![]() ![]() Works of great public utility were abandoned and cultivation confined to a space too limited merely for subsistence. ![]() Instead of marching at once bold to meet and drive the Indians from the settlement, or reduce them to subjection by a bloody retaliation, the colonists were huddled together from their eighty plantations into eight. The consternation produced by this horrid massacre caused the adoption of a ruinous policy. Basse, who was in England at the time, of course, escaped. At the house of Captain Basse, in the same neighborhood, everybody was slain. ![]() He returned to his new house, where, armed with only spades, axes and brickbats, he and his company defended themselves till the Indians gave up the siege and departed. Going out to meet the king, he saw some of the wretches murdering the unarmed whites. In the meantime Captain Ralph Hamor was in utmost peril. When he went out he saw the commotion, and although he received an arrow in his back, with twenty-two others he fought his way back to the house, which, being set on fire by the Indians, he left to burn, and fled to Baldwin's. He remained to finish a letter which he was engaged in writing. Many were killed, but Thomas Hamor was saved by a chance delay. The captain, not coming as they expected him to do, they set fire to a tobacco warehouse and murdered the whites as they rushed out of Harrison's house to quench the fire. The Indians sent a message to Captain Hamor that their king was hunting in the neighborhood, and had invited him to join them. Harrison, half a mile from Baldwin's, where was staying Thomas Hamor, a brother of Captain Ralph Hamor, who also live nearby. The Indians came to one Baldwin's house, wounded his wife but Baldwin, by repeated firing of his gun, so frightened them as to "save both her, his house, himself and divers others." About the same time they appeared at the house of Mr. (Isle of Wright) Some miraculous escapes are reported in the Worrosquoyacke settlement. Of these, three hundred and forty-seven, in a few hours, were killed by the Indians in the eighty settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which number fifty-three were residents of this county. Her will, dated March 1, 1687-88, bequeaths to granddaughter, Hannah Harrison to sons Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Sidway, and John Kersey.Īt midday on Good Friday, March 22, 1622, there were twelve hundred and forty inhabitants in the State of Virginia. Mary, widow of Benjamin Harrison, married (second) Benjamin Sidway. By his wife Mary, he had two sons: Benjamin II and Peter who died in middle life without issue. He was a member of the House of Burgesse in 1642. That he was a man of exceptional education is shown by his appointment as a clerk of the Virginia council before 1633. Taken from New England Families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of a nation, Vol. His descendants include President William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin is the child of Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Bernard. Benjamin Harrison I was a Virginia colonist.īenjamin Harrison was born in 1594. ![]()
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