Companion space page for Category: Chesapeake Colony Ships. See also Category: Southern Colony Ships (for the Carolinas and Georgia) and Category: Jamestown Colony Ships (for ships which are also under that category).

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Chesapeake Colony Ships

Note: There are many ships with the same name that are not the same.

Ships may have made more than one voyage and even several in one year.

Chesapeake Bay area includes Jamestown, Virginia, Colony of Virginia, and Province of Maryland.

State Abbreviations:

• Virginia (VA)
• Maryland (MD)

Ships Under the Crown 1605-1609

Jamestown (Fleet) (3 ships below)

SHIP	CPT/MST	DPT	ARRIVAL
Susan Constant	Christopher Newport	Dec 1606 England,	1607 Jamestown, VA
Godspeed, aka "Goodspeed"	Bart. Gosnold	Dec 1606 England	1607 Jamestown, VA
Discovery, aka "Discoverie"	John Ratcliffe	Dec 1606 England	1607 Jamestown, VA

First Supply DPT: 18 Oct 1607 Gravesend, England ARRIVAL: 12 Jan 1608 Jamestown, VA

SHIP	CPT/MST	DPT	ARRIVAL
John and Francis	Christopher Newport	Oct 18, 1607 Gravesend, England	Jan 12, 1608 Jamestown, VA
Phoenix	Francis Nelson	Oct 18, 1607 England	VA

Second Supply DPT: Aug 1608 England ARRIVAL: Oct 1608 Jamestown, VA

SHIP	CPT/MST	DPT	ARRIVAL
Mary Margaret	Christopher Newport	Aug 1608	Oct 1608 Jamestown, VA

Ships Under The Company 1609-1625

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Smythe Administration 1609-1619

The Third Supply was a flotilla of 9 ships, all intended for Jamestown, VA. Commanded by Admiral Sir George Somers.

Ships Under Sandys-Southampton Administrations 1619-1625

Ships When Voyages Resumed by the Crown 1624-1627

Sources

• Alexander Brown, "The first republic in America", Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1898 - 688 pages. (Google eBook)
• The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700: With Their Ages, the Localities where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars, from Mss. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England. Great Britain. Public Record Office. Chatto and Windus, 1874 - 580 pages (Google eBook)
• "Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620 - 1650" by Charles Edwards Banks, Edited and Indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, Southern Book Company, Baltimore, 1957
• Pilgrim Ship Lists Early 1600's, Anne Stevens.
• Ships Passenger Lists by Year of Arrival, olivetreegenealogy.com
• Jamestown 1624/5 Muster Records, Virtual Jamestown