>
> "Supposedly the
> descendants of John Rolfe are the only people descended from any of
> those who were at the first general assembly at Jamestown in 1619.
> All the other lines died out."


I'm not positive that this statement is true. My family claims to descend
from Samuel Jordan as well as Thomas/John Rolfe...according to the
information below from the National Park Service, "Samual Jordan" was one of
two representatives from Charles City County. Jordan did not, I think, bear
children in Virginia...he had several sons from a previous marriage who
ended up coming to Virginia...so maybe the above statement is based on a
technicality of birthplace.

W. Scott Breckinridge Smith
Lynchburg, Virga.

From http://www.nps.gov/archive/colo/Jthanout/1stASSLY.html
The names of the settlements and their elected representatives were - *For
James citty:** Captaine William Powell and Ensigne William Spense;* *For
Charles citty:* *Samuel Sharpe and Samual Jordan;* *For Citty of Henricus;*
*Thomas Dowse and John Polentine;* *For Kiccowtan:* *Captaine William Tucker
and William Capp;* *For Martin Brandon-Capt. John Martin's Plantation:* *Mr.
Thomas Davis and Mr. Robert Stacy;* *For Smythe's Hundred: **Captaine Thomas
Graves and Mr. Walter Shelley;* *For Martin's Hundred:* *Mr. John Boys and
John Jackson;* *For Argall's guiffe:* *Mr. (Captaine Thomas) Pawlett and Mr.
(Edward) Gourgaing;* *For Flowerdieu Hundred:* *Ensigne (Edmund)Roffingham
and Mr. (John)Jefferson;* *For Captaine Lawne's Plantation:* *Captaine
Christopher Lawne and Ensigne Washer;* *For Captaine Warde's
Plantation:* *Captaine
Warde and Lieutenant Gibbes.*

Other members of this assembly included John Pory as Secretary and Speaker,
John Twine as Clerk of the Assembly and Thomas Pierse as Sergeant at Armes.
The Governor's Council consisted of the Governor, John Pory, Captain Frances
West, John Rolfe, Captain Nathaniel Powell and Samuel Maycock.

The 22 burgesses, together with Governor Yeardley and the Council, met on
July 30, 1619 in the church at Jamestown, because it was "the most
convenient place . . . they could finde to sitt in." For the important role
of Speaker the assembly elected John Pory, who had at one time served as a
member of English Parliament.