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From: Claudia Cox <>
Subject: [VAHENRIC] Shirley Plantation & Bermuda One Hundred
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:11:01 -0800


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The Shirley Plantation is located between Richmond and Williamsburg VA.
It was settled in 1613, and is the oldest in VA, and still owned by the
same families, the Hills and Carters. It is located on the North side of
the James River and is open for tours and Corporate events. It is a beautiful
plantation, and you can get more information from them (including a brochure)
by writing them at:
Shirley Plantation
501 Shirley Plantation Rd.
Charles City, VA 23030-2907
Phone: 800-232-1613

This from "The First Seventeen Years VIRGINIA 1607-1624" by Charles E.
Hatch, Jr. University Press of VA

It was in the Nether Hundred, which became Bermuda Hundred and later the
"Neck-of-Land" in Charles City, that settlement was first initiated "for
there (according to Hamor in 1614) lyeth the most convenient quantity of
corne ground." With a "pale" from river to river but two miles in length
it was possible to secure some eight miles of "exceeding good corne ground."
Houses were built one-half mile from each other on"the verge of the river."
In 1614 these were described as "faire houses, already builded." There
were others as well totaling "not so few as fifty" Gares' Lieutenant, Geoge
Yeardley, was then in charge.

Hope this helps

Claudia

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