Thanks very much John for your prompt reply. I am
going to London soon and will report if I find
anything "new."

I have found some items in records such as the
published excerpts of papers of Queen Elizabeth, James
I and others that have Virginia connections apparently
not realized by the VCRP researchers.

On the other hand, two depositions - indexed in the
VCRP but not copied and microfilmed - made in London
in January 1624/5 by Reverend William Mease (first
minister at St. John's, Hampton) and his then wife
Margry (indexed as "Mace") give significant details
about themselves and several events in Virginia not
published anywhere else. Included are the facts that
Mease moved from Hampton to Henricus Citie, where he
was a/the minister at the time of the March 22, 1621/2
native uprising and that Margry was one of the
"maidens for Virginia" (surname unknown because she
came aboard one of the first two such ships, for which
records have not survived).

Hopefully, more such gems may yet be found.

Mease is the "traditional" ancestor of the quite large
MAYS/MAYES family founded by William Maies (Reverend
Mease did have such a son) in Southside Charles County
(now Prince George County) ca. 1640-1650. Whether this
is acurate may or may not ever be learned.

Interested persons may wish to respond directly to me
and/or to read my article about Reverend Mease in the
August/September 2001 issue of "Tidewater Virginia
Families."

Joe Chandler Jr
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--- Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Right offhand (based on some familiarity with the
> VCRP over the years) I'd
> suggest:
>
> One - the VCRP surveyors did a pretty thorough job
> in the major English
> archives over the course of 50 years - I'm quite
> confident that they found
> what was there.
>
> Two - Notice the dates that are "missing" - they
> correspond with the
> English Civil Wars, Commonwealth, and Protectorate -
> and the resumption of
> record-keeping fits roughly with the Restoration of
> the Stuarts, passage
> of the Navigation Act that created, and the
> Anglo-Dutch Wars that excluded
> Holland from the tobacco trade - in short with
> creation of the
> 18th-century British Atlantic empire and its
> administrative mechanisms...
>
> For that matter, the start date of 1639 corresponds
> with the first real
> round of administrative mechanisms for royal
> colonies linked to Sir
> Francis Wyatt...
>
> Jon Kukla
>
>
> > Dear readers,
> >
> > This is the 3rd time I have published this inquiry
> over the last 6
> months or so and no one has replied -  not even
> someone from the
> Virginia State
> > Archives/Library where these records are housed.
> >
> > Can/will anyone answer these question:
> >
> > There are large gaps in the Port Books that have
> been copied and placed
> on microfilm at the Archives as part of the Virginia
> Colonial Records
> Project.
> >
> > For instance, there are Port Book records for ca.
> 1639/40/41 and then in
> the 1670s and 1690s.
> >
> > The FHC in Salt Lake City has an index of Port
> Books -
> > the years and ports, not personal names -  of
> English
> > Port Books from well before 1600 until well after
> > 1700.
> >
> > QUESTION: What accounts for the gaps in the Port
> Book
> > records that have been copied for the VCRP?
> >
> > (1) Are the records copied for the VCRP the only
> ones
> > that have Virginia connections from 1600-1700?
> >
> > - or -
> >
> > (2) Do the Port Books - especially London - have
> the
> > kind of gaps suggested by my experience above?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Joe Chandler Jr
> > Alexandria
> >
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