Re: 16 days after the Massacre at Jamestown
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Re: 16 days after the Massacre at Jamestown
Roy Huddleston 11/03/04
Dear Mr. Huddleston.
I found your entries on the hfhc web site, which I monitor because I am descended from one James Huddleston of Mifflin Co., PA (who removed to KY in 1796, thence to IN and points west.)I noticed your interest in Jn. Huddleston of the Bona Nova, whom I had found several places in the Virginia State Library.I thought you might be interested in some of the things I found about him.
"John Huddleston, Mariner" was deeded 100 acres of land on 26 April 1621 by a grant signed by Sir George Yeardly.The land was described as sold on 5 July 1636 to a Capt. Christopher Calthropp, adjacent to the 100 acres of a Richard Cox, Atty, and "west upon waters."Since George Yeardley was overseer of Accomack County, it appears this land was on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, facing the Chesapeake Bay shore.See "Book of Cavaliers and Pioneers Land Patents and Grants,: Vol I (1632 - 66), VA State Library and Archives, Richmond, 1992, Page 44
" At James City Court comprising Dr. Pott, Capts Smythe and Mathews, "Mr. Secretary" and "Mr. Ffarrar," an Alice Boyse, widow of Luke Boyse, sued Capt. John Huddleston for slandering her by alleging illicit relations with a Capt Epes.See VMHB (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography), Vol XXCII, Page 265
Capt. John Huddlestone ((note spelling variation)) swore at James City Court on 14 Jan 1627 that he transported from London to Virginia five men on the account of one Mr. Sharples.This was a fraud case.See VMHB XVII, Page 325.
Capt John Huddleston in May 1622 was master of the Virginia Company's ship Bona Nova on a fishing voyage off Main.He sent a boat to Plymouth Colony warning the Pilgrims of the 1622 Jamestown Massacre.John Winslow of Plymouth was sent to the fleet to beg for provisions ((Plymouth Colony was near to starvation that year)), and wrote that Huddleston "not only spared what he could, but writ to others to do the like."VMHB 62 (1954), page 159, citing the book, "Of Plymouth Plantation," by William Bradford, Pages 110-111.Also, an address on 19 Jan 1966 to the VA Historical Society by Thomas Adams, President of the Mass. Historical Society, "Bad News from Virginia," printed in VMHB 74 (1966), Page 138.
John Huddleston was master of the ship, "Thomas and John" which on 13 May 1628 delivered 2400 pounds of VA tobacco to London (page 428).At Page 430, a John Hurlston was reported as master of that ship on 17 May 1628, and to have sold 56 pounds of VA tobacco.Clearly, that was the same man and the same voyage.See "England's Tobacco Trade in the Reign of Charles I," VMHB 65 (1957), pages 428 and 430.
At Court at James City on 13 November 1626, a Hugh Crowder, Planter" was granted permission to move from the barren land owned by "Capt. John Huddleston to land at Chapooks Creek owned by Capt Ffrancis Cook.The court comprised "Sir George Yeardley, Knt, Governor &c, Dr. Potts, Capt Smith, Capt Mathews & Mr. Claybourne,"VMHB for 1918, VOL XXVI, Page 142, per ibid VOL XXVII, Page 142.(NOTE:Chapooks Creek flows from the south into the James River, and divides present Prince George and Surrey County.This is a few miles west of Jamestown, VA.)
John Huddleston of the Bona Nova was a very interesting character, I think.
David M. Hudelson
Horse Shoe, NC.
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