2 of the 24 lived in Northamptonshire, England
1 of the 24 lived in Buckinghamshire, England
1 of the 24 lived in Suffolk, England
1 of the 24 lived in Unknown City, England
Of the 24 People in the Outer Ring of the Fan Chart:
4 of the 24 were already living in British Colonial America
6 of 24 Remained in England during their lifetime
14 of the 24 moved from England to British Colonial America
18 People in the Outer Ring of the Fan Chart represent early to mid 17th Century New World Settlers that moved to or were already living in British Colonial America.
6 of the 18 people lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
4 of the 18 lived in York, Maine
4 of the 18 lived in Suffolk, New York
4 of the 18 lived in Perquimans, North Carolina
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial settlements on two natural harbors and surrounding land about 15.4 miles (24.8 km) apart—the areas around Salem and Boston, north of the previously established Plymouth Colony.
The territory nominally administered by the Massachusetts Bay Colony covered much of central New England, including portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.
Before the arrival of European colonists on the eastern shore of New England, the area around Massachusetts Bay was the territory of several Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Massachusetts, Nausets, and Wampanoags.
The Pennacooks occupied the Merrimack River valley to the north, and the Nipmucs, Pocumtucs, and Mahicans occupied the western lands of Massachusetts, although some of those tribes were under tribute to the Mohawks, who were expanding aggressively from upstate New York.
The total Indigenous population in 1620 has been estimated to be 7,000.
This number was significantly larger as late as 1616; in later years, contemporaneous chroniclers interviewed Indigenous people who described a major pestilence which killed as many as two-thirds of the population.
Thomas Ewer II b. 1592 & Sarah Learned b. 1606, both from Kent, England
Since Thomas died around 1638 we can surmise that Thomas and Sarah sailed from England subsequent to April 1630, when colonists began arriving at Salem in June with Governor John Winthrop, and the colonial charter.
Over the next ten years, about 20,000 Puritans emigrated from England to Massachusetts and the neighboring colonies during the Great Migration.
Many ministers reacted to the repressive religious policies of England, making the trip with their congregations, among whom were John Cotton, Roger Williams, and Thomas Hooker. Religious divisions and the need for additional land prompted a number of new settlements that resulted in Connecticut Colony (by Hooker) and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (by Williams and others).
Nathan Gould b. 1614 from Hertfordshire & Elizabeth Putnam b. 1612 from Buckinghamshire
Data not indicative of when they sailed from England but most certainly before they died in the colony both in 1692.
Robert Jones b. 1633 & Joanna Osgood b. 1639 both born in Mass Bay Colony
Since Robert was born in 1633 in Mass Bay Colony, we can surmise that Robert and Joanna’s parents most likely sailed from England subsequent to April 1630, when colonists began arriving at Salem in June with Governor John Winthrop, and the colonial charter.
Over the next ten years, about 20,000 Puritans emigrated from England to Massachusetts and the neighboring colonies during the Great Migration.
Robert Jones fought in King Phillips War
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war - colonists against Indians - that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history.
Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war".
It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth.
The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of Southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists.
While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley.
Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead.
In the space of little more than a year, 12 of the region's towns were destroyed and many more were damaged, the economy of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies was all but ruined and their population was decimated, losing one-tenth of all men available for military service.
More than half of New England's towns were attacked by Natives.
Hundreds of Wampanoags and their allies were publicly executed or enslaved, and the Wampanoags were left effectively landless.
The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676.
The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages.
King Philip's War began the development of an independent American identity.
The New England colonists faced their enemies without support from any European government or military, and this began to give them a group identity separate and distinct from Britain.
York, Maine
York was first settled by the province of Maine’s first governor, Edward Godfrey, in 1630.
Over the course of the next 20 years, the settlement would grow into a town with a population of around 200. Before it was named York, it was called Agamenticus, which was what the Abenaki people called the York River.
Suffolk, New York
Suffolk County was part of the Connecticut Colony before becoming an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created in 1683.
From 1664 until 1683 it had been the East Riding of Yorkshire.
4 Generations Back from Hulda Jane on the Fan Chart above (one ring inside the outer ring) (17th Century)
There are a total of 14 people
7 of the 14 people were new arrivals from England
7 of the 14 people were already living in British Colonial America
These 14 people lived in the following locations…
2 in Newport, Rhode Island
2 in York, Maine
2 in Mass Bay Colony
2 in Philadelphia
2 in Delaware Township (northern Pennsylvania)
2 in Perquimans, North Carolina
2 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey
3 Generations Back from Hulda Jane on the Fan Chart above (two rings inside the outer ring) (mid-17th to mid-18th Century)
There are a total of 8 people
1 of the 8 people was a new arrival from London
7 of the 8 people were already living in British Colonial America
These 8 people lived in the following locations…
2 in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
2 in Mass Bay Colony
2 in New Castle, Delaware
2 in Perquimans, North Carolina
2 Generations Back from Hulda Jane on the Fan Chart above (three rings inside the outer ring) (18th Century)
There are a total of 4 people
0 of the 4 people was a new arrival from England
4 of the 4 people were already living in British Colonial America
These 4 people lived in the following locations…
2 in Augusta, Virginia
2 in Lost River, West Virginia
1 Generations Back from Hulda Jane on the Fan Chart above (four rings inside the outer ring) (18th Century)
There are a total of 2 people
0 of the 2 people was a new arrival from England
These 2 people lived in Greenbrier, Virginia
Lost River Virginia now West Virginia
The grants to the first settlers bear dates from 1748 to 1755.
The grants were surveyed by George Washington in 1748 (when he was sixteen years old) for Lord Fairfax who had received a grant from the King of England for all of the northern neck of Virginia.
Captain Jacob Chrisman, born in 1730, (whose mother was a daughter of Joist Hite who came from York, Pennsylvania in the year 1732 and settled about five miles south of Winchester, Virginia) with several other men followed a band of Indians who had killed some settlers of the Shenandoah Valley and taken some prisoners across the North Mountain, arriving at Rock Bridge now the state boundary on North Mountain after dark.
Captain Chrisman sighted the Indian's camp fire near the top of Branch Mountain and came to their camp just before dawn. He surprised them and after killing three of their number and recovering the prisoners, returned to this valley and decided to take a lease which he did in 1753. The patent calls for a tract of 425 acres of land on Lost River of Cacapon, patented to Jacob Chrisman, Jr., by Lord Fairfax, September 15, 1753.
Lionel Branson, an English Quaker, settled on Lost River in 1765 and is reputed to have cut the first wagon road following the old Indian Trail across Rock Bridge from the Shenandoah to this valley. The Millers, Claypools, Wardens, and Bakers settled here about the same date.
Tradition has it Indians often made trouble for the early settlers of our little valley. One story is told of two men being surprised while watching a deer lick. One man had climbed a tree, his dog having followed his track and laid at the foot of the tree. When seven Indians came to the spring for water the dog barked which caused the Indians to look up into the tree. They killed and scalped this man while his companion sitting in another tree afraid to shoot at so many enemies escaped.
A family named Elswicks living near the old Indian Trail that crossed the valley on the lands now owned by the Harpers were surprised by Indians who captured all the women and children while the men were away from home. Several women and one child were killed while one little girl was carried away. When she grew up she married an Indian and brought him back to her old home. One day he went hunting with her brothers on the Little Ridge, but never returned.
The only fort in this vicinity was a small block house near the river on the line between the Chrisman and Wood farms. The larger forts on Lost River were Ruddle's Fort on the old Inskeep place where a man named Chesmer was killed and Warden's Fort where Wm. Warden the ancestor of the present owner Wm. H. Warden and a Mr. Taff were killed and the fort burned.
The Wardens who settled on the farm now owned by Wm. H. Warden were Presbyterians; the Millers and Bakers (the latter family being the first permanent settlers at Baker) were Baptists. Anthony Miller, a Baptist, deeded one acre of land, probably about 1835, jointly to the Baptists and Presbyterians as a site for the first church in the Lost River Valley. The people of the community built the log church which is still standing and is now used by the Union Tanning Company for a store room.
The first settlers had very few conveniences. Their houses were built of logs with clapboard roofs and either dirt or puncheon floors. Iron pots, knives and forks along with salt and iron were brought on pack horses at first from Fredericksburg and later (after they got wagons) from Alexandria. The furniture for the table for several years after the settlement consisted of a few pewter dishes, plates, and spoons, but mostly of wooden bowls, trenchers, moggins, gourds and hard shelled squashes.
Along in the early part of 1800 Lionel Branson and Jeremiah Inskeep each built brick houses the latter of which is still being used as a residence. In 1808 Squire Jacob Miller built a brick house which is still in a good state of preservation and is now owned and used as a residence by Chas. A. Garrett. The oldest log house, a part of which is still standing is the old Claypoole house on the lands now owned by John Moyers. This farm was settled by John Claypoole, a son of James Claypoole, an English Quaker who was born February 14th, 1701, and settled in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia. John Claypoole was born in 1732, was married twice, and was the father of twenty-two children.
The first grist mill in the valley was built by Lionel Branson on the lands now owned by the Union Tanning Company. The first tan yard was on Still Run where the remains of the old tan vats can still be seen. By the process then used it took one year to tan a hide.
Augusta County is in the center of the map
The Lost River is in Hardy County north of Augusta County
Greenbrier is west of Augusta County
2 of the 24 lived in Perthshire, Scotland
1 of the 24 lived in Surrey, England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Perquimans, North Carolina
Perquimans County, located in the Coastal Plain region of North Carolina and was formed in 1679.
The Yeopim and the Weapemeoc were the original natives of the region, and the Yeopim called the land Perquimans which meant “the land of beautiful women.”
A derivative of the Algonquians and the Tuscarora, the Yeopim were driven away by the English and Welsh settlers.