George Percy (1580 - 1632)

Born 4 Sep 1580 in Petworth, Sussex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Floyd) Percy — married about 1605 in Hampshire, England [uncertain]

Died Mar 1632 at age 51 in England

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Biography

George Percy was a Jamestown colonist.

"George Percy was the eighth son of Henry, 8th Earl of Northumberland, by his wife Catherine, eldest daughter of John Neville, Lord Latimer. He was born September 4, 1580; served for a time as a soldier in the Netherlands; sailed for Virginia in the first expedition, December 20, 1606, and was president during the terrible time from September, 1609, to the arrival of Gates in May, 1610. When Lord Delaware left Jamestown in March, 1611, Percy was again placed at the head of the colony until the arrival of Dale in May following.

He left Virginia April 22, 1612, and reached England in the following summer. He never returned to Virginia, but about 1625, when war was declared with Spain, he went again to the Netherlands, where as captain of a company he distinguished himself, and lost a finger in battle. He died unmarried in 1632."^[1]Wikipedia claims that George did marry a woman named, Anne Floyd.^[2][3] Note: This source documents marriage to Anne Floyd, but not date of marriage;

"Some seventeenth-century pedigrees at Alnwick Castle insist that Percy married Anne Floyd or Lloyd in Virginia, while others include no reference to a marriage. One pedigree compiled around 1673 states categorically that Percy died a bachelor, that he "left noe estate." None of this can be taken at face value. Many family pedigrees from the 1670s were "adjusted" either to refute or sustain the claim of James Percy, who, with the earldom vacant for want of a male heir, maintained that he was descended from one of the ninth earl's brothers" ^[4]

George Percy. ^{[5] [6][7]}

Birth

Birth Date: 4 Sep 1580.

Birth Place; Petworth, Sussex, , England. ^[5][6]

Death

Death Date:1632

Death Place: England ^[5]

Immigration

Event: Arrival

Event Date:1606

Event Place: Virginia^[8]

Research Notes

Though commonly found online from older sources, there is absolutely no evidence that Anne West's LNAB is Percy. In fact there is no contemporary evidence that her supposed father George Percy ever married or had any children at all. It is an old identification (probably intentional fraud) which is no longer accepted. — Joe Cochoit March 26, 2019.

Sources

1. ↑ Tyler, L.G. (1907). "Narratives of early Virginia, 1606 - 1625," (pp. 1907). Original Narratives of Early American History. J. Franklin Jameson, Ph.D., LL.D., ED. American Historical Association. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. FamilySearch.org. eBook Narrative of early Virginia: George Percy.
2. ↑ Wikipedia
3. ↑ The encyclopedia bases this on the research of: Brenan, Gerald (1902). A History of the House of Percy, from the Earliest Times Down to the Present. London: Freemantle. Vol. II pp. 208–9.
4. ↑ Encyclopedia Virginia, n.d.).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 Volume: Vol. IV Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.A
7. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc Place: Virginia; Year: 1606; Page Number: 809
8. ↑

See also:

• A Trewe Relacyon, (1625). www.history.org
• Observations gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English, 1606. Written by that Honorable Gentleman, Master George Percy. Cited in Tyler.
• Collins, Arthur, and Egerton Brydges. "Percy, Duke of Northumberland." Collins's Peerage of England Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. II. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son ... [et Al., 1812. 217-366. Print.
• George Percy (1580–1632 or 1633). Encyclopedia Virginia. www.encyclopediavirginia.org.
• Wikipedia: George Percy
• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
• Brenan, Gerald (1902). A History of the House of Percy, from the Earliest Times Down to the Present. London: Freemantle. Vol. II; pp. 208–9. Note: This source documents marriage of George Percy to Anne Floyd. Quote: On May 23, 1609, his name occurs in the list of incorporators of the second company of Virginian adventurers. His first intention was to have settled down in the Dominion, for he obtained considerable grants of lands (subsequently alienated) and married Anne Floyd, daughter of one of the colonists at Jameston. ... His death occurred in 1632, a few months after that of Northumberland; and he does not appear to have left any children by his wife, Ann Floyd.¹ This, however, is not absolutely certain. Ann Floyd remained behind in America after her husband's return to England.