After the dissolution of the Virginia Company in the mid-1620s, the lives of John and Nicholas Ferrar are chiefly known through the history of the establishment of a godly community at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire in England. This has lent an air of sanctity to their later careers. But both men still had material interests. They were investors along with many others in the largest land reclamation project of the period, the draining of the marsh lands on the borders of the counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk in the project headed by the 4th Earl of Bedford, as newly discovered evidence in the Court of Chancery shows (National Archives C2 Charles I T29/5/1 End). ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html