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- 449 - . THE ROBERT COLEMAN FAMILY APPENDIX 4 A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN VIRGINIA, 1607- 1756, WHILE THE ROBERT COLEMAN FAMILY WAS RESIDENT IN THAT COLONY May 8, 1607, Captain Christopher Newport, with party, first of the white race to see what is now Prince George County, Virginia. May 14, 1607, First permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. January 2, 1608, Captain Newport returns to Jamestown from England to find only forty survivors of the one hundred and four men left behind when he returned to England in June, 1607. October 4, 1609, Captain John Smith returns to England, never again to see Virginia. 1610, Spring, only sixty-five of five hundred Colonists survived the Winter. 1616, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, and their son, Thomas, go to England with Sir Thomas Dale, where Pocahontas dies. Thomas Rolfe is left in England with Sir Lewis Stukley, by whom he was reared and educated. His father never saw him again. Thomas Rolfe returned to Virginia as a young man, married Jane Poythress, whose home was in what later became City Point, Prince George County. One daughter married Robert Bolling, neighbor and close associate of the Seventeenth Century Colemans. Possibly this accounts for the tradition in the Coleman family that Elizabeth Roe, wife of Robert Coleman, of Fairfield County, South Carolina, was a descendant of Pocahontas, but the writer has never found any official verification of this tradition. July 30, 1619, the First general assembly ever to meet on American soil convened at Jamestown. March 22, 1622, Good Friday, Indians massacre the Colonists. Among those killed, John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas. 1624. The London Company provides that every settler for his own transportation and for those whose transportation he paid shall receive fifty acres of land. This system continued until 1705, when the Colonial Government began the granting of lands for cash. 1624. Virginia becomes a Royal Colony. 1634. Charles City County, of which Prince George was later formed, is established. - 450 - . THE ROBERT COLEMAN FAMILY April 18, 1644, Good Friday, Indians again massacre from three hundred to five hundred Virginia Colonists. 1646. Indian agreement not to come below the falls of the James and the Appomattox, and to give up all land between the James and the York. 1642-1649. Civil War in England; the execution of Charles l. Virginia remained loyal to the King and was the last of the Colonys to submit to Cromwell. November 5, 1652, Lt. Col. Walter Chiles conveys to Robert Coalman 813 acres on the South side Of the Appomattox River, in Charles City County (Now Prince George). May 20, 1663, Robert Colman, Jr. becomes twenty-one years of age, and is given lands by his father, Robert Colman, Sr. February, 1664. Quakers fined five thousand pounds of tobacco for holding Church services. 1673. First recorded passage of the white man across the Appalachian Mountains. 1676. Bacon's Rebellion. 1688. Death of Robert Coleman, Sr. 1699. Jamestown burned for the second time, and the Capital moved to Williamsburg. July 1, 1703. All that part of Charles City County South of the James and the Appomattox becomes Prince George County. 1721. Robert Coleman, Jr. dies. 1732. Brunswick County formed of Prince George, and situated South of the Roanoke River and North of the North Carolina State line. March 25, 1735. Amelia County formed from Prince George. 1746. Lunenburg County formed of Brunswick, formerly of Prince George. January 1, 1751. Calendar changed. New Year's moved back from March 25th to January 1st. Calendar moved ahead to take care of eleven days which had been lost previously by miscalculations in time. This changed Washington's birthday from February 11 to February 22. May 1, 1753. Dinwiddie County formed from Prince George. The Colemans then lived in this area and were thereafter in Dinwiddle County. November 9, 1756. Robert Coleman receives patent from Lord Granville for 157 acres of land in Edgecombe County, North Carolina (later Halifax County). - 451 - . INDEX Every book should have an index. Since there are so many Colemans of the same given name in every generation, it would be almost imperative that the index be compiled by one familiar with the various family lines in order to avoid confusion of individuals. This would be such a gigantic task, we have decided not to delay the publication of the Book on that account. If there is sufficient demand for the Book to cause it to be widely circulated, we plan to publish a separate index at a later date. In the meantime, let us say that those looking for any particular Coleman will generally find the material concerning him at the proper chronological point in the Book. Coleman Genealogy by Mrs. Etta Rosson Page 341. William Coleman of Prince George and Amelia County Genealogy Page 49. Colvin Genealogy Page 325. Jacob Davis, of Fairfield County, South Carolina, de- scendants Page 237. Feaster Genealogy Page 305. Thomas Mathis Genealogy Page 57, 64. Mobley Genealogy Page 317. Rowe Genealogy Pages 36,92, and 97. Stevenson Genealogy Page 327. Yongue Genealogy Page 332. ---THE END---
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