Francis Chamberlain (abt. 1589 - aft. 1625)

Born about 1589 in Of Billericay, Essex, England

Husband of Agnes (Haiden) Chamberlain — married 1613 in Ugley, Essex, England

Descendants

Died after 1625 after about age 36 in Elizabeth City County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Francis Chamberlain was a Jamestown colonist.

Francis Chamberlain is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Came to the Colonies (Virginia) in 1621 on the Marmaduke.^[1] Wife is listed as Rebecca by 1624 in Elizabeth City, Virginia muster rolls.^[2] He has a young son named Francis, age 3 listed as well.^[3]

"Francis Chamberlain, presumably father of Thomas, Edmond and William, was the first to settle in the colonies. He came on the Marmaduke in 1621 and John Camden Hotten's Original Lists, p. 254, shows him at Elizabeth City, Virginia, in the "muster roll" taken 7 Feb 1624/5, age 45, with wife Rebecca aged 37, small son Francis aged 3, and four servants. Significantly, his household was next-but-one to that of Daniel Cookins [sic] who was the Daniel Gookin later leading the boatload of Puritan refugees fleeing Indian raids and landing at Boston in 1644, presumably with Thomas and William Chamberlain and others unnamed. The marriage of a Francis Chamberlain to Agnes Haiden in 1613/4 at Ugley, co. Essex, England, may have pertained to him.^[2]

Francis Chamberlain and Agnes Hayden. 1580 Francis Chamberlain was born, I presume, in England. Francis contributed to our family gene pool a sense of adventure, entrepreneurship and bold risk taking. His connection, as father of Thomas, Edmond and William, is based on circumstantial evidence and can not be proved. However, unlike other prominent Chamberlain American immigrants, his connection can not be disproved. ^[4]

As a burgess, he was a Member of the Convention of 1625^[5] and a signer of that Convention's Petition to the King.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ List of Passengers on the Marmaduke Research and compilation by Anne Stevens, packrat-pro.com.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The American Genealogist. 51:151 New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
3. ↑ Jester, Annie Lash., Hiden, Martha Woodruff. 1883. Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625, Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1625: FamilySearch International, Title No. 2058494., p. 58.
4. ↑ The Chamberlain Story
5. ↑ McIlwaine, H.R. ed. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1658/59 Richmond, Virginia, MCMXV. p. ix.
6. ↑ McIlwaine, pages 43, 44.
7. ↑ Jamestowne Society: Chamberlaine, Francis - A1509; Elizabeth City Co.: 1625 (Burgess). [accessed 13 September 2021]

• McCartney, Martha: Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, p. 195.
• Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestor. (Says he was a Burgess, but he isn't in the Wikipedia list. Could be a mistake. He would qualify as a resident in the 1624/5 Muster.)
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