Fleur de Hundred
"Fleur de Hundred
"I.  DR. JOHN WOODSON b. 1586 in Devonshire, England, d. 1644 (Henry Morton Woodson
       has a chapter on our English ancestors and gives the Coat of Arms on page
       15.)  John attended St. John's College in 1604.  He married Sara Winston in
       England.  In 1619 they came over to America on the GEORGE which sailed Jan.
       29, 1619.  Most of the 100 passengers were soldiers, sent over for better
       protection of the colonists from the Indians who were resisting further en-
       croachment by the settlers.  Gov. Yeardley and his wife, Temperance, were
       fellow passengers.  John Woodson served in the capacity of surgeon for this
       ship.
       From Adventures of Purse and Person:
            "John Woodson
             Sara, his wife  In the GEORGE, 1619.
             Muster:  corne, 4 bu.  Powder, 1 lb.  Lead, 3 lb.
             Sword, 1 Peece fixt, 1 (a gun)"
       The GEORGE arrived at Jamestown, Va., April 16, 1691.  In 1620 the first
       negros were brought to America.  John "bought 6 negros".
       In 1623 he was on the register of settlers at Fleur De Hundred.  It was 30
       miles above Jamestown on the south side of the James River.  This section
       is now in Prince George Co.  Governor Thomas  Dale had established in 1612
       little towns, extended out and beyond already explored areas near the James.
       They were called "Hundreds".  Sir George Yeardley had originally come to
       Virginia in 1609 with Sir Thomas Gates and Yeardley received a grant of 1000
       acres of land on the James River and named the place Flowerdew (or Fleur de)
       Hundred in honor of his wife, the former Temperance Flowerdew.  He built the
       first windmill in America and this point bears the name of Windmill Point to
       this day.  In 1635 Abraham Piersy bought Flowerdew from Yeardley, and in that
       year the patent was entered for "Floer deue Hundred".  This was the first
       deed for land recorded in America.  (Old Virginia Houses Along the James -
       Farrar).  This land was often referred to as Piersey's Hundred.  Governor
       Yeardley must have persuaded the Woodsons to live at Flowerdew Hundred and
       was probably pleased to have him there as a doctor."
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"Flower de Hundred, sometimes called Peirsey's Hundred was on the south side of the James River. Curls (or Curles) was a plantation on the north side of the James
River, above Flower de Hundred. (Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume V, Thompson-Yates (and
Appendix), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982)"
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