Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
[S] _West & Sherlow Hundred._--Sir Thomas Dale annexed to New Bermuda
"many miles of champion and wood land ground in several hundreds, by the
names of Nether Hundred, Shirley Hundred," &c.--Stith, p. 124-'5; Smith,
General Historie, 1627, p. 111. Hening names Burgesses (1629) from
Shirley Hundred island and Shirley Hundred maine, and among the latter
is the name of John Harris, which appears in the text.--Heming Vol. I.,
p. 138.
The name of Shirley appears on the Fry and Jefferson map only at the
place where the same is now located, opposite Bermuda Hundred, and well
known as the residence of Hill Carter, Esq. A short distance below is an
island not named on that map, but on modern maps as Eppes island, which
we may presume was Shirley island. We do not find the name of West in
the connection except in a paper entitled John Rolfe's relation to the
State of Virginia, written in 1616, in which we learn that West and
Shirley Hundred was about thirty-seven miles above James citie, which
corresponds with the location above named. See Virginia Historical
Register, Vol. I., p. 110.
_Att Jordan's Jorney._[T]
Siselye Jordan,
Temperance Bayliffe,
Mary Jordan,
Margery Jordan,
William Farrar,
Thomas Williams,
Roger Preston,
Thomas Brookes,
John Peede,
John Freme,
Richard Johnson,
William Dawson,
John Hely,
Robert Mannell,
Ann Linkon,
William Besse,
Mrs. Besse,
Christopher Saford,
_uxor_ Saford,
John Caminge,
Thomas Palmer,
Mrs. Palmer,
_fil_ Palmer,
Richard English,
Nathaniel Causey,
Mrs. Causey,
Lawrence Evans,
Edward Clarke,
_uxor_ Clarke,
infant Clarke,
John Gibbs,
John Davies, 147
William Emerson,
Henry Williams,
_uxor_ Williams,
Henry Fisher,
_uxor_ Fisher,
infant Fisher,
Thomas Chapman,
_uxor_ Chapman,
infant Chapman,
Edith Hollis,
[T] _Jordan's Jorney._--Hening reports William Popkton as Burgess for
this place. I do not find it on Fry and Jefferson's map, but Jordan's
Point is there, and this is situated a short distance below City Point
and is well known by the same name at the present time.
_Att Flourdieu Hundred._
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