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  De la Warr - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
DE LA WARR, or Delaware, an English barony, the holders of which are descended from Roger de la Warr of Isfield, Sussex, who was summoned to parliament as a baron in 1299 and the following years.
Thomas West, 3rd or 12th Baron De La Warr (1577-1618), British soldier and colonial governor in America, was born on the 9th of July 1577, probably at Wherwell, Hampshire, where he was baptized.
Lord De La Warr's rule was strict but just; he constructed two forts near the mouth of the James river, rebuilt Jamestown, and in general brought order out of chaos.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /De_La_Warr   (1019 words)

  
 Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas West, 3rd (or 12th) Baron De La Warr (July 9, 1577 – June 7, 1618), was the Englishman for whom the state, river, and the American Indian tribe called now called "Delaware" (in the United States) were named.
He was the son of Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr and Anne Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey.
Lord De La Warr headed the contingent of 150 men, who landed in Jamestown on 10 June 1610, just in time to persuade the original settlers not to give up and go home to England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr   (461 words)

  
 Baron West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cokayne argues that there is no reason to assume that this changed the status of the West title, but given the irregular practice used, it is just conceivable that a modern claimant to West would be refused on the basis that the title was merged into De la Warr along with the estates.
Some genealogical sources claim that Sir Thomas West of Hampton Cantilupe (1251–1344) was summoned to Parliament and became Lord West in 1342, but this is not supported by Cokayne.
Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr and 5th Baron West (c.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baron_West   (362 words)

  
 De la Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
DE LA WARR, THOMAS WEST, 12TH BARON [De la Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron], 1577-1618, English colonial governor of Virginia.
Lord De la Warr returned to England, and the colony was governed by Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale.
De la Warr in his Relation … of the Colonies Planted in Virginia (1611) pleaded for the colony.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/delaw1arr.asp   (187 words)

  
 My Dennison Ancestors - pafg23 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Thomas Bancroft was born in 1570 in Swarkston, Derby Co, England.
Thomas MOWRY was born on 26 Mar 1578 in England.
Thomas FERGUSON was born in 1584 in Of Warwick Co., Devon,, England.
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 De la Warr Thomas West 3rd Baron - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
De la Warr, Thomas West, 3rd Baron, called Lord Delaware (1577-1618), English governor of colonial Virginia.
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de (1689-1755), French writer and jurist, born in the Château of La Brède, and educated...
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671), Scottish general, born in Yorkshire, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge.
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 West
Sackville West was son of Thomas West, physician, the son of _____West, the son of Cap.
Thomas West, son of Francis West and Margery Reeves, was born in Duxbury or Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1646.
West and his wife ha d become members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island, prior to 1692, bu tin 1702 he was excommunicated for not keeping the tenets of the church.
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 Thomas WEST (3º B. De La Warr)
West served with Dale and Gates in Ireland in 1599, and was actively involved with his cousin, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in his rebellion.
At the time of Essex’s rebellion, Thomas West was a very poor Justice of the Peace living very near Titchfield, the ancestral home of his co-conspirator, the Earl of Southampton.
Lord De La Warr died on the enroute to Virginia aboard the NEPTUNE.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasWest(3BDeLaWarr).htm   (317 words)

  
 Shermanbury: Manors and other estates | British History Online
From Ralph de Buci the undertenancy of Shermanbury descended with that of Kingston in the Buci family until the 14th century.
Thomas devised his moiety in trust to Robert Heath for his son John, and in 1668 the manor court was held in the names of Robert and John.
95) and was lord of the manor in 1631 and 1642.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=18479   (2429 words)

  
 The Thomas Jefferson Papers - Virginia Records Timeline - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Sir Thomas Gates is deputy governor until the arrival of Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the newly appointed governor of Jamestown.
Lord De La Warr serves as governor from June 10, 1610 through late March 1611 and then departs for England.
Thomas Dale leads a group of colonists to establish Henricus (later Henrico), one of the first outlying settlements in Virginia.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjvatm3.html   (1739 words)

  
 John FLUDD/FLOOD
He was one of the settlers with Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, newly appointed Governor of Virginia.
West departed London in a flotilla of three ships carrying 250 settlers and provisions: The Starr, The Swan, and the Tyrall.
Lord De La Warr's arrival in Jamestowne from the Jamestowne Society.
webpages.charter.net /pepbaker/fludd.htm   (595 words)

  
 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
66 (inv 1380) Thomas (Plantagenet), styled "of Woodstock." Duke of Gloucester.
514 (inv 1704) Sidney, Lord Godolphin of Rialton.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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 ancestors - pafn17 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Lord De La Warr or Thomas West (1577-1618) was the third of his family to carry the title.
Thomas West had a younger brother, Francis West (1586-1633) who came to America about July 1609 but went to England early in 1610 to return to Virginia the same year.
Thomas was mentioned in records of May 6, 1665, when it is noted that he had previously sold land at "Warrick" to Mr.
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 The West Family Register: Important Lines Traced, 1326—1928 - New England Historic Genealogical Society
The daughter of Roger LaWarr married Sir Thomas West, who was knighted in 1328, and served under Edward III, for which he was created a baron.
His son, Thomas, who succeeded his father upon his death, had a son, Thomas, who was knighted in 1399.
Thomas West, 3rd Lord De La Warr and first Governor of Virginia, was born July 9, 1577.
www.newenglandancestors.org /research/Database/genealogies/west/default.asp   (329 words)

  
 Longparish History - by G. Timmins
Thomas Blackway and Francis Barker, of London in 1566 where granted a tucking mill with a watercourse, to be held in socage (free tenure without obligation)
Thomas Ingpen of “Galaker”probably a relative of John Ingpen, married Isabel Colshill, they had a son Robert; in 1411 Robert was showing that he held the manor at the time of his death.
A licence was granted to Henry le Wayte in 1325 to separate in mortmain (dead hand free of dues) 6 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow and 5 acres of marsh in Wherewell, Goodworth and Eston, to the Abbess and convent.
www.longparish.org.uk /history/wherwell.htm   (1132 words)

  
 encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The name "Delaware" comes from the title of Sir Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, erstwhile governor of the colony of Virginia.
The deed to the property that is now Delaware was granted to William Penn in 1682, by James, Duke of York (later, James II of England), and was part of the colony of Pennsylvania.
Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania, to the east by New Jersey and to the west by Maryland.
www.mvlife.com /encyclopedia/static.php?file=us/../de/Delaware.html   (842 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Mason-Dixon Surveys
Since the tangency line runs slightly west of true north, the tangent point lies south and slightly east of the arc’s westernmost point (Figure 6).
Tavern scenes in Thomas Pynchon’s 1997 novel Mason and Dixon are consistent with at least one contemporary account of their enjoyment of the taproom.  In January 1765 Mason visited Lancaster (and the jail where the Tuscaroras had been slaughtered) and “Pechway” (Pequa).  In February, he toured Princeton NJ and New York.
From the summit of North Mountain they could see that their west line would pass about two miles north of the northernmost bend in the Potomac.  Had the Potomac looped further north into Pennsylvania, the western piece of Maryland would have been cut off from the rest of the colony.
www.udel.edu /johnmack/mason_dixon   (4723 words)

  
 Erskine Thomas 1st Baron Erskine of Restormel - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Erskine, Thomas, 1st Baron Erskine of Restormel (1750-1823), British statesman and noted advocate, who at various times successfully defended the...
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), British historian, essayist, and statesman, best remembered for his five-volume...
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron: Monck, George, 1st Duke of Albemarle
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 Delaware History
When Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, called Delaware a "jewel among the states," he might have been paying tribute to the brilliance of its statesmen in the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
The state is named after Sir Thomas West, Lord De la Warr, or Warre, who was the governor of Virginia in the early 1600s.
Thomas Macdonough of Delaware defeats British in battle on Lake Champlain.
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 Colonial Delaware   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Delaware River and Delaware Bay were named after the governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr in 1620 by explorer Samuel Argall.
The settlement was called Zwaanendael (valley of swans), and was located near the present town of Lewes on the west bank of the Lewes Creek.
Captain de Vries returned to the New World to visit the colony in 1632 only to find that the settlers had been killed and their settlement burned by the Indians.
www.colonialancestors.com /cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http://colonialancestors.com/de/dehistory.htm   (280 words)

  
 Sir Thomas Gates
The officers were Sir Thomas West, Lord De la Warr, captain-general of Virginia; Sir Thomas Gates, lieutenant-general ; Sir George Somers, admiral: Captain Newport, vice-admiral: Sir Thomas Dale, high-marshal; and Sir Ferdinand Wainman, general of horse.
Sir Thomas Gates and his passengers remained nine months in Bermuda, where they constructed two vessels, partly from the wreck of the "Sea Venture" and partly from cedars, which they felled.
Sir Thomas Gates succeeded, however, in collecting new recruits, and in August, 1611, arrived in Virginia with six ships, three hundred men, one hundred cattle, and all manner of provisions.
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 John WEST (Gov. of Virginia)
Emigrated on the Bonny Bess in 1618 with his brother Lord De La Warr, and resided at "West Point", Virginia.
When decision was reached, 1630, to plant a settlement on the York River, Colonel John West was among the first to patent lands there and by 1632 was established on his plantation, which, sold to Edward Digges, 1650, was then known as the "A.D. Plantation" and later as "Bellefield".
Colonel John West died at his West Point plantation, 1659, and March 1660 the House of Burgesses passed a resolution of good will in recognition of "the many important favors and services rendered to the country of Virginia by the noble family of West, predecessors of Mr.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/JohnWest(Gov).htm   (619 words)

  
 A Timeline of Events and References
In the midst is a marhet place, a storehouse, and a corps de guarde, as likewise a pretty chapel, though (at this time when we came in) as ruined and unfrequented.
But the lord governor and captain general hath given anorder for the repairing of it, and at this instant many hands are about it.
De La Warr leaves for England, George Percy is Deputy Governor until arrival of Thomas Dale, about 150 people left.
www.apva.org /history/timeline.html   (1925 words)

  
 kittanning-pa.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Exploring the Atlantic coast north of Jamestown in 1610, Captain Samuel Argall discovered a large bay which he named in honor of Sir Thomas West, Third Lord de la Warr and the first governor of the Virginia.
The various campsites and planting fields which the Lenape used were linked by an extensive network of trails, many of which went on to become colonial roads and subsequently, modern streets.
Rivalry for the West, particularly for the valley of the upper Ohio, prepared the way for another war.
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 An Unforgiven Puritan -- Biography Rev. Stephen Bachiler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the Dissolution the abbey was granted to Thomas West, Lord La Warr or Delaware, and it soon became the principal seat of that great family.
At Salem was the arch Puritan, Hugh Peter; at Newtown the somber Thomas Shepherd; at Boston was John Wilson, whose natural benignity was overshadowed by his loyalty to the intolerant tenets he professed; at Roxbury John Eliot and Thomas Welde were in full accord with the narrower beliefs.
The church likewise dealing with him, he stiffly denied it, but soon after when the Lord's Supper was to be administered he did voluntarily confess the attempt, and that he did intend to defile her if she had consented.
www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/biog/bachilerunforgiven.htm   (8449 words)

  
 South Jersey Heritage - R. Craig Koedel: Chapter 1: First Settlers and the People They Found   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
That spring, while exploring the coastline on a voyage northward from the West Indies, the Italian mariner passed the chain of narrow, sandy islands on which today stand the seashore resorts of the Garden State.
The stated purpose of the Dutch West India Company, incorporated in 1621, was to carry on a peltry trade with the Indians.
To consolidate his strength on the west bank, he withdrew the garrison from Elfsborg, thus bringing an end to the Swedish military occupation of the east bank.
westjersey.org /sjh/sjh_chap_1.htm   (4038 words)

  
 Delaware U.S. Senators
Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury meet at Barratt's Chapel in Frederica, establishing the Methodist Church as a separate denomination in the U.S. Caesar Rodney dies on July 25th.
James A. Bayard is one of American signers of the Treaty of Ghent, ending War of 1812.
Thomas F. Bayard appointed Secretary of State of the United States.
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 2003anc - pafg23 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Thomas Cox appears to have moved to New Kent County, for on June 8, 1658, in a land grant to George Austin, reference is made to land surveyed for Thomas Cox in New Kent County.
Thomas Cox appears to have left a son, William Cox, who is listed in the Quit Rent Roll, 1704, in New Kent County, as owning 150 acres of land.
In Deed Book I, page 364, there is a deed of gift, dated Feb. 5, 1685, from John Cox, Sen., of "Harryaddocks, Planter," to his son William Cox, which deed is witnessed by Bartholomew Cox.
www.homestead.com /denversuddaths/files/Anc2003/2003anc/pafg23.htm   (8894 words)

  
 Where's My Damn Castle?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On May 23, 1610, Thomas Gates (acting as Virginia's first governor until arrival of Thomas West-Lord De La Warr) and the rest of the travellers from the Seaventure finally arrived in Virginia and discovered that, despite being shipwrecked in Bermuda, they had been the lucky ones.
On June 8, Thomas West, Lord Delaware (de la Warr) arrived, made everyone return to Jamestown and promptly reopened the fort.
The second event indicates that either Gates or West (De La Warr) had decided to take a different posture with the Indians that John Smith had.
www.azoz.com /family/castle/1607/1610.html   (2272 words)

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