In an earlier message Netti Schreiner-Yantis wrote:

> The fact that there were NO women in the first fleet, and only a
> few in the next two or three, accounts for no children living who had been
> born between 1608 and 1611.   There were women coming in on the ships after
> 1610, however, and it would seem there should have been some 13 or 14-year
> olds included in the 1624/5 Muster.   I was surprised, therefore,  at the
> apparent nonexistence, in 1625, of  any child born in Virginia before 1615.
> Have any of you read any literature that might bring some light upon this
> subject?

Apparently at least one child living in 1625 was born about 1610 or
1611, and her sisters were probably born by 1620:

Charles E. Hatch Jr., _The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624_
(Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corp, 1957), p. 7: "In October
[1608], the second supply arrived, including seventy settlers, who,
when added to the survivors in Virginia, raised the over-all
population to about 120.
"Among the new arrivals were two women, Mistress Forrest and her
maid. Several months later, in the church at Jamestown, the maid, Ann
Burras, was married to one of the settlers, John Laydon, a carpenter
by trade. This marriage has been ranked as 'the first recorded English
marriage on the soil of the United States.' Their child, Virginia,
born the next year, was the first to be born at Jamestown."
P. 94: "There were fifty-four separate musters or groups in Elizabeth
City [in 1625]. . . . There was, too, the muster of the ancient
planters John and Anne Laydon and their four girls, all Virginia
'borne.' The oldest of them was the first child born in the
Colony."

Kathleen Much
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