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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