Early Virginia Immigrants

Early Virginia Immigrants

Date Name  Source
1606 Robert Small Immigrated – The conquest of VA 2nd Attempt
1622 Hugo Smale Passenger and Immigration List
1635 John Small New England Ships and Passenger Lists
1635 William Small The complete Book of Immigrants 1607-1666 (arrived on Assurance De Lo)
1636 Henry Small Early Virginia immigrants, 1623-1666, Richmond VA
1637 Margaret Small Early VA immigrants 1623-1666 - [transported by John Moone, Isle of Wight (Caviliers & Pioneers p.77)]
1639 Capt. Small Cavaliers and Pioneers p112. John Howell granted 150 acres Henrico Co. next to Capt. Small's land
1639, 10-24 Elizabeth Small IEarly Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Richmond VA, [transported by Justinian Cooper (Cavaliers & Pioneers)]
1651, 9-25 Jo Small * Merchant, exporter of tobacco – (Port Books, Port of London -  LVA)
1651, 12-10 William Small Early Virginia Immigrants 1623-1666 [trans. by Joseph Croshaw (Cavaliers & Pioneers}
1663 Jno Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1667 John Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1667 Judeth Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1668 Tho Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1671 Jno Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1672 Samuel Small Merchant / farmer, exporter of tobacco – (Port Books, Port of London – LVA)
1688, 3-28 Andrew Small Will probate, Accomack Co., VA – (LVA)
1691 Grace Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1704 Anne Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1704 Elizabeth Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1708 Nicholas Small Sailor (Admiralty Muster Book - LVA)
1719 Margaret Small Passenger and Immigration List
1728 William Small Sailor (Admiralty Muster Book - LVA)
1728/29, 11-22 Joseph Small Indentured servant, 4 yrs,  of Peter Simpson, age 20 - (LVA)
1724 John Small Cavaliers and Pioneers
1729 Joseph Small Passenger and Immigration List
1734 Ellison Small Indentured servant, 4 yrs, of Peter Simpson, age 23 – (LVA)

 

* Unknown if Jo is an abbreviation for Joseph, Josiah, John or other given name.

 

COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1607-1660. 1988. 600p.

 

 

 

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1607 - 1660 By Peter Wilson Coldham (Excerpted)

Undated. List of first settlers at Jamestown Island, Virginia, in 1607 as noted by Captain John Smith
pg. 2 1607 Carpenters: William Laxon, Edward Pising, Thomas Emry, Robert Small

pg 25 November 1621 Administration with will of Captain Robert Smallay of Bermuda Hundred, Virginia.

pg. 157 24 July. 1635 Persons to be transported (from London) to Virginia by the Assurance of London. Mr. Isack Bromwell, after examination by the Minister of Gravesend: William Small 18, etc.

pg. 204 1639 March 30 - 8 April. Passeengers shipped from Southampton in the Virgin of (South) Hampton, Mr. John Weare, and John De La Hay, merchant, for Barbados

pg. 204 Walter Smalle of Isle of Wight, 24; etc.

pg. 374 1658 20 January. Margaret Thomas, spinister, bound to Joseph Small to serve 4 years in Barbados, etc.

pg. 444 4 Nov. Henry Lewes of Chepstow, Momouth, tanner, bound to Thomas Bickford, planter, to serve 3 years. Henry Small of Ledbury, Heref, (Herefordshire) yeoman, bound to Richard Hambleton, carpenter to serve 7 years,; etc.

HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN, editor.  The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. With Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in Which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars. From MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, 604p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1974. Repr. 1986.

 
Barbados was a destination for those who were deported for various reasons, time served there for their offences could be shortened if they agreed not to return to the British Isles, and permission given to immigrate to the American shore was the most favorable destination for those who wished to remove themselves from their previous hardships on British soil.
 
Regardless of why or how they came, that they did is unquestioned.  That the Small family arrived and were part of the first permanent settlement in this country, even before the Mayflower families is also beyond question.  Robert Small, a youthful carpenter arrived with the first ship of immigrants in 1606, but in the following year, after two thirds of the first settlers succumbed to starvation and sickness, he was not counted among the survivors that following year.  But he was quickly replaced by others of the Small surname and that they survived is evidenced by the many genealogies that spring from the Virginia Colony.