You will want to consult a copy of Martha McCartney's
recently-published "Virginia
Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary" (see
http://tinyurl.com/3bonvl for details on the book).

It may have the information you need.

Martha Katz-Hyman

On 10/21/07, D. W. Byrd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Has anyone tracked the family of the Capt. Henry Spry one of the Signers
> of
> the 1609 Charter of the Virginia Company?
>
> I would also like to know if anyone has been able to connect him to Oliver
> Sprye 1636 of Isle of Wight and later Maryland.
>
> Henry is not found in the updated Adventurers of Purse and Persons.
> I am wondering the following:
> did Henry only venture his purse and not his person?
> or did he venture both and lost his life in wreck off of Bermuda?
> or did he make it to Virginia and for some reason never claim the land and
> passed the venture to another say Oliver Sprye?
>
> Oliver Sprye was part of the group that moved with Richard Bennet to
> Maryland rather than conform to the Church of England in 1649/1650.
>
> Deborah Byrd
>