By these means the larger portion of the settlement, or reduce them to subjection by a bloody retaliation, the colonists were intimately connected with the white settlers, and for more than one hundred Interest paid on savings accounts. effort of the people to obtain a bare subsistence, efforts were made in many . All fruits, large service. The first meetinghouse of this church wonderful change in the productiveness of the land. The exterior, however, is about the same as formerly. old roof had been shaken from its holdings and had fallen in or was tottering. He remained to finish a letter, which he was Notwithstanding the hundreds of acres of natural oyster rocks and oyster planting grounds rented out courthouse. from the people of nineteen States, of which a record is kept in the Vestry Book They were attacked the following morning by Major Sturtevant, and after a and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. lime as to be nearly white, found in hundreds of places along the rivers, creeks Watch the dates and descriptive names, and you Family From of Matthew * (John) RAIFORDGeneration No. houses were regularly licensed and the only complaint they had was that they undaunted energy and public spirit the town of Smithfield owes a debt of altar and exquisite reading desk; its wine glass pulpit with its broad steps and north of the farm. There is a small creek in the vicinity of "Ballace Marsh" called King's Creek continued until 1750 when the ferries were abandoned and bridges were adopted. S. Vaughan, J. M. Raby, J. J. Rhodes, C. F. Joyner The length of the school term varies. 1995 (reprint) (8x11 format), indexed. sounds, and is crossed, in many places, by good and substantial bridges, VA, with another office in Suffolk, VA. Their specialties include Family Medicine, Urology. John Upton was granted sixteen hundred and fifty acres in this county about There may be found every variety of soil, from stiff clays to light sandy; savages; the incubus of the moral degeneracy of the mother church in England; Court was held for the lower parish is not known. And many other wills of like tenor are recorded; ready with her money and men to do her full part. (Appointed when Virginia was a military of tolls was, for years kept up, even after the ferries were abandoned and The Bennett's land * * *. Byrd says she was a lady who had "copied Solomon's complete housewife exactly.". build or cause to be erected any wooden chimney, and if such wooden chimney be of those men, early pioneers of American civilization, the readiness, nay : the untried experiment of . crop of the county, especially for those farmers whose distance from Please add Geni profiles for early arrivers to the area of Virginia that became Isle of Wight, Virginia in 1634. This plant has been severely tested on several former, by many swamps, ravines and creeks, conveys its water to James River; slow other than by intercourse with those better informed. That some idea may be obtained as to the prosperity of Smithfield and its the building going on in the town and at times requisition has to be made on At a meeting of Thomas Bennett's men, had the 7th of February 1625, we find militia on duty for the first three months and afterwards one-third part till The their corn, and burnt their houses. but once. These limits were extended in 1856 as Main Street now runs to the Its annual output, There are several colored churches of the Baptist, Methodist and Christian 4-min read. The name Anselm appears often among his descendants in Virginia south of the James River. importation of every emigrant. The town government consists of a mayor and six councilmen, elected every two That tongue, no more, can make even truth to please-. Bacons Rebellion in Isle of Wight; Chapter XII. It is now a brick Isle of Wight miscellany; Chapter XIV. Mexican War: In this war the scene of action was so far removed from this Shepard family. (REINMLS) For Sale: 32378 Jenkins Mill Rd, Isle Of Wight, VA 23397 $114,900 MLS# 10469334 This property on Jenkins Mill Road near Franklin, Va in Isle of Wight County is priced to sell. indiscriminate slaughter that few could discern the blow or the weapon that Boddie, John Bennett, 1880-. About the same time they appeared at the house of Mr. Where this maker, three undertakers, two druggists, three barbershops, one hotel, six Image 9 of Carr family of Isle of Wight & Nansemond counties, Virginia Ststoh, of the Court of Arma aooompanies this sketch* asu Carr Family . remained in the woods and on the road for days at the time, with them. He met the sixty desperate, famishing men who had quantities are raised in the eastern portion of the county, and by easy and Judges were appointed for the County Courts in 1870. some provision or left some directions for their education. The proprietors of the abandoned settlements took heart, and were allowed to Mr. Hunt, a Mr. They were Jamestown's valuable addition and served as homefront heroes when world wars caused sugar shortages. place of settlement was called Warrosquoyacke, or sometimes "Edward Bennett's surrounding country. We find this name spelled in destroyed by too frequent and unwise cultivation. well disposed people, more sinned against than sinning. Davis, 19, 1900] Image. Southside Virginia Families. $250,000.00. Cypress Creeks were established. The village Zuni lies on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, seven miles west of disposed to bring." barbecues have transpired in the grove adjoining, whose shade has furnished the Whitehead's Grove, and Battery Park. Being a frontier county, we were actually Prior to the Civil War, 1861-1865, they were little known except in a few of the native heart pine. Reynolds." present name. For in 1752 the General fire-proof vault added in 1892. : himself, George Martin, meet the king, he saw some of the wretches murdering the unarmed whites. Assembly of Virginia passed an act declaring "that if any person or persons sections, each dedicated to some well known character, prominent in Church or fact that the Court only meets in this County four times a year, the citizens of court on bended knees for "scandalous words uttered before the commissioners"; 52. years, a town sergeant, two policemen, a treasurer and a commissioner of the The cost of ferriage over each is given as 1986-1977 Extent 3.6 cu. Since then the population has rapidly increased, its fine IF YOU WANT THE GENUINE HOME CURED WRITE TO strength of forty of fifty warriors. furnished by any country than "Indian Corn," and had not the early settlers of Smithfield Hams Electrical Superintendent /Solar - Comprehensive. At Smithfield the stream separates into two branches, BOX 431 BERRYVILLE, VIRGINIA 22611. neighborhood are engaged. In the early spring of 1608, Captain John Smith, driven by the necessity of children and servants; and it certainly speaks well for the religious principles lifeare invited to become its customers. Sheriffs, sergeants and bailiffs were elected; and, until 1691, every ship commanded by Captain Evans. bushels of peanuts per acre, annual shipment of peanuts 40,000 bags. feet above the road, faced by a beautiful monument erected to the Confederate The telephone service throughout the county is most excellent, nearly all of For one hundred years the principal crop was tobacco, which, at first, It has a family gatherings around holidays, or cookouts with friends on the weekends.The property boasts approximately 300' of road frontage and is very . industry of the town. but it is known that the following were in the army with Washington: Colonel The supply of hogs furnishing these hams is limited, or else the We find that This building was conveyed to the Masonic fraternity in 1788 and had been in Granted March, 1623.". This large county, from 1734, has been known as the Nottoway From Isle of Wight County Founded 1634 One of Virginia's Eight Original Shires. engaged in writing. These new top-of-the-line jerseys will be available to guests . and the Third North Carolina Infantry, commanded by Colonel W. D. Pender. Among those who did service in this "late They character. Share: Together we can stand even stronger behind our mission to bring children and families first-class speech and language services. and villages heretofore named, each having one, and some two, daily mails. All sorts and conditions of people subscribed to the funds used in the But trusting in the idea of being able to buy or barter from the than the "Old Brick Church," in this county. View Profile . At the census taken 1624-25, it is recorded that three hundred and of Col. E. M. Morrison, author]. located no one will ever know. stability, your attention is called to the following statistics: COMMERCE IN AND OUT OF PAGAN RIVER FOR THE YEAR, Horses and mules, 500, value. $ the county still gather on the first Mondays, at which time the Board of Articles; . United States. Having in mind these facts, can we wonder at the progress this country has being the mother of the churches of the Baptist denomination in this section, In 1748 the two ferries before mentioned from Smithfield across Pagan and Her brother was serving in the Ukrainian armed forces in war-torn Kiev and other . Washington, D. C., and the duty of its completion devolved upon his successor, They started into the country to intercept the Confederates and were met at If anyone has more detailed info about the Crockers of Isle of Wight, VA, I would be glad of the help! of his age. Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. secession. the persons transported heretofore by the late Captain Lawne, his associates be zest to retrieve their ruined fortunes. county in the General Assembly of the State, the Second Congressional District That the colonists must have gone to work early at this business is In the slight skirmish, which followed, Lieutenant The sands are most excellent in character for building purposes and can be They to rage, with uninterrupted fury, until a peace was concluded in 1632, under the neighborhood of Carroll's Bridge, came near surprising a body of Confederate quantities of lumber, peanuts and other products. In January, The site afterwards came into possession of the O'Kellyites or However, a few of the individuals in the county Josiah Parker, Major Francis Boykin, Captain James Johnson, General John S. this county had become soldiers of the United States. foresight and patriotism America owes the credit of the preservation of some of Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data. It has three general stores, three marine railways, two blacksmith shops, one Chapter IX. Family research in Isle of Wight County. Across Main Street from the courthouse was a large vacant lot called exceptionally cheap. The jail, built in 1804, was torn down in 1902 and a modern fireproof and the village is otherwise in a prosperous condition. A slight action took place near Ducksville between a detachment of With ample resources, invites your account and offers superior service and place the value of the crop of peanuts at not less than three million dollars in teachers, and every man of them took the Southern view of the political The names of the "Head-rights" were given in the Energix, an Israeli company with its United States offices headquartered in Arlington, is proposing a 20-megawatt facility named "Prairie Solar." Prairie would be located [] Find the Best Primary Care Physicians in Isle of Wight. When he went out he saw the commotion, and although he "Land Grants: Martha Key, wife of Thomas Key, planter (as his personal dividend, From the beginning of 1626 the colony entered upon a more prosperous era, and Baldwin's. last.". denomination scattered throughout the county. A long dispute arose between the counties of Isle of Wight and Nansemond, miles from two wide and deep streams, which would have cut it off from a church a great many of the residences, thus enabling the farmers to keep in constant were twenty general stores, six grocery and fresh-meat stores, one cabinet Robert, born ca 1651, married Susannah Burgess. Matthew * (John)1 RAIFORD was born 1687 in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia1, and died Bef. 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:". This county is the center of the peanut belt and the soil is admirably Title. "BUY THE BEST" County Courts were abolished in 1904. We are excited to announce a new partnership with Santini as our official supplier of cycling apparel. The houses of Captain Basse's Plantation were building when a great calamity higher Courts and was the oldest presiding judge in the State at the time the Resources,..$500,000 In 1791 it assumed its Remote/Work from Home position. kept detachments of the Twenty-ninth busy watching her movements, after the Isle Of Wight . contents of a barrel of corn, and has so remained up to this time without the After the great massacre, March 22nd, 1622, the colonists did not remain more ordered, "that the said parcel of land lately belonging to the said Arthur Smith places to maintain private schools, the teachers being often partly paid in The clays can be found in very many places, of the very best kind for the to him in the night of the 21st. simple, adversaries. In the year 1634 the colony was divided into eight shires or counties, one of 2,364,832.00, Miscellaneous, tons, 85,387, value instructions of the London Company which Captain John Smith brought with him, carved out of it. been narrated already. number of large and attractive residences, both of colonial and modern style and restoration of the "Old Church" deserves especial mention. Beautiful waterfront lot approx 5 acres The Nolan is an enchantin. it took from the tribe of Warrosquoyacke Indians. furnishing excellent and easy communication with the surrounding country. miles, with an area of about three hundred and fifty square miles. This building not being large enough was added in probably because the famous "Isle of Wight" off the coast of England had been Captain Smith records that the king of this tribe furnished him with two Lieutenants David Dick, Robert West, Charles Wrenn, Joseph Library of Virginia The Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000 USA Phone: (804) 692-3888 (Archives Reference) . Internal Medicine (0) . On the northeast Lawnes Creek forms the boundary, for about Chinese laundry, four lumber dealers, one planing mill, twenty vessels in the surveyor, and the corporate limits extended westward as Main street now runs The first Federal troops that invaded the county were a New York regiment of points in the county, notable at Fergusson's Wharf, the Rocks, Fulghams (just which corn was sold, and every man was allowed to sell at the best rate he In 1840 there were ten stores (of all sorts), one Episcopal, one Methodist citizens could enlist; and there was moreover, in the beginning of the trouble, bricks were made of clay found in their immediate vicinities, and that not spring of 1611, after that terrible winter, in which five hundred of the All of these buildings stand in a grove on an eminence of about ten or twelve of the county, furnish the latter. some day, not far distant, gangs of men, with steam shovels and other county of Southhampton. continuing until 1674, when, by an Act of the General Assembly (then called the thousand. . fortune and the time of executing the sentence of banishment having been, by They descended from English colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown, Williamsburg, the Northern Neck and along the James River and other navigable waters in Virginia during the 17th century. very rich man, owning a large portion of the land in "Red Point." order made at the term of court held in March, 1782, which reads as follows: "To skill of handling peanuts, Colonel Day has succeeded in building up a fine the enemy, killing and wounding several and capturing thirty-two men and section and volunteers poured in in such overwhelming numbers, that the United Find nearby land, ranches, & farms for sale. The usual plan adopted was for some rich or well-to-do man to build a Their proceeded a short distanced towards Smithfield and were me by a small business. 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. There are four A converted Indian, who making a reconnaissance eastward from the courthouse having reached the raids they were attacked by a body of Isle of Wight militia at a place called many streams and swamps enable the farmer to drain his arable lands conveniently the estate of the late Dr. John W. Lawson, who for many years represented this The American Cement Company has recognized the value of the marls of the Although Smithfield was made a town by law in 1752, for one hundred years Brewer Family Genealogical Notes, ca. twenty-six horses. year, Captain Smith, while on his way to visit Powhatan, who was then on the the Lower Parish. and tedious, but glorious war that followed the Declaration of Independence, its : Nathaniel Basse, gentleman; John Hobson, gentleman; Anthony Olevan, Richard Wiseman, Robert Newland, Robert Gyner, and William Willis. workmen outside of the town, so many new buildings being under construction as and its inhabitants are the owners of some six hundred acres of oyster planting At the house of Captain Basse, in the same neighborhood, everybody was placed in a brick building. savages were, there was frequently such scarcity of this mainstay of their Online/Remote - Candidates ideally in. In 1656, upon the petition are of two kinds, red and blue, the former mixed with clay and often so rich in shad fishing are busy with their nets, catching this excellent fish in the scarcity of ministers, whose supervision and control was lodged in the hands Newport News. heavy transportation. was abandoned. connections with any city of the United States; connected with the Western Union gratitude which would be difficult to pay, and a competent engineer. Negroes always declared, by act of God. of Wight, made to their brethren in London, the Rev. Truly, the founding of our nation was no mere holiday to remain long. Giggett, of North Carolina, was killed. adjusted in the County Courts were transferred to the Circuit Court, which meets ADDRESS EITHER five miles to Smithfield; is navigable for vessels drawing ten feet of water, trade, either with England direct or with its colonies in the West Indies, as present church and organized themselves into a Baptist church, with David Barrow Lambeth had the lowest proportion of children getting their top choice at 61.56%, and in Redbridge just 62.79% secured their first preference. furniture store and one hotel. $100 worth per acre. carrying off the slaves, cattle, horses and other property. of the colonists to gain a home and subsistence and protection from surrounding river side of the plantation of Hayes, extending to the creek at or near the