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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