TO AN ARCHIVIST or anyone else with knowledge of or
suggestions about the following:

I have had good luck in locating a number of Virginia
colonists and persons in London to whom they shipped
goods from Virginia - mostly tobacco - in a series of
lists found in the Colonial Records Project, mostly
for the years 1639-1641.

These are my questions:

Are 1639-1641 the only years for which such records
have survived?

If not, why were others (apparently) not copied and
included in the CRP?

Do such record exist for any other 17th century
English ports?

This should be the means of identifying - or verifying
- hundreds if not thousands of Virginia settlers and
persons and firms in England who purchased from
Virginia them.

For example, my ancestor John Chandler (arr 1610) was
a planter in Elizabeth City County (now Hampton, on
the waterfront and in Strawberry Banks) and at Newport
News (the present NN Shipbuilding Company land) ca.
1630-1658+, but I find no importation records for him
even in the 1639-1641 records mentioned above.

Meanwhile, Richard and Samuel Chandler (brothers who
are thought to be my John's 2nd or 3rd cousins) were
in the import business in London from ca. 1630 until
Richard's death in 1691. They appear many times just
in the 1639-1641 records.

Thanks.

Joe Chandler Jr

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