Virginia Threads for the Future Historian; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 1, No. 2

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Virginia Threads for the Future Historian

   Edward D. Neill

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 1, No. 2.
   (Oct., 1892), pp. 79-80.

                    VIRGINIA THREADS FOR THE FUTURE HISTORIAN.

   Not many years will elapse before a history of Virginia will be demanded,
based upon documents that were inaccessible to Stith, and later historians.

   Perhaps a few threads from time to time in the William and Mary College
Quarterly may be of use to some weaver of a new historical robe for "Old
Virginia".

   As yet it cannot be shown from documents the exact year when the Washington
immigrant began to plant in Virginia.

   There are, however, reliable data now accessible as to the coming of some
early families.  In the volumes published by the British "Public Records 
Office" are some declarations of value.

   Before the "Committee for advance of money cases", Robert Batt, grocer of
London, on the 14th of January, 1553, O.S. petitions in behalf of his brother
John, who in June, 1646, with his family went to Virginia.  Capt. John Ravens-
croft on the 10th of September, 1651, received a pass to go to Virginia.

   On the 26th of November, 1653, the Irish and Scotch Committee of Parliament,
after conferring with Col. Mathews, reported him to the Council of State as a
fit person to be governor of Virginia, which shows that the nomination of
Mathews to succeed Diggs was first made by the English authorities, and several
years before his election by the House of Burgesses.

   In November, 1652, a gratuity of L63 was given to Maria, widow of Capt.
Robert Davis, one of the commissioners to reduce Virginia, who was lost at sea;
and L60 was also given to the widow and child of the young Capt. Dennis, lost
at the same time.

   John Tailoe, in 1673, owing to financial embarrassment, left England and
purchased a plantation in Virginia.

Page 80.

   On October 20, 1714, the Privy Council requested the Lords of the Treasury
to consider the expediency of establishing a bishopric at Williamsburg, Va.,
the diocese to extend from the west shore of the Delaware river to the utmost
bounds of the British possessions.

   In 1715, John Brunskill was appointed a minister to Virginia, and a bounty
of L20 granted.

   In August, 1716, a ship was in the "Cove of York" bound for Virginia, with
118 rebels taken at the Preston battle.

                         EDWARD D. NEILL,
     Macalester College,
         St. Paul, Minn.