Peter Arundell and Humphrey Kent of Virginia, London, and Normandy
Shawn Potter
> In a message dated 5/3/04 7:50:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
> royala...@msn.com writes:
> >I've included a revised list of the large number of colonial
> >immigrants who descend from Alice de Arundel.<
>
> I wonder about Joane Arundel who is thought to have been born in London about
> 1602 and who died about 1650 at Jamestown, Va. She may have been married to
> a Humphrey Kent who is thought to have been born in London about 1603 and who
> died near Jamestown, Va. about 1653. How does this Joane Arundel connect to
> the Arundel family that you have recently discussed.
>
> Jno
John,
I have wondered if Humphrey Kent's wife, Joan, was a daughter or near
relative of Peter Arundell--a native of Normandy and French teacher of
London who arrived in Virginia in 1621. Peter Arundell lived near
Buck Row in Virginia, and died there between November 8, 1624 and
January 20, 1624/5. His 9-year old [or 14-year old] daughter,
Margaret, was living 50 miles up the James River with Humphrey and
Joan Kent on January 20, 1624/5. If there was no family relationship
between Margaret Arundell and Humphrey and Joan Kent, I wonder why
Margaret was not taken in by a Buck Row family. In case someone is
interested in these families, here are my notes on them.
Shawn
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"John Kent made free by Richard Wayte his assigned M[aster] from
Dorothy Ince late wief of John Ince his first M[aster] who reporteth
for the whole service."
[Guildhall Library MF 326, London]
"18 March 1606/7: Humfrey Kent of five years sonne of John Kent
Marchan Taylor admitted from St Sepulchre ... Humfrey Kent gen to
Virginia to his Mother the 17th of October 1617."
[Guildhall Library Manuscript 12818/1, "Christ's Hospital (Bluecoat
School) Children's Register," London]
Peter Wilson Coldham, "Child Apprentices in America from Christ's
Hospital, London, 1617-1778," says Humphrey Kent, 5 year old son of
John Kent, merchant tailor of the Parish of St. Sepulchre, was
admitted to Christ's Hospital [grammar school for orphans] on March
18, 1607. Coldham says Humphrey Kent petitioned to leave Christ's
Hospital on October 17, 1617, to join his mother [who presumably had
remarried] in Virginia.
Robert Wolman was a mercer, a cloth exporter, in 1553/4 and 1559 and
an assitant of the Russia Company in 1569. He died without issue in
January 1571, leaving lands in Cambridgeshire to his wife Margery and
property in London and Middlesex for the building of a school in
Uxbridge and for endowing the master with 20 marks per annum. Wolman
left his freedom of the Russia Company to his cousin, John Kent. He
also left 20 marks to Ann Langham, a poor maid whom he had brought up
from infancy for charity sake, and 6 pounds, 13 shillings, 4 pence to
Jane, the daughter of William Loddington, mercer, which Jane had a
'brent' face. (PCC 8 Holney]
[Thomas Stuart Willan, "The Muscovy Merchants of 1555," 1972, p. 128,
Library of Congress Call No. HF3510.L8 W5 1972]
Virginia M. Meyer and John Frederick Dorman, editors, "Adventurers of
Purse and Person, Virginia: 1607-1624/5, (Published by the Order of
First Families of Virginia, 1987, 3rd edition), pp 384-5.
"Humfrey Kent came to Virginia in 1619 aboard the George, the ship
carrying the official party of the new Governor, Sir George Yeardley.
Kent's wife, Joane, came in the Tyger, 1621, which carried some of the
"Maids for Wives;" she may have been one of them. In Jan. 1624/5 the
couple was living at Percy's Hundred on the south side of the James
River. This plantation, originally known as Flowerdieu Hundred [named
for the maiden name of the wife of Governor George Yeardley], had been
acquired by Abraham Peirsey [Percy] from the Yeardley family before
1624.
Living with Humfrey Kent and his wife at Peirsey's Hundred was
Margaret Arundell, aged 9 years, no doubt a young kinswoman of Richard
and Elizabeth Arundell who were listed at Jamestown, 1624/5, in the
muster of Sir George Yeardley. The three Arundells had come to
Virginia in the Abigaile, 1620-21.
A list of patents, 1626, shows Humfrey Kent with 50 acres upon
"Apamatucke River." Two legal instruments, the first a deed dated 3
Aug. 1653 but signed and sealed in court on 4 June 1655, and the
second an agreement, undated and referring to the deed which had
already been recorded, reveal that Mr. Humfrey Kent, deceased, had
been assigned 60 acres at Weyanoke and had lived there during his
lifetime. The land was in the area of Flowerdieu Hundred, which lay
in the territory originally the seat of the Weyanoke Indians. The
deed, made by Capt. John Epes and his wife, Mary, to Thomas Rands of
Weyanoke, states that Epes had "at this present time just right, full
power & lawful authority fully to convey, bargaine, assigne & sell the
premises," which, together with the statement that Kent "in his
lifetime inhabited and possessed" the tract, suggests that it came to
them as an inheritance of Mary, although this is not stated
specifically. Issue: Mary Kent married, about 1645, John Epes."
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John Camden Hotten, "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality:
1600-1700," (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing County, Inc., 1986) p.
215
"The Muster of the Inhabitants of Peirsey's Hundred taken the 20th of
January 1624 ...
The Muster of Humfrey Kent
Humfrey Kent arrived in the George 1619
Joane his wife in the Tyger 1621
Margrett Arrundell aged 9 yeares in the Abigaile 1621
Christopher Beane (servant) aged 40 yeares in the Neptune 1618"
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James Deetz, "Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia
Plantation, 1619-1864," (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of
Virginia, 1993) pp. 20-1.
"The Muster of the Inhabitants of Pierseys Hundred taken the 20th of
January 1624 ...
The Muster of Humfrey Kent
Humfrey Kent arrived in the George 16[left blank, should read 19]
Joane his wife in the Tyger 1621
Margrett Arrundell aged 9 years in the Abigaile 1621
Servants Christopher Beane aged 40 years in the Neptune 1618
Corne, 6 barrells; Powder, 2 lb; Lead, 6 lb; Peeces fixt, 2; Swords,
2; Neat Cattell young & old, 3; Swine, 3.
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"The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," (Richmond, The
Virginia Historical Society: 1968) vol 16, pp. 7-15.
"An extract of all the titles and estates of land sent to the privy
council by Sir Francis Wyatt when he returned [to England] according
to their order in their letter dated at Salisbury May 15, 1625 ...
...
Upon Apomattuck River ...
Humphry Kent, 50 acres ...
Here is land laid out for Charles Citie and the common land."
[Note: This list only includes the names of property owners. Also
living with Humfrey Kent at this time was his wife, Joan, as well as
14 year old Margaret Arundell.]
"The Third Virginia Charter: March 12, 1612 [1612/13]"
"James, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and
Ireland, Defender of the Faith, to all to whom these presents shall
come, greeting. Whereas at the humble suit of divers and sundry our
loving subjects, as well adventures as planters of the First Colony in
Virginia, and for the propagation of Christian religion and reclaiming
of people barbarous to civility and humanity, we have by our letters
patent bearing date at Westminster the three and twentieth day of May
in the seventh year of our reign of England, France and Ireland, and
the two and fortieth of Scotland, given and granted unto them, that
they and all such and so many of our loving subjects as should from
time to time forever after be joined with them as planters or
adventurers in the said plantation, and their successors forever,
should be one body politic, incorporated by the name of The Treasurer
and Planters of the City of London for the First Colony of Virginia
...
And further our will and pleasure is, and we do by these presents
grant and confirm for the good and welfare of the said plantation, and
that posterity may hereafter know who have adventured and not been
sparing of their purses in such a noble and generous action for the
general good of their country, and at the request and with the consent
of the company aforesaid, that our trusty and wellbeloved subjects ...
Peter Erundell [his name appears, so spelled, toward the end of a list
of 329 English nobles, clerics, knights, and merchants]
... who since our said last letters patent are become adventurers and
have joined themselves with the former adventurers and planters of the
said company and society, shall from henceforth be reputed, deemed and
taken to be and shall be brethren and free members of the company and
shall and may enjoy all such interest, right, title, priviledges,
preeminences, liberties, franchises, immunities, profits and
commodities whatsoever in as large, ample and beneficial manner to all
intents, constructions and purposes, as any other adventures nominated
and expressed in any our former letters patent, or any of them have or
may have by force and virtue of these presents, or any our former
letters patent whatsoever..."
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Susan Myra Kingsbury, editor, "The Records of The Virginia Company of
London," (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office,
1933), vol i, pp. 298-309
"A Preparative Court Held for Virginia at Sir Edwin Sandys' House Ye
Last of January, 1619 [1619/20]
Present: ... Mr. Peter Arundell ...
Peter Arundell's petition to have his shares explained to be double
shares referred to the auditors to view his business how it stands and
report it to the court."
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Kingsbury, vol i, pp. 309, 310.
"February Ye 16th, 1619 [1619/20]
Five shares formerly given by Sir Thomas Roe, Knt., to Peter Arundell,
which were confirmed unto him in a court held the first of October
1617. The said Peter Arundell in consideration of a certain sum of
money paid unto him by the said Sir Thomas Roe hath resigned the said
five shares unto the said Sir Thomas Roe, which auditors having
allowed were by this court confirmed.
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Kingsbury, vol i, pp. 316, 317.
March 2, 1619 [1619/20]
"Present: ... Mr. Arundell ...
Mr. Treasurer signified that accidentally having some conference with
ye Right Honorable, the Earl of Arundell [This Earl was not Peter
Arundell, but I wonder if there was a relationship?], it pleased his
Lordship to demonstrate the exeeding much love he beareth to the
action, insomuch that he could be content to come and sit amongst
them. He therefore moved that the court would permit his Lordship
into their society, which being put to ye question was joyfully
embraced by general consent and referred according to order to a great
court for electing of his Lordship to be one of the council..."
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Kingsbury, vol i, pp. 345, 346.
"A Quarter Court Held for Virginia at Mr. Farrar's in St. Sithes Lane,
the 17th of May 1620.
Present: ... The Earl of Southampton [Henry Wriothesley], the Earl of
Warwick [Robert Rich], the Earl of Devonshire [William Courtenay] ...
Sir Robert Mansell ... Mr. Peter Arundell ..."
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Kingsbury, vol iii, p. 239, 240.
"Virginia Company. A Note of the Shipping, Men, and Provisions Sent
and Provided for Virginia.
... The Abigail, of 350 tons, sent in February 1620/1 with 230 persons
...
Men skillful for setting up staple comodities ...
Eight French Vignerons [vineyard growers], procured from Languedoc,
who are very skillful also in breeding silkworms and making silk--of
this seed there is good store gone, both French, Italian and
Spanish--together with instructions for providing comodious housing
and orderly planting of mulberry trees. There are also some
Englishmen sent that have been trained therein."
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Kingsbury, vol iii, pp. 462, 463
Sir George Yeardley. A Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys.
June 27, 1621
"Noble Sir,
Though your most weighty and important affairs would not permit you to
write otherwise than in brief by this ship, Abigail, yet to my great
joy and singular contentment I have heard both from the company and by
some others of my very good friends of the election of my worthy
successor [the Virginia Company elected Sir Francis Wyatt to replace
Sir George Yeardley as governor], wherein I do both perceive your
loving care of me, and how much I am bound to yourself, to whom as for
all other your most noble favors so for this last I do you service
even to the spending my life, your friendly advertisement and therein
your promise you have most faithfully kept... Your request concerning
Mr. Poe and Madame Poe, his wife, shall be a command to make me for
your sake to do even what possible I can or may in affording them my
best help and furtherance, whereof I doubt not but you shall shortly
to your content understand. Mr. Arondell I have commended to Capt
Nuce, and have desired him that he will at all times certify me what
pleasure or favor I may do him for your sake [It appears that Sir
Edwin Sandys asked Sir George Yeardley to assist Mr. Peter Arundell to
become established in Virginia.]. Mr. Lapworth I trust will deserve
your commendations, how he is disposed of you shall understand by the
letter to the general company, as also how Capt Smyth is seated, both
whom I will do my best to further in what I may... So commending both
you and yours with all your virtuous proceedings to him who is best
able to preserve you, with the integrity and zeal of your heart which
you exercise to his glory in this action, I rest ready to be at all
times commanded by you,
George Yeardley
James City this 27th of June 1621"
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Kingsbury, vol iii, pp. 534-535.
Peter Arundell. A Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys.
December 15, 1621
"Right worshipful and most religious knight,
For me to write unto you news of this country were to cast a few drops
of water into ye sea, you having here such wise and good intelligence,
therefore I refer you to know further from me by my letter written to
ye council, whereof worthily you are one (Voire, je pouvoye bien dire
dix en effect.). I did write to your worship by the Margaret and
John, therefore these few private lines shall only serve to intreat
your favorable voice unto the company, for the performance of their
promises. And because I am nearer to me than any other, and that
charity begins with oneself, I crave particularly for me and my poor
family. Whereas Mr Deputy Ferrers promised me the assistance of Capt
Nuse [Thomas Newce] and my son-in-law, Captain Mansell (who is dead)
for fishing and hunting, and provision for a whole year beforehand, a
house ready built, and cattle, which proved far defective. For, for
provision all that we now have is but a pint and a half ... of musty
meal for a man a day. And yet the company's deputy, Capt Nuse, tells
us that there was sent hither, but scarse enough for half a year's
provision. As for the other things, there is not one observed with
me, as you may further know by my letter to the council. Were you not
one of them known wise, and best affected in the action, I would not
discover unto you the danger we are in, for I will always do what I
may to hide our defects and encourage any to the furtherance of this
Christian plantation; neither do I complain upon any particular
officer, knowing it is easier to find faults than to amend them. I
leave to your judicious search for to discover from whence they
proceed, and to repair them to the relief of us all. If by your
charitable sufferage I may receive any benefit from the honorable
company, I will ever pray for your temporal and eternal felicity, and
rest yours most humble to command,
P. Arondelle
Je vous supplie aussi, Monsieur me favoriser es regetes et demandes
que je fay a la compagnie.
Elizabeth Cittie this 15th of December 1621"
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Kingsbury, vol iii, p. 231
Peter Arundell. Fragment of a Letter to John Smyth of Nibley.
January 1, 1621/2
"... River, yea some on the Chicahominy River. But to the end of our
noble and most worthy adventures be not deprived of their praises
(though I am uncapable to demonstrate the least point of their due
deserts). We have good number of hind in sundry places, and bullocks
wherewith the ground may be plowed for English corn, goats, horses,
and hogs, which are dispersed, and grown wild in the woods, many of
the inhabitants having tame sows and hogs, to their great commodities.
All which cattle have been sent for the benefit of the planters, at
the unestimable charges of the said most worthy adventurers for whose
prosperity we, said plainters, are ever bound to pray. I leave then
to the judicious judgment of the wise to consider if these things are
not sufficient to maintain reasonable men. Yea, I say that any
laborious honest man may in a short time become rich in this country.
Let then everyone, zealous to increase the Church of God, by
propagating the Gospel, and to augment the greatness and glory of his
king and country lay his helping hands to this Christian and ever
famous action. I protest that these lines contain nothing but the
mere truth. And so, giving you thanks for your kindness, craving the
continuation thereof, I ... for Almighty to prosper you both, and to
bless the generous projects."
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 231
Peter Arundell. His Letter to Mr Thomas Wheatly.
March 25, 1623/4
"I pray God, good order may be taken for rates of things, for the
poorer sort are not able to live. Sixteen sterling I have paid for a
hogshead of meal, and that in good silver plate, chiefly to feed the
men that make my house. A bushel of Indian corn is sold for 20
shilling."
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 231.
Peter Arundell. His Letter to Mr. William Canning.
March 25, 1623
"I have been forced to buy a hogshead of meal which cost me 16
sterling. A fair guilt silver bowl with a cover payed for part of it.
Our oldest planters do die daily."
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 230.
Peter Arundell. His Letter to Mr William Canning from Buck Row.
April 14, 1623
"The governor and treasurer have seen my new silk house and also my
small store of provision, which was only a bushel of meal to keep me
and my family from this time till harvest; but could have no relief,
only the treasurer bade me pray for the speedy arrival of the
Seaflower, and if she bring in any meal I shall have some, paying for
it. All my son-in-law's corn was brought up to Jamestown and I cannot
get a grain of it to relieve my need, though I produced a bill of 18
lb sterling, which he owed me. "Great men are payed, but poor men
must bide the loss." Yet I dare not complain for fear of worse,
seeing Virginia is governed wholly by Sir Edwin Sandys' faction. I
desire therefore to come to London, to show how all things are
carried. Whereby, I hope to procure reformation. You are both wise
and charitable, which will make you to show these lines but to those
that you know impartial and specially to Sir John Worsenholme. The
last cutting of Capt Spelman hath given us a great check. The most
evident hope from altogether starving is Oysters, and for the easier
getting of them I have agreed for a canoe which will cost me 6 lb
sterling. My hope for silk is greater than ever, if I can bring it
home."
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 230.
Peter Arundell. His Letter to Mr John Farrar.
April 15, 1623
"Since my last, there is happened some quarrels between Capt
Whitaker's chief man and Mr Anthony Bannall, who went to gather
mulberry leaves upon the said Capt's ground. Who is at fault I know
not, for I was not there. But I will tell you once more that unless
strict orders be sent from England for preservation of mulberry trees,
the silk work will wholly be lost for a great while in Virginia. Our
worms are well hatched and very hopefull. If I live, I will bring
home some silk. My coming into England will do great good for this
country. As well by my good report thereof as for some small and easy
means which I will show the company for the easier hatching of the
worms than yet hath been found here or in England and for very small
charges. I say if I live for I have naught at this time to maintain
me and my people till harvest but a little more than half a bushel of
English meal, all my provision being spent by workmen to build the
silk house. If I die, my eldest son, John Arundle, will follow the
silk work, for I find him very fit for it. Therefore, I entreat you,
if I die before I see you, to take notice of him and to deal
charitably with my young children. All the evident means we have to
live till harvest is by Oysters. I have shown the chief commanders
(who came to see my silk workhouse) of my great wants, and I can get
no relief though I offer to pay for it. Notwithstanding, I refer
myself to the Lord's will and beseech you still to do in charity for
me according to my requests in my other letters, whereof I crave a
speedy answer. And so I rest, your sevant to be commanded"
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 89.
Peter Arundell. Extract From a Letter to Willaim Canning.
April 15, 1623
"... Our future miseries do post apace. A 1000 of nails cost 18
shilling or 20 shilling 1000. I have payed 12 lb sterling for a
hogshead of meal, 20 shilling for a bushel of Indian Corn, and none to
be had but with great men which endanger me and mine to starve before
harvest ... News was brought that Capt Spelman was cut off by the
Indians. He had warning of it by an Indian. He and his men coming
with their armor, the king of that place asked why he came so armed?
Spelman told him of his distrust and showed him the man that gave him
warning. Whereupon ye king in his presence caused the fellow's head
to be cut off and cast into the fire before the said Captain's face (a
bad reward to betray him that had given him so faithful a warning),
but his own life paid for it. For ye next day he and his men coming
ashore disarmed thinking to trade were all cut off by the Indians.
They took Mr Pountis' shallop and hewed her into pieces and came with
60 canoes to take the unlucky ship, Tyger, who had but four sailors
and some few land men who whiffed up sails and went faster than their
canoes and so left her. We ourselves have taught them how to be
trecherous by our false dealings with the poor king of Potomac, that
had always been faithful to the English, whose people was killed, he
and his son taken prisoners, brought to Jamestown, brought home again,
ransomed, as if he had been the greatest enemy they had. Spelman's
death is a just revenge; it was done about that part of the country.
If we had sufficient provision, we should not need to seek after the
Indians. It is a great loss to us, for that Capt was the best
linguist of the Indian tongue of this country. If you think fit to
carry our tobacco into Holland to save the thirds, let me know to whom
I shall address myself as your factor. Yours as his own,
P.A."
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 92.
Sir Nathaniel Rich. Beginning of Rough Draft of a Certificate
Affirming the Truth of Statements of Captain Butler.
Between April and June 1623.
"... that they have no sustenance but corn and of that so little that
unless they be forthwith relieved by the coming of a ship called the
Seaflower, then expected, they are in great danger of starving. This
ship, which was expected to relieve the colony from starving, is now
reported to have miscarried at ye Sommer Islands, by being casually
blown up in ye harbor by firing of her own power. The price of a
hogshead of meal by their letters appeareth to be 12 shilling,
sometimes 15 shilling a bushel of their Indian corn. The price of a
hog, ten pound, and a hen 15 shilling. And yet none of these almost
naught to be had for money. Insomuch that we find one P. Arundle
(who, as by his letters appeareth, hath taken very great pains of late
in erecting a silk house at his own charge and in cherishing of
silkworms) in his letter to Mr. John Farrar complains that on the 15th
of April last he had left little more than half a bushel of meal to
maintain him and his people from that time till harvest. And almost
all the other letters in general speak of extreme mortality and
sickness and desperate dearth and famine ..."
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John Camden Hotten, "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality:
1600-1700," (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing County, Inc., 1986)
pp. 181-184
"A List of Names of the Living in Virginia, February the 16th, 1623
...
At Bucke Row ...
Petter Arrundell
Anthony Bonall--frenchman (La Gaurd)
James Bonall--frenchman
John Arrundell
John Hainie (or Haine)
Nicholas Row
Richard Althrop
John Loyd
ux Haine
ux Hampton
Elizabeth Arrundell
Margreat Arrundell"
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W. G. Standard, "Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents," p. 469
"Peter Arundel of Buck Roe, in the Corporation of Elizabeth City,
gentleman, (as his first dividend) 200 acres in the said corporation,
upon the Back River--leading towards the head of Southampton River,
and bordering on a small creek parting it from the land of Bartholomew
Hoskins--which land he claims for two shares as part of a bill of
adventure for 287 pound, ten shilling, bearing date the 7th October
1617, and signed David Watkins, cashier. Granted by Wyatt, Nov. 8,
1624.
Note: Peter Arundel, or Erondelle, a native of Normandy, was a member
of the Virginia Company, and a French teacher in London; published
several books (Brown's Genesis), and came to Virginia in the "Abigail"
in 1620. In February 1623-4, Peter, John, Elizabeth, and Margaret
Arundel were living at Buck Roe; but the father, Peter, soon died, and
from the census of 1623-4 [sic--January 20, 1624/5], it appears that
the children were cared for in various families. The son, John, born
in 1602, who came in the "Abigail," was living in the family of
William Hampton, of Elizabeth City; and Margaret, aged nine years, who
also came in the "Abigail," was living in the family of Humfrey Kent,
at Percy's Hundred. The son, John Arundell, gentleman, was appointed
a commissioner (justice) of Elizabeth City in February 1631-2 and
September 1632, and was a member of the House of Burgesses for "the
lower parts of Elizabeth City" in February 1632-3."
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"The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," (Richmond, The
Virginia Historical Society: 1968) vol 16, pp. 7-15.
"An extract of all the titles and estates of land sent to the privy
council by Sir Francis Wyatt when he returned [to England] according
to their order in their letter dated at Salisbury May 15, 1625 ...
The Corporation of Elizabeth City ...
Mr. Peter Arundel, 200 acres ..."
[Note: Peter Arundel probably was dead by this date, because his young
daughter, Margaret, was living with Humfrey and Joan Kent by January
20, 1624/5.]
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Kingsbury, vol iv, p. 522.
"John Arundell, of the Back River in Elizabeth City, gentleman, son
and heir apparent to Peter Arundell, gentleman, deceased; 100 acres on
Back River, adjoining the land formerly granted to Bartholomew
Hoskins, and extending easterly towards the land of Captain Richard
Stephens, Esq., now in the tenure and occupation of John Chandler,
planter. Due in right of his father for one share in a bill of
adventure of 287 lb, 10 shilling, dated October 4, 1617. By Harvey,
September 7, 1632."
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Alexander Brown, "The Genesis of the United States," vol ii, p. 887.
"Erondelle--Arundell, Peter, "A Declaration and Catholick Exhortation
to all Christian Princes to Succour the Church of God and Relme of
France," written by Peter Erondelle, native of Normandy, faithfully
translated out of the French at London, imprinted by Edward Aggas,
1586. "The France Garden: for English Ladyes and Gentlewomen to Walke
In," by Peter Erondel, Professor of the same language, London, Printed
for Edward White, 1605. "The French Schoole-Maister," P. Erondelle,
London, 1612. He reassigned to Sir Thomas Roe three shares of land in
Virginia, February 16, 1619/20. He went to Virginia on the Abigail in
1621, and in February, 1623/4, Peter, John, Elizabeth, and Margaret
Arundell were living at Buck Roe, Elizabeth City. He was granted, in
1624, 200 acres by patent on Back River in Elizabeth City in right of
a bill of adventure of 287 pound, 4 shilling, dated in 1617. He died
prior to 23 January 1624/5, leaving a son, John (born in 1602), as
heir to his rights in Virginia."
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Kingsbury, vol iii, p. 318.
June 22, 1620. A List of Members of the Virginia Company.
"... John Arundell of Trerise, Esquire ..."
JKent...@aol.com
I have wondered if Humphrey Kent's wife, Joan, was a daughter or near
relative of Peter Arundell--a native of Normandy and French teacher of
London who arrived in Virginia in 1621. Peter Arundell lived near
>Buck Row in Virginia, and died there between November 8, 1624 and
>January 20, 1624/5. His 9-year old [or 14-year old] daughter,
>Margaret, was living 50 miles up the James River with Humphrey and
>Joan Kent on January 20, 1624/5. If there was no family relationship
>between Margaret Arundell and Humphrey and Joan Kent, I wonder why
>Margaret was not taken in by a Buck Row family. In case someone is
>interested in these families, here are my notes on them.<
still does not answer my question about these Arundells and their kinship to
those that have recently been discussed on this list. If Peter Arundel was born
in Normandy it would appear that he might be of a different family from those
that we have been discussing. I was hoping that Peter, his daughters Joan and
Margaret, and his son John might serve as gateway ancestors for those of us
who appear to have connections. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
Jno