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Africans, Virginia s First – Encyclopedia Virginia

White Lion and the Treasurer immediately set sail for Virginia, where they hoped to sell their cargo. According to a letter written by the colony’s secretary, John Rolfe, to the Virginia Company of London treasurer, Sir Edwin Sandys, the White Lion arrived first and landed at Point Comfort sometime late in August, having lost its “consort shipp” on the passage from the West Indies. Rolfe described the ship as a “Dutch man of Warr,” perhaps because it bore Dutch letters of marque. “He brought not any thing but 20. and odd Negroes,” Rolfe wrote, which the governor, Argall’s successor Sir George Yeardley, and the cape merchant, Abraham Peirsey, “bought for victualle [food] … at the best and easyest rate they could.” Some of the Africans were then transported to Jamestown and Flowerdew Hundred, a plantation on the upper reaches of the James River that Peirsey was in the process of purchasing from Yeardley. John Pory, John Rolfe’s successor as secretary, indica

Yeardley, Sir George (bap 1588–1627) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Yeardley, Sir George (bap 1588–1627) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Tobacco in Colonial Virginia – Encyclopedia Virginia

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Edna Ruth Sparks, 94

Edna Ruth Sparks passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, January 17, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Her life will be celebrated in music and memories at a graveside service at Brown Ranch Cemetery in Coleman County on Saturday, January 23, 2021. Visitation will begin at 2 pm with a service at 3 pm.  Dr. Robert Sloan will officiate. Services are entrusted to Stevens Funeral Home in Coleman. Edna Sparks was born November 6, 1926 in her parents’ small home in Talpa, Texas. She was the second of four daughters born to Fred and Anna Simonton Sparks. She grew up in Talpa and Coleman County, surrounded by a host of her Sparks and Simonton kin. The family moved to San Angelo when her father went to work for the power plant, and Edna graduated from Lake View High School in San Angelo.  After graduation, she went to work for George West Insurance, the only employee in that small insurance agency.  That experience, and the guidance of Mr. West, encouraged her to pursue a career in i

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