Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
The number of deaths in the census list shows a mortality amounting in
one year to upwards of twenty per cent. of the whole population,
exceeding the number which fell in the massacre by twenty-four. The
fullest details of this and many other matters relating to the Colony
while under the Virginia Company, can be found more fully shown in
Neill's History of the Virginia Company than in any other work we have
seen.
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"Here following is set downe a true list of the names of all those that
were massacred by the treachery of the Sauages in Virginia, the 22^{nd}
March last.
"To the end that their lawfull heyres may take speedy order for the
inheritinge of their lands and estates there. For which the honourable
Company of Virginia are ready to do them all right and fauour:"
_At Captaine Berckley's Plantation, seated at Falling Creeke, some 66
miles from James Citie, in Virginia._
John Berkley, Esquire,
Thomas Brasington,
John Sawyer,
Roger Dauid,
Francis Gowsh,
Bartholmew Peram,
Giles Peram,
John Dowler,
Laurence Dowler,
Lewis Williams,
Richard Bascough,
Thomas Holland,
John Hunt,
Robert Horner Mason,
Phillip Bames,
William Swandal,
Robert Williams, his Wife and Childe,
Giles Bradshawe, his Wife and Childe,
John Howlet and his sonne,
Thomas Wood and Collins his man,
Joseph Fitch, apothecary to Doctor Pots.
_At Master Thomas Sheffield Plantation, some three miles from the
Falling Creeke._
Master Th: Sheffield[478] and Rachel his wife,
John Reeue,
William Tyler, a boy,
Samuel Reeue,
John Ellen,
Robert Tyler, a boy,
Mathew ----,
Judeth Howard,
Thomas Poole,
Methusalem ----,
Thomas Taylor,
William Tyler
[478] The son of William Sheffield.
_At Henrico Iland, about two miles from Sheffield's Plantation._
---- Atkins,
---- Weston,
Philip Shatford,
William Perigo,
Owen Jones, one of Capt. Berkley's people.
_Slaine of the Colledge People, about two miles from Henrico-Citie._
Samuel Stringer,
George Soldan,
William Basset,
John Perry,
Edward Ember,
Jarrat Moore,
Thomas Xerles,
Thomas Freeman,
John Allen,
Thomas Cooke,
John Clements,
James Faulkoner,
Christopher Henley,
William Jordan,
Robert Dauis,
Thomas Hobson,
William Bailey.
_At Apo-mattucke River, at Master Abraham Pierce his Plantation, some
five miles off the Colledge People._
William Charte,
Jo: Waterhowse,
John Barker, a boy,
Robert Yeoman.
_At Charles-Citie and about the precincts of Capt. Smith's Company._
Roger Royal,
Thomas Jones,
Robert Maruel,
Edward Heydon,
Henry Bushel.
_At other Plantations next adioyning._
Richard Plat and his Brother,
Henry Milward, his wife, his Childe and his Sister,
Richard, a boy,
Goodwife Redhead.
_At Mr. William Farrar's House._
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