Virginia Colonial Records

Awesome article on 18th Century Virginia Law by John P. Alcock can be viewed at:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jcat2/18centvalaw.html

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From:  http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shiplist.htm


Partial List

Globe of London to Virginia 1635

Theis under written names are to be transported to Virginea imbarqued in the Globe of London Jeremy Blackman Master have been examined by the Minister of Gravesend of their conformitie & have taken the oaths of Allege & Supremacie.

Gowen Tho: 18

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From: http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

Virginia Colonial Records Project

Survey Report No. 10965
Title: Exchequer King’s Remembrancer. Depositions taken by Commission
Case of William Barrett c. Thomas Day

1p Commission to hear evidence, November 28, 1657

2p Interrogatories for witnesses on behalf of William Barrett.

2p Depositions on behalf of William Barrett taken at Leith January 18, 1657/58 – Evauld Tasseene: Identifies Day’s writing on letters received by Barrett in London in 1655.

John Lewin: Identifies Day’s writings.

Thomas Mattingley: In 1655, he received from Barrett ten hogsheads of tobacco from off the Laurence, Robert Guin, master. He delivered two hogsheads to Day for him to sell and then received part of the payment for them.

[The tobacco was sent to Day in Scotland to sell. No mention of where it originally came from.]
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From: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html

Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations

Bristol database, 1654 - 1686

Servant Information	Agent Information
Name: Stephen Gawen	Name: Richard Lock
Gender: male	Gender: male
Occupation: shoemaker	Occupation:
Place of Origin: Westbury, Wiltshire	Place of Origin:
Spouse's Name:
Indenture Information	Servant's Parents Information
Date of Indenture: November 8 1659	Name:
Indenture Length: 4 years	Occupation:
Destination: [Virginia]
Ship:
Notes:

Servant Information	Agent Information
Name: Arthur Severne	Name: John Gowing
Gender: male	Gender: male
Occupation:	Occupation:
Place of Origin:	Place of Origin:
Spouse's Name:
Indenture Information	Servant's Parents Information
Date of Indenture: September 25 1661	Name:
Indenture Length: 4 years	Occupation:
Destination: Virginia
Ship:
Notes:

Servant Information	Agent Information
Name: Elizabeth Gowing	Name: William Temple
Gender: female	Gender: male
Occupation:	Occupation:
Place of Origin:	Place of Origin:
Spouse's Name:
Indenture Information	Servant's Parents Information
Date of Indenture: August 12 1672	Name:
Indenture Length: 6 years	Occupation:
Destination: Virginia
Ship: Katherine
Notes:

Servant Information	Agent Information
Name: Elizabeth Gaine	Name: John Mason
Gender: female	Gender: male
Occupation:	Occupation:
Place of Origin:	Place of Origin:
Spouse's Name:
Indenture Information	Servant's Parents Information
Date of Indenture: August 30 1675	Name:
Indenture Length: 4 years	Occupation:
Destination: Virginia
Ship:
Notes:

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Survey Report No. 13580
Title: Court of Chancery. Bills and Answers before 1714. Collins Division
William Gowing c. Sir Bridges Nightingale, Sir Robert Knightly, Daniel Perrott and Edward Ambrose

8p Bill of complaint of William Gowing – June 6, 1702
Gowing traded to various places. In 1685 he intended to put cargo on the Thomas and Francis, Richard Simmons, master, for the Leeward Islands and he applied to Sir Robert Knightly, the late Jeffrey Nightingale, and Daniel Perrott for an insurance. Gives details of the insurance which was to cover the voyage to the West Indies and a possible visit to Virginia en route back to London. On her homeward voyage the ship was taken by a private Spanish man-of-war so he applied to the insurers for payment. They delayed paying him and he employed Edward Ambrose to pursue the matter in law. Ambrose later confessed to having received some of the money and the plaintiff asked him to come to an account, but Ambrose refused until an arrangement had been made concerning payment for his services. Ask that Ambrose and the insurers, including Sir Bridges Nightingale, as executor of Jeffrey Nightingale, be asked to come to an account with him.

16p Answers of Sir Bridges Nightingale – November 7, 1702
Denies all knowledge of the matters in the bill but admits to being executor of Jeffrey Nightingale. Attaches an account of his estate.

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Survey Report No. 13582
Title: Court of Chancery. Bills and Answers before 1714. Collins Division
William Gowing c. Dir Bridges Nightingale, Sir Robert Knightly, Daniel Perrott and Edward Ambrose

2p Answers of Edward Ambrose to the Bill of Complaint of William Gowing – April 27, 1703

The plaintiff intended to send goods on the Thomas and Francis and applied to the late Jeffrey Nightingale, Daniel Perrott, Sir Robert Knightly for an insurance on the cargo; all subscribed to the policy. The ship was captured by a privateer but he know no details of this although the other defendants refused to pay on the policy. He was employed by Gowing to sue them for payment and in 1687 commenced several actions but, before trial was held, the insurers agreed to come to an arrangement with the plaintiff. He received £30 from Knightly and Perrott but Nightingale died. The defendant applied to his osn and executor, Bridges, but was told that the estate was insufficient to pay his debts. Before the plaintiff commenced his action, the defendant had given him a bill for his services. Denies receiving anymore money than the sums stated.