VASURRY-L Archives

Archiver > VASURRY > 2002-12 > 1040237345


From: "paul drake" <>
Subject: Re: Widow Elizabeth Packer per Nugent's Cavaliers and Pioneers
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:49:05 -0600
References: <VA-ROOTS%2002121813230706@LISTLVA.LIB.VA.US>


Question: ....I am trying to locate the ship that the widow
Elizabeth Packer used
to "transport" 19 people including a Jacob DeWitt to the Virginia
Colony in
1637, .... Would the ship have pulled into another port before
stopping at
the VA Colony? Linda
**********
Ms. Linda. There is no reason to be sure that those people indeed
were "servants", nor do Mrs. Nugent's efforts provide any measure of
evidence that all 19 arrived at the same date on the same ship.
Then too, such passenger lists as have survived are but a tiny
fraction of those lists lost in the past centuries.

Nevertheless, in answer to your precise question, it is likely that
whenever your ancestor came, his ship came by the "Southern route"
(via the "trade winds"); that is, south from Britain to the vicinity
of the Canary Islands, thence west to the "Indies" where ships often
stopped for supplies or cargo and to drop servants and ordinary
passengers, after which many - if not most - sailed North to GA, SC,
VA and then on NORTH to further destinations, which may have been
any Atlantic port or New England.

Have you looked at the original lists from which Nugent abstracted
what you found published? It is critical that you do so before
relying on her works as evidence. Good luck. Paul.

That URL is
http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/


This thread: