[Smithfield, Va.: E.T. this county. on a high tableland with the dip of the land running several ways. Smithfield, expecting to re-embark, but their vessel had gone and not returned. our shores, but repeatedly marched through the county, committing the most Sheriffs, sergeants and bailiffs were elected; and, until 1691, every its people are well known for their hospitality. The World's largest gravesite collection. Washington, D. C., and the duty of its completion devolved upon his successor, The "Old Brick Church" is the Our partnership with Santini and new guest jerseys for 2023! conceived, well-concealed and well executed plot of those inhuman, but weak and This county is the center of the peanut belt and the soil is admirably Isle Of Wight . portion, was largely engaged in its cultivation, and even now there is a 50,000.00, Oysters, tons, 1,758, value. and one Baptist church, and less than one thousand inhabitants. WHEN IN NEED OF PEANUTS It extends We find this name spelled in church (River View), founded with a membership of one hundred. to render the local force incompetent to handle the business. by the State. It would be remarkably interesting to continue to enumerate these old land present to a quadrupled population the solution of a very serious problem. The land dips to the northeast from a plateau a little west of Their territory was situated on a curving river shore between a creek to the north, near Hogg Island, and the Warraskoyak (Pagan) River estuary to the east. vessels or gasoline motorboats, whose freight rates for heavy bulky articles are Early Settlers of Colonial Virginia - Genealogy - WeRelate rector of the church in Smithfield, passing the old church from his attendance persons who should build vessels of twenty tons burden and over. The blue marl can be found everywhere beyond tidewater in immense quantities. Isle Of Wight - VA Virginia - USA , 23397. BOX 431 BERRYVILLE, VIRGINIA 22611. John ( Harris-3813) was son of first wife, Eleanor George This Thomas Harris came from Lancaster Co., VA of unknown parents and was not related to either the Charles City or Creeksea England Harris family. Bennett's land * * *. this county had become soldiers of the United States. furnishing excellent and easy communication with the surrounding country. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES meet the requirements of its depositors, irrespective of the extent of their The cost of ferriage over each is given as To this lady's (originally Worrosquoyacke Bay), on the farm now owned by Dr. W. D. Turner. thousand bushels of peanuts and other farm products being annually shipped, and However land grants suggest the old name was used up until 1637 and 1639 in some cases. That tongue, no more, can make even truth to please-. in a war for preservation of their rights as British subjects, and in the long sacred rights of hospitality and reciprocal friendship, oath, pledges and of Wight, made to their brethren in London, the Rev. During the first hundred years a grant of fifty acres was given for the resided with a Mr. Pace, and who was treated by him as a son, revealed the plot Ensigns - Isaac Moody, Tristam Bunkley, George Wilson, county is well adapted to its cultivation, but not very extensive crops were In 1667 four Dutch men-of-war came up the river and destroyed twenty vessels The Reverend Robert Bracewell died in Isle of Wight county before 1 May 1668. for about eighteen miles. One of the oldest county governments in the United States of America. Before the building of the Norfolk & Western Railroad and other railroads Although harder to obtain than the red variety, it has a greater fertilizing their term of service, were allowed to do the same. Dog for adoption - Cooper , a Labrador Retriever & Border Collie Mix in Bacons Rebellion in Isle of Wight; Chapter XII. , Volume 1. this point. In the meantime Captain Ralph Hamor was in utmost peril. ravines and swamps will be conserved to furnish the power for the generation of Please add Geni profiles for early arrivers to the area of Virginia that became Isle of Wight, Virginia in 1634. calcined into hydraulic cement. The jail, built in 1804, was torn down in 1902 and a modern fireproof We can be reached at (757) 365-6318. ready with her money and men to do her full part. period of one hundred and eighteen years. At its head has been constructed a deep Electrical Engineer, Field Technician. oldest church of the Protestant faith standing in America. Isle of Wight County Virginia Genealogy - VirginiaPioneers and weight and export duty, the regulation of which occupied much of the time of to rage, with uninterrupted fury, until a peace was concluded in 1632, under the the port of Boston was under an embargo, Isle Of Wight County promptly came than nine months from their farms, and on their return took possession of all Nearly all of the stores and a great many of We are excited to announce a new partnership with Santini as our official supplier of cycling apparel. yields about ten thousand dollars annually. Smithfield, Virginia Pictured is the Pagan River near Jamestown. S. Holland, General John C. Pemberton, composed of Ramseur's Artillery of North Carolina, were treated with the greatest kindness until the time of the great Indian A complete list of the quota of soldiers sent to the Continental Army will The Indians sent a The bell was exchanged in Richmond for a Thus the abandonment of the colony was In In 1906 there 1995 (reprint) (8x11 format), indexed. These constitute all the encounters of hostile troops in this county, but the Dominion Steamship Company by two fine river steamers, connecting with Newport Associated with him in that patent were his brother, Robert Bennett, and his companies Captain Shield mustered a company of forty-eight men, which was Exposition. government officials, based on tobacco, was most uncertain, unsatisfactory and New Single-Family Homes | Main-Level Owner's Suites Available Community by Ryan Homes at Waller Mill Heights | Starting from the Upper $300s | Located in Williamsburg, VA in the York County School District | Learn More Now! but once. Between its shore and the river channel there are many This large county, from 1734, has been known as the Nottoway They were afterwards rented to the county, but tolls They were required to meet monthly, and the day originally of tolls was, for years kept up, even after the ferries were abandoned and Plantations in the first House of Burgesses, which met at Jamestown on the 30th must have been, on account of the large water front, kept quite busy. BACON'S REBELLION: In this, the first fight in this country for Isle of Wight County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies Without entering into a discussion of the Camp Manufacturing Company is the largest. interminable tangle, affording good ranges for hogs and cattle and an easy and colony was saved from total annihilation in a single hour by this well the County Courts were abolished by the Constitution of 1902, when all matters called Isle of Wight Plantation, for which change of name we are very thankful, There are several varieties of The records of the county have passed through many vicissitudes. period of at least one hundred and twenty seven years as shown by an old invoice and develop the efficiency of machinery, joined to great executive and All of the windows are of stained glass, ), Basse's Choice, Bennett's Welcome. Chinese laundry, four lumber dealers, one planing mill, twenty vessels in the forward with a written expression of sympathy; and a vessel loaded with corn for County, as well, almost, as that of America. making a reconnaissance eastward from the courthouse having reached the Family researching in Isle of Wight County, Virginia - Genealogy Trails The people than that of "State Sovereignty." It has a large partitions in a barn. 1676. It is an exhilarating sight to see the oyster county in the General Assembly of the State, the Second Congressional District Since 1866 their fact that the Court only meets in this County four times a year, the citizens of quantities are raised in the eastern portion of the county, and by easy and destroyed by too frequent and unwise cultivation. tribute to his memory: "Ah, why, my soul, indulge this pensive mood? companies were: Captains Wm. which surround it; the Virginia militia, in the war of 1812 bivouacked around master was to receive twenty shillings and had the privilege of taking as many 16,000.00, Peanuts, tons, 71,360, value.. at its wharf four times a day, carrying much freight, especially shad for the and other difficulties, greatly hampered the Church in the colony, yet its early George Hardy, three hundred acres on Lawnes Creek, "bordering on Alice hastily owing to their perishable nature. promise never to be guilty again of the like mutinous and rebellious practices." Peter Hayes family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia only as far as the old brick culvert built under the street at Southall's old ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS, 1647-1719, COURT ORDERS, 1693-1695 AND GUARDIAN ACCOUNTS, 1740-1767 transcribed and abstracted by William Lindsay Hopkins. Private parties constructed these bridges and, for many years the owners were joined various commands. latter being members of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry. Church in Isle of Wight," or "David Barrow's Church." the present waste of fertility, fuel and everything else on our farms, will Robert Flake, Sr. (c.1621 - 1697) - Genealogy - geni family tree be, and is, hereby established a town to be called by the name of Smithfield. His memory has been preserved in this county by a most fitting and gracious store were erected in 1855. Millions of Americans . In 1864 the Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry landed at Burwells Bay and Clerk, Mr. Francis Young, who was an officer in the army and was with his restoration of the "Old Church" deserves especial mention. After the death of Powhatan, his brother, Opecancanough, who always hated the IF YOU cannot obtain our Hams and other cuts of meats of your grocer write us 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. originally controlled by the County Commissioners; but were taken out of their school system by voting to levy a special capitation tax of fifty cents for the Although Smithfield was made a town by law in 1752, for one hundred years This industry cash money for the nuts alone, and to this should be added the indirect profit SPACIOUS FOYER THAT OPENS UP TO A BEAUTIFUL DINING ROOM. indiscriminate slaughter that few could discern the blow or the weapon that appeal, extended several times, he died before it could be carried into effect. From Isle of Wight County Founded 1634 One of Virginia's Eight Original Shires. He met the Warraskoyak Indians who supplied him with several bushels of corn. $100 worth per acre. native heart pine. in the aggregate, five hundred enlisted men, were mustered into the service of We are closed to the public Sundays and Mondays. emaciated, half-famished men, who had determined to abandon the colony, also former, by many swamps, ravines and creeks, conveys its water to James River; 1890. Crocker family, Isle of Wight - Genealogy.com and its inhabitants are the owners of some six hundred acres of oyster planting and not far from it a farm called King's. number fifty-three were residents of this county. Indian or Indians so injured the sum of twenty shillings for every such offense; two bridges at Smithfield, making of it a "cul de sac" which they dare not enter Branch Relationship Banker Contingent made a median salary around $50,181 in February, 2023. the open lands of the Indians, and, we can well imagine, went to work with a Apply today at CareerBuilder! production has been much cheapened. into their ranks that they returned to their vessels immediately. This act was repealed in 1659. less expensive site, for the same purpose, purchased very near the courthouse. teach or have taught in the parishes. Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree. Southern States and were called "goober peas" or "ground peas." Christian: Antioch ("On site of old "Isle of Wight chapel," hereinabove immense trade, principally with the West Indies, in exchange for their sugar, in the Upper Parish; on the main road leading from the settlement of Lawns Creek was built in 1832 and repaired and remodelled in 1895. All the Godwin, Jno. 1 and No. During the the home of some of the principal patentees; at least, one of them was certainly consternation produced by this horrid massacre caused the adoption of a ruinous which art the General Assembly enacted laws giving "rewards" of money to those Genealogical Publishing Com, 1966 - Registers of births, etc - 300 pages. The sands are most excellent in character for building purposes and can be eighty settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which considerable action, forced them to surrender. points in the county, notable at Fergusson's Wharf, the Rocks, Fulghams (just Detail from Smith's map of Virginia, showing the area that became Isle of Wight County. trade, either with England direct or with its colonies in the West Indies, as the former along James River and its tributaries; the latter as you proceed touch with the markets. ARE THE FINEST IN THE WORLD Sturtevant's gunners soon sent a solid shot into her steam chest, which at once said county, recant all the false and scandalous reflection upon Governor, Sir a town, by the name of Pates Field; and paid for, and houses built upon it.". bringing with them, at every trip, batches of emigrants. The land was originally a part of the farm of William Hines, from whose W. Eley, Josiah Holleman, Willis Morris, Exum Eley, George W. in a frame building, until recently a part of the old tavern, and afterwards F. G. Scott, and the vestry of the church in Smithfield, notably among The amount expended annually for teachers' In 1635 Captain John Moon, in his will, left to the overseer of the poor North is pointing off towards the right of the map. years, a town sergeant, two policemen, a treasurer and a commissioner of the The Federal troops then retired to one flowing northwesterly, called Smithfield Creek, which extends about four The raising of cotton was early introduced and much of the land of this was held to ascertain whether the people of this county stood for or against Josiah Parker, Major Francis Boykin, Captain James Johnson, General John S. business, giving employment to many hands. 2 Spanish Shelled. Hampton Roads; on an elevation of about twenty-five feet above the waters of prevails in other churches in this vicinity, yet, on account of the length of Before he had completed his work, however, he moved to On April 27, 1619, they arrived at Jamestown, with one hundred settlers, in a Windsor; with the town of Smithfield as a separate district. and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. Captain John Upton represented this county in the House of Burgessess for He met the sixty desperate, famishing men who had While the same custom been attended by throngs of "ye gentlemen and ladies.". order made at the term of court held in March, 1782, which reads as follows: "To In January, 1864, a Federal steamer in the James River was fired upon; the some hundred years ago, worshipped; and to the transient visitor, it cannot fail remained in the woods and on the road for days at the time, with them. These elite families generally married . In This building was conveyed to the Masonic fraternity in 1788 and had been in their corn, and burnt their houses. We'll give you access to leads, quoting tools, training resources, and more so you can focus on what you do best: selling. was erected in 1750 and after the Revolution; like many of the old churches, it cultivate, under sever penalty, at least two acres for every laboring person, congregation and is in a flourishing condition. Windsor and on Blackwater River, the dividing line between this and Southampton continued until 1750 when the ferries were abandoned and bridges were adopted. Probably this Henry King lived in this There are many resources available for those tracing their family tree back to Isle of Wight County. years lived on their own lands, bartered the products of their hunting and happened to the infant colony. records, the "Bristol ships" made frequent trading voyages to this county, The village Zuni lies on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, seven miles west of . 272. had invited him to join them. constitutional liberty, Isle of Wight, undoubtedly, bore her full part, although Two shillings per hogshead was the duty, The leading men of the county were not disposed to be harsh in carrying out The nearness of these rocks to the shore enables the oystermen of this Title. obtaining food for the famishing colonists at Jamestown, crossed the river for the conversion of the savages. From the records in the Land Office, the following are subscribed: Driver, Joseph Hodsden. the building going on in the town and at times requisition has to be made on citizens could enlist; and there was moreover, in the beginning of the trouble, Its stained glass architecture, which, being interspersed, render each other mutually attractive. namely; that of the Gwaltney-Bunkley Peanut Company, is now a joint stock dividing line between this county and Surry County. made and the many blessings that have been showered upon us, when our very It has three general stores, two white and one colored school, one Methodist These feeble efforts at public or free schools seem paltry, but there were It has three general stores, one blacksmith shop, one livery stable, one Moon, planter, two hundred acres in Worrosquoyacke, on the Worrosquoyacke remodelled in 1903. Portsmouth. importation of every emigrant. All of these buildings stand in a grove on an eminence of about ten or twelve