Woodson came in the capacity of surgeon to a company of soldiers who were sent over for the protection of the colonist against the Indians. Tradition has it that her maiden name was Winston, but no documentation has been found to prove this. John Woodson, of Dorsetshire, and his wife Sarah, whom he had married in Devonshire.
This vessel brought the new governor, Sir George Yeardley and about one hundred passengers among whom were Dr.
On the 29th day of January, 1619, the ship George sailed from England and landed the following April at Jamestown, Virginia, nearly a year before the more famous ship, the Mayflower, came to Plymouth's shore. Many of these men, owing to the law of primogeniture, lived at home under a great disadvantage, and could accomplish something for themselves, only by going to some part of the world where that law was not operative in its strictest construction. The colony at that time numbered nearly two thousand men of high character. When Governor Dale returned to England in 1618, Sir George Yeardley was appointed to succeed him. The office of governor had changed hands often, sometimes being occupied by men of no talent for leadership at other times by men of marked executive ability. The charter was amended from time to time and new governors frequently appointed, as the terms of service were usually of short duration, owing to resignation, death or other causes of removal.Įmigrants were constantly being sent over from England to Virginia until the white population increased to about one thousand in 1617. He immediately assumed charge of colonial affairs. The council at London had appointed Lord De la War, governor of South Virginia, and he arrived at Jamestown in the summer of 1610 with a considerable number of emigrants and a large cargo of supplies.
Within the next year a great many of these people died, so that at the close of 1610 there were less than one hundred white persons alive at Jamestown. On May 23, 1609, the London Company was granted a new charter which gave them all the land two hundred miles north and south of Point Comfort and extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, the distance being entirely unknown to the King or any of the Company.ĭuring the year 1609, the London Company fitted out nine ships with five hundred emigrants and a great quantity of supplies of all kinds needed by the Colonists in Jamestown, Virginia.
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