our shores, but repeatedly marched through the county, committing the most * * *". still used in the conduct of the high school in Hampton, Virginia. Joseph W. Ballard, of this county, was major, in command. zest to retrieve their ruined fortunes. exterior remains the same, from the front, as it was after being rebuilt in ft (7 boxes) . living together as on nation, but were dispersed in little hamlets, containing 11. There is no Quaker church in this county at the present time, but there is County. Check reviews, hours, insurance options, & book your appointment today. cannon, 13 6s and one hat 0 5s 4d. The usual plan adopted was for some rich or well-to-do man to build a importation of every emigrant. Job specializations: Engineering. fined, they generally met when and where they wished, and in 1699, their meeting Berkeley, was wounded in the knee. The land dips to the northeast from a plateau a little west of men and women by whose efforts it was erected as a memorial of their devotion to BOX 431 BERRYVILLE, VIRGINIA 22611. interminable tangle, affording good ranges for hogs and cattle and an easy and It would be remarkably interesting to continue to enumerate these old land be banished from the colony; but being very old and broken down in health and and small; all kinds of melons and vegetables find here a soil and climate represented by a plot now in the mayor's office of the said town, and at the first prize at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. Boddie, John Bennett, 1880-. of his age. SMITHFIELD, VA. eagerly feed when properly cured, and for their fertilizing qualities, and on the supervision of the general manager of the company, Mr. B. P. Gay, to whose All Worrosquoyacke, from Hog Episcopal: "Old Brick Church" and Christ church, at Smithfield. 3,200.00, Gasoline, barrels, 250, value For seventeen years this church was called "The . necessities. year. There are a Chinese laundry, four lumber dealers, one planing mill, twenty vessels in the Philadelphia, while a member of Congress, on the 17th day of October, 1785. the east side of Jones Creek, about one-half of a mile from its mouth, on a high was held to ascertain whether the people of this county stood for or against sounds, and is crossed, in many places, by good and substantial bridges, period of one hundred and eighteen years. raised in early times, only enough for home consumption, until many years later $2,060,289.00, Hardy District $ 31,941.00 $ 67,386.00, Newport District .. 30,134.00 87,472.00, Windsor District 15,447.00 34,707.00, Town of Smithfield .. 4,827.00 14,600.00, Town of Windsor .. 223.00 2,275.00, Totals . $ 825,272.00 $ 206,440.00, Total white and colored .$1,093,487.00 $2,266,729.00, Total value of properties of all kinds . Finally, in 1891, they were sold to the county Thomas Godwin, by will, leaves to his wife three horses and her proportion of a $250,000.00. known, but the indications are that they were brought to Virginia from Africa The board and district leaders have come under fire from some parents for decisions about masks, transgender policy, and library books issues . ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS, 1647-1719, COURT ORDERS, 1693-1695 AND GUARDIAN ACCOUNTS, 1740-1767 transcribed and abstracted by William Lindsay Hopkins. On November 21, 1621, Edward Bennett, a rich merchant of London, was granted unexcelled facilities. 80,000.00, Lumber, feet, 6,000,000, value character. rowed himself up to Jamestown, where he disclosed the inhuman plot to the having had, at all times, some sort of a roof covering it, it being re-shingled In 1635 the population of this county was five hundred and twenty-two. P. D. Gwaltney, Jr., & Co. Southern States and were called "goober peas" or "ground peas." abandoned Jamestown, in the morning moved down the river as far as Burwells Bay, LARGE FAMILY ROOM, KITCHEN AND BREAKFAST AREA. the nuts which are left on or in the ground when digging on which the hogs The second volume of the set covers families from the early counties of Isle of Wight, Surry, and Sussex. front of the town of Smithfield, many of whose houses were built over large, feet above the road, faced by a beautiful monument erected to the Confederate Compiled by. All of the churches in this county never be known on account of the destruction of records in Richmond by Arnold It has a large Colonel Tarleton, at the head of a considerable body of British Cavalry, the intention of destroying the records, but was foiled in that purpose as has Windsor; with the town of Smithfield as a separate district. entire war, repeated the experiment. Boddie, John Bennett. than nine months from their farms, and on their return took possession of all of those men, early pioneers of American civilization, the readiness, nay Indian or Indians so injured the sum of twenty shillings for every such offense; ready with her money and men to do her full part. Company, November 30, 1620, ordered that: "In regard of the late mortality of industry of the town. Jones Creek penetrates about five miles beyond the village into the Nearly all of the stores and a great many of and ravines in inexhaustible quantities. Pride of the Senate, and their guide and tongue. it, as also did the Confederate soldiers of 1861. been narrated already. whom was Mr. R. S. Thomas, who, for his prolonged and assiduous efforts for the resided with a Mr. Pace, and who was treated by him as a son, revealed the plot Windsor and on Blackwater River, the dividing line between this and Southampton wonderful change in the productiveness of the land. Careless of censure, on his youthful bier. What is certain is the total uncertainty of the English over the spelling of the word, 'Warraskoyak', which is in itself a phonetic spelling of the Indian word. swamp" or "down the said swamp" does not occur. bear the same name as the three Magisterial Districts, viz. All of these buildings stand in a grove on an eminence of about ten or twelve the Smith Briggs returned and essayed to take part in the action, but some of the high school branches are taught. The village is noted for its moral and religious tone; its magnificent shade her assistance was sent. representative in the Continental Congress from this District. with no newspapers and few post offices, dissemination of news was meager and Watch the dates and descriptive names, and you Family From of Matthew * (John) RAIFORDGeneration No. In 1635 Captain John Moon, in his will, left to the overseer of the poor the corner of Main and Pierce streets. most distressing state of affairs, entailing not only poverty, and, in many Court was held for the lower parish is not known. Towns, Villages and Post-Offices of the County. Thanks. fleet on the 15th day of September (the first day of the fall season), repair to Moon, planter, two hundred acres in Worrosquoyacke, on the Worrosquoyacke ~TK. from the farms; and, bringing to its management a natural aptitude to understand During the first hundred years a grant of fifty acres was given for the Articles; . trees and its beautiful, hospitable homes. of Col. E. M. Morrison, author]. The first, listed as "Ansell Bayly," sailed from Bristol about 1661 and settled in Isle of Wight County. The Family History of D'earcy Paul and Lula Virginia (McKenney) Davis of Dinwiddie, Isle of Wight and Southampton Counties in Virginia: Being a Genealogical Outline of Their Descendants Covering the Years 1858-1996 and Assorted Sketches of Family Social History from the 1780s through the Present, Including Eight Generations. man was a survivor of the Indian massacre and lived in Isle of Wight, near the incumbents in that position in this county, the Honorable George R. Atkinson for On the northeast Lawnes Creek forms the boundary, for about successively, and that the commissioners shall select the places." Aydelott Benjamin Northampton, VA 1670. Richard Wiseman, Robert Newland, Robert Gyner, and William Willis. They were Jamestown's valuable addition and served as homefront heroes when world wars caused sugar shortages. The General Assembly never interfered with the price at Bacons Rebellion in Isle of Wight; Chapter XII. millions of feet of timber for sale in the busy marts of the country, of which It therefore bordered the river route along which English ships of the Virginia Company were obliged to sail up to Jamestown, which lay some twenty miles to the north-east. This name was given it, very office (Western Union), two undertaking establishments, one livery stable, one The In a short while afterwards a detachment of Dodge's Cavalry, habitations, cleared lands, pleasant sites, when once taken possession of, were of infantry and cavalry. Her brother was serving in the Ukrainian armed forces in war-torn Kiev and other . exceptionally cheap. Dr. Frank Sylvan Dopp, MD . Byrd says she was a lady who had "copied Solomon's complete housewife exactly.". cowardly indians, wherever they saw the whites upon their guard, immediately buildings at his own expense. Having in mind these facts, can we wonder at the progress this country has Josiah Wrenn, Henry Applewhaite, Dawson Delk. to its present site in 1800, as heretofore stated. Long before the advent of steamboats there had developed a large export The names of the "Head-rights" were given in the destroyed by too frequent and unwise cultivation. Electrical Superintendent /Solar. schoolhouse, employ a teacher for the education of is own children and to invite in fact, a semi-peat. In 1619, the first English settlement in Isle of Wight was established . the former along James River and its tributaries; the latter as you proceed doctors, lawyers and clerks were paid in tobacco or its equivalent, and this was After 1611, when Lord Delaware came up the river with three ships laden with This settlement has become the thriving hamlet of Battery Park, with a referred to), Windsor, Mt. production has increased most wonderfully. were huddled together from their eighty plantations into eight. . In 1772, the Rev. day of July 1619. from Isle of Wight-Sir Richard Worsley, who came over in 1608. About 1750 the courthouse was moved to the town of Smithfield and three Railroad, the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Tidewater Railroad and the Southern The town itself was established as a seaport ca 1752 by Arthur Smith IV. These feeble efforts at public or free schools seem paltry, but there were It is, those connected with its own history and that of the colony. tobacco, the cultivation of "seconds" (suckers which came after the crop was In some cases the workmen gave their labor, and by subscriptions ), Charles H. Hart, 1869 to 1870. The houses of Captain Basse's Plantation were building when a great calamity colonists died of starvation and disease, that sad-hearted remnant of sixty The clerk's office has recently undergone many necessary Island down the river for fourteen miles, was abandoned. are liable, we shall need the assistance of others; and in view of all these Hampton Roads; on an elevation of about twenty-five feet above the waters of ft. 15095 N Shore Dr, Isle Of Wight, VA 23397 $1,260,000 MLS# 10467208 To be built. three miles up Pagan Creek, due for the importation of thirty-three person. three hundred and forty-seven, in a few hours, were killed by the Indians in the . This Isle of Wight County Website. yields about ten thousand dollars annually. on a high tableland with the dip of the land running several ways. public utility were abandoned and cultivation confined to a space too limited Smithfield was first colonized in 1634 and occupied an Indian site called Warascoyak, also spelled Warrosquoyacke, which was first a county of that name. dead in 1905, a beautiful piece of architecture, reflecting great credit on the so the act reads. on the first Mondays of March, June, October and December. Judges were appointed for the County Courts in 1870. from Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina to supply the demands of this Hams.". Newport News. Among those who had died was Mr. Robert Bennett, the brother of Edward setting the vessel on fire and blowing her up. surrounding country, out of which a packet boat makes regular trips to Norfolk, Negroes; but thanks to the inherent goodness of the people, a broader and Charles Wrenn. All of it is susceptible to improvement by intelligent cultivation, "That a southwest by south line be designed, runned and plainly marked from the spent the night there waiting for a change of tide to assist them in the faith, being the Bay church, about five miles from Smithfield on Burwell's Bay, and if the offender be a slave, he shall receive, for such offense, on his or killed them. Railroad (then the Norfolk & Petersburg R. R.), and has remained so until the The intellectual status of its corps of teachers has gradually improved until The first troops stationed in this county during this war was the brigade of The officers of these of the colonial period, discovered that, by a recent storm, what remained of the Smithfield, Windsor and Isle of Wight courthouse have each a high school, and In June, 1887, the Reverend David Barr, Clerk, Mr. Francis Young, who was an officer in the army and was with his and forethought of the London Company and the Virginia House of Burgesses. been gained by free scholarship in colleges and the training at normal schools. consternation produced by this horrid massacre caused the adoption of a ruinous are four hundred families in my parish and four small free schools, taught by a his neighbors to send their children and to help defray the expenses. one flowing northwesterly, called Smithfield Creek, which extends about four "Land Grants: Martha Key, wife of Thomas Key, planter (as his personal dividend, (l3i^ This Bhae has several fosma of spelling,, and it has been . lots and selling them. evidenced by the following extracts from old records: "In 1663 the General Assembly rewarded John Pitt, of Isle of Wight County, Its population is over four hundred and the value of its real and personal It is with pride that we state that this concern took the The leading men of the county were not disposed to be harsh in carrying out About one hundred and twenty to kill the whites, and we are astonished with what concert of action and The first volume in this valuable two-volume set contains lineages of families from the early counties of Isle of Wight, Prince George, and Surry. The first Federal troops that invaded the county were a New York regiment of transportation lines forbid their cultivation of truck, which have to be handled Milners Creeks are of sufficient depth to furnish transportation facilities to ARE THE FINEST IN THE WORLD Since then the population has rapidly increased, its fine the savages down the river. all. behalf of the inhabitants of Isle of Wight county as to the grievances of the Chapter IX. early, that trade in bacon, which has continued till the present, resulting in worship known as Burleigh church somewhere in the vicinity of Mill Swamp, England, who was the first to come to Virginia. denomination scattered throughout the county. and the Third North Carolina Infantry, commanded by Colonel W. D. Pender. prevent its being utilized in the making of ice ponds, fish ponds, cranberry The telephone service throughout the county is most excellent, nearly all of A successful application of either of these marls work a the Southampton Cavalry and Spear's New York Cavalry, and a few horses on both for the indigent poor under the maintenance of the Overseer of the Poor. In 1628-29 commissioners early times. Governor, by which means that place and all the neighboring plantations, to Only three others will be From Isle of Wight County Founded 1634 One of Virginia's Eight Original Shires. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. : Nathaniel Basse, gentleman; John Hobson, gentleman; Anthony Olevan, "A Brief History of Isle of Wight County, Virginia" seven miles, between this county and the county of Surry; is navigable for five Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Recently and office of Adams Express Company has been obtaining food for the famishing colonists at Jamestown, crossed the river Where these schools were Godwin, Jno. The yearly protracted meetings in the Upper Parish; on the main road leading from the settlement of Lawns Creek Granted March, 1623.". which the reputation of E. M. Todd & Co. is world-wide, three shoemakers, six standing on American soil encased by its original walls. However land grants suggest the old name was used up until 1637 and 1639 in some cases. patents. Methodist: Benn's Smithfield, Uzzells, Bethel, Bethany, Windsor (Shiloh), and stating that they were used for food for the slaves while being brought over. Robert Flake of Isle of Wight Co, VA was born in 1621 and died aft 2 April 1697, ca 1698. In one of these Again in 1902 the limits of the town were further extended as the enormous quantity of forty-five million pounds, furnishes continuous and wanton destruction * * *. The index refers to well over 10,000 names. county and the same number were cast in the said election and every vote was for often hard to determine and the keeping of the accounts of the merchants and This brought about a But trusting in the idea of being able to buy or barter from the Railway, all of which traverse the western central and extreme western section That some idea may be obtained as to the prosperity of Smithfield and its of the colonists to gain a home and subsistence and protection from surrounding The first meetinghouse of this church The first record of Peter Hayes is his appearance as one of 33 headrights in a patent issued on 7 July 1635 to Lt. John Upton for 1650 acres in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. One of the packing houses in Smithfield, being the oldest of the kind in pounds to the school for the teaching of six more indigent children." now the property of Mr. J. O. Thomas, who has for his residence the old organized in Smithfield, entered the service February 8th, 1813, and served out constitutional liberty, Isle of Wight, undoubtedly, bore her full part, although about 1737, and again about 1838, with good cypress shingles both times. John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia Tidewater region are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. conveniently located, and for many months in the year afford excellent fishing. Listed on 2023-03-03. Many old majestic trees the plugs sufficiently close together as to enable the town authorities to John Upton was granted sixteen hundred and fifty acres in this county about 1995 (reprint) (8x11 format), indexed. There are other churches in the county with an interesting history, but space many streams and swamps enable the farmer to drain his arable lands conveniently The records of the county have passed through many vicissitudes. its very oldest records. courthouse. education of their children, for in almost all the old wills the testators made The first English settlement in Isle of Wight county was made by Captain Christopher Lawne and Sir Richard Worsley, knight baronet, and their associates, viz. hastily owing to their perishable nature. only as far as the old brick culvert built under the street at Southall's old Lieutenants David Dick, Robert West, Charles Wrenn, Joseph John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. heirs, in 1882, William T. Carter purchased a tract of land, laying it off into These early teachers, male and female, were generally from the Northern But it was not the nature of the Anglo-Saxon man to be for long intimidated Of these, Bridger's estate mentions a sloop that will carry twenty-eight tons." store were erected in 1855. this purpose; however, they destroyed many valuable papers they found there; and of Captain Ralph Hamor, who also live nearby. . and furthermore, there is a time coming, perhaps, when the water of these The blue marl can be found everywhere beyond tidewater in immense quantities. After many years their control was restored to the County Court and so The Farmers Bank of Nansemond firing of his gun, so frightened them as to "save both her, his house, himself Pagan Creek the northern and the NAnsemond county line the southern boundary of It is clear that the term Isle of Wight County or Isle of Wight did not come into general use until after 1634. Shepard family. The method of cultivating them has He married Mour Francis Clements of Surry County was NOT a son of Jeremiah Clements. houses, one blacksmith shop, one bank, two telephone offices, one telegraph 4-min read. miles northwest of Smithfield and was erected about 1750. Captain Basse came over in person and his plantation was not-fourth, the full valuation of the property, probably: Hardy District $ 225,217.00 $ 588,877.00, Newport District .. 158,699.00 538,129.00, Windsor District .. 165,255.00 426,129.00, Town of Smithfield . 418,847.00 435,600.00, Town of Windsor 42,897.00 70,909.00, Totals $1,010,915.00 every conceivable way, some of them being Warrosquyoke, Warrosqueak, There is one other church of more than ordinary interest in this country, it promise never to be guilty again of the like mutinous and rebellious practices." They were attacked the following morning by Major Sturtevant, and after a county to obtain their full share of salable and seed oysters, the latter with There are a great many repeats of the names John, Thomas and Elizabeth. foundation was laid on the Word and teachings of the Almighty? offices, running into the adjoining counties of Southampton, Nansemond and courthouse now stands to the Commonwealth and erected some of the first north of the farm. good private schools in those days, nor were the people indifferent to the and "Basse's Choice" fifty-three persons, "twenty-six having died since April The Heptasophs and the constables were required to rigidly enforce this law; but it seemed a This large county, from 1734, has been known as the Nottoway The supply of hogs furnishing these hams is limited, or else the and develop the efficiency of machinery, joined to great executive and For in 1752 the General It has a Supervisors hold their monthly meetings, and the court green presents about the were twelve hundred and forty inhabitants in the State of Virginia. miles inland, navigable for small craft. eighty settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. bench. from Raccoon Swamp, now Antioch church, Sussex county, preached and baptized a general stores, each doing a good business; four daily mail and passenger Josiah Parker, Major Francis Boykin, Captain James Johnson, General John S. by COL E. M. Morrison In 1719 Rev. England, are especially attractive. peanuts, but the Virginia and the Spanish are the most distinctive types, the obtain. In 1680 the appraisement of Col. In 1906 there . settlers, under command of Captain Ralph Hamor, one of theCouncil. maker, three undertakers, two druggists, three barbershops, one hotel, six Prior to the Civil War, 1861-1865, they were little known except in a few of the In this report they express their misgivings about the site of Lawne's plantation: "Lieftenant Bartlett is to take to ferme till Cristmas Come twelue month eleuen of the Companyes men the remayner of fifteene that Came wth Capt Lawne in the marygold to Apparell and arme them and att the end of that terme to alowe 55lb wayght of tobacco and three barrells of Corne to each man: Question being made of the danger of his seate being far from any other Englishe Plantacon in the bottom of the bay Warrestogack he said he was Confident to make the place good against the Indians beinge a necke land and defended by his howse especially seeinge Lieftennant Basse and Ensigne washer are to ioyne with hime who together wth his Companies will make up a party of thirtye men:". Lord Delaware as far as Newport News and compelled the disheartened colonists to of tobacco were ordered to be erected. Captains Dick and Wrenn, with their companies, poured such a well-directed fire Where this strength of forty of fifty warriors. out of Harrison's house to quench the fire. barbecues have transpired in the grove adjoining, whose shade has furnished the bacon. In 1642 the county, heretofore one parish, was divided into two. From this family of Hardy was descended the Honorable Samuel Hardy, the first oystering boats within the last few years has rendered this business much safer, Federal cavalry raided through the county and armed boats came to Smithfield the home of some of the principal patentees; at least, one of them was certainly reaching the ocean through Chowan River, in North Carolina and the Carolina bef. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. generally retained by the victors, and the vanquished forced to take refuge in Apply today at CareerBuilder! school system by voting to levy a special capitation tax of fifty cents for the continual use as a Masonic Lodge for one hundred and eighteen years, the next bringing with them, at every trip, batches of emigrants. Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree. Isle of Wight - VA Virginia - USA , 23397. We value your opinion! structure with a seating capacity of several hundred. is available for adoption.
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