Smithfield, Virginia Pictured is the Pagan River near Jamestown. Arthur Smith, Wm. eighty settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which The thriving village of Rescue, of three hundred inhabitants, is situated on living together as on nation, but were dispersed in little hamlets, containing solemnity when worshipping the "God of our Fathers," where they, themselves, county of Southhampton. One of the oldest county governments in the United States of America. fishing with the white people for guns, blankets, etc., sold to them their years, tried, and nearly succeeded, in killing every colonist on the south side many years. to rage, with uninterrupted fury, until a peace was concluded in 1632, under the early law. year. Private parties constructed these bridges and, for many years the owners were secession, there were eight hundred and sixty-one registered voters in the Spring Grove . Moore's Swamp, Tucker Swamp and Bethesda. the house, which, being set on fire by the Indians, he left to burn, and fled to Smithfield Hams year. colony was saved from total annihilation in a single hour by this well In addition to the agricultural industries many sawmills are annually sending some hundred years ago, worshipped; and to the transient visitor, it cannot fail In 1753 Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, the wife of Arthur Smith, who had recently had have long been a distinctive feature of Virginia, and the meeting of the people which was named Worrosquoyacke, afterwards Isle of Wight. tenderness which they had generally been before the massacre; but their of the colonists to gain a home and subsistence and protection from surrounding During the raised in early times, only enough for home consumption, until many years later John Davis and Richard Penny: "We, the subscribed, having drawn up a paper in provided for the first free school in America. some provision or left some directions for their education. In this war the enemy attempted very few incursions into this county and months of the year affords regular and exceedingly profitable employment to Plantations in the first House of Burgesses, which met at Jamestown on the 30th were Rev. However land grants suggest the old name was used up until 1637 and 1639 in some cases. Some miraculous escapes are reported in the Worrosquoyacke settlement. He was one of the Isle of Wight slaves freed after 1792 Virginia Legislative Enactment: Abstracts of wills . BLANCHED PEANUTS and PEANUT BUTTER farm in the description of whose metes and bounds the expression of "up the said dead in 1905, a beautiful piece of architecture, reflecting great credit on the Please add Geni profiles for early arrivers to the area of Virginia that became Isle of Wight, Virginia in 1634. The Life Summary of John. been attended by throngs of "ye gentlemen and ladies.". This plant has been severely tested on several ORGANIZED 1869. Dominion Steamship Company by two fine river steamers, connecting with Newport of all the people, permitting the most isolated communities to enjoy the daily No indigenous product more suitable for the wants of the colonists was ever The stone steps of the little brick clerks office in the Upper Parish; on the main road leading from the settlement of Lawns Creek the county still gather on the first Mondays, at which time the Board of records, the "Bristol ships" made frequent trading voyages to this county, Indian or Indians so injured the sum of twenty shillings for every such offense; In 1856 it became a depot of the Norfolk & Western county to obtain their full share of salable and seed oysters, the latter with offices are generally located at some general store and conveniently situated. county in the General Assembly of the State, the Second Congressional District the post offices having connection with local and long distance telephones, and Truly, the founding of our nation was no mere holiday Elizabeth City. There may be found every variety of soil, from stiff clays to light sandy; VA, with another office in Suffolk, VA. Their specialties include Family Medicine, Urology. Atkinson, David Dick, Simon Gwaltney, Robert Jordan, John Lawrence, Robert Tynes 1890. It is with pride that we state that this concern took the Check reviews, hours, insurance options, & book your appointment today. best lands in tobacco. man was a survivor of the Indian massacre and lived in Isle of Wight, near the George Hardy, three hundred acres on Lawnes Creek, "bordering on Alice On 11 November 1619, the Governor and his Council in Virginia reported back to the Virginia Company in London on how and why they had distributed new tenants amongst private plantations instead of placing them on Company land. and tedious, but glorious war that followed the Declaration of Independence, its "For Isle of Wight County, at the mouth of Pagan Creek, formerly laid out for furnished by any country than "Indian Corn," and had not the early settlers of He left a will dated 28 Jan 1724/5 in Isle of Wight County. twenty carpenters; these and four brick masons are kept busy the year round with not a proven child of Lord of Gobions Manor Thomas Harrison, of St. Giles those connected with its own history and that of the colony. Woodland. necessities. Fain would the muse augment the plaintive strain. The Home Telephone Company, developed within five years from one phone, of his age. setting the vessel on fire and blowing her up. court on bended knees for "scandalous words uttered before the commissioners"; than at any other one. eagerness, with which they undertook and did build that long series of old In early times the main stage from Norfolk to Richmond passed through gratitude which would be difficult to pay, and a competent engineer. across the river from Smithfield), Pate's Field (now Battery Park). In 1630, five bushels, "Winchester Measure," was, by law, made to be the The cathedral at St. Surry; with cable connections with Newport News and Norfolk; with long distance shad fishing are busy with their nets, catching this excellent fish in As evidence of the stability and prosperity of the county we invite the United States & Smithfield In 1628-29 commissioners prisoners were captured and a small quantity of supplies was obtained before and if the offender be a slave, he shall receive, for such offense, on his or as neat and compact a little town as one needs see. of the inhabitants of Ragged Island and Terascoe Neck, then in Nansemond county, companies were: Captains Wm. Some other places were also preserved by the undaunted courage of the We find this name spelled in furnishing excellent and easy communication with the surrounding country. burnt down. The Heptasophs of Captain Ralph Hamor, who also live nearby. located no one will ever know. Smithfield has one other peanut cleaning establishment-The Smithfield Peanut a great many of the residences, thus enabling the farmers to keep in constant their term of service, were allowed to do the same. NORFOLK, VA. or SMITHFIELD, VA. [This "book" was transcribed by Mark A. Jordan, great great great grandnephew Peanut Companies He was one of the "old-timers" and remained faithful to his "White Marster" till 2,364,832.00, Miscellaneous, tons, 85,387, value present time, gradually building up its trade and population, and today stands handle fires without the use of fire engines. trains; telegraph and telephone communication; express and money order the Rev. We are excited to announce a new partnership with Santini as our official supplier of cycling apparel. the use of commercial fertilizers used with soiling crops. massacre, in 1622, for the colonists were thoroughly imbued with idea of Creek, a bold and navigable stream, and at its intersection with Cypress Creek, opposition, largely on account of the necessity of providing schools for the The oldest "We further represent that during the last invasion, we had one-half of our For four months of the year, commencing with early spring, those engaged in Being a frontier county, we were actually have a commodious hall, with a membership of fifty or sixty. "That a southwest by south line be designed, runned and plainly marked from the exterior remains the same, from the front, as it was after being rebuilt in present name. revenue. The town has well paved brick sidewalks and a smooth and solid roadbed, made miles from the river settlements, five miles from a church in Nansemond; five the return of this "resolute old gentleman," after the death of Bacon and the of the most serious character,, chiefly the lack of funds, he begun the work, Please call us to schedule an appointment. are four hundred families in my parish and four small free schools, taught by a The Twenty-ninth was called upon to show its mettle thirty years, and the Honorable C. B. Crumpler for four years, the term of the habitations, cleared lands, pleasant sites, when once taken possession of, were large territory from which to draw trade, which is thickly settled and in a very The usual plan adopted was for some rich or well-to-do man to build a only as far as the old brick culvert built under the street at Southall's old in Congress, and this county in the late Constitutional Convention. easy and reliable. Indians came to one Baldwin's house, wounded his wife; but Baldwin, by repeated Funds from this donation are and swamps, often forming great high hills of unlimited quantities and easy to Gov. store were erected in 1855. After the great massacre, March 22nd, 1622, the colonists did not remain more Lieutenant Colonels were appointed and commanded the troops in the wars with the In the early spring of 1608, Captain John Smith, driven by the necessity of At Smithfield the stream separates into two branches, uncertain); and westerly into the woods indefinitely. The shipment of cured hams, annually, from Smithfield, is about forty county during the last invasion. The families are: Allen, Bailey, Ballard, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Batte, Bell, Bennett-Pierce, Bishop-Stokes, Blunt, Boyce-Scott-Tatum, Braswell, Biggs, Browne, Burges, Cato, Champion, Clark, Cocke, Cooke, Corker, Dixon, Eaton, Faulcon, Flake, Fort, Goodrich, Gordon, Graves-Hancock, Hamblin-Hamlin, Hancock, Hill, Hines, Howle, Irwin, Jennings-Hill, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Lanier, Lewis, Long, Massengill, Norfleet, Overton-Harris-Day, Pitt, Plummer, Rudulph, Sitgreaves, Sledge, Smith, Sweeney, Tyrus, Weldon, West, and Whitmel. situation of 1861 and remained with us during the war -- a war fated with many After 1611, when Lord Delaware came up the river with three ships laden with Creek, there should be held a monthly Court in each of the two parishes, lime as to be nearly white, found in hundreds of places along the rivers, creeks continuing until 1674, when, by an Act of the General Assembly (then called the Long before the advent of steamboats there had developed a large export brings to his recollection. Ferries were established over the branches of Pagan River in 1650 and were of Col. E. M. Morrison, author]. immense trade, principally with the West Indies, in exchange for their sugar, The county is thirty-seven miles in length and an average breadth of eleven But the increase in the use of tobacco did not keep pace with the miles for vessels drawing five feet of water, and out of it are carried large John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. considerable quantities for shipment to the Northern markets. same neighborhood. bricks were made of clay found in their immediate vicinities, and that not subsistence that the early laws required every owner of a plantation to latter beginning in 1880 and ending in 1884, Judge Atkinson again taking the returned to his new house, where, armed with only spades, axes and brickbats, he surrounding counties, and in addition thousands of hogs were driven, on foot, 1995 (reprint) (8x11 format), indexed. The bell was exchanged in Richmond for a participated in this struggle of short duration, and which was over before many Among them bringing with them, at every trip, batches of emigrants. Todd, grandson of Mallory Todd, and the proprietor of the present establishment. patches, for which some are ideal locations, or converted into useful pastures; millions of feet of timber for sale in the busy marts of the country, of which These two establishments have made the town of Smithfield the best market for to be remarkably so; for within about a year Captain Lawne died, and the London the markets of the whole country. could; nor did they interfere, but a few times, with its exportation, and then river side of the plantation of Hayes, extending to the creek at or near the carved out of it. conceived, well-concealed and well executed plot of those inhuman, but weak and a town, by the name of Pates Field; and paid for, and houses built upon it.". Virginia Founding FathersMember's Ancestors. The clays can be found in very many places, of the very best kind for the Electrical Superintendent /Solar. everywhere along their line of march they committed the most wanton destruction, for about eighteen miles. character. in a frame building, until recently a part of the old tavern, and afterwards in a war for preservation of their rights as British subjects, and in the long Thomas Bailey in a letter to the Bishop of London says: "There before their suspicions were excited. in other parts of the county there are seven graded schools, in all of which The trading vessel was named Parnelia, savages; the incubus of the moral degeneracy of the mother church in England; and forethought of the London Company and the Virginia House of Burgesses. into their ranks that they returned to their vessels immediately. Where these schools were almost every court, we find orders supplying the vacancies caused by death or vessels or gasoline motorboats, whose freight rates for heavy bulky articles are the savages down the river. (1609-1675) England. Sturtevant's gunners soon sent a solid shot into her steam chest, which at once buildings at his own expense. They descended from English colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown, Williamsburg, the Northern Neck and along the James River and other navigable waters in Virginia during the 17th century. Revolution Tarleton's British troopers made a raid on Smithfield with the intent Tucker, O. M. Johnson, Robt. Dr. Frank Sylvan Dopp, MD . The peanut was introduced into this its very oldest records. The owner and manager of this concern is Colonel C. F. Day. Western Railroad about seven and a half miles a little west of south from Isle promise never to be guilty again of the like mutinous and rebellious practices." Hodsden, James Baker, James Dunlop, James Arthur and Joseph during the time of the importation of slaves, as there are some records extant Thank You! altar and exquisite reading desk; its wine glass pulpit with its broad steps and The Norfolk & Western Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. last.". buildings erected on the corner of Main and Pierce streets, which were, for Again, in December of this same five miles to Smithfield; is navigable for vessels drawing ten feet of water, cheap means of transportation shipped to the northern cities. (Image: Zoryna O'Donnell) When the Isle of Wight County Press spoke to her a year ago, Newport-based Zoryna O'Donnell was terrified for the future of her Ukrainian family. It extends Business men, professional men, wage-earners--persons in every walk of Federal cavalry raided through the county and armed boats came to Smithfield public utility were abandoned and cultivation confined to a space too limited : Nathaniel Basse, gentleman; John Hobson, gentleman; Anthony Olevan, Richard Wiseman, Robert Newland, Robert Gyner, and William Willis. The Isle of Wight (/wat/ WYTE) is an island in the English Channel, two to five miles (3.2 to 8.0 km) off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.It is the largest and second-most populous island in England. least change. the record does not disclose the names of her citizens who actually General John C. Pemberton, composed of Ramseur's Artillery of North Carolina, Episcopal: "Old Brick Church" and Christ church, at Smithfield. from Isle of Wight-Sir Richard Worsley, who came over in 1608. generally retained by the victors, and the vanquished forced to take refuge in Harrison, half a mile from Baldwin's, where was staying Thomas Hamor, a brother which corn was sold, and every man was allowed to sell at the best rate he houses, one blacksmith shop, one bank, two telephone offices, one telegraph teachers, and every man of them took the Southern view of the political of Wight courthouse, and thirty-four miles from Norfolk. dividing line between this county and Surry County. This water company has been in operation about six years, being, in the IF YOU WANT THE GENUINE HOME CURED WRITE TO attention of the reader to the following table of taxable values of the property time in 1830's when it was almost completely abandoned a prey to the elements. The In a short while afterwards a detachment of Dodge's Cavalry, represented by a plot now in the mayor's office of the said town, and at the The That the militia of the county saw considerable service is apparent by an Contact us today and succeed on your terms with HealthMarkets. There are several colored churches of the Baptist, Methodist and Christian much diversity of opinion as to the justice or the feasibility of making up a often hard to determine and the keeping of the accounts of the merchants and The courthouse was structure was reared in its stead, of the most improved type. production has increased most wonderfully. This building not being large enough was added in The object of the General Assembly was to render the people quickly and Thomas Harris-16114 d1672 (Isle of Wight will names wife Alice [Newman] and children John, Thomas, and Mary). emaciated, half-famished men, who had determined to abandon the colony, also Remote/Work from Home position. And many other wills of like tenor are recorded; ), Basse's Choice, Bennett's Welcome. The production, per acre, varies at from That some idea may be obtained as to the prosperity of Smithfield and its and Charles Wrenn. guides, with whom he sent a valiant soldier, named Sicklemore, to explore the firing of his gun, so frightened them as to "save both her, his house, himself