Nathaniel West (1592 - bef. 1624)

Born 30 Nov 1592 in Hampshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Greville) Mathews — married about 1621 in Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died before Feb 1624 before age 31 in West Shirley Hundred, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Lieut. Col. Nathaniel West, son of Thomas West, Knt., 2nd Lord La Warr (or De La Warr) and Anne Knolles (or Knollys, Knowles), was born 30 November 1592 and was baptized at Causum.^[1][2]

He immigrated to Virginia, probably in 1618,^[1][2] or he perhaps arrived in 1617 with Deputy Governor Argall, who commissioned Nathaniel as Captain "by instructions from Lo: La Warr Govr. & Captain Genl. of Virga."^[3]

Nathaniel married Frances Greville^[3] in 1621, in Virginia.^[1][2] They had one son:

• Nathaniel West, Esq.,^[1][2][3] who perhaps married Jane Adams and Elizabeth Preston^[4]

At the time of the March 1622 Massacre, West had a plantation at Westover, about a mile from Berkeley-Hundred, close to those of his brothers John and Francis. Two men were listed as killed at Captain Nathaniel West's: Michael Aleworth and John Wright.^[5]

Nathaniel died before February 1623/4,^[1][2] as "Capt. Nath. West" was listed among the "dead in Virginia, since April last" at "West and Sherlow hundred" on 16 February 1623/4.^[6]

The 7 February 1624/5 Jamestown muster finds his son, Nathaniel West, born in Virginia, and a Mrs. Francis West ("widdowe"; arrived 1620 aboard the Supply) in the household of Capt. Francis West, "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land".^[7]

Nathaniel's widow, Frances, married second Abraham Peirsey, and third Capt. Samuel Mathews,^[2] with whom she had two sons, Samuel and Francis.^[3] Frances died in or before about 1634.^[1]

Research Notes

Disputed Daughter

Nathaniel West, Esq. is the only known child of Nathaniel and Frances.^[1] Alice West was detached as their child in 2016.

West and Shirley Hundred

From Charles City website: "In 1613 Europeans planted a settlement at West and Shirley Hundred on the north side of the James River."^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume V, pages 353-357 WEST 15 and 15.viii.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume IV, page 329 WEST 15.viii.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Minnie G. Cook. "Frances Grevill West Peirsey Mathews" in The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, 1935, pages 299–303. Online at JSTOR, accessed 12 June 2020.
4. ↑ Visitation of Lancs 1664 (Dugdale), ed. Raines, pt. 3, Chetham Soc. 88 (1873), page 330, West of Borwick. The Lancashire connection is explained in VCH Lancs, Vol. 8, p. 170-5, footnote 40. A daughter of the 3rd Lord West (Governor of Virginia) had married into the Bindloss family, who had bought the manor.
5. ↑ Jamestowne Society website: The List of Those Massacred - March 22, 1622
6. ↑ R.F. Walker. Colonial Records of Virginia, (Richmond, VA: Superintendent Public Printing, 1874). Available for download from the Jamestowne Society, A List of the Names of the Dead in Virginia since April Last, dated Feby 16th, 1623[/4].
7. ↑ West search results (1624/25 Jamestown Muster)
8. ↑ History of Charles City County (accessed 12 Jun 2020).

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Cokayne, George Edward and Vicary Gibbs ed. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. IV: Dacre - Dysart, 2nd edition. (London, 1916). Online at Archive.org, pages 160-161: de la Warr (brother Thomas). See also WikiTree's source page for Complete Peerage.

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project 12 June 2020 by Thiessen-117.

Nathaniel West, along with his siblings Francis West, John West, Thomas West, and Elizabeth (West) Saltonstall, are listed in Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry as Gateway Ancestors (I:xxiii-xxix "List of Colonial Immigrants") and are in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project in May 2015 (and re-reviewed in June 2020) to surety barons William de Mowbray, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Hugh le Bigod and Roger Bigod. The trails are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of John West's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".