Henry Southey Esq. (abt. 1581 - abt. 1623)

Born about 1581 in Rimpton, Somerset, England

Descendants

Died about Apr 1623 at about age 42 in Jamestown, James City, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Southey Southey Esq. is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Southey Southey Esq. was a Jamestown colonist.

Henry Southey^[1]

Early Settler’s List The earliest known settler among our forebearers was not a Stevenson, but an antecedent of Benjamin Stevenson’s wife, Mary (Polly) Cox Stevenson. He was Henry Southey who was granted 5000 acres near Jamestown, Virginia, in 1621. He and 5 children were killed in the Indian massacre of 1622. Only his wife and daughter Ann, escaped. Ann married Nathaniel Littleton who settled at Accomac, Virginia, about 1635. Captain William Whittington, also a forbearer of Polly Cox, settled in Eastern Shore, Virginia, about 1635-40. For detailed genealogy see Section IB - Antacedents of Mary (Polly) Cox Stevnson. There is a John Stevenson listed inn the original boatload that settled in Jamestown in 1607; but we have no record of his relationship, if any to us. The Early Settlers List in the Hgall of Records at Annapolis records the following Stevensons’ if they are related we have no data on it. ^[2]

Notes for ESQ. Henry Southey: Henry Southey and his family sailed to Jamestown, Virginia in 1622 aboard the ship "Southampton". By the following year a census was taken of the colonists at the Jamestown settlement following an Indian massacre in which about 300 settlers died on Good Friday March 22, 1623. Henry Southey and all his children, except for oldest daughter Ann, were deceased. His widow Elizabeth Southey and Ann were living in reduced circumstances in Jamestown and listed in the 1623 census as having Corne, 2 bushells; Meale, 1 bushell; Fish, 1 hundred; Swine, 1.^[3]

Southey Family of Henry1 I,  Arrived via ship "Southampton" in 1622 with wife, six children and ten servants; Granted a patent for 900 acres by Virginia Company in London. Child Henry died between 5/1626 and 9/1627. Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth and another child died after arrival in 1622 and before census taken in February, 1624. From Stevenson family history: from the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Old Somerset, renamed Worcester County) to Woodford County, Kentucky, to Putnam County, Indiana, with allied families by Stevenson, Margaretta. Henry Southey...granted 5000 acres near Jamestown, VA in 1621. He and 5 children were killed in the Indian massacre of 1622. Only his wife and daughter Ann escaped. Henry Southey, Esquire of Rimpton, in Somersetshire in England at a meeting of the Virginia Company 16 January 1621 desired a patent for a plantation in Virginia to him and his associates undertaking to transport 100 persons thither. Patent for 5000 acres granted 21 January. He arrived on the good ship "Southampton" in 1622 with his wife Elizabeth Eldy, 6 children and 10 servants. He and 5 children were killed in the Indian massacre at Jamestown in 1622. Mrs. Southey and Ann escaped and were living in James City (Jamestown) in 1623; they were in the census also in 1624-5. (Virginia Hist. Mag v. 25 p.341)^[4]    Henry was born circa 1575 at England or Wales.1 He married Elizabeth 'Eldy' (-----) circa 1600 at England or Wales.2 Henry Southey with his wife, six children and ten servants came to Virginia in 1622 in the Southampton. The offical record, Jan 1621/2, states "that one Mr. Henry Southey, a Somersetshire gentleman, did desire a patent for a particular Plantation in Virginia, to him and his associates undertaking to transport one hundred persons thither. The Council for Virginia in London promptly authorized his patent; his arrival in Virginia was noted by the Council and he was assigned at once "900 acres of land to be taken up in any place not already chosen."3 Henry died circa 1623 at Accomack Co, VA.

Note: Of Rimpton, a Somersetshire Gentleman. Arrived Jamestown on SOUTHAMPTON 1622 Ref Virginia Historical Magazine Vol page 341 ^[5]

Arrived via ship "Southampton" in 1622 with wife, six children and ten servants; granted a patent for 900 acres by Virginia Company in London.

Henry Southey was born in 1580 in Rimpton, Somerset, England died: after 1640 in James City, Virginia 1626: The Council at James City entered this order: Whereas Mr. Henry Southey arrived in this Country in the good shipp the Southampton Ano domini 1622 with his wiefe and six children and tenn servants it is ordered that his heyre Henry Southey shall have nyne hundred Acres of lande and to be taken in any place not already chosen and taken up.  In 1640 it was recorded that Nathaniel Lyttleton and his father-in-law, Henry Southey, owned thirteen slaves, and that the former sold one for 1,200 pounds of tobacco.   This is the first recorded instance of a slave sale in Accomack.^[6]

Research notes

There were people named Southey living in Rimpton, Somerset, for two or three generations before the birth of Henry Southey. It is not known how they are related.

In Common Pleas:

• 1527 John Southey, of Rempton, husbandman, defendant for debt^[7]
• 1584 Andrew Southye, of Rympton, yeoman, defendant for debt^[8]

There is a fragment of the parish register of Rimpton, covering baptisms for the years 1537-64. On the first page is the royal coat of arms and the explanation that this register book was begun at the command of Thomas Cromwell, the last of October, 1537 "by me Henrie Southey".^[9]

• February 1538/9 Joanna Southey baptised (image 3)
• December 1543 John Southey baptised (image 4)
• April 1546 Henry Southey baptised (image 4)
• January 1548/9 Robert Southey baptised (image 5)
• February 1549/50 William Southey baptised (image 5)
• March 1550/51 John Southey baptised (image 5)
• May 1552 Agnes Southey baptised (image 5)
• April 1554 Joana Southey baptised (image 6)
• September 1555 Richard Southey baptised (image 6)
• September 1560 Andrew Southey son of Richard Southey baptised (image 7)
• July 1562 Jane Southey daughter of Richard Southey baptised (image 8)
• March 1562/3 Mary Southey daughter of Richard Southey baptised (image 8)

The similarity of handwriting throughout the register probably means that this was a clean copy made in or after 1564.

Sources

1. ↑ Jamestowne Society: Southey, Henry - A9689; died by 1623; (Muster of 1623/4, listed as dead). accessed 13 September 2020
2. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14558146/person/20006283211
3. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14558146/person/20006283211/media/4?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum
4. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14558146/person/20006283211/media/3?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum
5. ↑ http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/p201.htm#i20077
6. ↑ http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cloud/TX/d86.htm#P7319
7. ↑ http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/H8/CP40no1055/aCP40no1055fronts/IMG_0104.htm
8. ↑ http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/Eliz/CP40no1420/aCP40no1420fronts/IMG_0033.htm
9. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60856/images/englb030d_d-p-rim-2-1-1_m_00002?ssrc=&backlabel=Return

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