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 >