Where can I get information about Jamestown?
Some government websites have information about Jamestown. But if you are looking for a cite with lots of information on Jamestown, try "wikipedia.com" and search for Jamestown. It provides footnotes and links at the bottom of the web page so that you have more sources to look up and check information from.
How may descendants from Jamestown exist?
I know there are descendants of Pocahontas and Rolfe but is there a society of the Jamestown descendants like there is Mayflower? After all, Jamestown was actually the first English settlement--St. Augustine being the very first European settlement--but there's a much bigger hoopla over Mayflower descendants
Blacks (African Americans) who arrived in Jamestown in 1619-1680?
They didnt arrive as slaves but as indentured servants..How did they get there, and where exactly did they come from (England or directly from Africa?)..Where can I find info on the history of these people and their history from 1619-1680 which is before the slave trade began? http://www.apva.org/history/index.html
Corporal Edward Morris of Jamestown?
My first direct paternal ancestor in America was Edward Morris born 1580 in Blutisham Town, Huntington County, Wales. (If you go back far enough this is an English family that migrated to Wales and they constantly had contact with England and moved back and forth) He died, suddenly, on 14 Aug 1614 in Jamestown, Virginia. He arrived there in 1607 as an early settler aboard the Susan Constant after being recruited in London by Edward-Mary Wingfield. He was listed as a gentleman and corporal. His father was Charles Morris born 1555 in Wales and died in 1608 in England. His son, my next grandfather, was Nicholas Morris born 29 Sep 1605 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England and died 20 Jan 1664 in Northumberland, Virginia. There he was a justice eight times and also a go between, between Indians and white settlers. He also owned a 1000 acre plantation that he left to his wife and son. My question is, can anyone tell me any stories about these people? Or be willing to collaborate any on these people? I would love stories or if you know of any paintings of them that would be amazing! Thanks so much!
How much of the British East India Company documents and records are preserved?
I will tell you. Before that I must remind readers that the Portuguese were in India for 300 years. 100 of it was before the British. So you may want to learn Portuguese too if you want to know about that period.As far as the British East India Company goes you have tons of records.Except it is not in London as many would think. They are not even elsewhere in England and Scotland.The vast majority of it is on St. Helena island. Specifically its capital Jamestown.The island’s archives in Jamestown hold records from its first years as an English colony. The earliest documents date from 1673 and include EIC (east India co.) records through to 1834.The method of sending post to London from India in those days was to send in triplicate. A copy went in two different ships. The third went overland.These embody correspondence with England, internal memos, land grants and legal proceedings.After 1834 and the transition to direct Crown rule, the records follow the standard pattern of similar colonies. Much of the higher-level correspondence between the island’s Governor and the Colonial Office is replicated in the UK National Archives.However, there is a great deal of local-level material in Jamestown which was never transmitted to London: this includes official records and accounts, private correspondence, maps, land titles, legal proceedings, bill posters, local newspapers and unpublished historical research.Overall, the Jamestown archive offers a record of the history, people and daily life of the colony from the late 17th century onwards.This provides a vital historical context for its extensive built and archaeological heritage. Many of the surviving documents have international significance and are unique to the island. They do not exist anywhere else.The Archive is held in two repositories: a room in which bound folios are kept on shelves, and a second room in which bound and unbound documents are stored in unlabelled packaging.The content of the latter room is almost entirely unknown but preliminary research has demonstrated that at least some of this material is of significant historical value – for example St Helena’s Vice-Admiralty Court records.I had read somewhere that there was a fire in the London archives sometime in the late 1800’s. The remaining undamaged records were also moved to St. Helena’s. And they sort of stayed there.So that is your lodestone.