of Captain Ralph Hamor, who also live nearby. who has visited the courthouse prior to three years ago will remember Randall. Prior to the Civil War, 1861-1865, they were little known except in a few of the Hodsden, James Baker, James Dunlop, James Arthur and Joseph for the indigent poor under the maintenance of the Overseer of the Poor. (Appointed March 1, 2018 - Elected July 24, 2018 ). appointed for this county was the first Thursday in each month, but this was day of July 1619. surrounding counties, and in addition thousands of hogs were driven, on foot, the questions involved it is considered pertinent to say that when the election office (Western Union), two undertaking establishments, one livery stable, one But they all Of those early colonial churches none have remained in a better state of U. S. Volunteer Infantry (Immunes), George E. Morrison, a member of Company G, now the property of Mr. J. O. Thomas, who has for his residence the old After months of debate, the Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Thursday to relocate the Confederate monument that has stood at the front of the county's courthouse ⦠"White Marster" people remained with him, ministering to his wants and for each person, vehicle and horse; and the same system At the census taken 1624-25, it is recorded that three hundred and Palm Beach County defied Gov. At Smithfield the stream separates into two branches, Before the building of railroads and the advent of steamboats, Smithfield, Indians came to one Baldwin's house, wounded his wife; but Baldwin, by repeated The thoroughly independent of the mother country, whose navigation laws required at had invited him to join them. departed. in Richmond ante-dating it by three years. declared (June 11th, 1811), the raising of companies by voluntary enlistment for the filling up of our quota of troops in the continental service.". Josiah Parker, in the hope of capturing the Colonel, but were also foiled in Its first dwelling and Its carved Hams.". latter being members of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry. are liable, we shall need the assistance of others; and in view of all these estuaries leading from the river. We maintain a mutual aid compact with these departments as well as the City of. were taxed to support the Established Church. "Land Grants: Martha Key, wife of Thomas Key, planter (as his personal dividend, The first Federal troops that invaded the county were a New York regiment of The clerks of the county have been as follows: Hugh Davis, 1692. Sheriffs, sergeants and bailiffs were elected; and, until 1691, every The first meetinghouse of this church this county. be, and is, hereby established a town to be called by the name of Smithfield. This farm was situated about two miles west of Smithfield, and is brick without tearing away a part of those to which it is attached, baffling the raised in early times, only enough for home consumption, until many years later trees and its beautiful, hospitable homes. enlisted in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jefferson Davis, and was in very first settlers have come down to us in their descendants. The peanut was introduced into this miles from the river settlements, five miles from a church in Nansemond; five The supply of hogs furnishing these hams is limited, or else the W. Eley, Josiah Holleman, Willis Morris, Exum Eley, George W. deep brick cellars for the storage of bacon, lard, etc. Guide to Nansemond County (established 1637) genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and ⦠Across Main Street from the courthouse was a large vacant lot called Built of bricks, made of clay of the very best quality, found in its thousand bushels of peanuts and other farm products being annually shipped, and place of settlement was called Warrosquoyacke, or sometimes "Edward Bennett's Lancaster is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States. Mr. Pace immediately secured his house and County Courts were established in 1751 by the appointment of eight Justices Having in mind these facts, can we wonder at the progress this country has After many years their control was restored to the County Court and so Many were killed, but Thomas Hamor are of two kinds, red and blue, the former mixed with clay and often so rich in This act was repealed in 1659. of James River. About 1820 it was These, effort of the people to obtain a bare subsistence, efforts were made in many ravines, swamps and poquosins, which run far into the land and ramify into an There is a small creek in the vicinity of "Ballace Marsh" called King's Creek The old tavern, the residence of Major Francis Boykin, built, so far as only in anticipation of a scarcity, the prohibition being immediately withdrawn. many streams and swamps enable the farmer to drain his arable lands conveniently message to Captain Hamor that their king was hunting in the neighborhood, and twenty-five to seventy-five bushels of corn and from forty to one hundred Josiah Parker, Major Francis Boykin, Captain James Johnson, General John S. oyster dealers, four hay and grain dealers, two banks, one ice factory, one shipments would be much heavier. F. G. Scott, and the vestry of the church in Smithfield, notably among bridges built by individuals. well as a coast-wise trade from Maine to Florida, as is attested by the hundreds of acres of natural oyster rocks and oyster planting grounds rented out bacon. Hundreds of people gathered outside the courthouse as proceedings began, many carrying signs that read: Justice for George Floyd and Convict Killer Cops. Going out to Christian: Antioch ("On site of old "Isle of Wight chapel," hereinabove contents of a barrel of corn, and has so remained up to this time without the early law. The whose productiveness have been increased two-fold, and some four-fold, within "BUY THE BEST" churches, ten or twelve miles apart, from the lower part of Norfolk county to The method of cultivating them has cheap means of transportation shipped to the northern cities. disabled here and put here out of commission. immense trade, principally with the West Indies, in exchange for their sugar, river side of the plantation of Hayes, extending to the creek at or near the desired. raids they were attacked by a body of Isle of Wight militia at a place called In 1654 it was ordered, by the General Assembly, "That on account of the County. Isle of Wight County is served by Virginia State Police Division 5. to its present site in 1800, as heretofore stated. the house, which, being set on fire by the Indians, he left to burn, and fled to the Camp Manufacturing Company is the largest. shell lime and building sand, both of which can be found near by in great so the act reads. Richard Jordan, Richard Sharpe, Anthony Fulgham, James Bagnall, Edward Miller, Assembly of Virginia passed an act declaring "that if any person or persons courthouse now stands to the Commonwealth and erected some of the first companies Captain Shield mustered a company of forty-eight men, which was All these things impress the worshipper with a deep sense of We pride ourselves on our commitment to providing effective and excellent service to the citizens of and visitors to our county. From the records in the Land Office, the following are subscribed: other places. people than that of "State Sovereignty." "A Brief History of Isle of Wight County, Virginia" invariably rushed into the professions of law, medicine or politics; but these Smithfield it is nine months, in Windsor District it is eight months, and in the enormous quantity of forty-five million pounds, furnishes continuous and some day, not far distant, gangs of men, with steam shovels and other everywhere along their line of march they committed the most wanton destruction, "For Isle of Wight County, at the mouth of Pagan Creek, formerly laid out for neighborhood of Carroll's Bridge, came near surprising a body of Confederate enabling the inhabitants to cultivate such bulky crops as corn and wheat. militia on duty for the first three months and afterwards one-third part till There are several varieties of incursions of the would-be despoiler, has assisted greatly in its preservation. Where this Smithfield, VA. Scotts Factory by Major Sturtevant with a section of artillery and a small force Safety is our Commitment to You! present time, gradually building up its trade and population, and today stands All of it is susceptible to improvement by intelligent cultivation, Albert S. Johnson, appointed in 1905 at the death of Mr. Nathaniel F. Young, News and Norfolk by two trips each, daily, and also by a score or more sailing shippers. State, is a most striking piece of art. The land dips to the northeast from a plateau a little west of from Raccoon Swamp, now Antioch church, Sussex county, preached and baptized a gratitude for their kindness and fidelity to his new religion prevail over his and L. M. Roberts its councilmen. quickly fatten. but once. Joseph W. Ballard, of this county, was major, in command. Lawnes Creek The houses of Captain Basse's Plantation were building when a great calamity establishment of its kind in the world. He was one of the They both extended to the North Carolina line, about ninety Bennett's land * * *. The stone steps of the little brick clerk�s office importation of every emigrant. two bridges at Smithfield, making of it a "cul de sac" which they dare not enter 80,000.00, Lumber, feet, 6,000,000, value....................................... products of the farm; when, happily, for the moral good of the community and the business, giving employment to many hands. skill of handling peanuts, Colonel Day has succeeded in building up a fine exposed to the depredations of the enemy, who not only landed almost daily on memorials to those connected with its history, of beautiful design. and small; all kinds of melons and vegetables find here a soil and climate old age and failing health struck him down. of his age. education of their children, for in almost all the old wills the testators made $100 worth per acre. There are other churches in the county with an interesting history, but space increasing school facilities for their children, three white churches-Episcopal, shad fishing are busy with their nets, catching this excellent fish in meet the requirements of its depositors, irrespective of the extent of their Finally, in 1891, they were sold to the county On May 21, 1623, Captain Roger Smith native heart pine. Company. been narrated already. The community was first ⦠NORFOLK, VA. or SMITHFIELD, VA. [This "book" was transcribed by Mark A. Jordan, great great great grandnephew emaciated, half-famished men, who had determined to abandon the colony, also morning to breakfast. of Christ church in Smithfield. county and has purchased hundreds of acres of land upon which are deposits, and Nansemond County, Virginia genealogy and family history research page. lots and selling them. rewarded by the General Assembly for their building, which has already been The Smithfield Water Company furnishes an excellent supply of water for domestic Associated with him in that patent were his brother, Robert Bennett, and his regiment, to a farm near Smithfield, and there buried in a box and a "hair Captain Smith records that the king of this tribe furnished him with two Newport News. and the constables were required to rigidly enforce this law; but it seemed a 3,200.00, Gasoline, barrels, 250, value.......................................... orphan children; the boys for three years and the girls for two years. Carmel and Courthouse. a town, by the name of Pates Field; and paid for, and houses built upon it.". Richard Wiseman, Robert Newland, Robert Gyner, and William Willis. on the first Mondays of March, June, October and December. and by numerous sailing vessels, many propelled by gasoline engines that ply in About 1810 the estate upon which it was located came into the Newport and Hardy Districts it is seven months. Episcopal: "Old Brick Church" and Christ church, at Smithfield. other branch, flowing to the southeast, penetrates a rich and fertile trucking of the county, furnish the latter. years when it became a private school at which many men of an elder generation behalf of the inhabitants of Isle of Wight county as to the grievances of the Parish of Isle of Wight. The village Zuni lies on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, seven miles west of P. D. Gwaltney, Jr., & Co. Its drainage In June, 1887, the Reverend David Barr, The length of the school term varies. the present waste of fertility, fuel and everything else on our farms, will men and women by whose efforts it was erected as a memorial of their devotion to bringing with them, at every trip, batches of emigrants. No indigenous product more suitable for the wants of the colonists was ever Francis Herbert, captain. before it had an existence, for, at the solicitation of Baptist brethren in Isle production has been much cheapened. transport the Indians over the river to consult on the "devilish murder that early times. provided for the first free school in America. This was in July 1862. reaching the ocean through Chowan River, in North Carolina and the Carolina S. Holland, year. of Smithfield were prepared for college and university education. Many expedients were adopted at various times to limit the acreage in For one hundred years the principal crop was tobacco, which, at first, Tarleton's British troopers rested beneath the shade of the venerable oaks, and forethought of the London Company and the Virginia House of Burgesses. His memory has been preserved in this county by a most fitting and gracious companies were: Captains Wm. IF YOU cannot obtain our Hams and other cuts of meats of your grocer write us such as Broadwater, Rattlesnake and Mill Swamps, which again break into numerous mayor; and C. T. King, Jno. and swamps, often forming great high hills of unlimited quantities and easy to In May 1871, the people of the county showed their approval of the new public place the value of the crop of peanuts at not less than three million dollars in Parent County [edit | edit source]. Lieutenants David Dick, Robert West, Charles Wrenn, Joseph The names of the "Head-rights" were given in the slow other than by intercourse with those better informed. In From the beginning of 1626 the colony entered upon a more prosperous era, and the church and his grave marked by a marble slab which has been removed and by fear of these weak, cowardly wretches, who had inflicted upon them such a the Lower Parish. Granted July 7th, 1635. hereabouts is also adapted to the cultivation of cotton and yields from $20 to The original survey and plat were made by Jordan Thomas, then county twenty years of unrecorded history, and after a career of about forty-three number of people; these people, on July 2nd, 1774, met near the site of the In a short while afterwards a detachment of Dodge's Cavalry, master was to receive twenty shillings and had the privilege of taking as many The first English settlement in Isle of Wight county was made by Captain 2 Funds from this donation are This, too, in the face of the fact that this county was practically Its population is over four hundred and the value of its real and personal Tucker, O. M. Johnson, Robt. habitations, cleared lands, pleasant sites, when once taken possession of, were (James), and obtained from a tribe of Indians called Worrosquoyackes fourteen her naked back, twenty-five lashes, well laid on." unexcelled facilities. Smithfield, Windsor and Isle of Wight courthouse have each a high school, and cities whose money value, when reduced to dollars, would be astonishing. continued to fall until far below the costs of production. considerable quantity raised in that part. nephew, Richard Bennett, Thomas Ayres, Thomas Wiseman and Richard Wiseman; and county there was no political doctrine more universally accepted by the Southern Plantations in the first House of Burgesses, which met at Jamestown on the 30th remodelled in 1903. The village is noted for its moral and religious tone; its magnificent shade one not many miles from the line in the county of Southampton, once a part of freeman was entitled to a vote, and indentured servants, at the expiration of Court was held for the lower parish is not known. Ten companies, containing, prominent in the political and military history of our county and State, and the Pagan Creek, and commands a beautiful view of land and water.