boston to test the law, and she soon had twenty stripes of a 3-corded whip "laid on with fury" and then spent twelve weeks in prison. Even so, the Quakers continued to arrive. So, in October, 1658, stronger laws were passed. Between 1659 and 1661, four Quakers were sent to the gallows. When King Charles II heard of that, he said all Quakers were to be sent to England for trial. There were no more Quaker hangings in Massachusetts, and no Quakers were sent to England for trial; but punishments and deportations from the colony continued. Source: Adapted from an earlier Christian History Institute story by Diana Severance, Ph.D. Additional sources: Jones, Louis Thomas. "The Quakers of Iowa." Iowa History Project. (http://iagenweb.org/history/qoi/QOIPt1Chp2.htm). [footnotes quote sections of the Massachusetts law.]
Timeline of Plymouth Colony 1620-1692 March 5, 1638/9 First mention of the men of Barnstable in the Court records. 1656 Members of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly referred to as Quakers, arrive in Boston from England. While springing from the same religious turmoil that gave rise to the Separatist movement, the Quakers lack respect for hierarchy and believe in man’s ability to achieve his own salvation. Tenets so contrary to orthodox Puritanism quickly turn most New Englanders against them. 1657 The small number of Quakers in Plymouth Colony congregate primarily in Sandwich on Cape Cod and in Scituate. Laws are passed forbidding any to transport Quakers into the colony, give them “entertainment” (housing) or to attend a Quaker meeting. Punishments include fines, whipping, imprisonment or banishment. A number of people are brought before the courts on these charges. 1658 More laws are enacted preventing Quakers or their sympathizers from becoming freemen or exercising voting privileges. December 3, 1658 The Plymouth Court attempts to prevent Quakers from coming to Sandwich by sea by seizing any boats carrying them. 1659-1661 Laws tighten further against Quakers and sympathizers. June 8, 1661 Laws against Quakers are repealed. From Plymouth Plantation.
In Series 'A' later descendants of Valentine Huddleston are spelled as Huttleston. History of Bristol County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men Compiled under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd Illustrated Philadelphia J.W.Lewis & Co. 1883 CHAPTER XV. DARTMOUTH.1 Early Settlers.-The following is a list of early settlers and proprietors: Valentine Huttlestone. Acushnet, Bristol Co., MA, Cemetery Memorial Record of The Dead of Families of the Early Settlers Interred In The Old Colonial Burying Ground Established In The Reign of Queen Anne In The Old Township of Dartmouth Now Acushnet, Massachusetts New York, 1881 HUTTLESTONE, Peleg Age 60 Died May 22, 1801 HUTTLESTONE, Tabitha, wife of Peleg Age 47 Died Aug 24, 1790 HUTTLESTONE, John T., son of Thomas & Phebe Age 4-5 Died Apr 19, 1827 HUTTLESTONE, Phebe, wife of Thomas Age 45 Died Nov 27, 1827 HUTTLESTONE, Thomas, Jr., died at sea Age 29 Died Nov 8, 1828. When you look at Series A pertaining to Valentine Huddleston and Series X pertaining to Thomas Huddleston similiarities might be noted. When you read the last part of Series A, this information from the cemetary seems to be an exact match. Could Series X be a continuation of Series A? There seems to be an very old Peleg in the first part of Series A and and newer Peleg listed at the end of Series A (chronologically speaking). Could the change in the spelling of Huddleston to Huttleston be the reason it wasn't added to the Series (comparitively speaking, i.e., Huddlestone, Huddleston, Huddleson to Huttlestone, Huttleston, Huddleson). Are there two Thomas Huddlestons listed in Series X married to two different ladies or one Thomas Huddleston married to Anna Moses and one Thomas Huddleston married to Francis King? Capt. W. Nye's Company, Lieut. Col. B. Lincoln's Regiment.
From June 17 to June 29, 1814. Raised at New Bedford. Service at New Bedford Privates. Huttlestone, Thomas Lieut. Col. Benjamin Lincoln's Regiment MA Militia, War of 1812 Created November 10, 2001 Copyright 2001
Web design and graphics by Kathy Leigh http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/state/military/militia/lincoln.html The Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary Edited by Edward W. James Copyrighted by Edward W. James 1895 Vol. 1, 2, 3 page 71 A List of Persons Joined together in Holy Matrimony By the Rev Joshua Lawrence (Baptist Minister, Princess Anne County) Page 71 1786 Sep Thomas Huddlestone and Anna Moses Page 19 A List of Marriages Solemnized by the Rev Anthony Walke Princess Anne County Lynhaven Parish Nov 12 1789 Thomas Huddlestone and Frances King Vol. 5 Page 5 Land and Slave Owners, Princess Anne Co., 1775 For the Middle Precinct of the Eastern Shore Thomas Huddleston 75 acres, father of Annanias Vol. 5 1820 James Huddlestone, Page 58 James Huttlestone, Page 11 2 slaves Property Owners, Princess Anne County, 1811 Thomas Huttleston dced 100 acres L.T. $64 Tax $64 Princess Anne County Loose Papers 1700-1789 Edited by John Harvie Creecy Copyright, 1954 by John Harvie Creecy Page 40 7 June 1766.
Sarah A. HUTTLESTONE Parents: James HUTTLESTONE and Mary "UNKNOWN". She was married to William MCCLANAN on 22 Feb 1855 in Virginia Beach, Princess Anne Co, Virginia. Clerk of Court Office Virginia Beach, Princess Anne Co, VA Marriage Register 1853-1938, Cert # 9, Page 2 by William Strawhand Groom's Vitals: age 20 / s / B: Princess Anne Co, VA / Occ: Farmer Bride's Vitals: age 17 / s / B: Princess Anne Co, VA http://digginforkin.tripod.com/SHRds/d140.html#P3608 In checking in with a Gary Huttleston, who is researching the Huttleston surname, his records tell him that in one case the Huddleston surname was changed to Huttleston in about 1786.
The Colonial History of Maryland The country near the head of Chesapeake Bay was first explored by Captain John Smith. It afterwards formed part of the grant that was made by Charles I. to Sir George Calvert, by title Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic nobleman. Inspired by the same feeling that had moved the Puritans, he sought to establish a refuge in America for men of his religious faith, who were persecuted in England. With this purpose he planted, in 1621, a Catholic colony in Newfoundland. But the unfavorable soil and climate, and annoyances from the hostile French, soon ended his hopes in that quarter. He next visited Virginia, but found there a religious intolerance hostile to his purposes. The territory finally granted him extended from the upper Chesapeake to the fortieth degree, the latitude of Philadelphia. The charter given to Lord Baltimore, unlike any previously granted, secured to the emigrants equality in religious rights and civil freedom, and an independent share in the legislation of the province. The colony was formed in 1634 by two hundred emigrants, mostly Roman Catholics, who entered the Potomac and purchased of the Indians a village on the St. Mary's River, about ten miles from its junction with the Potomac. The policy of paying the Indians for their land, and their subsequent equitable treatment, inaugurated peaceful relations, though these did not remain long undisturbed. The treaty of Calvert with the Indians, though less dramatic, resembled in principle the celebrated one made many years afterwards by William Penn
From Linda Jenstrom's work on Valentine and the Huddleston Family Tables in Series "A" we get this information on Katherine Chatham. Valentine immigrated to Maryland about 1663. He had numerous transactions in land on Patuxent River, in Calvert County, between that date and 1671. He immigrated to Rhode Island where he and Catherine Chatham got married. (Catherine's last child by John Chamberlain was Jane born in 1667 and Catherine's first child by Valentine was Henry born 1673, so it is reasonable they were married in 1672. But if so where does this Thomas Huddleston fit in? Could he been a brother of Valentine?
Talbot Co., MD Deeds Vol 1 At Court 15 Sept. 1668. 27 March 1668 Geratt Vanswareing of St. Maries Co. appoints Peter Debarale his Attorney to give Robert Macklin possession of my plantation in Chester River with as many cattle and hogs and as much corne as he leaves me on his plantation in St. Mary's Co. Wit: John Brickes, Thos. Hurdleston.
John Chamberlain is shown to have been born in 1626 in England, to have married Catherine in Massachusetts. By the birth of their firstborn, Susannah Chamberlain in 1664; it is reasonable to conclude that they were married in 1663.) Katherine was a Quakeress, who had been cruelly persecuted in Boston, see New England Judged, Bishop, p. 420. "Yet a word or two of Katherine Chatham of whom I have made mention in the margin of what hath been said before. She came from London through many trials and hard travel to Boston and appeared clothed with sackcloth as a sign of the indignation of the Lord coming upon you in the weight and sense of which she came there and appeared for which instead of coming to a sense of your condition and what was coming upon you in the burden of which she came so far and through such hardship. You laid hand upon her and put her in prison out of which you would give no deliverance until with the seven and twenty aforesaid you drove her out with a sword and club into the wilderness and that was the reward you gave her for her love in coming so amongst you. And such was your rage and cruelty to her that at Dudham she was not only whipped but the man that was with her and traveled together though you had little to say to him. After this she coming to Boston again you imprisoned her for a long season there to pay a fine you laid upon her thinking to be rid of her that way in a cold winter and sad extremities and sickness near to death but the Lord otherwise provided for her and disappointed you for she was took to wife by John Chamberlain and so became an inhabitant of Boston." (1660)
Annual Assembly On 10 March 1628 the first Virginia General Assembly authorized by the king convened in Jamestown. Though a legislative body had met in Virginia in 1619, the session of 1628 was the first to be called for by the crown following the collapse of the Virginia Company in 1624. Initially, governmental affairs in the Virginia colony were largely controlled by the organizers of the Virginia Company in London. Early settlers were afforded all the rights and privileges of free Englishmen. Unfortunately, the Virginia colony failed to develop as both the Virginia Company and the crown had hoped. In 1618, as part of a general reform, the governing body of the Virginia Company authorized the creation of a representative assembly in Virginia in hopes that such an effort would foster goodwill between the company and settlers and make the colony more viable. This first legislature in 1619 dealt with a number of issues of great importance to the colony, including taxes, protection from the Indians, and the planting of crops.
By 1624, it was quite evident that the Virginia Company was unable to make Virginia a productive and populous colony. After the dissolution of the company by King James I, responsibility for governing Virginia was largely transferred to the crown-appointed governor and his council. However, in March of 1628, the crown requested Governor Francis West to call for an assembly to discuss the tobacco contract, whereby tobacco produced in the colony was sold exclusively to England. Though this assembly may not be considered a legislative body in the traditional sense, it is significant as it marked the beginning of annual meetings of the assembly in the royal colony of Virginia. (Virginia Historical Society) Tobacco production surged from 200,000 pounds in 1624 to 3,000,000 in 1638, and the Chesapeake outstripped the West Indies to become the leading supplier of tobacco to Europe. This stimulated the population growth of emigrants from England to Virginia, from 350 colonists in 1616 to 13,000 by 1650. (Interactive History 1628 Accross the Continent)
All it gives on Valentine is that he was born 1628 somewhere in England. His birthdate is 1628 and he gets married to Katherine Chatham in Newport, Rhode Island. Captain John Huddleston, master of the Bona Noua becomes master of the Thomas and John by 1627 through 1628 with records in Virginia departing for England. From page 8 of "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography" LVX No. 4 (Oct. 1957) we find that in May 13 1628 that John Huddleston is noted as being the master of the Thomas and John. (His son John Huddleston died in Stepney, England on March 12, 1628. Edward Morgan & Company imported 2400 pounds. This means the tobacco was coming into England. The tobacco was grown in Virginia and had made it to England. The Thomas & John was in Virginia waters in 1627. Richard Cocke was a prominent man in Henrico County. He was involved in the maritime trade and may have been the purser of the ship Thomas and John, which was in Virginia waters in 1627. He got patents for considerable land, including the estates of “Bremo” and “Malvern Hill” and was the ancestor of all Cocke relations. Copyright © 2001-2002, John W. Pritchett. All rights reserved. Richard Cocke imported 500 pounds of tobacco on May 15, 1628 and on that same day Patricke Kenneday imported 600 pounds-shows in court records with John Huddleston in 1626. The first import of tobacco on May 15, 1628 was of John Cheeseman for 600 pounds, then later that day, Richard Cocke for 600 pounds, then Richard Hooke for 1400 pounds, William Hind for 150 pounds, Patricke Kenneday for 600 pounds, Thomas Piddocke for 400 pounds, John Davy for 100 pounds, John Hurleston, Mr for 400 pounds, and Joe Barrett for 1800 pounds.
May 16, 1628 John West imports 1000 pounds of tobacco. This is our first tangeable link to John West who I believe is the strongest link to Captain John Huddleston and William Huddleston, servant of Jamestown.) Twelfth child of Sir Thomas West, Second Lord De La Warr, and his wife Lady Anne Knollys. Born between 5 & 6 in the afternoon. Godfathers: Sir John Norreys, Mr. John Foskin; Godmothers: Mrs. Sccudamore, Mrs. Ratcliffe. B.A. Matriculated at Magdalen College 17 Feb 1603/9 and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts the 1st of Dec 1613. (2 Aug. 1585-1 Feb. 1586/7 Cruickshank, C.G.. ELIZABETH'S ARMY. Oxford University Press, 1966 (2nd ed.). pp. 290-303 No. I o. 1586. ED. CROMWELL. SP 46/34/fo 277 Henry, lord Norreys to Myldmay: Place conveyed his interest in Buck prebend to Richard Huddleston, whose estate Norreys has, but Place keeps the house. Will put in his bill if lord Henry Seymour will answer him; 29 Nov. 1587.) Emigrated on the Bonny Bess in 1618 with his brother Lord De La Warr, and resided at "West Point", Virginia. He was made a member of the Colonial Council, where he served 1630-1659. When decision was reached, 1630, to plant a settlement on the York River, Colonel John West was among the first to patent lands there and by 1632 was established on his plantation, which, sold to Edward Digges, 1650, was then known as the "A.D. Plantation" and later as "Bellefield". From York, John West removed to his plantation at the fork of the York River on the site of the present town of West Point originally called Delaware. This tract of 3000 acres may be identified in a patent issued to him 6 Mar 1653, which included 850 acres granted to him, 3 Jul 1652. In addition, he was granted 1550 acres, 6 May 1651, about 6 miles up York River up the fort (fork) on the south of the River." which he subsequently sold to Major William Lewis, who included the land in his patent for 2600 acres issued, 20 Jan 1656. On 27 May 1654 West patented 1000 acres in Gloucester County, on the "N.E. side of the Mattapony river". (This I believe is our first link from William Huddleston, servant of Jamestown to Robert Huddleston born 1694 of Spottsylvania Territory because of the Lewis surname. I believe Elizabeth Lewis married Constable Robert Huddleston who was born about 1720 at Saint George's Parish, Spottsylvania. Elizabeth shows up in records about 1724 at the Parish.)
But there was a Major William Lewis, who had a real connection with the Lewises of Warner Hall. He was probably the William Lewes, aged twenty-five, that in 1635 entered himself for Virginia in the Globe of London. He obtained numerous patents of land - 50 acres in York county, southwest side of the freshes of York River, October 14, 1653; 1,200 acres in Gloucester county, north side of Mattaponi River, May 25, 1654; 640 acres in Gloucester county, north side of Mattaponi, May 25, 1654, 2,000 acres in New Kent, north-east side of same river, bounded with Mamasheement on the northwest side of Mattaponi River, on Arsantan's Creek, adjoining 640 acres of said Lewis, in New Kent county, June 8, 1655; 2,600 acres on the southwest side of the freshes of York River, including half the divident commonly called Port Holy alias Chimahocans, purchased by said Major Lewis of Col. John West, January 20, 1656; 2,000 acres in Westmorelant county, June 28, 1658 (patented with Robert Hubbard). There are probably other grants of land to him. Gloucester county was formed from York in 1651, and New Kent from York and Gloucester soon after.
Now it appears that "Chemokins alias Port Holy, lying in the parish of St. Peters in New Kent county, containing 1,300 acres more or less, and being part of a patent granted to Major William Lewis", was in the possession and seizin of Major John Lewis of Warner Hall in 1717, who deeded it to his son Charles. (Hening's Statutes, VII., p. 377). Major William Lewis had the title of Major as early as 1653. Lewis of Warner Hall; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 9, No. 3 Page 192
On May 17, 1635 the Colonial Council prevailed upon him to accept the office of Governor, when Governor Sir John Harvey was expelled. He was the third West brother to be a Governor of Virginia. In 1637 West was commissioned Muster Master General of the colony by King Charles in his own hand. He sold his Bellfield estate in 1650 moved to his West Point estate of over 6000 acres. Most of his acres were granted to him for bringing many new settlers to Virginia in his ships. It was customary at the time for 50 acres to be given for each person brought in, family, relatives, and servants included. Port Richmond West Plantation was settled by Col. John West about 1655. This was in William County, Virginia, not far from Elsing Green. Colonel John West died at his West Point plantation, 1659, and March 1660 the House of Burgesses passed a resolution of good will in recognition of "the many important favors and services rendered to the country of Virginia by the noble family of West, predecessors of Mr. John West, their now only survivor ..... It is ordered that the levies of the said Master West and his family be remitted, and that he be exempt from payment thereof during life".
The source says this same man of Survey 3 is also found on Survey 4 and 5. On Survey 4 he is listed as John Hurleston with date of May 15, 1628. On Survey 5 he is listed as John Hurlston with date of May 17, 1628. Public Record Office Class E. 190/32/8 Port Book. Divers Ports. Collector of the import and increase of subsidy upon tobacco. Michaelmas 1627-Michaelmas 1628. List of Exchequer, Queen's Remembrancer, Ports Books. Part II, 1565 to 1700, f 562. shows the "Thomas & John" of London being in Virginia and being loaded from 13 May 1628 to 11 Aug 1628 and that Captain John Huddleston was its master from Virginia. We know it was the same John Hudleston, marriner being on the graunt from George Yeardley by John Hudleston's neighbor Maurice Thompson & company who imports 6787 pounds of tobacco on May 30, 1628 on the 'James' who shows up on page 9 Public Record Office Class E. 190/32/8.
1635/6 February 12th Court [Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume III, York County, 1633-1646, [by Beverley Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, (The Original 34 Volumes Reprinted in 3 Volume) I Genealogical Publishing Co., In. Baltimore 1988), Volume III, York County, No. 1 page 21] A Court at Utimaria 12 Feb. 1735/6. Present Capt John West Esq'r Governour etc., Capt John UTIE, Mr John Chew, Capt Nicholas Martian, Mr. Richard Townsend, Lef't John Cheeseman. (Larkin Chew shows up in the Spotsylvania Deeds books)
Continuing with the tobacco imported for the Thomas and John, May 16, 1628: Henry Fisher 2400 pounds and William Bonham 100 pounds. May 17, 1628 William Hind 180 pounds, Francis Peckett 3200 pounds, Bartholomew Hoskins 2300 pounds, Thomas Piddocke 260 pounds, Robert Thacker 500 pounds, John Hurlston, Mr 56 pounds, John Cheeseman 52 pounds and Christopher Downeman 400 pounds. No tobacco was imported May 18, 1628 (This could of been a Sunday.) May 19, 1628 John Sharples 7500 pounds, William Adams 58 pounds and William Shepton 350 pounds. ( The 'James' and the 'Thomas & John' were importing tobacco on the same days.) The importers for the Thomas and John for May 20, 1628 were Richard Wake, Francis Peckett, John Hardcastle, Edward Morgan, Richard Cocke, Robert Thacker, Patrick Kenneday and Joan Champman. May 21, 1628 importers of tobacco were Robert Shepton, Reynold Parker, Richard Cocke, Henry Fisher, William Bonham and Bartholomew Fleet. No tobacco imported for May 22, 1628. The James imported May 23, 1628 but the Thomas and John did not. May 24, 1628 Richard Wake only importer. No imports for May 25, 1628. May 26, 1628 Helen Brandon and Antony Wall. May 27, 1628 John Cheeseman and Bartholomew Hoskins. May 28, 1628 Daniel Hosking, Richard Wake and Christopher Downeman. No imports for May 29, 1628. May 30, 1628 John Sharples.
Temperance Flowerdew, arrived with 400 ill-fated settlers in the fall of 1609. The following winter, dubbed the "Starving Time," saw over 80 percent of Jamestown succumb to sickness, disease and starvation. Temperance survived this season of hardship but soon returned to England. By 1619, Temperance returned to Jamestown with her new husband, Governor George Yeardley. After his death in 1627, she married Governor Francis West and remained in Virginia until her death in 1628. Her many years in Virginia as a wife and mother helped fill the gap in Jamestown's early family life. (Role of Women at Jamestown-National Park Service).
Since George Yeardley graunted 100 acres to John Hudleston, marriner in 1621 we must ask the question, 'Was Captain John Huddleston's 100 acres part of Flowerdew Hundred?' Prince George County History
Prince George County was established in 1702 and was named in honor of Prince George of Denmark, Husband of England's reigning monarch, Queen Anne. It was formed from Charles City County, one of the original eight shires, and its boundaries stretched from south of the James River down to the North Carolina line. Boundary definition of Prince George County was not completed until 1703. This area was one of the earliest settled regions of Virginia. It was first visited by the English in May of 1607, when Captain Christopher Newport led a crew of twenty-one men in search of the best location for their permanent settlement. As they sailed up the James River to the mouth of the Appomattox River, Newport noted that the area now known as Prince George would be a suitable location for the settlement. When he returned to the anchored fleet, he found that his impatient followers had already unloaded and begun settlement at Jamestown, without waiting for his advice. In 1616, John Martin, one of the men who arrived in 1607, was among the first to receive a permanent land grant in the Prince George area. He was granted Brandon, a vast tract of land along the James River. (From the 1626 court case involving Allice Boyse we know that John Huddleston was at Captain Martin's house. Also, very much later, Elizabeth Morgan marries Constable Robert Huddleston of Spotsylvania County, Virginia in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia.) Martin's Brandon was later sold to three men, one of whom was Richard Quiney whose son Thomas married Judith Shakespeare, daughter of William Shakespeare. The property later passed to Nathaniel Harrison in 1720. It was at this time that Thomas Jefferson, a good friend of Harrison's son, designed the main part of the house as it stands today. Brandon remained in the Harrison family until 1926 when it passed to Robert Williams Daniel. Brandon's Palladian-style mansion and renowned gardens are home to the Daniel family today, making this state and national landmark which is still an active farming operation the longest continuous agricultural enterprise in the U.S. Another plantation in Prince George which was established by the early settlers is Flowerdew Hundred, a 1,000 acre tract of land acquired around 1619 by Sir George Yeardley. Since King James I had stressed the immediate need for mills and bakehouses in the new land, Yeardley built at Flowerdew the first wind driven grist mill in English N. America. In 1978 a post windmill overlooking the James River at Flowerdew Hundred was built to commemorate the original mill of 1621.
At Martin's Hundred Living: William Harwood; Samwell March; Hugh Hues; John Jackson; Thomas Ward; John Stevans; Humphry Walden; Thomas Doughtie; John Hasley; Samwell Weaver; Widow Jackson; daughter Jackson; Mrs. Taylor; Ann Windor; Elizabeth Bygrave; Mr. Lake; Mr. Burren; John Stone; Samwell Culley; John Helline; Helline's wife; a Frenchman & wife; Thomas Sibery (Book of Emmigrants-concerning who was still living after the Indian attack of 1622) It shows William Jackson dead (William Jackson was the gunner for the Bona Nova.) America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins We don't know if Mrs. Forrest and her baby survived the winter, but her former maid, Anne Burras, did. Anne, who was only fourteen when she arrived, soon married a twenty-eight-year-old laborer in Virginia's first wedding ceremony and gave birth to a daughter-- another Virginia--who also lived through the famine. So did Temperance Flowerdew, a young woman who had arrived in Virginia in 1609, after surviving a hurricane at sea. The storm hit a small fleet of boats destined for the colony. One, the Sea Venture, was destroyed, her passengers shipwrecked in an uninhabited part of Bermuda for nearly a year, while the crew turned the wreckage into two smaller boats. The marooned men and women weathered their ordeal on a warm island filled with food, while Temperance and the other émigrés who made it to Virginia were foraging for scraps and cooking rats. But after that unpromising beginning, a number of the women did very well. Temperance was the wife of two of the colony's governors. The first, Captain George Yeardley, was knighted in 1618 and became one of the richest men in Virginia, with several plantations. He named one of them Flowerdew in honor of Lady Yeardley. After his death, Temperance, then about forty-two, married Captain Francis West, one of his successors. The recruiters preferred not to mention certain details. Even after the food shortages ended, the Chesapeake was a death trap. The brackish water, mosquito-laden swamps, and steamy weather killed most people during their first year. Those who survived often suffered from weakness or periodic fits as an aftermath of their exposure to malaria. At least 6,000 people came to Virginia between 1607 and 1624; by 1625, only 1,200 survivors were still there. But the colonies' sponsors were desperate to get females, by hook or by crook--their ventures were in danger of being wrecked on the shoals of dissolute, irresponsible young manhood. In 1619, the Virginia House of Burgesses, petitioning that wives as well as husbands be eligible for grants of free land, argued that in a new plantation, "it is not knowen whether man or woman be the most necessary." London recruiters began searching for marriageable women, offering free passage and trousseaus for girls of good reputation and a sense of adventure. When they married, their new husbands had to reimburse the company with 120 pounds of good leaf tobacco. The first shipment of ninety "tobacco brides" arrived in Jamestown in the spring of 1620. The youngest, Jane Dier, was fifteen or sixteen when she left England. Allice Burges, at twenty-eight, was one of the oldest and said to be skillful in the art of brewing beer- important in a place where the water was generally undrinkable. Cicely Bray was from one of the best families, of a rank that required her to be addressed as "Mistress" rather than the more plebian "goodwife." But all the brides were respectable women, mostly the offspring of middle-class tradesmen who had died, leaving them with no male protectors. All of them provided references, attesting to their honesty, sobriety, and past behavior. Anne Richards was "a woman of an honest [life] and conversation . . . and so is and ever hathe bynne esteemed," wrote one of her parish elders.
We don't know which tobacco brides won the golden ring and became a contented farm wife or a prosperous plantation mistress. Only a few of their disasters made it into history. Some of the women, including Cicely Bray, were killed in an Indian attack in 1622, when 347 settlers lost their lives. Examining the site of that massacre, modern archaeologists were puzzled to discover the skeleton of one woman with an iron band around her head that apparently had protected her from scalping. Women in England, they later deduced, used those bands to fasten a roll of cloth under their hair, to make their hairdo look fuller. Perhaps she was a tobacco bride, still trying to maintain her old standards of fashion. Some British contractors, hired to provide the colonies with wives and female servants, simply went out and grabbed whatever warm bodies they could find, shoved them into a boat and set sail. In October 1618, a warrant was issued in England for one Owen Evans, who was kidnapping young women from their villages and sending them off to be sold in Bermuda and Virginia as indentured servants. "His undue proceedings breed such terror to the poor maidens as 40 of them fled out of one parish into such obscure and remote places as their parents and masters can yet have no news what is become of them," reported a correspondent to King James I. The danger of being dragged off to America against one 's will figured prominently in the popular literature of seventeenth-century England-playwrights found the shanghai artists, or "spirits," a handy deus ex machina for eliminating characters midplot. Parents sometimes pursued the spirits' vessels down the Thames, where they ransomed their kidnapped children before they disappeared forever. The law didn't seem to do much to dissuade the abductions. From America's Women by Gail Collins. Copyright © 2003 by Gail Collins. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, HarperCollins Publishers. George Yardley, it must be added, was not one of the beneficiaries, having married Temperance Flowerdew on a brief return to England in 1618 with the rank of Governor and Captain General to be knighted by James I. Temperance was the great-niece of Amy Robsart, who was the wife of Elizabeth 1’s favorite, the Earl of Leicester. Many settlers were by now regarded as permanent residents, Sir George and Temperance being among the first. A petition from the Governors of the Virginia Company in England reflects their concern for the future when it asks for an allowance of ‘one share in the Virginia Company to every male child born to any Planter’s wife in the Colony and to all others begotten in Virginia, being our only hope of posterity’. Sir George and his wife lived for the greater part of their lives in the colony and there they died. The most romantic figure, however, was Sir George Yardley, who was born in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada. He was the eldest of six sons born to Ralph Yardley, a London merchant, and his second wife, Rhoda. By the time he was sixteen George had already fought at Oudewater in the Low Countries, and on his return to England he went back into service with his old commander, Sir Thomas Gates, assisting him to plan an expedition for the relief of the settlers in Virginia and actually sailing in the tiny Sea Adventurer on the 15th May 1609, eleven years before the Pilgrim Fathers set out in the Mayflower. (The Story of Yardley)
Taking account the three months of ocean voyage given by some sources for the London to Virginia trip that would place the Thomas and John back in London by November 1628. Since Katherine Chatham was born in London, the future wife of Valentine Huddleston, we wonder if Valentine might have known her in London. With Captain John Huddleston being the first known Huddleston in America and Valentine Huddleston being the second known Huddleston in America what else are we to think but that they might be related as father and son. After years of research, I just realized Chatham was Catherine Chamberlin's maiden name. From the Chamberlayne family we get this information: John4 Chamberlain (Henry3 Chamberlin, [Unknown]2, Henry1) was born Bef. 15 Nov 1633 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, and died Apr 1666 in Newport, RI. He married (1) Anne Brown 19 May 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, daughter of William Brown. She was born 07 Apr 1633 in England, and died in Prob. Boston, MA. He married (2) Catherine Chatham Abt. 1663. Notes for John Chamberlain: John Chamberlin was a currier, who worked with leather and garments. He was admitted as an inhabitant of Boston, July 28, 1651, and purchased a house from William Courser of Boston on Hanover St. on Oct 14, 1652. He became a Quaker and by September 1661 had been whipped nine times, "three times through three towns." He was present at the execution of Marmaduke Stevenson and William Robinson, and the reprieve of Mary Dyer, on Boston Common, Oct. 27, 1659, and was drawn to visit the Quakers in prison. He became a Quaker, and before Sept. 9, 1661, had been nine times whipped, "three times through three towns." He was imprisoned in Boston where his father and brother Henry petitioned the General court for a remittance of his "sentence of banishment upon Payne of death. "The Deputies ordered him removed to Castle Island, there to provide himself lodging, housinge, vitualls, etc. at his own charge." That petition was dated 7 June 1661. About 1663 he moved to Newport, RI , where he died April 1666.
Notes for Anne Brown: Her father was of Boston, MA. "She was not of the same principle altogether with (her husband)." Deputy Governor Bellingham tried to get her to deny her husband, unsuccessfully. Notes for Catherine Chatham: Catherine married 2nd Valentine Huddleston. "A Quakeress, who came from London to Boston where she "appeared cloathed with sackcloth." She was put in prison, whipped at Dedham, and driven into the wilderness. Imprisoned again, and ordered to pay a fine, "she was taken to wife by John Chamberlaine and so became an inhabitant of Boston."
Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Planters A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER. BY JAMES SAVAGE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR OF WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND. WITH TWO SUPPLEMENTS IN FOUR VOLUMES. [[Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994]] Baltimore GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC. Originally Published Boston, 1860-1862 Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata," excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139 And A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage, by O. P. Dexter, 1884. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1965,1969,1977,1981,1986, 1990 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 65-18541 International Standard Book Number: 0-8063-0309-3 Set Number: 0-8063-0795 Volume 1-Volume 2-Volume 3-Volume 4- Vol3, pp 422-423 This 4-volume dictionary lists early settlers and gives biographical data, relevant to genealogists, but also to students of early local history in Massachusetts. In Vol. 2 HUDDLESTONE, VALENTINE, Newport, by w. Catharine had Henry, b. 21 Sept. 1673; and George, 28 Sept. 1677. He rem. to Dartmouth, and d. 8 June 1727, in 99th yr. as is said. [[488]]
Chamberlayne Family
In same volume and right above Valentine Huddleston
CHAMBERLAIN, oft. CHAMBERLIN, ABRAHAM, Newton 1691, was, perhaps, s. of William of Woburn. BENJAMIN, prob. of Roxbury, and s. of Richard, was a soldier at Hadley in 1676. EDMUND, or possib. EDWARD, Woburn, m. 4 Jan. 1647, at Roxbury, Mary Turner, perhaps sis. of John, had Mary, bapt. 16 Apr. 1648 at R.; Sarah, b. 18 Dec. 1649; and ano. d. 11 Mar. 1652; both at w. rem. to Chelmsford 1655, there had Edmund, 20 or 30 May 1656, wh. d. young, as he was in Moseley's comp. for the hard campaign of Dec. 1675; Jacob, 15 Oct. 1658; was [[353]] freem. 1665; and his w. d. 7 Dec. 1669 at the ho. of Samuel Ruggles in Roxbury. He m. next, Hannah Burden, 22 June 1670, at Malden, there had Susanna, June 1671, wh. d. next yr.; Ebenezer, 1672, d. the same yr.; Susanna, again; and Edmund, again, 31 Jan. 1676; rem. to planta. call. New Roxbury, now Woodstock, there d. leav. wid. Hannah. Susanna m. 14 Nov. 1693, John Tuckerman of Boston. EDMUND, Woodstock, s. of the preced. m. 21 Nov. 1699, Elizabeth Bartholomew, prob. d. of William, had Edmund, b. 23 Aug. 1700; Elizabeth 6 Mar. 1702; William, 23 Feb. 1704; John; Peter; Mary; and Hannah, 2 Jan. 1721. EDMUND, Billerica, s. of William, m. 26 Aug. 1691, wid. Mercy Abbot. HENRY, Hingham, shoemaker; came in the Diligent 1638, with w. two ch. and his mo. from Hingham in Co. Norfk. was freem. 13 Mar. 1639, and no more with confid. is kn. of him, not even the date of his d. nor names of his ch. tho. strong presumpt. is that they were Henry and William. HENRY, the freem. of 1645, was, I think, of Hingham, and s. of the preced. but no more is heard of him, exc. that he had s. Nathaniel, and possib. Henry. HENRY, Hull, or Hingham, s. perhaps of the preced. was prob. one of Moseley's comp. in Dec. 1675, by w. Jane had Elizabeth b. 20 Dec. 1683; Henry, 11 Mar. 1686; John, 29 Jan. 1689; Ursula, 11 Jan. 1691; and Joseph, 10 Apr. 1694. JACOB, whose place of resid. in Mass. is uncert. but Jackson, in Hist. of Newton, says, his w. Experience had brot. him five s. and next m. Jonathan Dyke, and he d. 1712, aged 83. JACOB, Roxbury, s. perhaps of the preced. more prob. of either the first Edmund, or sec. William, m. 24 Jan. 1685, Mary Child, d. of the first Benjamin, as I conject. had Jacob, b. 7 Mar. 1686; John, and ano. s. tw. whose name is not seen, 1 Aug. 1687, was adm. freem. 1630, and next yr. liv. at Newton; but d. 7 Nov. 1721, at Brookline. His will, made four days bef. calls him of Boston, yeoman, names s. Jacob, and John, d. Mary, w. of Samuel Davis, and Elizabeth w. of Joseph Weld. JOB, Boston, by w. Joanna had Job, b. 19 May 1685, William, 16 Jan. 1687; Elizabeth 11 Jan. 1689; all bapt. 23 Feb. 1630; Susanna, bapt. 26 Nov. 1693; Mary, 8 Dec. 1695; and prob. Jane, 31 Mar. 1706, at Mather's ch. as I think. JOHN, Charlestown, d. at Woburn, 3 Mar. 1652. JOHN, Boston 1651, a currier; m. 19 May 1653, Ann, d. of William Brown, had Ann, b. 6 Feb. 1634; Elizabeth 25 Oct. 1656; and Henry, 3 Feb. 1659; was imprison. as Quaker 1659; may have rem. to Newport, where was a John, wh. by w. Catharine had Susanna, b. Aug. 1664; Peleg, Aug. 1666; and Jane, Dec. 1667; and d. of smallpox, 26 Apr. 1668. JOHN, Charlestown, a soldier at Hadley 1676, by w. Deborah Templar had John, bapt. 14 May 1682 wh. d. 24 July 1684, aged 5; ano. ch. whose name is not found, bapt. at the same time; Mary, 14 Oct. 1683; Deborah, 3 July 1687; and Sarah, 19 Jan. 1690; and he d. 22 Dec. foll. aged 36. Mr. Wyman ascert. him to be s. of William of Hull, and that his wid. m. a Miller. JOHN, Malden, freem. 1690, by w. Hannah had [[354]] perhaps Hannah, b. at Charlestown, 15 Aug. 1681; Mary, b. 5 Dec. 1685; Sarah, 25 Nov. 1688, and Sarah, again, 14 Mar. 1706. JOSEPH, Hadley, soldier there on serv. 1676, perhaps from the E. m. 8 June 1688, Mercy, d. of John Dickinson, first of the same, had Sarah, b. 2 or 9 Nov. 1690, d. soon; Sarah, again, 10 Mar. 1693; and John, 4 Mar. 1700; rem. to Colchester; where his w. d. 30 June 1735, and he d. 7 Aug. 1752, aged 87. NATHANIEL, Hull. s. perhaps of Henry the sec. by w. Abigail had Elizabeth b. 8 June 1682; Nathaniel, 23 Aug. 1683; John, 26 Dec. 1684; Mary, 5 Feb. 1686; Joanna, 8 Jan. 1688, and five or six more ds. and last, Thomas, 21 May 1695. But perhaps he rem. to Scituate, and there, Deane thinks, he had more.
William Chamberlin witnessed Henry Chamberlin's deed to Valentine Huddlestone of Newport, March 20, 1680, where he had moved with his family in 1663. He removed to Shrewsbury, NJ, before 1687. He was a "cooper" and deeded his right in one-half of a patent of 100 acres to Edward Woolley of Shrewsbury, Nov. 19, 1687. He died before July 8, 1717, when John Chamberlin was appointed guardian of his son Henry, at which time he was "deceased." Notes for Peleg Chamberlain: He is probably the Peleg Chamberlin who was a designated heir of Valentine Huddleston of Dartmouth, Bristol Co. and the Province of Massachusetts Bay, yoeman "who for love, good will and affection gave his son-in-law, Peleg Chamberlain of New Port, in the colony of Rhode Island.... Newport and Providence Plantations, cordwainer, 17 Sept. 1722 , two tracts of land in West Jersey (New Jersey), lying East South East from New Burlington about twelve miles from Delaware River.... purchased from the Indians by Daniel Lewis and others about the year 1695, the two tracts together containing about 566 acres." Valentine Huddleston was the 2nd husband of Catherine (Chatham) Chamberlin, the 2nd wife of Peleg's father John Chamberlin. This would explain the use of the term 'son-in-law' in the deed of Valentine Huddleston, meaning the son of his wife Catherine (Chatham) Chamberlin. Notes for Henry Chamberlain: Henry Chamberlin removed with his parents to Newport, RI, about 1663, as the result of his father's support of the Quakers cause. "Henry Chamberlin, eldest son of John Chamberlin, deceased, of Rhode Island," deeded Valentine Huddlestone of Newport, all interest in his father's estate in Rhode Island, March 20, 1680. He removed to Shrewsbury, NJ, before March 25, 1687. He died at Manesquam, or Manasquan (perhaps Ssquankum), Monmouth Co., NJ, before Feb. 14, 1688-89, upon which date his widow, Anne Chamberlin, returned the inventory of his estate, and Feb. 15, 1688-89, she was appointed administratrix of the estate of Henry Chamberlin of "Shrosberry." He m. Anne, whose surname was Laffetra or West, daughter, or step-daughter of Edmond and Frances Laffetra. She made her will Jan. 15, 1691-92, and it was proved Jan. 25, 1691-92. She mentioned her brothers Robert and Joseph West, her son John Chamberlin then under age, and her mother and sisters, whose names were not given. Joseph West was commissioned executor , Dec. 29, 1692. On March 20, 1679/80, he sold to his step-father, Valentine Huddleston, all rights of his father's estate in Rhode Island. He and brother William removed to the Quaker Colony at Shrewsbury, NJ about 1682-4. His wife Anne was named in the will of her step-father Edmund Lafetra of Shrewsbury, NJ (dated 4 Sep 1687) as daughter Anne Chamberlin. Their residence was referred to as "Squankum" or "Manasquan."
Knowing John Brook was the wife of Lucy Hudleston gives us a connection to the Poulter family: West Kent Quarter Sessions Records Indictments FILE-File of indictments, etc. for gaol delivery sessions 7 Jan. 1596/7.-ref. QM/SI/1597/1 [n.d.] item: Henry Poulter of Otford, Peter Daniell of Sevenoaks, John Brooke of Chipstead in Chevening and James Formerl of Chevening, all labourers, for burgling the house of John Saker at Tonbridge and taking 36 lbs. butter worth 2s. 6d., a pair of shoes worth 6d. and yarn worth 2s. [All found guilty of felony but not of burglary]-ref. QM/SI/1597/1/7-date: 20 Dec. 1596 FILE-File for Michaelmas Sessions 1610-ref. QM/SI/1610/21-date: Sept. 1610 item: Stephen Baker, "rippier", Thomas Baker, ripper, Michael Thomas, yeoman, Thomas Poulter, labourer, all of Goudhurst, at Goudhurst, from 1 Aug. 1610 to the day of the taking of the indictment without licence, have kept "Comon tipling howses" and sold "Ale and beare"-ref. QM/SI/1610/21/3-date: 1 Aug. to end Sept. 1610 FILE-Gaol Delivery Roll-ref. Q/SRg-date: 1596-1605 item: 7th January, 1596/7 at Maidstone-ref. Q/SRg/m. 1d-date: 1596/7 \_ [from Scope and Content] 1. Henry Poulter of Otford, labourer Family Wills, Settlements and Personal Papers FOXE/CORBETT/HERBERT SETTLEMENT DEEDS AND PAPERS FILE [no title]-ref. 20/14/33-34 -date: 17 Oct 18 Chas I (1642) \_ [from Scope and Content] Now at the special request of Margt. Herbert and Fras. Herbert, to 2. all the lordships of Great and Little Sutton and all messuages, cottages, mills, lands, grounds, tenements etc. belonging in occs. of Richd. Cludd, Thos. Jordan, Thos. Lewis, Thos. Sheppard, Mary Jorden, widow, Chas. Wleelings, Joan Brooke, widow, Richd. Brooke, Thos Crowther, Edwd. Adams, Wm. Poulter, Richd. Haynes and Thos. Jorden, Also all cottages, messuages, farms, etc. in Clee St. Margaret and Cold Weston now in occs. Richd. Morgan, Wm. Coulton, Widow Gravenor and Adam Wadley. Title Deeds: Out-County Essex Mountnessing FILE [no title]-ref. D1057/A/2/28/1-8 -date: 1567-1662 \_ [from Scope and Content] Eliz. Mawbroke widow of Jn. Mawbroke/Hy Pechy/Thos. Pechie and Wm. Pechie/Wm. Lincollne/Richd. Poulter/Thos. Sharpe/Edmund Peart Miscellaneous Deeds WARWICKSHIRE Stoneleigh Fletchampstead FILE-Stoneleigh, Fletchampstead.-ref. DR 18/1/985 -date: 1603 \_ [from Scope and Content] Lease by Sir Thomas Leigh of Stoneley, kt, to Thomas Higginson of Barkeswell, tanner, citing a lease made by the same, as Thomas Leigh esquier to the said Thomas, of a meadow in Fletchampstead confirming the lands named in the above lease (except Poulter's Meadowe,) 20 March 32nd Elizabeth, (1589-90) viz Northe and Roughe Waste, Walgrave's and Kingswood, late William Wright. FILE-Indenture- ref. Wellington/A 294/13 -date: 1574 \_ [from Scope and Content] Involving James Poulter, yeoman, of Milford (Hampshire) and Thomas Nash of Rotherwick (Hampshire)
In researching Henry Poulter we are once again drawned back to the 'Records of the Virginia Company' because of his wife Francis Throckmorton. A Sir William Throckmorton, John Smythe of Nibley, Richard Berkeley and George Thorpe are very much involved with Sir George Yardley, the Virginia governor because through a collected pool of money of theirs in association with our Thomas Smythe, treasurer. This can be found on page 130 pertaining to the indenture, page 136 pertaining to the patent, and many other pages.
This also lets us understand the significanse of our Captain John Huddleston learning of the death of William Tracy because page 266 'Records of the Virginia Company' CIV. William Tracy. A Letter To John Smyth April 15, 1620 Smyth of Nibley Papers, Smyth, 16 Document in New York Public Library. Autographed Letter, Signed List of Records No. 16 Sr I was glad of yor letter & ye good nues of virginia, but sori ye ship is not retorned god send her a hapi Coming & all ouer bisnes hapili to go on to gods gods glori & ouer good there is a gust Caues ye I canot met at gloster, as yo loue me Condem me not so do I inret my cousin barli what so ever yo to agre on I will Consent vnto be Caues I am assured yo will do nothing vnfitting yo selves Yf I may know her to met my cousin barkli ye first nite I will not fayle & it may be goe a long wth him to london Yf not wth yo Yf not wth yo yf go from ouer parts. but at london ther shall we haue tim suffisient to determen all I am binding my men I haue at lest 20 promised me ye most part I am suer of. there is no dout of more then wee men at this to Cari. ti all of yousefull trads so ye we may leaue those ye ar of lest imployment tel ye nest going do as ye plese wth Sr William Throkmortun I will do nothing but as yo aduise me Yf I proue not ferm & faythful let me not be held orthi ye name of a Cristian this hoping this may geve yo satisfactione I rest Yors in all asurance 15 Aprill 1620 [Addressed: ] To my worthi frind Mr. John Smith this nibli [Indorsed: ] Mr Tr[acys let]ter 1620 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj8&fileName=mtj8pagevc03.db&recNum=293.gif On page 271 Sir William Throckmorton indentures his part of Berkeley Plantation to William Tracy and on page 289 we find the ship William Tracy was referring to was the 'Garland' because as we know William Wye was the Captain of the 'Garland'. On page 291 Sir William Throckmorton and William Tracy are concerned about a silkworm business. The real surprise is finding mention of a Sir John Brook who could of been the wife of Lucy Huddleston mentioned in 'Records of the Virginia Company' right above a letter about William Tracy on page 367 indorsed by Mr. Russell July 5, 1620 Agree wth some litle varyacon wth Mr Russell: the Acumist & chimist Sr John Brooke. 2. April 1621. told mee, that of his c[orrec]t knoledg, this wine was made of sassaphras, & licoras boyled in water: he had of ye drynk. [Indorsed:] Mr Russells project touchinge artificiall wyne in Virginia. July. 1620 On page 368 we find William Tracy gets his commission as Captain of the 'Supply' so you finding about William Tracy's death Captain John Huddleston was acknowledging the death of a fellow Captain in the Virginia Company. But page 379 is geneaologically significant because we find that Captain William Tracy becomes governor of Virginia through a commission and is allowed to build a town called Berkeley. On page 396 we learn of his death and of his wife Mary Tracy and how their son Thomas Tracy goes back to England but daughter Joyce Tracy died in England and her husband Captain Nathaniel Powell was slained.
The Bona Nova, itself could of been the property of the Virginia Company and we learn particularly the resposibility fell on Sir Edwin Sandys: LXXX. Sir Edwin Sandys. A Letter to John Ferrar. September 20, 1619. Ferrar Papers Document in Magdalene College, Cambridge University. Autograph Letter, signed List of Records. 131
Sr I send yu here enough to read; & therfore my owne writing may be short to yu at full of all busines, & the next moneth be wth yu, to assist in effecting them. Meane while I shalbe glad to heare from yu of the nues stirring in those parts: especially of the certainty of Bohemia: & what else yu please. I pray yu doo not sarue from my former order of paiments: vis First all for the Bona Nova. Secondly Fraight & wages for the Diana: coming by Mr Webs note to 170 in all. then not anie more till or meeting, for a reason yu then shall knowe. And I pray yu get yor warrents to me for all from the Committies: & to beare date a little before the monie was paid: hereof be carefull: But for the old debt for the Diana it must be from he Auditors. So wth most hartie commendacions, I rest yors assured, Northborn .20. Septemb: 1619 Edwin Sandys
Considering John Juddlesee and his relationship to Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua
LXXXVI. Council in Virginia. " The Putting Out Of The Tenants That Came Ouer In The Bona Noua Wth Other Orders Of The Councell" November 11, 1619 Ferrar Papers Document in Magdalene College, Cambridge University List of Records No. 138 James Citty Novembr 11th 1619: By the gouernor & Counsell:
As Concerninge the Company of a hundred new men sent hither in the Bona Noua to become Tennants vpon the Companies land and the Colledge land fifty vnder the Comand of Captain weldinge and thother fifty to be Comanded by Lieutenant whiteaker because ther provision of victualles of to pounds of meale a day to a man would not last them above 5 monthes and 14 dayes, and for as much as wee find by experience, that were abundance of new men are planted in one body they doe overthrowe themselues either by contagion of sicknes or by the mother and cause thereof, ill example of Idlenes, more ouer because diuers of those new men Cominge heither in tyme of winter might miscarry by lyinge in the woods before such time as conveneite howses could be erected for the harouringe of them all, and lastly seeinge that most of these new men beinge put forth into the seruice of old planters, might not onely be prsently howsed and prouided of necessaries but be well seasoned for the pubiqve against another yeare. It was thought expedient by the gouenor and Counsell to aduise the said to gentlemen to rent out the greatest part of ther people to some honest and sufficient men of the Colonie tell Cristmas come twelue month for iij barrells of Indian Corne and 55 waight of tobacco a man wch might abundantlie serve them victualls and apparell for the yeare next ensuinge the expiracion of ther time when they should returne to the publique busines and be able to instructe other new commers as they had bine instructed: You shall at all times accordinge to your taste and accordinge to your Judgement and Conscience make report of the true value and price of tobacco whether at three shillings or eyghten pence or vnder, soe helpe you God &c: This day the Gouerner and Counsell found out a convenient seat for Lieftennante Whiteaker vpon the Companyes lands: [Endorsed by Nicholas Ferrar:]
The above records are also found in the Records of the Virginia Company where we also find the Bona Noua was 200 tuns with 120 passengers and the Mayflower was 140 tuns and 100 passengers but they were both sent out from London in August 1620 with the Elizabeth. We then get two letters from John Pory to Sir Edwin Sandys that are in the Records of the Virginia Company. In Records No. 156 dated January 13 1619/1620 XCVI Most worthy Knight, After my sicknesses and miseries past, the Bona Nova hath brought me in particularly one singular and cordial comfort namely the newes of your being elected Treasurer: for nowe I am confident, that what (The rest of the letter is not shown) But the next day he writes another letter XCVII No. 157 Honble Knight, Untill the last moment of sending away, I had forgotten to write you a list of their names both Colony men & other passengers that came in the Bona Nova, whereby it appeareth, there went Colony men of the Number of an hundred, Nor doth it appear whether the passages of the rest that in the same not go vnder the name of passengers by payd for, or freely given by the Company. Captain Welden saith, the Company save him passage for twoe, Thomas Smythe and Edward Kerby gentlemen, wch the Gouernr will not accept of a warrant sufficient to saue him harmless, wthout certificat from the Company. Wch two, together wth Adames that goes vnder the name of Mr Whitakers man, the Gouernr will not lett passe for England; nor yet Mr Hansbies man in pledge of George Eden that by your order is to go for Smythes hundred, till such time as he receive other order from the Company, or vntill there come three others in their roome. (John Pory then writes about silkworms) but the date is Jan 14 1619 and he writes from James City
We are learning about the many trips of the Bona Nova and how messages between England and Virginia are sent by it. CXXV. Virginia Council. Extract From a Letter August, 1620 Manchester Papers, No. 272 Document in Public Record Office. London List of Records No. 193
But for the matter therein conteyned about the Chekohomini e ill not pemptorilye it to be executed (so long time being passed) but leaue it to yor iudgemt vpon mature deliveracon th the hole body of Councell so to pceed therein as that iustice being satisfied for that barbarous crueltye may be otherwise left to the disturbance of the peace of the Colonye But touching the matters of Capt. Argall we alter nothing from our first resolucons neither haue had cause his proceedings here giueing vs noe satisfaccon But some alteracon seemeth to haue been wrought in yor who promising to dispatch all that business, at the returne of the Bona Noua haue no so much as sent them one line or word concerning him. wee affect herein nothing but truth trall of truth, and that he may be cleared by his owne innocencye and not by vnderhand dealing whereof ee haue had cause to be more then suspicious but from yor wee haue expected alayes reall pceedings according to yor first comissions & or later direccons in wch expectacons for that wch remaneth wee still continue August 1620 Ed: Sheffeild Lion: Cranfeild Ed: Sandis Jno Dauies Xro: Brook Tho: Gibbs Jno Farrar, Deputy Ro: Smith Tho: Shepheard [Indorsed:] Clause of ye Councells ler concerning Cap. Argall.
Page 406 CXLIII. Sir Edwin Sandys. A Letter To John Ferrar September 18, 1620 Ferrar Papers Document in Magdalene College. Autographed Letter, Signed, With Seal List Of Records No. 211
Good Mr Ferrar: I knowe ye will partake wth me deeply in my sorroe, not for the losse, (I most humbly thank God,) the Bona Nova wth hir Pinnace set saile from the Downs, wth a prosperous wynd: & was met that evening beyond the Nesse. That day we spent here amongest or friends in great ioy.
Until the advent of the sloop, pinnaces were the primary small craft of the Caribbean. Like a sloop, a pinnace is very fast, very maneuverable, and with a draft that permits sailing in shoal waters. Sailing upwind (close-hauled) it is even faster than a sloop, and much faster when rowing into the wind. However, a pinnace is also much smaller than a sloop, with minuscule capacity for cargo and guns. A boat for communication between ship and shore.
1587 is an important date in Virginia. July 22, 1587: Raleigh's 3rd expedition to Virginia, consisting of three ships carrying about 115 settlers, lands on Roanoke Island. John White, the artist, is governor. After a few months, 1/3 of the settlers are dead from famine and disease. August 18, 1587: Virginia Dare, John White's grandchild, is born in Roanoke--the first English child to be born in America. John White is sent off to England in the sole remaining ship for help. He leaves behind his daughter and her new-born child, Virginia Dare--the first English child to be born in the Americas. But back home, Spain is assembling an Armada to crush England, and no ship may be spared for the return voyage. ©1998 Gene Borio, Tobacco BBS (212-982-4645). WebPage: http://www.tobacco.org). Original Tobacco BBS material may be reprinted in any non-commercial venue if accompanied by this credit. From a survey report we find Captain John Huddleston of the Bona Noua to be born in 1587 and from a deposition we get that he was from Ratcliffe, Middlesex; which is of London, England. Virginia Colonial Records Project Survey Report No. 3996 ff.75ro-75vo. 22 June 1620. Like evidence given by John Huddleston, sailor aged 33. Survey Report No. GL.5 References Crick and Alman Guide, pp.64-65. Vol.V No.65 Depositions in the Court of Common Pleas, 17 November 1621. the depositions are made by John Mennys, gent., of Sandwich, Kent; John Huddleston, gent., of Ratcliff, Middlesex, master of the Bona Nova; William Jackson of Ratcliffe, gunner of the Bona Nova; John Ward of Ratcliffe, mariner; and George Hooper of Ratcliffe; mariner. The depositions state the deponents were in Virginia during the period January-June, and that they had learned of the death of Mr. William Tracy of Berkeley, Shirley Hundred, Virginia, apparently during or earlier than January. One deposition refers to a Captain Powell, who had married William Tracy's daughter.
London Metropolitan Archives Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster, 1618-1844 SESSIONS ROLLS Rolls transferred from Westminster Abbey ROLL (NEW SERIES) NO.1; JAN.17 JAMES I FILE-Recognizance:; John Wright of St. Margaret, Westminster, yeoman (£20), John Glover of same, yeoman (£20), for their own appearance at the next general sessions for misdemeanours towards William Jackson; Taken before: Ralph Dobinson; Annotated: [agreed] - ref. WJ/SR(NS)1/085-date: 17 James I [1619] 28 Oct FILE-Recognizance:; William Jackson of St. Martin in the Fields (£20), for his own appearance at the next general sessions to present against John Wright and John Glover; Taken before: Ralph Dobinson; Annotated: [discharged]-ref. WJ/SR(NS)1/095-date: 17 James I [1619] 28 Oct The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of London Metropolitan Archives. Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown, © 2001-2003. Public Record Office Online Catalogue Series details for STAC 5 Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I c1558-c1603 STAC 5/R2/18 Revett v Huddleston, Daubney, Bennet, Jackson. 17 Eliz STAC 5/L27/39 Leyce, and others v Huddleston & Jackson 37 Eliz.
STEPNEY Description and History from 1868 Gazetteer
STEPNEY, a parish and populous district of the metropolis, in the Tower division of Ossulstone hundred, and borough of the Tower Hamlets, county Middlesex, 25 miles E. of St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a junction station on the North London, the Blackwall, and Great Eastern railways; it lies chiefly between the Commercial-road and the Great Eastern railway, and includes the populous districts of Mile-End, New and Old Town, and part of Ratcliffe. The population of the parish in 1861 was 98,836, and of the ecclesiastical districts of the Holy Trinity and St. Philip respectively 10,478 and 14,805. Previously to 1669 it was much more extensive than at present, comprising, in addition to its present parochial limits, the hamlets Of Stratford-le-Bow, Limehouse, Shadwell, St. George's-in-the-East, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Wapping, Whitechapel, Poplar, and Blackwall, which from their increased importance have been successively separated from it, and formed into distinct parishes. In Domesday Book it is written Stebenhede, and in later documents Stebenhythe and Stebonheath. In 1299 it was the seat of a parliament summoned by Edward I. to meet at the mansion house of Henry Walleis, then lord mayor of London. In the 14th century the manor was held by the bishops of London, who had a palace called Bishop's Hall at Bethnal-Green, then a rural district, as described by Sir Thomas More in a letter to Dean Colet. It was subsequently alienated by Bishop Ridley to the crown, and given by Edward VI. to the Wentworths, from whom it came to the Manners and Colebrooke families. In the first year of Charles I.'s reign it was ravaged by the plague, which carried off 2,978 persons; and at the commencement of the parliamentary war was strongly fortified for the defence of the city. At this period the parish was a wide flat extending to Blackwall, as seen in the print of Hogarth's "Idle Apprentice."
The parish church, dedicated to St. Dunstan, was built in the 14th century. It has a low broad tower, strengthened with buttresses and surmounted by a turret and dome. In the porch is a Stone from "Carthage wall," and in the interior are many ancient monuments and tombs of eminent men, with several epitaphs, noticed in No. 518 of the Spectator. In addition to the parish church are the follow district churches, viz: Holy Trinity, St. Thomas, St. Philip, All Saints', St. Peter's, and St. Paul's, Bow Common, the livings of which are all perpetual curacies, varying in value from £350 to £250. The Stepney Poor-law Union comprises the parishes of Limehouse, Ratcliffe, Shadwell, and Wapping, Mile-End Old Town having its own establishment. All children born at sea are supposed to belong to Stepney, according to the old rhyme "He who sails on the wide sea, Is a parishioner of Stepney." In consequence pauper's born at sea have been sent here from all parts of the country, but the recent decisions of the superior courts refuse to establish this traditional law. See also articles London, and the parishes enumerated above as once included in Stepney. [Description(s) from "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Stepney in Other Days
From "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. II, no. 19 (September 1932) It is not easy to imagine either the appearance of the riverside or the rural condition of the mother parish of Stepney four hundred years ago, when it was possible to view afar over field, meadow and marsh the little ships of sail passing up and down the silver reaches of the Thames, with the green hills of Kent and Surrey beyond.
To-day most of that which is seen in the streets of East London has been developed since the making of the great docks early in the nineteenth century and the building of wharves and warehouses. The beginning of the change that altered the character of the whole district occurred, however, in the second half of the sixteenth century, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, when England, awakened by the spirit of adventure, took to the sea, and laid the foundations of its maritime power, the Indian Empire, and the oversea Dominions. In this great enterprise Stepney played no mean part. In the words of honest John Strype: "It is further to be remarked that the Parish of Stepney, on the Southern Parts of it especially, that it is one of the greatest Nurseries of Navigation and Breeders of Seamen in England, the most serviceable Men in the Nation; without which England could not be England for they are its Strength and Wealth." Previous to this era there was, between the Precinct of St. Katherine's by the Tower and Blackwall (just under six and a half miles) nothing but marshland, having a sparse population, except at Ratcliff, where from time immemorial people had gathered and carried on waterside occupations. It occupied a favourable position, having a low cliff with a foreshore lying in the curve of the river where the straight run of tides without eddies caused no silting up of mud and gave a depth of water suitable for its use as a quay. At the western end of this convenient stretch of foreshore, the extent of which corresponds with the present Broad Street, stood a slight eminence sometime named Cock Hill, while at the other was Ratcliff Cross, with its stairs and hardway giving access to the water at all states of the tide. Nearby there was a small inlet now filled in, which in later years was known as Ratcliff Dock. The natural advantages of the situation were recognised in the Roman times when a causeway was made across the marshes from Tower Hill along the line which centuries afterwards was to become the notorious Ratcliff Highway.
[JOHN HUDDLESTONE Christening: 10 DEC 1592 Saint Katherine By The Tower, London, London, England Father: MATHEWE HUDDLESTONE P001441 1584-1695 0845261, 0845262 Film 6903590 Film IGI Individual Record
In the beginning of the sixteenth century, in the time of Henry VIII, "the town" of Ratcliff had become of considerable importance, and had numerous inhabitants who were engaged in the trades and occupations peculiar to riverside life. Evidence in support of the place being populous is the choice of it by Nicholas Gibson, citizen and grocer, for founding, in 1538, a free school for sixty boys and almshouses for fourteen aged poor persons. His widow married Sir Anthony Knyvett, and on his decease, for the continuance of the Charity, provided for it being vested in the Company of Coopers. Lady Avice Knyvett and her two husbands are buried in Stepney Church, and the site of the school is pre served in the name of the still existent Schoolhouse Lane. The importance of Ratcliff is stressed in parochial affairs by the fact, which is not widely known, that the parish church of St. Dunstan and its large churchyard stands wholly within it. Near the church was the large house, The Great Place as it was called, where Sir Henry Colet lived. His son John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, and founder of St. Paul's School, while he was Vicar of Stepney, was visited on more than one occasion by the great and learned Dutch scholar Erasmus, whose impressions of Stepney as a place of residence at that time are happily preserved in a letter to his friend: "I come to drink your fresh air, my Colet, to drink deeper of your rural peace. Wherever you look, the earth yieldeth you a pleasant prospect, the temperature of the air fresheth you, and the very bounds of heaven do delight you. Here you find nothing but bounteous gifts of Nature and saint-like tokens of innocency." These remarks might be taken as savouring of polite exaggeration, but there is confirmation of their literal worth to be found in a letter of Sir Thomas More, who alludes to the delights afforded by "the country about your parish of Stepney." From a panoramic map of London and its suburbs made in 1543 a section has been reproduced (left) to assist our readers in obtaining some idea of the aspect of the southern part of the old parish of Stepney abutting on the river. Considered as an actual representation, the picture may seem to be slightly out of perspective, but it should be borne in mind that in its compilation the mental impressions of the various places shown were relied upon from the imaginary position above the monastery of Bermondsey, part of which is seen in the foreground.
Across the river there is unmistakably the Tower of London, behind which, within the city wall, is Tower Hill with the place of execution; and continuing along the wall there is Aldgate surmounted with three heads of criminals stuck on poles, and to the right is the former church of St. Botolph. The road into Essex is indicated passing through Whitechapel to Mile End, and thence to the left of Stepney Church. The gateway in the city wall, the one nearest the Tower, is the Postern Gate, from whence began the highway across East Smithfield to Ratcliff. East of the Tower is the Church and Hospital of St. Katherine, with houses clustered on three sides. On the further, the East side, marshland extends to Cock Hill. Beyond Ratcliff in the next curve of the river is the low-lying Isle of Dogs, opposite which is seen a small part of the old Palace of Greenwich.
St. Katherine's by the Tower owes its name to the Hospital founded about 1148 by Queen Matilda, wife of Stephen, who created and endowed it in the time of her grief over the loss of her two children who died and were buried in the Church of Holy Trinity, Aldgate. At this time, it may be remarked, there was a vineyard in the vicinity. Under the shadows of the Hospital there grew up a populous neighbourhood, which, when the map was made, was largely composed of foreigners, mostly Flemish and Dutch, or persons of foreign extraction. They carried on their trades near, yet outside, the city from which they were excluded as aliens. Here on the quayside the little ships from Holland landed their goods and took on board cargoes for their homeward voyage. Beer was one of the commodities thus shipped. Much of it was brewed in the locality, and the water of the Thames long enjoyed a high reputation for its value. Stow remarks that "the brewers remain to the friendly water of the Thames." In the narrow circuitous Nightingale Lane leading from East Smithfield to the banks of the river stood one of these breweries. "This part of the public sustenance," it is recorded, "was subject to regulation as early as Henry VII who, in 1499, licenced John Merchant, a Fleming, to export 50 tuns of Ale called Berre, and in the same reign one Geoffrey Gate, probably a King's officer spoiled [took possession of] the brew-houses at St. Katherine's twice, either for sending too much abroad or brewing it too weak for home consumption." There was a steady demand for this article from foreign parts, and even when there was a scarcity of corn (which, it may be noted in passing, was grown at this time in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel) its exportation was permitted by Royal Licence. The King's brewhouse on the east of St. Katherine's stood at a place which bore the name of the Hermitage, where a small chapel sometime stood for prayer for the preservation of the embank ment or river wall. The whole inhabited area of St. Katherine's was a network of tangled lanes with wooden-built habitations. The Precinct, which was originally deemed to belong to the Portsoken Ward of the City, became within the jurisdiction of the Tower, and as one of the Liberties was included in the Tower Hamlets. In this way it became part of the Borough of Stepney. Just over a hundred years ago the Hospital was pulled down, together with some 1,250 houses of the poorest and meanest description, and 11,800 inhabitants displaced, to make St. Katherine's Docks, which now occupy twenty-four acres of the site. by Sydney Maddocks
ECHOES OF MANX HISTORY IN SOMERSET RECORDS.
Joan Stapleton, one of the descendants of Sir Miles, brother of Sir Brian Stapleton, married Sir John Huddleston, sheriff of Cumberland, in 1451. Her direct descendants married and inter-married with Flemings, Senhouses and the Christians of Ewanrigg and of Milntown in Man. There was a Thomas Huddleston in Man in 1587. A William Huddleston of Ballahott was father of Captain Thomas Huddleston, Water Bailiff in 1700. And, curiously, this property of Ballahott was occupied by a William Fyne in 1760. There was another link between the Stapletons and Man, which, however, runs in later than this. Joan Stapleton, wife of Sir John Huddleston, is said to have been widow of Christopher Harcourt, son of her stepfather. One of his Harcourt ancestors had married a daughter of Sir John Bek of Eresby, brother of Bishop Anthony Bek, who once bore rule in Man.
FILE-Title deeds of Huddleston Farm and 140a. land in Steyning, acquired in 1614/5 by Richard Bridger from Sir Thomas Shirley, and sold in 1763 by John Bridger, sen. esq. and s. Sir John Bridger to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham. Abstract of title reciting deeds, 1602-1617.-ref. GLY/2404-2431-date: 1593-1763 SP 77/112 Miscellaneous supplementary papers, including letters from W Trumball, J Dickinson, Richard Weston, Spanish letters concerning Captain Huddleston, an account of the taking of the ship Unity of Deal by Ostenders 1607-1751 Virginia Colonial Records Project.(Lancashire Record Office: Lancashire County Quarter Sessions [QSB/1/201 QSB/1/250] FILE-Recognizance Roll: Lancaster, Epiphany, 1638/9 ref. QSB/1/208 date: 1638/9 item: DALTON-in-FURNESS Agnes Sanderson likewise ref. QSB/1/208/9 date: 1638/9)who were married in Dalton In Furness, Lancashire, England in 7 Oct 1582.
From Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaelogical Society New series Vol.XXIV (1926) "Cooke's Visitation of Lincolnshire 1562-4 Eight generations: no dates given Sequence is : Sir John Huddleston knt. succeeded by son Sir John Huddleston knt. by son William knt by son Robert(Born ??1468) (marr. dau of John Savill) " "? named Emmot as mentioned on a now missing monument in Rowston church "Savyle & Agneis uxoris" Translated as Savill and Agnes his wife. Also "Orate pro bono statu Robti & Emmotae consortis suae" Translated as "pray for the souls of Robert and Emmot his wife"" AMTH son Godfrey (Born 1490) (marr. Isabel Beach)son Robert (Born c.1516/8 ) marr. Alice Winter son Richard (Born 1546) marr. Rachel Fitzwilliam dau. Jane who marr.-Gannock of Boston
HUDDLESTON’S OF ROWSTON
This interesting piece written by the Rev Lewty, Vicar (1862) of St Clement’s Church Rowston reveals that Godfrey Huddleston was the first Huddleston to be seized of the Manor of Rowston and also how the Manor was lost by Richard Huddleston. Beginning with an inscription found in the South East Window in this Church by Holles-“Orati pro bono Robti Hodleston & Emmotae consorti suae” and following up the name in the register of this Parish, the family of the Huddleston’s appear to have lived in Rowston for some 128 years from 1528 to 1656. In many instances such ancient families become extinct but here we have one which up to the present time of writing still remains in many places in different parts of the world and although they no longer live in the village one Colonel George Huddleston of Kewferry Middlesex still shows a great interest in the village and some of his ancestors, not only from a genealogical point of view but also a religious one.
In 1928 he wrote the writer of these lines saying he was visiting Lincoln on some inquiry as to some of his family who lived at Lincoln in early times, also at Branston where it is believed the Rowston members went when they left here (Rowston). He was desirous he said of worshipping at the Church of his ancestors at Rowston. In 2 volumes records the dates and doings of the Huddleston’s from early times to the present day and from the sale of this work has generously given proceeds to the funds of the Church work in this Parish.
PEDIGREE In the Lincolnshire branch of this family we begin with Robert ( b1425) of Lincoln. He was Sheriff in 1474-Mayor 1480 and he died in 1487 and was buried in the Alto Choco of St Peter at Arches, leaving a son Robert born circa 1468. He was the first known Huddleston to settle in Rowston and died 1528. He is mentioned in his father’s will as ‘Robert Huddleston of Ritson’. There was a window in this Church inscribed “Orati pro bono Robti Hodleston & Emmotae consorti suae” and it is believed that this window was a memorial to this Robert and his wife. He had two sons John and Godfrey. John born 1480 and died 1530. In his will dated 19th September 1530 he left £10 to the poor people, 6 shillings (s) and 8 pence (d) to the Lady Chapel at Rowston, 3s-4d to the High Alter of the Church, ‘a strike of malt’ (Whiskey) to every poor person of Rowston. He also left money for a priest to sing for his soul and that of his father and mother. Godfrey second son of Robert (d 1528) was born about 1490 at Rowston. It would appear that the Manor of Rowston at this time was in the tenure Michael Beach under the Commandery of Temple Bruer and St. Johns’ of Jerusalem. (It would appear that the Manor of Rowston was alienated to Godfrey Huddleston as a result of his marriage to Elizabeth the daughter of Michael Beach. However it appears that Godfrey had another wife Margaret who is mentioned in his will!).
In 1544 a licence was granted to Robert Taverner to alienate the Manor of Rowston to Godfrey Huddleston. In 1554 Godfrey Huddleston presented the living of Rowston with his son Robert in 1557. Godfrey died in 1558 making several bequests in his will to Rowston Church and the poor and was succeeded by his own son Robert. Robert was born circa 1518 and in his will describes himself as “Roberte Huddlestonne of Pinchbeck in the countie of Lincoln Gent.”. His wife Alice nee Winter, his two sons Richard and John and his daughters Elizabeth, Beatrice, Emma, Jane and Millicent were all beneficiaries. His will was dated 23rd November 1564 and he died in 1564. Richard his eldest son was born in 1546. Here we come to a disappointment in the Huddleston branch of Rowston.
Col George Huddleston in his most valuable history of the family gives the following story:-“Richard was a man of doubtful strength of character while still a lad of 18 in 1564 he had succeeded his father Robert and had come in possession of all his houses land and properties at Pinchbeck, Digby, Rowston and elsewhere in the vicinity. During the next 21 years he had lost much of what he had inherited. It is probable that no Huddleston ever became so quickly and completely impoverished as he. The more we try to probe the reason the more difficult it is to discover it. One however stands out Richard was constantly going to Law. In the early part of Elizabeth I Reign numerous suits in Chancery against relations and others about minor properties. Richard lost one part of his inheritance after another and finally alienated the Manor of Rowston to an outsider.” Richard’s will was dated 24th August 1585. He bequeathed his freehold lands to Rachael his wife for life and after her death to his daughter Jane and her Heirs and for want of such heirs to his brother John for ever. Similarly he left his copyhold lands in Pinchbeck with similar conditions following.
Col Huddleston makes the following remarks: “Strange that Richard made such stipulations when dying seeing that he himself had alienated the Manor of Pinchbeck to William Ryvett of London in 1569". Richard’s brother John born 1561 went to Cambridge where he became a great scholar taking his BD in 1597 he was ordained at Lincoln in 1589. In 1591 Vicar of Sleaford, Vicar of Falmersham Bedfordshire in 1597-8. Hitchin in 1603-20 where he died in 1621. Some of the family continued to hold land at Rowston until 1678 when John the eldest son of a widow moved to Branston, But the last entry in the registers of this Parish was the burial of Jane Huddleston February 1752.
Roy, I have a number of entries from the parish register and the Bishop's transcripts of Rowston which I have not been able to confidently enter into the database. Most of them are deaths, where there is usually just the name, or, if it is of a child, the name also of the father. There are no ages, so it is usually impossible to identify which William or John etc it is. The
rest are baptisms and marriages. DEATHS William 10/16/1589 Widow H 12/13?/1569 William 10/17/1590 William 1590 Francis son of James 8/9/1594 Edward 1590 Widow H 10/1/1604 James 4/23/1608 William 10/8/1604 Rafe/Rose 1/14/1627 Elizabeth 12/21/1626 William 1627 Thomas 2/9/1627
Jane 7/18/1702 BAPTISMS William son of Thomas 6/3/1634 Thomas son of Thomas 2/9/1636 Jane d of Thomas 2/25/1636 Alice 1/30/1566 William son of Christopher 2/9/1604 MARRIAGES Thomas and Ann Groom 4/23/1607 Mallorston? and Olivia H 9/29/1618 Francis and Mary Stanley 4/23/1636
John Parker and Jane H 2/10/1562 Dollingbridge and Alice H 6/?/1562
Robert and Emily H 2/8?/1573 I am not sure that this list is complete, and there are probably Digby and Pinchbeck ones as well. I looked at the records for Dorrington, as this was part of Robert of Pinbeck's holdings, but there were no Huddlestons in either the parish register or the Bishop's transcripts. The writing in these documents is sometimes terrible, and the ink faded, so sometimes it is simply impossible to read what is there. Alwynne Mackie
The six generations counted from 1562 would just carry back to the two Sir Johns, the 5th.(Sir John Huddleston, Knight, 1330-1398 married Katherine Tempest, daughter of Sir Richard Tempest of Bowling)[FamilySearch has this listed as John Huddleston(AFN:17NN-9t2) and shows Bracewell, Yorkshire, England and spouse listed as Catherine Tempest(AFN:17NN-9V8) with marriage as 1381 of Bracewell. Catherine Tempest's birth is listed as 1360 of Bracewell and father of her is shown to be Richard Tempest with wife Maria Talbot] and 4th. Lords(Sir John Huddleston, Knight, 1306-1367 married Maud de Pennington, daughter of Sir William de Pennington)[ of Millom" ***Genealogist iv.181
[The above mentioned Sir William Huddleston, Knight who married Elizabeth Hartepoole and later Mary Bridges is brother to Richard Huddleston who married Rachel Fitzwilliam](Robert Huddleston (1425-1487) of Lincoln, Robert Huddleston(1468-1528) of Rowston, Godfrey Huddleston(1490-1558) of Rowston, Godfrey Huddleston(1490-1594), William Huddleston (Born in St Martins, Camden Town)
[In the late 13th century Geoffrey Alselin’s lands here had passed into the hands of the de Calz family, when they consisted of half a knight’s fee and an eighth part of another. These were held by the Templars through the gift of Matilda de Calz; then let by them to Philip de Rowston and Richard West by knight’s service. Five oxgangs here were then held by the Chapter of Lincoln to whom they had been given by Matilda de calz, and 2 oxgangs were held by the Prior of Catley, through the gift of Geoffrey de Calz. ‘Testa de Nevill.’ In 1275 the Prior of Haverholme held 5 oxgangs of land in this village,4 of which he let to Robert de la Grene for 20 shillings per annum and the other to Robert Clerk at a rent of 3 shillings per annum. The first lot had been given to the Prior by philip son of William de Scaupewyke, who had received it of Matilda de Calz, and she of the King ;and the last was the gift of Matilda herself some 60 years previously. In 1287 died Robert de Everingham, lord paramount of part of this village.’ Inquisition Post Mortem 15. E. I’ In 1291 died William Fitzpiers seized of lands here.’ Inquisition Post Mortem 20. E. L’. In 1321 Hugo de Tighler or Tigheler of Lincoln, paid the King a fine of 5 Marks for having acquired the manor of Rowston for life. ‘Ab. Rot. Orig. 15. E.2'. But this act led to litigation between him and Sir Adam de Everingham, of Laxton, and others; and although he recovered possession of the manor in 1327 by recognizance, was disseized of it the following year by judgement of the King’s court at Lincoln. ‘Ab.Rot. Orig. 1&2 E. 3.’ In 1550 Richard Huddleston was holding the Manor of Rowston. Nine years later Robert, son of Geoffrey Huddleston seized of the manor, leaving a son Robert, who lived at Pinchbeck and died 1564. ‘Harl. MS.6829'. He was succeeded by his son Richard who alienated the manor to William Ryvitt, citizen and mercer of London, by licence from the crown in 1569, except for a small portion in the hands of Geoffrey Huddleston, consisting of a messuage, a cottage close containing 7 acres, called Crathe Close, another called Lages or Sand Close and 16 acres of moor and marsh held by the King in chief by the service of an eleventh part of a knight’s fee. ‘Pip. Rot. 16.J.1.’ his son John Huddleston, succeeded to these in 1618.
In the North wall of this chapel is an acutely pointed recess. This appears to have been a single sedile in the 13th century, but now constitutes a cupboard. The silver flagon and paten of this church were presented to it by Anne Lady Hodgson, in 1761. She was the daughter of Anthony Thorold, eldest son of Sir William Thorold, Bart., of Cranwell and left lands for several charitable purposes, the benefit of which is still experienced by this and other parishes. When Holles visited this church the following armorial bearings remained in the windows, all of which have since disappeared, viz: in a South window of the chancel, on a cross sable 3 bulls heads couped arg. Sa, on a chevronarg3 mullets pierced gu between 3 pheons arg, a chief gu charged with cross arg; and in the aisle windows, Arg on a bend sa 3 owls of the first for Savile, with the fragment of a legend:- “Savyle and Agnetis uxoris”. “Orate pro bono statu Robti Hodleston & Emmotae consortis suae” (Robert of Rowston) Extracted from “The History of the Wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardluurn” (1872)By Trollpe.
Film Number 2078053 E 134/36&37Eliz/Mich20 Miles Sill, Geoffrey Sturdie. v. Ewen Dimsdale: Right and title to a tenement in Gaile, in the manor of Middleham (Durham). Customs of manor. [The possessions of James Dimsdale, Thos. Dimsdale, of Gaile, in Wensidale, Geoffrey Dimsdale, Thos. Metcalf, Sir Christopher Metcalf, Richard Wynn, Henry Sill, and Giles Huddlestons, are mentioned. 36 & 37 Eliz E 134/41Eliz/East13 John Pickworth, John Seymor, Richard Methringham, and others. v. John Isack, Richd. Atkinson, Edwd. Dysney, Wm. Huddleston, senior, William, junior, Edward Burbotte, and others.: Towns and fields of Cathorp and Fulbeck (Lincoln), and the wastes and commons belonging. 41 Eliz
The Church of Millom, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is situate in this township, close to the Castle. It is a venerable edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, a south aisle, and a modern porch, with a bell turret carrying two bells. The circular-headed north door has been walled up, and most of the old windows have given place to modem unecclesiastical substitutes. Near the east window is a piscina, and at the west end is an octagonal stone font, ornamented with quartre-foils, and a shield charged with the arms of Huddleston and a label. In the church is an ancient mural tablet, recording the names of several of the Huddleston family, and near to it is an altar tomb, ornamented with Gothic tracery, &c., on which recline the effigies of a knight and his lady, in alabaster, much mutilated; and also the remains of a wooden effigy of a knight "apparently of the 14th century," supposed to have been once clad in armour. In the church yard are the remains of a cross, the shaft of which bears four shields. It is grievous to see the neglected state of this ancient fabric, both internally and externally; its call for restoration seems alike unheeded by the earl of Lonsdale and the inhabitants, whose duty it is to keep it in repair. The benefice is now a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the duchy of Lancaster, but was rectorial till 1228, when it was given to Furness Abbey; one moiety of the revenue being appropriated by Walter de Grey, archbishop of York, in 1230, for the maintenance of three chaplains in his cathedral. It is valued in the king's books at £8 5s. 8d., but was certified to the governors of queen Anne's bounty at the annual value of £26 1s. 8d., and in 1835 at £189 a year. It was augmented about the year 1721, with £256 left by the Rev. John Postlethwaite, master of St. Paul's school, London, a native of this parish, and £200 obtained about the same time from queen Anne's bounty, both of which sums were expended in the purchase of an estate, called Fawcett bank, near Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, which is now let for only 40 guineas, though it once let for £70 per annum. The Rev. Henry Pickthall, B.A., is the present vicar, having been inducted in 1836. The impropriated tithes, which belonged to the earl of Lonsdale, have nearly all been redeemed by the different landowners. The vicar has the patronage of the ancient chapel of Ulpha, but Thwaites chapel is presented to by several landed proprietors. The tithes of Chapel Sucken township were commuted in 1847, for a yearly rent charge of £128. The present vicarage house, and the glebe attached to it, were bought in 1781 for £240, of which £200 was obtained from queen Anne's bounty, and the remainder raised by subscription. It is situate in the township of Millom Above, distant about 1¼ mile from the church; the old vicarage house, which stood near to the church, having been pulled down during Cromwell's rebellion, "lest the rebels should take refuge therein." The school at Millom Below was endowed with £100 by Joseph Huddleston, Esq., who died in 1700, but that endowment was lost many years ago; it now enjoys, in common with the two schools at Millom Above and Thwaites, a share of a bequest of £800, bequeathed in 1811 by Sir. Wm. Atkinson, of Bog-house, who ordered it to be invested in Government Stock, and the interest (except £2 12s.) to be applied half-yearly for the education of poor boys and girls in these three townships, at the discretion of the trustees, provided "that not more than 4s. be given for teaching any poor scholar for a quarter, nor even that if the scholars can be well and diligently taught for less." Fifty shillings of the interest is to be given annually to the customers at Upper Beck stones-mill; no family to have more than three shillings, nor less than one. In 1722, it was certified that there was a poor-stock of £30 2s. belonging to this parish, "given by several persons not known." The particulars of Buckman Brow school are given under the account of Thwaites chapelry.
Millom Castle, of which there are considerable remains, was for many centuries the seat of the Lords of the seigniority of Millom, and though its venerable ruins have been neglected, they still point out its former strength and grandeur. It was fortified and embattled in 1335, by Sir John Huddleston, in pursuance of the king's license, and was anciently surrounded by a park well stocked with deer, and adorned with noble oaks, which it is said were cut down in 1690, by Ferdinand Huddleston, for the purpose of building a ship, and supplying fuel for his iron smelting furnace. When Nicholson and Burn wrote in 1774. the park was "well stored with deer." The late earl of Lonsdale disparked it about 1802, when 207 deer were killed, and the venison was sold at from 2d. to 4d. per lb. The principal part of the castle now remaining is a large square tower, formerly embattled. The moat is visible on the south and west sides; the principal entrance seems to have been at the west front, by a lofty flight of steps. In the wall of an out house, are the arms of Huddleston, painted in proper colours, with the motto-Soli Deo honor et gloria. A small part of the castle is now occupied as a farm house. The seigniory of Millom is the most extensive lordship within the great barony of Egremont; it contains the parishes of Millom, Bootle, Corney, Waberthwaite, Whicham, and Whitbeck, extending about eighteen miles in length, and about eight miles in breadth, but is divided into several manors, which are holden immediately of Millom, as Millom is of Egremont, with some difference of service. This seigniority anciently possessed great privileges, its lords had the power of life or death, and enjoyed jura regalia in the six parishes forming their seigniority, and it was a special jurisdiction into which the sheriff of the county could not enter. To commemorate the power of its lords, a stone has been recently erected with the following inscription:- "Here the Lords of Millom exercised Jura Regalia." It was given in the reign of Henry I by William Meschines, to the father of Godard de Bovil, (alias Godardus Dapifer) who gave to Furness Abbey a carucate of land with the appurtenances, called Monk Force.
The Boyvills, or Boisvilles, afterwards took the surname of de Millom, and held this lordship in their male issue, from the reign of Henry I till the reign of Henry III, a space of 100 years, when their name and family ended in a daughter, Joan, who brought their inheritance in marriage to Sir John Huddleston, Knight, who was then lord of Anneys, near Millom, and could trace his ancestors for several generations before the Conquest. His descendants possessed Millom for above 500 years; seven of the family were knighted for their valour, and one of them (Sir William) raised a regiment of foot at his own expense, for the service of King Charles I. William Huddleston, the twenty-first of his family who held Millom, left two daughters, Elizabeth and Isabella, the former of whom was married to Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., who in 1774 sold the estate for little more than £20,000 to Sir James Lowther, Bart., whose descendant, the present earl of Lonsdale, is now lord of the manor and owner of a great part of the soil. The lordship of Millom still retains its own coroner, and that office is now held by Christopher Hobson, Esq., of Cross House, Bootle. Mannix & Whellan, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland, 1847 [The copyhold manor of Thwaite, which is united with Hunderthwaite, anciently belonged to the Fitz Alans, lords of Bedale.
Matilda, daughter and co-heir of Brian Fitz Alan, married Sir Gilbert de Stapleton. After four descents, it was conveyed, by the marriage of an heiress to Sir John Huddleston, and it remained in the possession of this family 400 years. In 1741 it was purchased by G. Bowes, Esq., of Streatlam Castle, from whom it has descended to the Earl of Strathmore. On this estate, in 1784, a leaden jar containing a large quantity of old English pennies was found by some workmen who were engaged in turning up the sward of an ancient pasture. Many of the coins were cut into halves and quarters, which were legal tenders before the issue of halfpence and farthings. Singularly enough, a dim tradition of some hidden treasure had induced several persons to dig about the place previously. Thwaite Hall was one of the seats of the Huddlestons, whose principal residence was Millom Castle. Sir William Huddleston was a zealous and devoted royalist during the Cromwellian wars; he raised a regiment of horse for the service of his sovereign, as also a regiment of foot; and the latter he maintained at his own expense. At the battle of Edgehill, he retook the royal standard from the enemy, and for this act of personal valour, he was made a knight banneret by the king on the field.]
From Huddleston Family Tables The surname Huddleston was originally spelled de Hodelston, The spelling Huddleston is now generally used, however numerous varations are found, such as Huttleston, Huddlestun, Heddleston,
Huddelson and others, most of which are recent and yet persist. On account of the variations, no attempt is made, either in the tables or
the appendix, at accuracy in reproducing the spelling of any particular
period, or as used by any group. Hereditary surnames, which were unknown in England prior to the Conquest (1066), were introduced by the Normans, and were gradually adopted by the landed gentry during the two succeeding centuries. They were not used by the commonality until later, and many of the laboring class assumed such names as late as the Sixteenth Century. The Normans took their surnames from their manors, the prefix de (of) being used, and this custom was generally followed by the English. Practically all of the old English surnames came from estates, and the prefix de, was usual during the first three hundred years, after which it was generally dropped. de Hodelston, except for the prefix, is a combination of Anglo-Saxon words. Hod was Hodr, the blind son of Odin of Teutonic mythology, and was common given name in Saxon times, upon it numerous surnames are based; el is a diminutive; ton is from the Saxon tun, meaning originally an enclosure and later an estate or manor.
MYTHAEUM: AN ARCHETYPAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MYTH GERMANIC PEOPLES Hodr = Hoder = Höd (m.) Hodr steals the sword of Mimir from the cave and kills Balder. Hoder was a blind god renowned for his tremendous strength, a youthful hero. On Hoder it is told: While a stripling, he excelled in strength of body all his foster-brethren and compeers (Saxo Grammaticus, Danish History, I). Höd is one of the gods. He is blind. He is immensely strong too, but the gods would rather there were no need to mention his name, since his handiwork will long be remembered amongst gods and men (Late Edda). Hoder assaulted the gods, on one occasion putting them to flight (Saxo Grammaticus, Danish History, I). Now Höd was standing on the outer edge of the circle of men because he was blind. Loki asked him: ‘Why aren’t you throwing darts at Baldr?’ He replied: ‘Because I can’t see where Baldr is, and, another thing, I have no weapon.’ Then Loki said: ‘You go and do as the others are doing and show Baldr honour like the other men. I will show you where he is standing: throw this twig at him.’ Höd took the mistletoe and aimed at Baldr as directed by Loki. The dart went straight through him and he fell dead to the ground. This was the greatest misfortune ever to befall gods and men (Late Edda). Hoder’s name is related to words for ‘war’. Hoder was a great judge (Saxo Grammaticus), performing the duties of an arbiter by the side of Balder. The literal meaning of the name was, therefore, of the manor of Hod. The name de Hodelston originated in Yorkshire. Some ten miles East of Leeds is yet to be found the ancient village of Huddleston. Nearby is the old manor house Huddleston Hall, now a farm house. In the neighborhood is the celebrated quarry which contributed stone for York Cathedral, also Huddleston Old Wood, formerly an extensive park. All formed in the old days Huddleston Manor, a part of the Barony of Sherburn, which under the feudal system was attached to the See of York.1 In 1109 Nigel, then the Provost of the Archbishop of York, donated two and one half carucates of land (Hillam), with part of his tithe in Hodelston, to the Convent of Selby. In 1165 Gilbert, son of Nigel, donated to the Archbishop of York, "his Lord," land in Clemen thorpe. Speaking of these charters, Farrar (1 Early Yorkshire Charters, 53) says: "The fact that Nigel gave a part of his tithe in Huddleston, combined with evidence in later times of the tenure by the Huddleston family of a knight's fee in Huddleston, Wetwang and other places, prove that Nigel was ancestor of that family." Also, p. 52: "Nigel, the Provost, was undoubtedly the ancestor of the family of Huddleston." The name de Hodelston was assumed by Nigel or by his son Gilbert, it is not clear which, and thenceforth it was the family surname. It seems certain that there are several American families of Huddlestons descended from different immigrants.
History of Parliament Trust Publication, A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, Author, H. C. Maxwell Lyte (editor), Year published 1915 Pages 470-48
'Deeds: C.7401 - C.7500', A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6 (1915), pp. 470-483. [York, W.R.] C. 7454. Quitclaim by William de Skargyle to Sir Henry de Lasci, earl of Lincoln, of his right in a wood in Stapeltone, adjoining a wood of the earl, called 'Rughstorth,' and in 20a. land in Stapelton. Witnesses:—Sir Miles de Stapelton, Sir William de Stopham, Sir Adam de Hodlestone, and Sir John de Nevile, knights, Thomas de Fishbourn, Robert de Heppehale, and Adam de Neirforde. Seal of arms in white wax, damaged. Oxford. C. 7457. Grant by John de Bolmere to Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, of his mill of Middelingtone. Witnesses:—Sir Roger de Trompington, Sir William le Vavasur, Sir John de Hodleston, Sir William de Stopham, Sir Thomas de Breute, Sir Roger del Hulle, and Sir Henry de Boelys, knights, John de Cotesford, and Richard de Kaune. 26 November, 14 Edward I. French. Endorsed.—Midlington in comitatu Oxon'.
The earliest Virginian was Captain John of "James Citie" (1622), but of his descendants no record has been produced.1 Records of what appear to be separate families in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina at the time of the Revolution are to be found.2 Tracing American genealogy is difficult indeed. The early Colonists were chiefly of humble station, and their departure from the old world and arrival in the new were not events of great moment. The century following the settlement of Jamestown (1607) was a time of rebellion and disorder in England. The defeated Royalists were despoiled by the Parliamentarians. The partisans of the latter were persecuted upon the Restoration. Under each regime many took secret flight to the new world, and there is record neither of their departure nor of their arrival. Such ship lists and immigrant records as are available are fragmentary and show only a fraction of those who came. The Colonists came to a wide, new country, where the struggle for existence was so keen that there was little time for anything else. The settlements were more or less transient, and 1 Hotten's List 270, 273; Bradford's Hist. of Plymouth, 150; Young's Chronicles, 293; Tyler's Quarterly (1920) 218. 2 U. S. Census 1790. 1 The Coat of Arms, of the Yorkshire family was Gules a fret argent. This is identical with that of the Milliom group and of the Newcastle family. St.George Vis. 1615; 2 Nicholson's Westmoreland & Cumberland 13; 9 The Genealogist N. S. 17. The arms of Ralph of Lincolinshire, as it appears in St. Mary's in Wickford, is Gules a fret six piece argent. 1 Lincoln Record Soc. 55. The arms of the Rowston and Pinchbeck families is Gules a fretty argent. Madison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees 519 (Harleian MSS. 1550) HUDDLESTON FAMILY TABLES COMPLIED BY GEORGE HUDDLESTON (b182) BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 1933 Printed In The United States Of America At The Rumford Press, Concord, N. H. Permission granted by George Huddleston's daughter Mrs. Nancy Huddleston Packer COPYRIGHTED FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY
(Touring Elmet) Nigel de Huddleston is the first recorded member of the family to have the Huddleston surname which was recorded when he became a monk at the nearby Selby Abbey in 1110 AD, and his son Gilbert, continued to use it. The northern family that took this name “de Huddleston” appear to have had close connections with the Norman barons and Bishops of Bayeux, probably indicating that they were themselves coming from the same region of Normandy. The names “Nigel” and “Gilbert” are of Norman origin. Yet the Saxon family already mentioned seem to have become tenants of deLaci (deLacy) and so it could be that they adopted Norman names in order to fit in with their new lords. Both Gilbert, and a Richard, now also named ‘de Huddleston‘, owned property at Clementhorpe (outside York) in 1175. They also had other local lands in Hillam , in Wetwang and in Poppleton . Another Richard de Huddleston who lived from around 1198 to 1250 is said to have married Alicia, the daughter of one William, son of Henry, of Garthorpe. The Huddlestons are certainly listed as having had lands in Garthorpe in or around 1223 and in 1296 one Richard de Huddleston, by license from Dean Sewal de Bovill, had leave to attach a chapel to his manor house. "To hear divine service, this year in my chapel, kept in my court of Hodelston, yet so that on chief feast days I am to repair to the mother church of Sherburn." Richard was the last of the male line and his successor was John de Meaux or Melsa, who had married Beatrix the daughter of Richard, did homage to the Archbishop of York around 1298, for lands in Huddleston, Go Thorpe (or) Garthorpe and Youlthorpe, (the latter place being to the East of York) which presumably came with the marriage of Richard and Alicia and which John de Meaux had inherited with Beatrix. This Sir Richard, oh yes, he had a knighthood, was the father of Richard , Beatrix (de Meaux) who died around 1287, and a son John, who lived from 1222 to 1252 (only thirty years), who married Joan de Boyville, of Millom in Cumberland., and probably had the other son Robert too. The younger Sir Richard died childless in around 1285, when the estates went to Beatrix and her husband. John de Hudleston the second of Millom (note the single ‘d’) tried to claim Huddleston in 1287 from John de Melsa or de Meaux (after the death of Beatrix) but he was unsuccessful, and by 1304 the estates had passed on to the Grenefields and to other families.
One of these local families that was directly connected with Huddleston Hall were the Hungates. It is one of this clan who is credited with digging up the scattered bones of the Towton Battlefield dead and reburying them in great pits within Saxton village church a generation or so after the battle. Another, as mentioned at the beginning of this article, was directly responsible for the school in Sherburn-in-Elmet. Confused about this small house‘s historical connections? Good, so am I! But this is the complicated way in which many houses and families lived and endured their way through the mediaeval period. While Huddleston passed from the ownership of the Huddleston family the said family did not die out. Many miles to the north west, in Cumbria, is the coastal town of Millom, ( note John de Hudleston mentioned above ).
There was once an imposing castle in the town and in the 19th century the records tell us, “This castle was built by Godard de Boyvill who first possessed the manor of Millom. His posterity Arthur, surnamed de Millom, Henry, William and Adam his brother, successively enjoyed it after him. But the last, leaving only one daughter, Joan, who was in the reign of Henry III married to John Huddleston, it was then transferred to that family, in which it has remained till the present time.” All contents © copyright John Davey 2002. All rights reserved. ]
Film number 449742 Page Number 80 Reference 13732(Title Computer printout of Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England Stmnt.Resp. extracted for the controlled extraction program and published by the Genealogical Dept. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Notes Batch nos. 00516-1, 2, 3. Extracted from microfilm copies of parish registers and parish register transcripts on fil nos. 0093719 it. 1, 0844820 it. 3-4 or book no. 942.72 K29pr v. 100, 104. Subjects England, Lancashire, Dalton-in-Furness-Church records-Indexes Format Books/Monographs (On Film) Language English Publication Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1993-1994 Physical 2 microfiches. Film Notes Note-Location [Film] Births and christenings, A thru Z 1565-1691-FHL BRITISH Fiche [ 6909425 ] Marriages, A thru Z, 1565-1691-FHL BRITISH Fiche [6909426] Another filming, 1966-1973. on 3 microfilm reels ; 16 mm. Christenings 1565-1620-FHL BRITISH Film [455592 Item 5] Christenings 1621-1657-FHL BRITISH Film [ 820765 Item 2 ] Christenings 1658-1691-FHL BRITISH Film [541788 Item 15 ] © 2000 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.)(Title Computer printout of Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England Stmnt.Resp. extracted for the controlled extraction program and published by the Genealogical Dept. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Notes Batch nos. 00516-1, 2, 3. Extracted from microfilm copies of parish registers and parish register transcripts on fil nos. 0093719 it. 1, 0844820 it. 3-4 or book no. 942.72 K29pr v. 100, 104. Subjects England, Lancashire, Dalton-in-Furness-Church records-Indexes Format Books/Monographs (On Film) Language English Publication Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1993-1994 Physical 2 microfiches. Film Notes Note-Location [Film] Births and christenings, A thru Z 1565-1691-FHL BRITISH Fiche [ 6909425 ] Marriages, A thru Z, 1565-1691-FHL BRITISH Fiche [ 6909426 ] Another filming, 1966-1973. on 3 microfilm reels ; 16 mm. Christenings 1565-1620-FHL BRITISH Film [ 455592 Item 5 ] Christenings 1621-1657-FHL BRITISH Film [ 820765 Item 2 ]
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Corporation Of London FILE-Indenture between Richard Huddleston, esq., Margery his wife, daughter of William Smyth knt., deceased, and Walter Smyth esq., and Dame Mary, his wife, formerly wife of the said William Smith, and Humphrey Smith, son of the said William and Mary, being an agreement concerning the settlement of the manor of Elford, with lands in Elford, Okeley, Hasloore, Tamworth, co. Staffs, in dispute between the said parties.- ref. MS 3878/60-date: 8 March 1529/30 FILE-Bond from Walter Smyth of Elford co. Staff., esq., and Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth co. War., es., to Richard Huddleston esq., to secure performance of covenants.-ref. MS 3878/61-date: 8 March 1529/30 FILE-Grant by Richd. Poley, Esq. of Boxted, son & heir of late Jn. Poley, Esq. of Wormingford, Essex, to his son Richd. Poley, junr., Jn. Cotton, Jn. Huddleston, Edwd. Gryffyn, Francis Clopton, sent., Robt. Rokewood, Nich. Rokewood, Wm. Clopton of Liston, Ed. Felton, Richd. Morgan, Esqs., Richd. Turke, citizen & fishmonger of London, Jn. Warley, citizen & mercer of London, Giles Fyrmyn, Jn. Goldyng, senr., clothier, of Glemsford, & Thos. Payn, yeomen of Boxted.-ref. HA 519/78/15-date: 10 June 1542 FILE-Conveyance by Jn. Cotton, Jn. Huddleston, Edwd. Gryffyn, Francis Clopton, senr., Robt. Rokewood, Nich. Rokewood, Wm. Clopton, of Liston, Ed. Felton, Richd. Morgan, Esqs., Richd. Turke, citizen & fishmonger of London, Jn. Warlye, citizen & mercer of London, Richd. Poley, junr., Giles Fyrmyn, Jn. Golding, senr. of Glemsford, clothier, & Thos. Payn, yeoman, of Boxted, to Richd. Poley, sen., of Boxted & wife Anne.-ref. HA 519/74/16-date: 12 June 1542 FILE-Accounts of Richard Huddleston, 'gentleman' of the horse, for years ending 24 March 1685/6, 17 Feb 1686/7, 2 March 1688/9, 25 March 1690 and period ending 31 Dec 1690-ref. PHA/176-180-date: 1686-1690 FILE-Disbursements made by Richard Huddleston.-ref. PHA/227, 228-date: 1686, 1687/8 FILE-Private Act, 18 Elizabeth I, c. 13-ref. HL/PO/PB/1/1575/18Eliz1n30-date: 1575 |_[from Scope and Content] An Act for the Confirmation of an Arbitrament to be made by certain Persons, touching a Controversy between Richard Huddleston, Esquire, and Dame Isabell Weyman his Wife on the one Part, and Francis Weyman, Gentleman, on the other Part. FILE-BARGAIN AND SALE WITH FEOFFMENT-ref. 731/2/1881-date: 25 Mar 1679 |_ [from Scope and Content] Richard Bostock and Mary his wife, Nathaniel Bostocky and Elizabeth his wife, James and Anthony Bostock, Henry Huddleston and Mary his wife, John Fitz Herbert, and Andrew Crosse, to George Chambre. FILE-BUNDLE 1-ref. QSJ/8/1-date: 1673 item: Sacrament Certificates-ref. QSJ/8/1/201-date: 20 Jul 1673 |_ [from Scope and Content] Ulverston. George Inman, Vicar of Urswicke "and chiefe Scole Master of the Free Scole of Litle Urswicke." Minister. John Ambrose, B.D., Churchwarden Issac Huddleston. Witnesses Henry Nicholson of Coulton, clerk, and Hugh Dobson, parish clerk of Ulverston. FILE-Bargain and sale-ref. HA 507/2/88-date: 20 Aug 1553 |_ [from Scope and Content] Manor of South Rauceby and land in North Rauceby Sir John Huddleston of Sawston (Cambridgeshire)-Robert Jay of Welling FILE [no title]-ref. IOR/F/4/1425 [n.d.] FILE-Feoffment.-ref. 148/2/902-date: 1591 |_ [from Scope and Content] Consideration: 2. fitted out 1. & paid his debt to William Hylyard of City of York, Esq. (£170) & John Watson of York £400) + £300 to William & Robert Hunigate of Huddleston, York. FILE [no title]-ref. ZMI/B2/IV/3-date: 1654 March 19 |_ [from Scope and Content] (1) William Middleton of Trewick, Northumberland, esq. (2) Robert Middleton of Belsay, Northumberland, esq. (3) John Brownell of the City of London, gent. Articles of agreement concerning Trewick and Whalton with a schedule of money due to various creditors of (1). Signed, John Brownell. Seal in red wax, on a tag Endorsed: witnessed, William Huddleston, Tho. Stotesberdy, Tho. Readhead. FILE [no title]-ref. 157 DD/P/21/20-date: 19 Jan, 1669/70 |_ [from Scope and Content] Lease: for 21 years: at £20 annual rent for 20 years, and a peppercorn rent for the 21st year: James Cardrow (as DD/P/21/19) to Thomas Harrison and John Pattinson, both of Newark, gents:--the Thorough Toll alias the Day Toll or Passage Toll; with toll of carts and carriages bringing iron ware to merchandise in Newark --: Witn. Mathew Jenison, Jo. Clarke, William Wright, Richard Huddleston, Robert Buckinham, George Hawson, John Bellamee (servant of George Carleton scrivener). © 2002 Public Record Office
Veleville's participation in the jousts celebrating Henry VIII's coronation on 24 June 1509 might suggest that his life at Court was to continue unaffected by the young king's accession (43), but about this time developments occurred which marked a fundamental change in his career. The earliest evidence for this is provided by royal letters patent dated 3 July 1509 and issued by the chancery of the principality of north Wales at Caernarfon. Taking account of the time required to send a royal warrant authorising their issue from the Court to Caernarfon (44), it seems probable that the decision to grant the letters patent was taken about the middle of June 1509, less than two months after Henry VIII's accession. The letters patent recorded the grant to Veleville, during pleasure, of the offices of constable of Beaumaris castle and captain of Beaumaris castle and town, with all fees, rewards and profits as amply as Sir William Stanley, Sir Robert Chamberlain or any other had received them (45). Full payment of all sums due under this grant was ensured by a warrant issued at Greenwich on 29 October 1509 instructing the chamberlain of north Wales to pay Veleville the first half- yearly instalment due at Michaelmas 1509 of his annual fee of £40 as constable, his wages of 8d. a day as captain, and the wages of twenty-four soldiers at 4d. a day, these being the rates allowed to Stanley as shown in the chamberlain's account for 4 Henry VII (1488).
On 6 December 1509, a further warrant was issued at Greenwich ordering the chamberlain to pay Velville wages for himself and his soldiers at the rate allowed to Sir William Hastings or Sir Richard Huddlestone (46), and Veleville consequently received a half-year's instalment of the wages of a further twenty-four soldiers at 4d. a day and of a priest at £3 1s. 8d., as allowed to William Hastings, the lord chamberlain, in 5 Edward IV (1465). Veleville's total emoluments by virtue of these grants amounted to £350 5s. 0d. a year, comprising £40 for his fee as constable, £12 3s. 4d. for his wages as captain, and £298 1s. 8d. for the wages of his forty-eight soldiers and priest. Besides these grants relating to his offices in Beaumaris, royal letters patent under the great seal were issued on 1 August 1509 making Veleville a fresh grant, during pleasure, of the annuity of £20 first granted in 1493 (47), while the life annuity of forty marks (£26 13s. 4d.) granted in 1496 continued to be paid (48). The significance of these grants will be discussed after Veleville's later career has been outlined. 46. William Hastings (executed 1483), created Lord Hastings in 1461, was appointed constable of Beaumaris castle on 4 March 146l and to the same office for life on l2 August 1469 (Breese, op. cit., p. l22; Cal. Patent Rolls, 1467-1477, p. l65). Sir Richard Huddlestone (d. c. 1485) was appointed constable of Beaumaris castle, for life, on 28 November 1483 (Breese, op. cit., p. 122; Cal. Patent Rolls, 1476-1485, p. 369).
Survey Report No. 3996 f.218. 5 October 1621 10. In the Bona Nova from Virginia, John Hudleston being its Master, Hue Hopkins imported 20 lbs of pudding tobacco valued at L(pounds), the duty in each case being 10s. ff.75ro-75vo. 22 June 1620. In June 1619 Mesers John Farrer and Thomas Sheppard loaded on board the "Garland";, then lying at anchor in the Thames, "divers goods, merchandise, victualls provision, and passengers";, to be carried to the Somers Islands and James Town, Virginia. The ship, of which William Wye was Master, arrived off Garners Head in the Somers Island on 30 October, but, as a result of considerable damage caused through a heavy storm, the "Garland"; was forced to stay at the Islands in order for repairs to be made. One condition stipulated by the Governor of the Islands-Captain Butler-before he would allow repair work to begin, was that Wye should return immediately afterwards to England, carrying in his ship the tobacco output of these Islands: this Wye agreed to, as being the only possible way of refitting the "Garland".
ff.26ro-28ro. 25 April 1620. Evidence of Thomas Hopkins of Farrer and Sheppard loaded the "Garland"; prior to its sailing to the Somers Islands and James Town. On its arrival at the Somers Islands, the crew of the "Garland" of which William Wye was Master were unable to unload their cargo and passengers for lack of sufficient boats. Whilst at anchor there (this delay had resulted in an unnecessary stay of 20 days), the "Garland" was crippled by a great storm. Wye, in an effort to save ship and men, threw the main mast overboard. With his ship completely unable to continue refitting her: this was only obtained on promise that Wye would not pursue his journey to Virginia but would first return to England with the tobacco produce of those Islands. Provisions and fittings were then found, some being transferred from the magazine ship "Warwick" which had also foundered in the storm. ff34ro-36ro 10 May 1620. Alexander Farr of St Olaves in the parish of Southwark, aged about 24, was ship's carpenter on the "Garland". He was on board when the storm actually broke. A carpenter, cooper, and three other members of the crew perished, and many
others were sick. Wye, according to him, bartered, and sold a number of stockings whilst at Somers Islands, although how many, and at what price, he did not know. The remainder of his statement is no different from those of other witnesses.(Somers Island is now Bermuda Island) Like evidence given by John Huddleston, sailor aged 33. Survey Report No. GL.5 References Crick and Alman Guide, pp.64-65. Vol.V No.65 Depositions in the Court of Common Pleas, 17 November 1621. The depositions are made by John Mennys, gent., of Sandwich, Kent; John Huddleston, gent., of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, master of the Bona Nova; William Jackson of Ratcliffe, gunner of the Bona Nova; John Ward of Ratcliffe, mariner; and George Hooper of Ratcliffe; mariner. The depositions state the deponents were in Virginia during the period January-June, and that they had learned of the death of Mr. William Tracy of Berkeley, Shirley Hundred, Virginia, apparently during or earlier than January. One deposition refers to a Captain Powell, who had married William Tracy's daughter.
CCLXIX. Henry Marten. Decree in Case of the Virginia Company Against Wye, Absolving Wye December 9, 1622 Admiralty Court, Instance and Prize, Libels 81, no. 216. Document in Public Records Office, London. List of Records, No. 379
William Ewens. Covenant with the Company for Virginia. July 1621. To all to whome these presents shall come greetinge Knowe yee that I Wm Ewens Mr of the good Ship the George of 150 tun burden nowe resident in the Riuer of Thames for and in consideracon of the Sume of 480li of good and lawfull money of England to mee in hand paide and deliuered by the Treasurer and Companie of Aduenturors and Planters of the Cittie of London for the first Colonie in Virginia before the insealinge and deliuery hereof and for and in consideracon of certaine couenants between them and mee agreed I the said Wm Ewens do promise and couenant in manner and forme followinge Imprimis that the good Shipp the George before her departuer out of River of Thames shalbe stronge and staunch and in all things well fitted and prouided aswell with furniture belonging to a Shippe as also Marriners and Sea men fitt and sufficient for the safe and good pformance of the voyage now intended and couenanted Item I doe couenant and promise with the first opportunity of wynde and weather to sett sayle wth the first Shippe for the Porte of the Cowes neare the Ile of Wight and there to receaue and take into the said Shippe such Passengrs and goods as the said Treasuror and Company shall direct and appointe and no other and I do further couenante and promise after the Passengers and goods shalbe receaued into the said Shippe to departe from thence the directest course for the Porte of James Citty in James Riuer in the Kingdome of Virginia and during the time of the said voyage to giue and make such allowance of victuall to the Passengers as by the Shedull herevnto affixed is specified. And I doe promise and couenant to deliuer the said Passengers and goods (mortallity and dangers of the Seas onely excepted) safe and well condiconed at James Cittie in Virginia accordinge as the said Treasuror and |Company shall direct and appointe. And I do further promise and couenant to take and receaue into the said Shippe the George such Tobacco as the Governor and officers residinge in Virginia shall lade aboord here duringe the time that the said Shippe shall abide in Virginia for the Account of the said Treasuror and Company here in England & the said Tobacco and their goods to deliuer and consigne safe and well condiconed (the danger of the Seas excepted) to such ffactors in England or Holland or Ireland and at such Ports as the said Treasuror and Companie shall appointe and ordaine. And to the pformance of all and singular the Couenants aboue recited to be well and truly holden kept and pformed in all things by mee I the said Wm Ewens binde my self my executors and Administrators and goods and namely the Shippe aforesaid wth the fraight tackle boale and apparell of the same vnto the saide Treasuror and Companie and their Successors in the Sume or penaltie of 1000li of lawfull money of England well and truly to be paide by these presents : In Wittnesse whereof I haue herevnto sett my hand and Seale this [blank] day of July 1621 And in the yeares of the raigne of or soueraigne Lord James by the grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland Defendor of the faith that is to say of England ffrance and Ireland the 19th and of Scotland the fower and fiftith. Source: Additional Manuscripts, 14285, ff.78a-79a. British Museum.
21 July 1626-King Privy Council Action: An order was directed to the Governor of Virginia to assess the value of the Estate of Captain Nathaniel Powell, decd., and to send value of it in tobacco to England, a petition having been made by Thomas Powell, brother and admistrator of said Powell, decd, stating that in consideration of the poverty of said Powell's brothers and sisters, that proceeds of the said Captain's Estate should be paid unto them. The Virginia Company had certified that one William Powell, no way kin to the decedent, had taken out Letters Of Administration of the said Captain's Estate and had seized the goods of Captain John Huddleston in Virginia. The said William Powell then died, and Nathaniel Powell's Estate came into the hands of Mr. [Edward] Blaney who married William Powell's widow. Thomas Powell, eldest brother of the said Nathaniel Powell, dced had taken out Letters Of Administration for the decedent in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. [(Acts of the Privy Council of England (1613-1631), as cited by Coldham, 1:72
Captain John Huddleston had his goods seized July 21 1626 but is still alive. We learn later that Captain William Powell and Captain John Huddleston were close neighbors and even traded land acreage. Captain Matthewes and Captain Ewens were also Captain John Huddleston's neighbors. One can also notice in Virginia that a lot of Captains get into politics. It is amazing how many of them made Governors. Captain John Huddleston seems more involved with fishing and warning people about Indian massacres. Richard Cocke was a prominent man in Henrico County. He was involved in the maritime trade and may have been the purser of the ship Thomas and John, which was in Virginia waters in 1627. He got patents for considerable land, including the estates of “Bremo” and “Malvern Hill” and was the ancestor of all Cocke relations. Copyright © 2001-2002, John W. Pritchett. All rights reserved. GOV. WEST AND COUNCIL TO SIR ROBT. HEATH James City, Feby. 27, 1627/8. Governor Francis West and the Council of Virginia to Sir Robert Heath, the King's attorney General. On receipt of his Majs letter and other instructions from himself (see Novr., 1627), They immediately caused divers ships to be stayed that were ready to depart, and altho' they could not, the tobacco being already put aboard, try the goodness of the same, or contract for it on his Majs behalf, they had delivered to them invoices of the several quantities laden aboard & they have taken security for landing the same at the port of London. We later learn Captain John Huddleston was the master of the Thomas and John from May 13 1628 to August 11 1628. We later learn to of William Huddleston, servant to Mr. Canhow in Jamestown.
From William Weldon's letter to Sir Edwin Sandys concerning his passage from London, England we learn that the Bona Noua had finally docked in James Citty after its long trip. In the book, Cavaliers and Pioneers 1623-1666 abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, Captain John Huddleston and William Huddleston both show up in the same book. James City County took its name from James City, the original name of Jamestown. Both were named in honor of James I of England (1566-1625), "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one." He defended himself on the ground that his words were his own, but his actions were his ministers'.
It seems both the father, Captain John Huddleston and son William Huddleston were connected to the West family. Two months before William Huddleston was in court there was a Richard West in court, too. 13th of Oct., 1640. The Court hath ordered that Wm Wootton and John Bradye as principall actors and contrivers in a most dangerous conspiracy by attempting to run out of the country and Inticing divers others to be actors in the said conspiracy to be whipt from the gallows to the Court door and that the said Bradye shall be Branded with an Iron in the shoulder, and Wotton in the forehead each of them to serve the Colony seven years, the service due from the [13] said Wotton to the said Mr Sanderson being first performed, each of them to work in Irons during the time of the said censure for the rest of these that are freemen (viz) John Tomkinson and Ricr West for consenting and concealing the said plott that they shall be whipt and serve the colony two years and those that are servants (viz) John Winchester, Wm Drummer Robt Rouse and Robt Mosely to be whipt only as also Margarett Beard, and that the masters of the said servants shall pay the fees due from the servants to the sheriffs and the servants shall make good the same, at the Expiration of their time by a years service apiece to their said masters and that none of them shall be released from their Irons without order from this Board. H[enry] R[ead] McIlwaine (1864-1934), ed, Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676, with Notes and Excerpts from Original Council and General Court Records, into 1683, Now Lost (Richmond : The Colonial Press, Everett Waddy Co., 1924). Page [*194]
To understand this West family connection is to partial trace the West family. 1596 Lord Delaware West married Cecelia SHIRLEY in England (daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley the elder). He became the first colonial Governor of Virginia. 1613 Shirley Plantation granted to Lord Delaware West 1618 Lord Delaware West died on the return voyage to England on the ship "Neptune" (from New England History and Genealogy. Reg. Vol. XXX page___. 1655 Shirley Plantation passed to the Hill family (Remember a Thomas Shirley is passenger aboard the Bona Noua and the 1626 court mentioning Allice Boyse, another passenger on the Bona Noua, at the Shirley Plantation.) brother, Francis West 1586 emigrated to Virginia in 1608, elected to the Council 1609 and was appointed Governor of Virginia in 1627. Married 1st Margaret___, 2nd Temperance (Flowerdew) Yeardley, 3rd Jane Davye. No known descendants JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA - The Town Site and Its Story by Charles E. Hatch, Jr. It was obvious to everyone that there were too many men for all to remain at Jamestown. John Martin was sent to attempt a settlement at Nansemond, on the south side of the James below Jamestown, while Capt. Francis West, brother of Lord Delaware, was sent to settle at the falls of the James. Returning to Jamestown after an inspection tour at the falls, Captain Smith was injured by burning gunpowder and incapacitated. The implication in the documents of the period is that Ratcliffe, Archer, and Martin used this opportunity to depose him and to compel him to return to England to face their charges against him. These three men, failing to agree on a replacement from their own number, persuaded George Percy to accept the position of president. Percy was in command during the terrible winter that followed. Another brother of Lord Delaware West and brother to Francis West-John West 1590, B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, emigrated to Virginia in the Bonny Bess in 1618. Patented land on York River on the site of the present town of West Point. He was member of the Council, and House of Burgesses, justice of York Co. and Governor of VA 1635-37. His son, Col. John West, born about 1632, served as a Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia, 1652-73, loyal to Governor Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion, member House of Burgesses. etc. Lt. Col. Nathaniel West 1592, emigrated to VA probably 1618. Died 1623/4. Married 1st Frances Greville, (she m. 2nd Abraham Peirsey, 3rd Capt Samuel Mathews). Son: Nathaniel West 1622, died 1670/1, buried Warton, Lancaster Co. VA. He married Elizabeth (Preston) Sagar. No descendants.
Captain Samuel Matthews and Captain John Huddleston were neighbors and Captain Samuel Matthews was at the 1626 court with Captain John Huddleston in regards to Allice Boyse. Capt George Yardley, son of Ralph Yardley, merchant tailor of London and Governor of Virginia in 1619, was a soldier in the Low Countries (Holland). He went to Virginia with Gates in 1609. Capt George Yardley was married to Temperance WEST. (from Ken Scislaw). Captain George Yeardley is mentioned in Captain John Huddleston's commission of the Bona Noua which makes him master of it and Captain George Yeardley graunted Captain John Huddleston his land in Poquoson also called New Poquoson which showed Captain John Huddleston was still alive in 1635 in Virginia. Needless to say, had some powerful friends in the West family that went way back to London. Without being in politics in any known way, Captain John Huddleston had many friends. (Remember Captain John Huddleston's letter-"To my friends".) Sir Thomas West was the first Lord Governor and Captain General of Virginia 1610. He proceeded that year with one hundred and fifty skilled workers and craftsman and saved the colony from abandonment by the disheartened settlers. He returned to England in 1611 and died in Nova Scotia June 17, 1618 on a return voyage to America. Delaware Bay and the State of Delaware named after him. He married Cecily Sherley, daughter of Sir Thomas Sherley the elder of Wiston, Sussex Co. England. They had 6 children. His daughter Penelope West m. Herbert Pelham, Esq. (the younger) of Hastings, Sussex Co. England. Some of the children were: (1). Herbert, who married Jemima Waldegrave. of Essex Co. England. One of their children is recorded in St. Margaret's Parish in Westminister in 1629. As early as 1629, Herbert Pelham agreed to invest in the Winthrop project of colonization with his father-in-law, and invested some $3,000 pounds in the venture. The two families embarked from Gravesend in 1639/40. His wife died during the crossing. He remarried, became Treasurer of Harvard College in 1643, Commissioner of the United Colonies in 1645, and was active with the Society for Promoting the Gospel in New England. He returned to England and died in 1674. He is buried at Bures, Essex Co. (2). William Pelham sailed with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, resided Sudbury Massachusetts until 1647, died in England 1667. (3). John Pelham, emigrated to New England 1635. (4). Penelope Pelham migrated in 1635 age 16 years and died 1702. Married Richard Bellingham, Gent., Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
John4 Chamberlain (Henry3 Chamberlin, [Unknown]2, Henry1) was born Bef. 15 Nov 1633 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, and died Apr 1666 in Newport, RI. He married (1) Anne Brown 19 May 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, daughter of William Brown. She was born 07 Apr 1633 in England, and died in Prob. Boston, MA. He married (2) Catherine Chatham Abt. 1663. Notes for John Chamberlain: John Chamberlin was a currier, who worked with leather and garments. He was admitted as an inhabitant of Boston, July 28, 1651, and purchased a house from William Courser of Boston on Hanover St. on Oct . 14, 1652. He became a Quaker and by September 1661 had been whipped nine times, "three times through three towns." He was present at the execution of Marmaduke Stevenson and William Robinson, and the reprieve of Mary Dyer, on Boston Common, Oct. 27, 1659, and was drawn to visit the Quakers in prison. He became a Quaker, and before Sept. 9, 1661, had been nine times whipped, "three times through three towns." He was imprisoned in Boston where his father and brother Henry petitioned the General court for a remittance of his "sentence of banishment upon Payne of death. "The Deputies ordered him removed to Castle Island, there to provide himself lodging, housinge, vitualls, etc. at his own charge." That petition was dated 7 June 1661. About 1663 he moved to Newport, RI , where he died April 1666. Notes for Anne Brown: Her father was of Boston, MA. "She was not of the same principle altogether with (her husband)." Deputy Governor Bellingham tried to get her to deny her husband, unsuccessfully. Notes for Catherine Chatham: Catherine married 2nd Valentine Huddleston. "A Quakeress, who came from London to Boston where she "appeared cloathed with sackcloth." She was put in prison, whipped at Dedham, and driven into the wilderness. Imprisoned again, and ordered to pay a fine, "she was taken to wife by John Chamberlaine and so became an inhabitant of Boston." John Savage's book and information from the Chamberlain family.
For a nonrelated person to get the goods even though a will is not present would mean that all adults related are dead. Letters of Administration After the death of a person, their will and an inventory of their possessions had to be proved by the Governor and Assistants at the next Court after their death, provided it was not in the same month that they died. Letters of administration would then be granted to the executor so that the estate could settled. If someone did not make a will, they died intestate, and after an inventory of their possessions had been taken, the Court gave legal authority to someone, usually the wife, husband or close relative, through letters of administration, to settle the estate (PCR 11: 195).
From page 8 of "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography" LVX No. 4 (Oct. 1957) we find that in May 13 1628 that John Huddleston is noted as being the master of the Thomas and John. The source says this same man of Survey 3 is also found on Survey 4 and 5. On Survey 4 he is listed as John Hurleston with date of May 15 1628. On Survey 5 he is listed as John Hurlston with date of May 17 1628. Public Record Office Class E. 190/32/8 shows the "Thomas & John" being in Virginia and being loaded from 13 May 1628 to 11 Aug 1628 and that Captain John Huddleston was its master.
Volume III Cavaliers & Pioneers Page 290 Robert Hughes, 400 acs. (N.L.) Henrico Co., on S. side of James River; crossing Muddy Creek; near Huddlecey's fence; 17 Aug 1725, p. 285. 40 shill
And we know he was married: Volume II Cavaliers & Pioneers Page 116 Robert Parker, 150 acs., in Rappahannock; bet. Mill Cr. & the River; adj John Smith; Nicholas Cattlett; Henry Munkester or Tho. Munday, & c; 14 Oct. 1672, page 424. Trans. of 3 pers; Roger Smith; James Jones, Widdoe Huderson.
1607-1628 Timeline 1607, April Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, President of the Council. 1607, Sept. 10. Captain John Ratcliffe, President of the Council. 1608, Sept. 7. Captain John Smith, President of the Council. (1609, May 23. Thomas West, Lord de la War, or Delaware, appointed "Governor and Captain General;" but did not reach Virginia until June 10, 1610.) Born in England, 1577; died at sea June 7, 1618 1609 Captain George Percy, President of the Council. Born in England, September 4, 1586; died in England, March, 1632. 1610, June 10. Thomas West, Lord Delaware, Governor. 1611, Mar. 28. Captain George Percy, Deputy Governor. 1611 (, May 19. Sir Thomas Dale, "High Marshall," and Deputy Governor. 1611, Aug. Sir Thomas Gates, Acting Governor. 1612, Mar. Sir Thomas Dale, Acting Governor. 1616, April Captain George Yeardley, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor. Born in England; died in Virginia, November, 1627. 1617, April 9. Captain Samuel Argall, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor. Born in England, 1572; died in England, 1639. 1619, April 9. (Captain Argall and Sarah (MICHAEL) YEARDLEY, g. dau. of Colonel Argall YEARDLEY, and gr. g. dau. of Sir George and Lady Temperance (WEST) YEARDLEY; m. (secondly) Josepha Maria GODWIN. Colonial families of the United States of America: Volume 1) Captain Nathaniel Powell (On page 75 of Volume III of 'Records of the Virginia Company' on October 20, 1617 Captain Argall appoints William Powell as Captain of his guards in Jamestown, Virginia), Senior Councillor, Acting Governor. Born in England; killed by the Indians, March 22, 1622. 1619, April 19. Sir George Yeardley, who had been knighted and appointed Governor and Captain General, November 18, 1618, arrived in the Colony. 1621, Nov. 18. Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor. Born in England, 1588; died in England August, 1644. 1626 Sir George Yeardley, Lieutenant Governor. 1626, April 19. Sir George Yeardley, Governor (Commission dated April 19) 1627, Nov. 14. Captain Francis West elected Governor by the Council. 1628 (TEMPERANCE FLOWERDEW in Virginia, 1608; m. 1618, Sir George YEARDLEY; after his death, 1627; she m. Francis WEST, son of Lord DE LA WARR, who succeeded her husband as Governor of Virginia, 1627; she m. Francis WEST, 1628, d. 1629. "Virginia Magazine," Vol. 25, No. 2, April, 1917. Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 6), Mar. 5. Dr. John Pott elected Governor by the Council. Born in England; probably died in Virginia.
Women were needed in the colony to make it more stable. Many men were coming to Virginia and making a fortune and then going back to England. If they had wives and children in the colony they would be less likely to leave. The first women did not come to Virginia until 1610. They were Mistress Forrest and her servant Anne Burras. After that the majority of women who came to the colony were single and married the settlers. In 1619, the first bride ships came to Virginia. The future husbands had to pay for the brides' passage in tobacco. Other women came to Virginia as indentured servants. An indentured servant worked for a number of years [in Virginia it was 7] to pay for their passage. When their time was up they were freed and given a piece of land and other things to get started in the colony. Life in the colony was still hard. In England possible indentured servants heard of the difficult life in the colony. The number of indentured servants coming to Virginia went down. The colonists began buying African slaves to work in the fields. The first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619 on a Dutch trading ship. The traders sold the slaves for food and supplies. In 1619, representatives from each plantation, hundred, or town met at the Jamestown Church for the first Legislative Assembly. The citizens were able to pass laws based on their needs within the colony. This was the first assembly of its kind in Virginia. It became the model for the later assemblies in other colonies. [Bride Ships: Ships carrying unmarried women to become brides for the colonists. The colonists paid for their voyage in tobacco. Indentured Servants: A person who sold himself/herself to work in a specific amount of time before being freed. Hundred: A piece of land owned by one person who brings people to work on it.] Copyright ©1996, 1997 by The Mariners' Museum
GENEALOGIES OF VIRGINIA FAMILIES Vol IV N-T William & Mary Quarterly p. 215-6 The Muster of Inhabitants shows on 24 Jan 1624 at Necke of Land, Charles City: Luke Boyse aged 44 in the Edwine May 1619; Alice his wife in the Bona Nova April 1622; Their Servants; Robert Hallom aged 23 in the Bonaventure August 1620; JOSEPH ROYALL aged 22 in the Charitie July 1622 (Hotten, p. 202). On 11 Nov. 1635 there was granted to Hannah Boyse daughter and heir of Luke Boyse, late of Henrico, 300 a. in that county, adjoining the lands of her mother, Alice Edloe, due in right of her father for transporting persons, including Robert Hallom and JOSEPH ROYALL. There was a regrant 13 July 1637 (Nugent, pp. 40, 59; V Va Mag. 97, 212; XXIV W & M (1) 128).
A COURT at James Citty the 19th. of February 1626, being sent Mr. Doctor Pott. Capt. Smyth. Capt. Matthews. Mr. Secretary. Mr. ffarrar. It is ordered that there shall be a warrant sent up unto Sherley Hundred in ye Maine, that John Ewins & Jane Hill should be sent downe to James-Citty, & there to be examined concerning such leud behavior as hath bin betweene them. Patrick Kennady marriner sworne & examined sayth that as concerning those words which Mrs. Allice Boyse taxeth Capt. Hudleston to have accused her with at Capt. Martins plantation, viz that he say Capt. Hudleston should there say that Capt. Epes had the use of her body that night that he lay in James Slights house, or else said he never had the use of his owne wife, more then Capt. Epes had of her yt night; this deponeth sayth he did not heare Capt. Hudleston speake the same words, but that Capt. Hudleston sayd there was very unfitting behavior between them. Philemon Powell sworne & examined sayth that he hath not receiued (according to his Invoice) from aboard the Marmaduke two runletts, viz, the one being eight gallons of Aquavitae & ye other 21 gallons of Canary wine. It is ordered that Patricke Kennady Purser of the Marmaduke doe satify Philemon Powell Marchant for one runlett of eight gallons of aquauitae, & for another runlett of 20 gallons of Canary wine. And further for that it appeareth plainly that the said Philemon Powell hath receiued much wrong & damage in many of his runletts of wine & liquor, fome being wanted and one being deliuered ashore emptry with a peg in it, & one of ye sailors seene drinking at another, it is there-upon ordered that said Philemon Powell be satisfyed by ye said Patricke Kennady for fifteen gallons of wine in recompense of the said wronge & damage.
Booth, Richard - patent 23 Apr 1681 - 465 Ac.
To all & whomsoever etc. Now know ye that I ? ? ? Henry chickeley Knt. dep.ty Govr. etc. Give & grant unto Rich. Booth of ye Isle of Wight County fouer hundred Sixty five acres of Land situate on ye west? side of a swamp known by ye name of Wm. Lawrence's Bever dam being a branch
of ye main Black water in ye County aforesd. bounded the?, beginning at a red oak by ye aforesd. swamp side ??? ye line of Robt. Lawrence Ge?n? thence north fifty two degrees west three hundred twenty pole to a red oak thence south twenty degrees westerly two hundred fifty five pole to a stooping pine then south fifty two degrees Easterly two hundred seventy two pole to a pine ???? ?? swamp aforsd. & then by ye run of ye ?? Swamp to ye first station The ?? land being due to ye said Booth by & for ye transportation of ??? psons ?? Johane & to ???? ???? ????? ???? & paying ?? provided etc. dated ye three & twentieth of April One thousand six hundred & eighty one ??? ?? Carter, Mary ?y?ond, Jno West, peter> wright, Tho:Jackson } 10 Jno Was? Tho whip Wm Long Sam Poynter, Jan? Humphry } Misc. Land Patents - Isle of Wight Co. VA. I had thought this was Martin's Plantation but have just learned that this location was actually Brandon Martin which according to Isle of Wight history was a private plantation. This was Captain John Martin's place before he had to give it up. In the Isle of Wight history Captain John Martin lived to 1627. Isle of Wight Historical Review ™. ©2001 Brandon Parish is one of the oldest in Virginia with its history dating back to 1613, when Brandon Plantation was patented by Captain John Martin, an Englishman who came to Virginia with Captain John Smith in 1607. The present building is the fourth to be used by the parish. The first two were wooden structures located on Brandon Plantation itself. The third building, which was the last in the line of Colonial vintage, was erected on the site of the present Burrowsville Public School around 1723. Martin's Brandon Episcopal Church Copies of church records are on file at the Library of Virginia. (History of Martin's Brandon Episcopal Church) First Hand Accounts of Virginia, 1575-1705 Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619 For Martin Brandon-Capt. John Martin's Plantation Mr. Thomas Davis, Mr. Robert Stacy. Brandon, on the south side of James River. This was one of the private plantations, resembling manors © Copyright 2000 by Crandall Shifflett. All rights reserved.
Thomas West, third Baron De La Warr (1577-1618)was granted 8,000 acres in 1613. That acreage was called “West and Sherley Hundred” after himself and his wife, Lady Cessalye Sherley. When, Lord De La Warr died, in 1618, much of the grant was transferred to others.
Captain Martin is Captain John Martin which is in the Thomas Jefferson Papers and also the Records of the Virginia Company [When you study the records of Thomas Jefferson for this time era, you find they are the same records Series 8: Virginia Records, 1606-1737 Records of the Virginia Company Table of Contents for Volume III]: April, 1622 Captain John Martin, the only member of the colony's first council still in Virginia, agrees to give up his original patent for land, "Martin's Hundred," for a new one. His original patent gave him independence from both the Company and the General Assembly, including some of its laws. The Company seeks to bring all private plantations or hundreds into the government's jurisdiction.
21 July 1626-King Privy Council Action: An order was directed to the Governor of Virginia to assess the value of the Estate of Captain Nathaniel Powell, decd., and to send value of it in tobacco to England, a petition having been made by Thomas Powell, brother and admistrator of said Powell, decd, stating that in consideration of the poverty of said Powell's brothers and sisters, that proceeds of the said Captain's Estate should be paid unto them. The Virginia Company had certified that one William Powell, no way kin to the decedent, had taken out Letters Of Administration of the said Captain's Estate and had seized the goods of Captain John Huddleston in Virginia. We can safely say that whatever happened to Captain John Huddleston happened between 19 February 1626 and 21 July 1626 [From the court document of Captain John Huddleston being alive in 19 February 1626 and the Letters of Administration in 21 July 1626] POWELBROOKE was the land of Capt Nathaniel POWELL, who was killed (along with his wife Joyce, daughter of William TRACY) in the 1622 Indian massacre. When William BARKER and his associates acquired the property, they changed the name to Merchants Hope for Barker's ship. Cavaliers And Pioneers-Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666 Abstracted and Indexed by Nell Marion Nugent Copyright, 1963 by Genealogical Publishing Company originally published Richmond, 1934 page 44 Capt. Christopher Calthropp, 100 acs., being a second devdt., according to a graunt signed by Sir Georg Yeardly to John Hudleston, Marriner, 26 Apr. 16, 1621 & assigned by Richard Cox, Atty. to sd. Hudleston, to sd. Calthropp. 5 July 1636, p. 368. Adj. to the first devdt., whose bounds were, viz: W. upon Waters his Cr. E. upon land of Robert Hutchins, S. the river & N. into the woods. Same. 100 acrs. Chas. Riv. Co., same date & page. Within the new Poquoson at the head of Powells Cr., Nly. upon sd. Cr., Ely. to land formeley graunted to him. Trans. of 2 pers: Christopher Watts, Senr., Christopher Watts, Junr. We know Captain John Huddleston was still in Virginia and alive 5 July 1636 because of the assign by Richard Cox who was Captain John Hudleston's attorney and who with him and Captain Christopher Calthropp. It does not show deceased in the transaction. The Indians had the land, then Sir Georg Yeardly got it, then Captain John Hudleston got it and finally the transaction shows Captain Christopher Calthropp getting the 100 acres. We know from this next transaction that Captain John Huddleston had moved to Nevis Island and was still alive in 1642. The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660 Entries November 21, 1621 Commissions granted to: Daniel Gat(e)s to be master of the Darling and to fish on the coast of Virginia; John Huddleston to make a voyage to Virginia; and to have free fishing on the American coast; Captain Thomas Jones, master of the Discovery, to fish on the American coast and to trade furs in Virginia. (BL:Add Mss 14285)July 1, 1652 Petition of Captain William Digby. He was a planter in St. Christopher's 24 years ago but was soon after taken prisoner by the Spaniards to Cadiz where he remained for 6 years. Ten years ago Sir Thomas Warner, the governor of St. Christopher's, assigned him a plantation in Nevis, Captain Luke Stokes, has taken 280 acres of the plantation for John Jennings. He prays for its restitution. Encloses note of grant made by James, Earl of Carlisle, to William Digby of land in Nevis between the lands of Captain John Huddleston and Thomas Merriton. (cspl)
The island of Liamuiga, or «fertile land» in the language of the Carib Indians who originally lived there, was renamed St Christopher by Columbus on his second voyage to America, in 1493. It was not colonized by Europeans until 1623, when adventurer Thomas Walker established the first English settlement in the Caribbean. The neighboring island of Nevis was colonized five years later. After the rapid extermination of the Caribs, the English started to grow plantation crops, especially sugar cane, for which they used slaves from Africa. NOTE: The country profiles are drawn from the World Guide 2001/2002, New Internationalist Publications Ltd St. Christopher (hereafter, St. Kitts) and Nevis share a long history of British colonization. St. Kitts has been referred to as the "mother colony of the West Indies," a reflection of its status as the first English colony in the Caribbean. Although discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, St. Kitts was not settled by Europeans until 1623, when a small group of Britons established themselves at Sandy Bay. As elsewhere in the Caribbean, the French were not far behind; they established settlements the following year. Nevis was colonized in 1628 by an English party dispatched from St. Kitts. Library of Congress Publications
CHAPTER TWO Copyright 1998 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. The English in the Caribbean Section Contents Sugar and Slaves A Biracial Society The Spanish claimed all Caribbean islands by right of Columbus's discovery, but during the early seventeenth century, French, Dutch, and English adventurers boldly defied them. By the 1640s, the English occupied Antigua, Barbados, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Christopher; in 1655, they conquered the Spanish -held island of Jamaica (see Map 2-3). Although a few English efforts, including an attempt to found a Puritan colony on Providence Island off Nicaragua's coast, failed, the West Indies soon became the jewel of England's empire, producing vast wealth from the cultivation of sugar. Caribbean planters created a society totally unlike any of the mainland colonies--not least of all because their prosperity depended on the exploitation of African slaves. Sugar and Slaves Like the early Virginians, the first English colonists who came to the West Indies in the 1630s raised tobacco and imported indentured servants to work their fields. By that time, however, tobacco fetched low prices. Moreover, the disease environment of the West Indies proved even harsher than that of the Chesapeake, and settlers died in great numbers. That thousands came anyway during the 1620s and 1630s testified more to their hopes for prosperity than their actual chances of success.
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But by the 1640s, a Barbados planter boasted of "a great change on this island of late from the worse to the better, praised be God." That change was a shift from tobacco to sugar cane. How the English learned to grow sugar is unclear. Perhaps it was from English visitors to Portuguese sugar plantations in Brazil or from Dutch traders. However they learned, many sugar planters grew astonishingly wealthy. In 1646, a 500-acre plantation on Barbados sold for 16,000 pounds--more than the whole island had been worth just a few years before. On average, the estate of a Caribbean sugar planter was worth four times as much as a prosperous Chesapeake plantation.
I think that Captain John Huddleston went to Nevis Island because of the money. According to the chronology of Saint Kitts in 1666; 1628-1666 St. Kitts divided into separate English the center) and French (both ends) zones and 1666 - 1671 French occupy entire island. This might explain why William Huddleston is shown transported to Accromack County, Virginia in 1666.
Sugar rapidly transformed the West Indies. Planters deforested whole islands to raise sugar cane. They stopped planting food crops and raising livestock- -thereby creating a demand for lumber and provisions that boosted New England's economy. In 1647, John Winthrop noted that Barbadians "had rather buy food at very dear rates than produce it by labor, so infinite is the profit of sugar works."
Caribbeana IV continued Abstracts of Nevis Wills in PCC Probate 5.9.1637 Roger Glover of London, Merchant, will dated 14.11.1636. Mentions William Hawkins of London, Bro Richard Glover, sisters, Eliz and Sarah, niece Eliz Glover, born Jess Glover, Wm Rowe, Eliz Pommerton, JOhn Worcester, friend Capt Thomas Sparrowe, Goverenor of Island of Nevis, George Upcote, Nicolas Godsalve. "If I recover all debts due to me from THOMAS LITTLETON, late Governor of said Island, I give to JAMES LITTLETON, son of said THOMAS LITTLETON, £100. Will of James Hewett of Nevis, planter dated 9.8.1649 mentions, Wm Charley, Capt Digbie, Margaret Merriton, also half of another parcel (of land) containing 4000 plants of ground, purchased of ROBERT LITTLETON, lying at Gingerland at said .... ENGLISH BACKGROUND STUDIES Helms Family Research
Governors of Nevis Governors 1628 - 1629 Anthony Hilton (1st time) 1629 - 1630 George Hay 1630 - 1631 Anthony Hilton (2nd time) 1631 - 1634 Thomas Littleton 1634 - 1635 Luke Stokes (1st time) 1635 - 1637 Thomas Spurrow 1637 - 1638 Henry Huncks 1639 James Jennings 1640 Jenkin Lloyd 1640 - 1641 John Meakem 1641 John Kettleby 1641 - 1651 Jacob Lake 1651 - 1657 Luke Stokes (2nd time) 1657 - 1671 James Russell http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis.html
House of Lords: Journal Office: Main Papers 1509-1700 FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/42 - date: 14 Apr 1640 - 25 Sep 1640 [from Scope and Content] 1 May 1640 -- Petition of Sir Peter Vanlore, Knight and Baronet, to the House of Commons, for consideration of his case against Doctor Littleton, concerning the vicarage of Tylehurst [Tilehurst]. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/44 - date: 1 Dec 1640 - 18 Dec 1640 [from Scope and Content] 1 Copy of order of the Privy Council in the case made upon report of the Solicitor-General Littleton and His Majesty's advocate, Dr Rives. FILE - Main Papers: Includes undated items for 1640 - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/45 - date: 19 Dec 1640 - 31 Dec 1640 [from Scope and Content] [1640] -- Petition of George Griffith, merchant. In 1628 Thomas Littleton being arrested at the suit of Peter Marsh, Roger Glover, and Francis Soare became bail for him, but Marsh not being content petitioner became further bail: hereupon Littleton and Glover went beyond the seas, and Soare being unduly released by Sir Henry Marten, judge of the Admiralty Court, upon pretended privilege of being servant extraordinary to His Majesty, petitioner was taken in execution by Jeremy Drury, the pretended administrator of Peter Marsh. Prays for redress from their Lordships as the case is remediless by any ordinary course of justice. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/49 - date: 23 Jan 1641 - 30 Jan 1641
[from Scope and Content] 30 January 1641 -- Draft order of the House of Commons, respecting Sir Thomas Littleton's petitions, etc. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/50 - date: 1 Feb 1641 - 8 Feb 1641 [from Scope and Content] 8 February 1641 -- Petition of George Griffith and Henry Gardiner; about the year 1628 petitioners became adventurers with Thomas Littleton, since deceased, for the planting and peopling of Nevis, one of the Caribbee Islands in the West Indies, and spent large sums thereon, which Littleton was to have repaid them out of the profits thence derived, but he died, leaving them entirely unsatisfied; pray for a lease of the island without payment of rent, the more so as the Earl of Carlisle and the rest of the feoffees have never raised any money from Nevis, and the Earl promised Littleton a lease at the first planting of the island. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/51 - date: 9 Feb 1641 - 17 Feb 1641 [from Scope and Content] 2 Francis Littleton to Lord Morley. Has heard of a plot against his life and honour, the prosecutor of which is Mrs Clarke; will meet his Lordship, if he please, this afternoon in Gray's Inn Walks, to acquaint him therewith. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/58 - date: 25 May 1641 - 31 May 1641 [from Scope and Content] 25 May 1641 -- Petition of Godfrey Havercamp, John Mold, gentleman, executor of George Mold, and George Griffith, administrator of Thos Littleton, all creditors of James, late Earl of Carlisle; Havercamp and Mold fitted out a ship for the Earl in 1628 for a voyage to St Christophers and the Carribbee Islands, for which a large sum is due, and £1,000 to Littleton; [from Scope and Content] 1 Certificate of Littleton appointed by the Earl to audit the expenditure of Havercamp and Mold. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/69 - date: 5 Aug 1641 - 13 Aug 1641 [from Scope and Content] 12 August 1641 -- Petition of Godfrey Havercampe, and others, creditors of the Right Hon. James, late Earl of Carlisle. Godfrey Havercampe and George Mold expended £5,041 11s. 9d. in setting forth for the late Earl a ship called the "Carlisle" to St. Christopher's and the Carribbee Islands, which expenditure was allowed by the Earl's auditor, Thos Littleton; of this sum more than £1,000 remains unpaid. The Earl was further indebted £100 to Thos. Littleton, which also remains unpaid. [from Scope and Content] 1 Copy of Thos. Littleton's allowance mentioned in preceding. FILE - Main Papers: Protestation Returns Middlesex - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/99 - date: 1642 [from Scope and Content] Littleton. FILE -Main Papers-ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/114 - date: 3 Jan 1642 - 31 Jan 1642 [from Scope and Content] 28 January 1642 -- Letter from the King to the Lord Keeper Littleton, touching the 3rd Article of the Scotch Commissioners. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/115 - date: 1 Feb 1642 - 18 Feb 1642 [from Scope and Content] 6 February 1642 -- Letter from the King to the Lord Keeper Littleton. FILE - Main Papers - ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/117 - date: 28 Feb 1642 - 19 Mar 1642 [from Scope and Content] 4 March 1642 -- Letter from the King to Lord Keeper Littleton concerning the Attorney General. The contents of this catalogue are the copyright of House of Lords Record Office. Rights in the Access to Archives database are the property of the Crown, © 2001-2004.
Although many people have never heard of the 36-square-mile island, Nevis is an eastern Caribbean paradise, with dense greenery, a lavish botanical garden and no traffic lights whatsoever. After several centuries under Spanish domain, the British colonized it in the early 17th century. Welcome to The History of Nevis page By the time Christopher Columbus first visited Nevis in 1493 it was already occupied by the Caribs who bare the reputation of having been cannibalistic and warlike. Jump 134 years to 1628 and enter the English who settled on the island. Initially the island was cleared for tobacco plantations, but it was soon realised that Nevis was no match for Virginia, so the island quickly gravitated to sugar production. Further Reading: Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis to 1900 (1993) by Vincent K. Hubbard By 1642, the island was known to produce the finest sugar in the Caribbean, and its population, at 10,000, exceeded that of Virginia’s by several thousand. Caribbean Dream Exotic, Upscale Nevis Rolls out Welcome Mat for Tourists by Larry Luxner The Washington Diplomat. The cultivation of sugar cane and the ability to crystallize it (a secret brought by Dutch traders and Jewish emigrants from Brazil) changed the island completely. By 1642, Nevis was acknowledged to produce the finest sugar in the Caribb and its population was estimated to be 10,000, when Virginia had a population of only 8,000. A HISTORY OF NEVIS By Vincent K. Hubbard, Author of, "Swords, Ships and Sugar: a History of Nevis to 1900".
Since Captain John Huddleston was at Virginia in 1628 aboard the 'Thomas and John' with tobacco being loaded on that ship and by studying the history of Nevis showing tobacco was its first crop by the English; We can conclude that the Captain had to change from the tobacco to sugar production. In other words it seems reasonable that he had a sugar plantation in Nevis in 1642.
Earls of Carlisle, Second Creation (1622) James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (1580-1636) James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle (1612-1660) James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle (d. March, 1636), was the son of Sir James Hay of Kingask (a member of a younger branch of the Erroll family), and of Margaret Murray, cousin of George Hay, afterwards 1st earl of Kinnoull. He was knighted and taken into favor by James VI of Scotland, brought into England in 1603, treated as a "prime favourite" and made a gentleman of the bedchamber. In 1604 he was sent on a mission to France and pleaded for the Huguenots, which annoyed Henry IV. and caused a substantial reduction of the present made to the English envoy. On June 21, 1606 he was created by patent a baron for life, with precedence next to the barons, but without a place or voice in parliament, no doubt to render his advancement less unpalatable to the English lords. The king bestowed on him numerous grants, paid his debts, and secured for him a rich bride in the person of Honora, only daughter and heir of Edward, Lord Denny, afterwards earl of Norwich. In 1610 he was made a knight of the Bath, and in 1613 master of the wardrobe, while in 1615 he was created Lord Hay of Sawley, and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was sent to France next year to negotiate the marriage of Princess Christina with Prince Charles, and on his return, being now a widower, married in 1617 Lady Lucy Percy (1599-1660), daughter of the 9th earl of Northumberland, and was made a privy councillor.
In 1618 he resigned the mastership of the wardrobe for a large sum in compensation. He was created Viscount Doncaster, and in February 1619 was despatched on a mission to Germany, where he identified himself with the cause of the elector palatine and urged James to make war in his support. In 1621 and 1622 he was sent to France to obtain peace for the Huguenots from Louis XIII, in which he was unsuccessful, and in September 1622 was created earl of Carlisle. Next year he went to Paris on the occasion of Prince Charles's journey to Madrid, and again in 1624 to join Henry Rich, afterwards Lord Holland, in negotiating the prince's marriage with Henrietta Maria, when he advised James without success to resist Richelieu's demands on the subject of religious toleration. On July 2 1627 Lord Carlisle obtained from the king a grant of all the Caribbean Islands, including Barbados, this being a confirmation of a former concession given by James I. He was also a patentee and councillor of the plantation of New England, and showed great zeal and interest in the colonies.
He became gentleman of the bedchamber to King Charles I after his accession. In 1628, after the failure of the expedition to Rhe, he was sent to make a diversion against Richelieu in Lorraine and Piedmont; he counselled peace with Spain and the vigorous prosecution of the war with France, but on his return home found his advice neglected. He took no further part in public life, and died in March 1636.
Carlisle was a man of good sense and of accommodating temper, with some diplomatic ability. His extravagance and la