History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

KJ2 DESCENDANTS OF PETER MONTAGUE.
were slain by the savages. A new supply came in the year 1608, of a
hundred and twenty persons under the conduct of Captain Nelson.
After which was sent another supply of three score and ten persons,
and in the year 1609,* a third supply came, of five hundred persons
under a Patent granted to Sir Thomas West, lord Delaware, but con-
ducted thither by Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Summers, and
others. In the year 161 1 was a fourth supply of three hundred men
under the conduct of Sir Thomas Gates. In the year 16 12 two other
.supplies were sent of forty men in each. In the year 16 18 Lord
Delaware came, with a supply of two hundred people and soon after
he died there. In 1620 eleven ships were sent over with twelve
hundred and sixteen persons, and now they founded themselves into
Corporations. In the year 162 1 Sir Francis Wyatt came over as
Governor of the Colony, in company with thirteen hundred men,
women and children, and now they founded schools and courts of
justice; and the plantation was extended 140 miles up, on both sides
of the James river. With this company was Peter Montague. He
came in the ship " Charles " and landed in Virginia in the month of
November, 162 1. The following persons came in the same ship at
the same time and were his fellow passengers :
Randall
Crew age
17, John Hely age 21, Robert Manuell [or Mannell] age 22, William
Lusam age 24, William Field age 20, Roger Ruce age — , Adam
Thorogood age 15, Niccolas Browne age 15. Three years later two
of these persons, William Lusam and William Field are found to be
engaged upon the same plantation with Peter.
Where he went, or what he did for the first two years, no record
has been found to say. In a list of the living and dead in Va., taken
Feb'y 16, 1623, his name does not appear. He may have visited the
Bermudas during this time, or the list itself may be at fault. In the
Muster Roll of the inhabitants of Va., taken Jan'y 23, 1624, his name
is found as residing on the plantation of Capt. Samue] Mathews at
James City. This Samuel Mathews was afterward Governor of the
Colony [1656].! This muster roll of 1624 gives Peter's age as 21,
and states that he came in the " Charles " in 162 1.
* The 2d Charter of Va. Co. in England under date of May 23d, 1609, contains the name of
James Montague. [Hen. Va. Stat. p. 81, VI. 1.] The James Montague here mentioned was
son of Sir Edward Montagu and brother of Henry, the first Earl of Manchester. He was
first, master of Sidney College, Cambridge, where he was educated, afterward dean of the
Chapel Royal, and then of Worcester. In 1603 he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells, and
in 1611 Bishop of Winchester. He did not come to America.
t Capt. Samuel Mathews, upon whose plantation Peter Montague resided, came from England
in the ship "Southampton" in 1622, in the same ship came Robert Mathews, who was
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