The Ancient Adventurers and Planters Flashcards
Colony split into 4 cities or boroughs
Jamestown
Charles City
Henrico
Borough of Kiccowtan
Ancient adventurers/planters
Transported themselves to inhabit the colony
At their own cost and charges
Planters received
100 acres for their personal adventures
Shares allotted to them and their heirs
Planters shares cost
£12 10s
Planters brought by the Company
Before Dale left
At the end of their service to the Company received 100 acres of land
Paid one shilling per year for ever acre they had
Single industry and virtue of Dale
Overcame former difficulties and dangers
Transported as the Company’s charge had to serve as tenants for 7 years
Transported after 1616 were their own charge (50 acres rent of 1s per year)
Governor’s house built by Gates to
Remain as a governor’s house
In each of the 4 settlements
100 acres to be set aside for glebe (land to support the priest)
£200 per year to be raised for minister’s maintenance
Prepare a building in Henrico
For a university
Built on 10,000 acres
1500 acres allocated as
City land for the building of a religious college
In each borough
Church 1617 in Jamestown
Built under the governorship of Samuel Argall
Jamestown’s second church