"Ancient planter" was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement was managed privately by the Virginia Company of London. A colonist received a land grant if they remained in Virginia for at least three years. Under the terms of the "Instructions to Governor Yeardley" (issued in 1618), these colonists received the first land grants in the New World.[1][2]
^"Instructions to George Yeardley, November 18, 1618" http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj8&fileName=mtj8pagevc03.db&recNum=121.gif
^"Instructions to Governor Yeardley, 1618" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for the Year Ending JUNE, 1895, Volume II, pp. 154-165 (The Virginia Historical Society, 1895)]
"Ancientplanter" was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement was managed privately by the Virginia...
The planter class was a racial and socioeconomic caste which emerged in the Americas during European colonization in the early modern period. Members...
16th and 17th centuries Ancientplanter, a colonist receiving one of the first land grants in Virginia New England Planters, settlers who moved to the...
issued to "Captain Raleigh Croshaw, Gentleman, of Kiccoughtan, "An AncientPlanter who hath remained in this country 15 years complete and performed many...
colony as a child in 1610 and was established as one of the few female ancientplanters by 1620. After her husband Samuel Jordan died in 1623, Cecily obtained...
Samuel Jordan (died 1623) was an early settler and AncientPlanter of colonial Jamestown. He arrived in Virginia around 1610, and served as a Burgess...
"ancientplanters," were entitled to 100 acres (0.40 km2). John Rolfe described the situation in Jan-1620 in glowing terms: "All the ancientplanters being...
Anne Burras was an early English settler in Virginia and an AncientPlanter. She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter...
who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the prewar South have generally defined "planter" most precisely as a person owning property...
lock of his hair and held him hostage as they escaped. Robert was an AncientPlanter, and thus received 100 acres of land for being present before the arrival...
England, but migrated to the American colonies, becoming one of the "ancientplanters". In 1619, Brown states in his "First Republic in America," that, "The...
founded in the Varina district of Henrico on 750 acres granted to AncientPlanter Thomas Harris, family seat of the Harris branch of the First Families...
2017-12-05. Miller, Brandon Marie (2016). "Cecily Jordan Farrar, "AncientPlanter" of Virginia". Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and...
proved unsatisfactory, and he assigned 3-acre (12,000 m2) plots to its ancientplanters and smaller plots to the settlement's later arrivals. Measurable economic...
21 Allice Gough, gentlewoman, aged 28 Priscilla Palmer, aged 7 or 8 Ancientplanter Casquette girl Plaçage King's Daughters Marriage à la façon du pays...
in 1623 is unclear. Two years later Thomas Seawell was working for ancientplanter Reynold Booth in Elizabeth City County, and in 1635 he patented 400...
remained slaves. In the various European colonies in the Caribbean, white planters took black and mulatto concubines, owing to the shortage of white women...
Virginia planter and politician who served in the House of Burgesses. Son of burgess Thomas Massie. Thomas Massie (Planter) (1747–1834), Virginia planter, military...
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