Jamestown, Virginia Colony, Genealogy Resources

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Resources

• Jamestown, Virginia Colony Resource Page alll sources to prove a Jamestown ancestor are here
• Jamestown Rediscovery has accumulated a data base of over 1500. 20 years of archaeological findings with census, church, and tax records from both Virginia and Europe into one database. It includes detailed information about settlers who arrived during the first 18 years of the colony’s existence (1607- 1624). For a very small fee you can order your ancestor's record.
• 1623 The Living and Dead in Virginia: A list of names of the living in Virginia February the 16th, 1623 (aka 1623 Census)
• 1624/25 Record of Households, goods, etc in Jamestown
• FULL TEXT OF: "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 and 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"

• List of Jamestown society qualifying ancestors - The information posted by the Jamestowne Society is considered reliable, but it is not a primary source and is not infallible. Collaboration of facts is encouraged.

• http://www.jamestowne.org
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestowne_Society
• http://www.jamestowne.org/added-and-dropped-ancestors.html

Sources

• Jamestown Ships List
• https://www.americanjourneys.org/pdf/AJ-082.pdf
• https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft/page/n9/mode/2up
• The Pilgrim Ship Lists By Date
• [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Adventurers_of_Purse_and_Person_Virginia/tcM40zgdAZgC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P]*. United States: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004. link

• Adventurers of Purse and Person, The MUSTERS WikiTree Space Page

• Great Migration Ships for established categories.
• Some ships made more than one trip or made several stops in later years.
• 1623 Living and the Dead
• Chesapeake Colony Ships. This category has most passengers listed, and appears to be sourced well, but additional research will be needed to determine accuracy.
• Wikipedia list of Jamestown Colonists
• Ann Stevens
• http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/jamestown/census/jameship.txt Muster 1624/25 The originals of the 1623/4 census and the 1624/5 Muster are in the Public Record Office, London, England
• 1624 Muster of Living
• 1624/25 Record of Households, goods, etc in Jamestown
• http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/introduction.html
• http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/search.muster.cgi?start_page=0&search_type=basic&database=muster_1624&last=s%25l&first=&muster=&age-op=&age1=&age2=&ship=George&month=&year=1619&date=
• Virtual Jamestown Introduction - 1624/5 Muster Databases

• "The First Republic in America" by Alexander Brown, pg 55.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_planter

• Ancient Planters: The Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters & Wikipedia's Ancient planter page list them; check details in Hotten and Nugent (citations on this page & also on the WikiTree category page for Ancient Planters of Virginia).

• Hotten Book, 8a, Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625 chapters, pp 201 - 265, -lists muster captain, and ship the individual arrived on. Originates from this original muster (census) ordered by King James 1624-1625. Link
• "Hotten's Lists" and "Adventurersof Purse and Person"
• "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles ...", By John Camden Hotten, Great Britain. Public Record Office, a Google book.
• The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, By John Camden Hotten, A google book

• 1623 Jamestowne Living and the Dead Census

• Dorman, John Frederick. 2004. Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol 1, Fourth Edition. Geneaological Publishing Company, Inc., p. 789

• The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660, by Peter Coldham, pages 1 & 2

• Coldham's Emigrants

• http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va02.asp Listing of Second Charter to Virginia, 1609 Many members of this Charter

• http://www.whrhs.org/cms/lib07/NJ01001319/Centricity/Domain/138/colonial%20virginia%20doc.pdf

• "A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?", By Virginia Bernhard, pgs 2,3, 17 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 60, 61, 70, 75, 82, 193, 197, 219,

• Records of the Virginia Company of London, Volume I-IV Ancestry.com

• "American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly", Vol 7 (Google eBook). William Robertson Garrett, John M. Bass, Albert Virgil Goodpasture. A.V. and W.H. Goodpasture, 1902 -

• https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1059652

• London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, London Metropolitan Archives,

• Michael Bassishaw, Composite register: baptisms 1557 - 1663, marriages 1557 - 1661, burials 1557 - 1663, P69/MIC1/A/002/MS06987 Ancestry.com
• Sea Venture on PackRat

• http://www.tobacco.org/History/Jamestown.html
• [http://www.cynthiaswope.com/withinthevines/jamestown/jtmuster1623.html

• http://www.apva.org/history/orig.html

• http://www.apva.org/history/timeline.html

• http://www.genealogical-gleanings.com/Jamestown.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0012/g0000022.html

• http://www.jamestowne.org/Jamestowne_Society_Chronology.htm

• http://historicjamestowne.org/
• https://archive.org/stream/cavalierspioneer00nuge/cavalierspioneer00nuge_djvu.txt - Link Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants
• https://swem.wm.edu/

• http://www.evmedia.com/virginia/

• http://www.lost-colony.com/Hidden_Maps_Hidden_City.pdf

• Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America (1898), 21-40; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• [https://archive.org/stream/cavalierspioneer00nuge/cavalierspioneer00nuge_djvu.txt

• 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.c

• First Supply Sources

• http://www.virtualjamestown.org/publicrecords.html
• Bernard Buckner,. A Blakey book : being an account of those believed to be descended from Thomas and Susannah Blakey of Christ Church parish, Middlesex County, Virginia Repository, Provo, UT Generations Network, Inc., 2004.

• Nugent. Virginia Land Patents Google Spreadsheet (view only) of post 1624 survivors.

• [https://archive.org/stream/originallistsofp00hottuoft/originallistsofp00hottuoft_djvu.txt FULL

• Blain, James. The Women of Martin Hundred forced to Slavery among the Powhatan and originally presumed killed in the massacre.* Hecht, Irene W. D. "The Virginia Muster of 1624/5 As a Source for Demographic History." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. series, 30 (Jan. 1973): 65-92.

• http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va02.asp
• [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Adventurers_of_Purse_and_Person_Virginia/tcM40zgdAZgC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P]. United States: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004. link

• Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635

• Records of the Virginia Company of London, Volume I-IV Ancestry.com
• Ann Stevens
• Source for Bono Nova

• U. S. Congress. Senate. Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission. Final Report of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Commission. 60th Congress, 2d session, 1909, Document No. 735. Washington: GPO, 1909.

• William & Mary Libraries

• For a small fee, Jamestown Rediscovery offers genealogical information on the original settlers. See: Genealogy Records for Historic Jamestowne.
• "Jamestown Island: An American Legacy," by Martha W. McCartney, a research historian, is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.
• TEXT : "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 and 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"'
  • The Curd and Allied Families,” by William B. Curd and Lucy Price Rayne Truog (1927)