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- Nathaniel Basse was born in England and baptized 29 Dec. 1589 at St.Gabriel Church, Franchchurch Street, London. He died 3 July 1654Middlesex, England and is buried in the church at St. Alphage,Cripplegate, London. The church and surrounding area was almost totallydestroyed during W W II. He married Mary Jordan 21 May 1613 in Englandand thirteen children were born. Mary was born ca. 1580-1595 in England,and she died in childbirth 17 Jan. 1630. Nathaniel made many tripsbetween England and America to establish colonies in the new world. Thefirst record of such a trip was just 12 years after the Mayflower landedin Plymouth Rock. On 27 April 1619, a ship commanded by Captain Evansarrived at Jamestown, VA. Among the passengers was Captain Christopher Lawne, Sir Richard Worsley,NATHANIEL BASSE, John Hobson, Anthony Olevan, Richard Wiseman, RobertNewland, Robert Gyner, and William Willis. These men immediately settled near the mouth of a creed on the south sideof the James River [still known as Lawne's Creek] and called it the Isleof Wright Plantation. Captain Basse established a plantation in this areaon the Warrosquoyacke River [ now known as the Pagan River] and named itBasse's Choice. Nathaniel Basse returned to America in 1622 on the 'Furtherance'. We doknow when he brought his family to the New World to live, but he wasappointed to serve in the House of Burgess [Congress of Virginia] in 1623and 1624, so he had probably taken up residence at Basse's Choice by thattime. On one of his trips back to England, Captain Nathaniel Basse died.He was buried in St. Alphage Church in London. The burial for Mary[Jordan] Basse is unknown, but she died in childbirth, probably in VA. **************************************************************** A Nathaniel Basse listed @ Jamestowne.org/Anclist/B_B.htm Basse, Nathaniel Burges, 1624-30, Warrascoyack Councillor **************************************************************** *195 Capt. Nathaniel Basse is ordered to see an order executed according tothe minutes of the Council and General Court of VA Exaicons taken before JOHN POTT Esq Gouerno the 25th day of March A1629 ************************************************************ per Bill Spaagaren ************************ This is the book of John Basse ... Nataniel Basse and Mary Jordan was married ye 21 day of May in ye year ofour blessed Lord and Saviour 1613. *************************************** *** per William and Mary College Quarter Historical Mag.*** Vo. 7, No 4 Apr. 1899 PP 205-315 ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY RECORDS I Historical Sketch The first occupants of this county known to history were the WarrascoyackIndians. Thier village was seated somewhere on Burwell's Bay, on Janesriver, and their territory extended some five miles along the shore andtwenty miles inland. Their fighting strength amounted to forty warriors.They were visited by John Smith in the summer of 1608, and fourteenbushels of corn were supplied by them to the famishing colonists atJames-town. When Smith and his party set out in Dec. 1608, to visitPowhatan at Werewocomoco, on the Tiork, they spent their first night atWarrascoyack. Here they left Michael Sicklemore, a valiant soldier, whomthe Indian king promised to furnish with guides to search the countryabout Roanoke Island for the lost colony of Sir Walter Raleigh, andSamuel Collier, a boy, who was to learn the Indian language. The chiefwarned Smith to be on his guard against Powhatan, and acted in good faithtowards Sicklemore [1] and Collier.[2] The first English settlement inIsle of Wight County was begun by Capt. Christopher Laene and hisassociates, Sir Richard Worsley, knight baronet; Nathaniel Basse, gent.,John Hobson, gent., Anthony Olenvan, Richard Wiseman, Robt. Newland,Robert Gyner, and William Wellis. [1] On April 27, 1619, Capt. Lawne arrived in person a Jamestown, withone hundred settlers, in a ship commanded by Capt. Evans. Sicklemore wasfurnished with two guides, penetrated to the Roanoke, but found no traceof the lost colony. [2] Samuel Collier became proficient in the Indian language, and wasaccidentally killed by a white sentinel at Kecaughtan [Hampton] in 1622. They settled near the mouth of a creek on the south side, still known asLawne's creek. This creek, whose name is sometimes written 'Lyon'sCreek,' was made the dividing line between the counties of Surry and Isleof Wight, as early as 1642. Capt. Lawne and Ensign Washer represented thesettlement in the first House of Burgesses, which met at Jamestown July30, 1619. All new settlements are unhealthy, and terrible mortalityprevailed among these settlers. Capt. Lawne soon died, and on Nov. 30,1620, the London Company ordered that 'in regard of the late mortality ofthe persons transported heretofore by the late Capt. Lawne, hisassociates by granted till midsummer, 1625, to make up the number ofpersons which they were disposed to bring over. ' They also declared thatthe plantation was to be henceforth called 'Isle of Wight plantation' - -a name, however, not in use too many years later. It was derived veryprobably from the the place of residence, in England, of the principalpatentees. One of them was certainly from Isle of Wight, viz., SirRichard Worsley, probably the Richard Worley , gent., who went toVirginia in 1608. He was knighted at White Hall Feb. 8, 1611. On Nov. 21,1621, Edward Bennett, a rich merchant of London, obtained a patent for aplantation conditioned on settling two hundred emigrants. His associatesin the patent were his brother, Robert Bennett, and Nephew, RichardBennett, Thomas Ayres, [1] Thomas Wiseman, and Richard Wiseman. And inFeb. 1622, the Sea Flower arrived with one hundred and twenty settlers,headed by Capt. Ralph Hamor, on of the council; Rev. William Bennett andGeorge Harrison, kinsmen of Edward Bennett, and connected with him in hiscolonization scheme. Their place of settlement was called 'Warrascoyack,'and sometimes 'Edward Bennett's Plantation.' On the day this patent wasawarded, Arthur Swain, Capt. Nathaniel Basse and others undertook toestablish another plantation in the same neighborhood. Capt. Basse cameover in person, and his plantation was known as 'Basse's Choice,' and wassituated on Warrascoyack river. [1] Many of the Kinsmen of Thomas Ayers, doubtless, came to Virginia. InLower Norfolk County records we learn that 'John Custis married therelict of Robert Eyres, dec'd [1652, Feb. 16] and that 'Sam Chew, ofHerrington, in Maryland, Esq., married Anne, 'daughter and sole heir ofWilliam Ayres, late of Nansemond' [ 12 Sept., 1672]-----ISLE OF WIGHTCOUNTY RECORDS 207 *************************************** The Council of Virginia *** Nathaniel Basse 1630 Born in England ******************* A manuscript copy of the Journal of this session is in the Public RecordOffice, London, and has several times been printed. 1623-4 Assembled March 5th 24 gentlemen including Nathaniel Basse Source : Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia i, 128-129. The countiesare not given in this list. 1629 Assembled Oct. 16th Warrosquoyacke: Captain Nathaniel Basse, Richard Bennett, Robert Savin,Thomas Jordan. ********************************** No will or administration of Nathaniel Bass in the Prerogative Court. Theother probate courts did not function at this period. ********************** 20 May 1619 - 20 Jan 1625/6 minutes of the Council and GEneral Court ofVA Jan. 'XXth' 1625. 'Capt. Natha: Basse affirmeth upon his knowledgethat John Coombes & John Ewyne cam over into this County in the goodshipp caled 'Marigolde' Ano Domi 1619 the 20th of May and were deliveredby Capt. Lane to Sr. George Yardley to the Compenys use.' VA StateLibrary Archives and 'Combs, A study in Comparative Philology andGenealogy,' by Josiah H. Combs, Ph,D., Univ. of Paris, copyright 1976 byNorris K. Combs, Library of Congress Card # 76-023567, Published byNorris K. Combs, Pensacola, Fla. Second printing, 1979. p. 9. *************************************
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