Since there are a lot of professional historians on this particular list, I
wouldn't be a bit surprised.
~m
----- Original Message -----
From: "w. cary anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Children in 1624/5 Muster
> This is a most fascinating subject being discussed. There certainly
appears
> to be much food for thought. I find the statistics interesting as well as
> the offered reasons why so few children. Infant mortality must have been
> extremely high due to any number of conditions. I certianly hope an
article
> is being considered. It is a worthy subject.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Netti Schreiner-Yantis" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Children in 1624/5 Muster
>
>
> > Kathleen --
> >
> > I am pleased to have this reference. The Muster did not give the ages
of
> > these girls, but I wondered if perhaps some of them had been born before
> > 1615--now I know. Thanks.
> >
> > I also want to thank all the others who have answered my query.
Stephen,
> I
> > was able to use the second address you gave me to Medline and found a
> number
> > of very interesting articles as a result.
> >
> > And, OOPS, I found two other children who could also have been born by
> 1615
> > in Virginia--since the Muster does not give a ship for them. One, Mara
> Buck
> > who was listed as age 13, definitely was born in Virginia. Dorman's ADV
> OF
> > PURSE & PERSON gives an excellent biography of the family (which I just
> read
> > after discovering I had made a mistake in saying none of the children
over
> > age 10 who were listed in the 1624/5 Muster had been born in Virginia.)
> By
> > the way, I have no doubt someone on this list caught my error and didn't
> > tell me because they thought I would be offended. If that is so, please
> be
> > assured that I WANT to know if I have made any mistakes!
> >
> > The other possible native of Virginia (whose age was recorded in the
> Muster)
> > was John Tree who was 12 years of age and was living with his father
> Richard
> > on James Island. According to the Muster, Richard came in the George
> (year
> > not given); no ship is mentioned for his son John. A patent to Richard
> Tree
> > for 50 acres, 14 Aug 1624, states that Richard was a "Carpenter, of
James
> > City, who came to this country with Master Abraham Percye, Cape
Merchant,
> in
> > the George, as a free man." [Patent Bk 1, pt. 1, p. 19.] Again using ADV
> OF
> > PURSE & PERSON as a reference, it states on page 478 that Abraham
Peirsey
> > first came to Virginia in 1616 in the Susan, then returned to England
and
> > "the following year came back to Virginia . . . on the second magazine
> > ship, the George." So it appears that Richard Tree came in 1617, and,
if
> > that was the case, his tweleve-year-old son was born in England and came
> > over later.
> >
> > Netti
> >
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