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Please not that in most presentations of this list, made from a muster
to establish who had died, there is not mention of the survivors of the
attack included on it or in fact were missing. . It was not assumed there
were survivors at the time of the muster. All Jamestown knew was
that persons were missing, and it was assumed some had been taken into
the outposts to be killed and or mutilated. But among those on the
list are several who were later retuned to the colony. all of Martin's
Hundred, and all women, who had been forced to lives of slavery within
the Powhatan Confederacy. One, upon return by payment of a ransom, found
that the ransom payer expected her to prolong the service of her husband,
whose contract had been cut short by the massacre.
but lost at the time of the muster, later returned in part to Jamestown, and all women taken into captivity duringthe assault.
"Edward Waterhouse, a secretary for the Virginia Company, reported in his official Declaration of the State of the Colony and a Relation of the Barbarous Massacre that 77 peopleó52 men, 16 women, six children, and three unspecifiedówere killed in the attack at Martinís Hundred alone. However, Waterhouse overestimated the number slain, for he listed as dead several women who were unaccounted for and were presumed killed but who were, in fact, captives. At least 58 colonists died at the plantation, and the dazed and despairing survivors had every reason to believe that those missing had either been killed in inaccessible areas, hacked or burned beyond recognition, or captured, which they believed would lead to certain death.....Slowly, however, Englishmen on both sides of the Atlantic came to believe that a number of women from Martinís Hundred who had been presumed killed by the Indians were still alive. A year after the uprising, Richard Frethorne, a settler in Wolstenholme Towne, reported that the Powhatans held 15 people from that plantation in their villages, while another source indicated that there were ì19 English persons retayned . . . in great slaveryî among the Indians and that ìthere were none but women in Captivitie . . . for the men they tooke they putt . . . to death.î " http://americanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blmartinshundred.htm
Among them were women
of Martins Hundred, and they were later returned to Jamestown in exchange
for peace. AMong those in the muster are Mistress Boyse, sent march 1623
dressed like an Indian ìQueen,î "With her at the Indian stronghold
near present-day
West Point, Virginia, were Mistress Jeffries, wife of Nathaniel Jeffries
who
survived the uprising, and Jane Dickenson, wife of Ralph Dickenson, an
indentured servant slain in the assault. "
"It soon became clear that the fate of the missing women depended not
upon official concern or humanitarian instincts but upon the principle
that everything and everybody had a price. Near the end of 1623,
more than a year and a half after the uprising, the prosperous Dr.
Pott ransomed Jane Dickenson and other women from the Indians for a few
pounds of trade beads. ?After her release, Dickenson learned that she owed
a debt of labor to Dr. Pott for the ransom he had paid and
for the three years of service that her deceased husband had left
on his contract of servitude at the time of his death. She complained
bitterly that her new ìservitude . . . differeth not from her slavery with
the Indians.î
By 1624, no more than seven of the fifteen to twenty hostages had arrived
in Jamestown. The majority of them returned with Jane Dickenson.
Those who did not come back were presumed killed during the 1622
attack, although one captive, Anne Jackson, was not returned until 1630.
Mistress Boyse, the first of the missing women to rejoin the colony, was
not mentioned in official records following her return. Another of the
captives, Mistress Jeffries, died within a few months of her release.
Anne Jackson probably returned to the colony badly
broken from the consequences of her captivity, for in 1630 the council
ordered that she ìbee sent for England with the first opportunity,î
with the stipulation that her brother take care of her until she
was on board a ship. Nothing more was heard of Jane Dickenson after she
petitioned the council in March 1624 for release from her ìslaveryî
with Dr. Pott.
22 March Last, to the end that their lawful heirs (heyres in original text) may take speedy order for the inheriting of their lands and estates there: For which the Honorable Company of Virginia are ready doe them all rights and favor.
At Captain Berckley's Plantation seated at the Falling Creek, some 66 miles from James Citty Co, Virginia.
John Berkley, esq
Robert Horner Mason
Thomas Brasington
Philip Barnes
John Sawyer
William Swandal
Roger David
Robert Williams, wife & child
Francis Gowsh
Giles Bradshawe, wife & child
Bartholomew Peram
John Howlet, and son
Giles Peram
Thomas Wood, and Collin's his man
John Dowler
Joseph Fitch Apothecary to Dr Pots
Laurence Dowler
Lewis Williams
Richard Boscough
Thomas Holland
John Hunt
At Master Thomas Sheffields Plantation, some 3 miles from the Falling Creek.
Master Thomas Sheffield Mathew_____
& Rachael his wife
Judeth Howard
John Reeve
Thomas Poole
William Tyler, a boy
Methusalem_____
Samuel Reeve
Thomas Taylor
John Ellen
William Tyler
Robert Tyler, a boy
At Henrico Iland, about 2 miles from Sheffield's Plantation.
____Adkins
William Perigo
____Weston
Owen Jones, one of Capt
Philip Shatford
Berkley's people.
Slain of Colledge People, 2 miles from Henrico Citie
Samuel Stringer
Thomas Cooke
George Soldan
John Clements
William Basset
James Faulkoner
John Perry
Christopher Henley
Edward Ember
William Jordan
Jarret Moore
Robert Davis
Thomas Xerles
Thomas Hobson
Thomas Freeman
William Baily
John Allen
At Apo-mattucke River at Master Abraham Pierce, His Plantation 5 miles from the Colledge People
William Charte
John Baker, a boy
John Waterhouse
Robert Yeoman
At charles Citie, about the precincts of Capt. Smith's Company
Roger Royal
Edward Heydon
Thomas Jones
Henry Bushel
Robert Maurel
At Plantations adjoining
Richard Prat, & brother Richard, a boy
Henry Milward, wife, Goodwife
Redhead
Child, and sister
At Mr. William Farrar's House
Master John England, Thomas, his
man
and his man
John Bel
James Woodshaw
Henricke Peterson, Alice Mary, a servant
His wife, William, his Elizabeth, a servant
son
At Berkley-Hundred, 5 miles from Charles Citie
Capt George Thrope, Esq Giles Bradway
John Rowles
Richard Fereby
Richard Rowles, wife Thomas Thrope
And child
Robert Jordan
Giles Wilkins
Edward Painter
At Westover, 1 mile from Berkley-Hundred
James English Richard Dash
At Master John West's Plantation
Christopher Turner David Owen
At Capt Nathaniel West's
Michael Aleworth John Wright
At Lt. Gib's his Dividend
John Paly
Richard Waineham
Thomas Ratcliffe
Benomy Reyman
Michael Booker
Thomas Gay
John Higglet
James Vpfall
Nathaniel Earle
Daniel _____Mr Dombelowes
John Gibbes
man
Willaim Parker
At Mr. Richard Owens house
Richard Owens
One old maide called
Stephen Dubo
Margaret
Francis, an Irishman William Reeve
Thomas Paine
At Master Owen Macar's house
Owen Macar
Richard Yeaw
Garret Farrel
one boy
At Master Macock's Dividend
Capt Samuel Macock, esq Thomas Browne
Edward Leister, a
John Downes
Signer of the Mayflower
Compact.
At Flowerdieu-Hundred, Sir George Yeardley's Plantation
John Philips
Robert Taylor
Thomas Nufon
Samuel Jarret
John Bradford
Elizabeth Bennet
At the other side of the River from Flowerdieu-Hundred
Master Hobson, & his wife Thomas Philips
Richard Storks
Richard Campton
John Slaughter
Anne Greene
At Mr Swinhowe's house
Mistress Swinhowe,
John Larkin
son Thomas
William Blyth
And son George
Thomas Grindal
Richard Mosse
At Mr. William Bikars house
William Bykar
Edward Peirce
Mathew Hawthorn &
Nicholas Howsdon
wife
At Weynoack of Sir George Yeardley's people
Nathaniel Elie
Thomas Ap-Richard
John Flores
Henry Haynes
Henry Gape
John Blewet
___Buckingham
Henry Rice
William Pusset
____Hurt
William Walker
Jonas Alport
John Gray
Thomas Stephens
James Boate
Samuel Goodwine
John Suersby
John Snow & his boy
Thomas Evans
Margery Blewet
At Powel-brooke
Capt. Nathan Powel, esq Thomas Woolcher
His wife dau of Mr Tracy William Meakins
Mistress Bray
Robert ____
Adam Rayner's wife
Peter Jordan
Barbara Burges
Peter Goodale
William Head
At Southampton-Hundred
Robert Goffe, his wife John
Davis
William Larkum
William Mountfort
At Martin Brandon's
Lt Sanders
2 boys
Ensigne Sherley
Mathew, a Polander
John Taylor & wife
At Capt Spilman's
John Basingthwayte Walter Shawe
At Ensigne Spence's house
William Richmond
William Fierfax
John Fowler
the Tinker
Alexander Bale
Persons slain at Martin's -Hundred 7 miles from James Citie
Lt, Richard Kean
Edward How, his wife
Master Thomas Boise
& child
Mrs Boise and baby
child of John Jackson
4 of his men
4 man-servants
a maide
Ralphe Digginson & wife and servant
2 children
Richard Cholfer
Nathaniel Jefferies wife George Jones
Margaret Davis
Cisley Cooke & wife
Richard Staples
David Bons
His wife & child
John Bennet
2 maides
John Mason
6 men and boys
William Pawmet
Walter Davis & brother
Thomas Bats
Christopher Guillam
Peter Lightburrow
Thomas Combar
James Thorley
3 servants
Robert Walden
John Boise & wife
Thomas Tolling
A maide
John Butler
4 man-servants
Maximillian Russel
Laurence Wats & wife
Henry, a Welsh-man
2 man-servants
Timothy Moise, his man
Henry Bromage & wife
His daughter and
Man
At Thomas Peirce House over against Mulberry Island
Thoma Peirce & wife
John Samon
And child
a French boy
John Hopkins
At Edward Bennet's Plantation
Thomas Brewood & wife Richard
Lewis
His child, 2 servants Edward Towse
Thomas Ferris
Remember Michel
George Cole
____Bullocke
Robert Gray
Richard Chandler
John Griffin
Henry Moore
Ensigne Harrison
Nicholas Hunt
John Costard
John Corderoy
David Barry
Richard Cockwell
Thomas Sheppard
John Howard
Henry Price
Mrs Harrison
Robert ____
Rebbecca____
Alice Jones
Master Prowse
Thomas Cooke
Hugh_____
Philip Worth
John______
Mathew a maide
Edward____
Francis Winder
Mrs Chamberlen
Thomas Couly
Parnel a maide
Richard Woodward
Humfrey Sherbrooke
Humfrey Cropen
John Wilkins
Thomas Bacon
John Burton
Evan Watkins
Mr. John Pounti's men:
John Scotchmore
Edward Turner
Lt Peirce Man:
Edward Brewster
Capt Whittaker's man:
Thomas Holland
At Master Walter's house
Edward Walters
a maide
& His wifea boy
and child
A TOTAL OF 347 men, women, and children.
Abstracted
and compiled by Linda Chandler © 1999
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