CCVIII. Mr. Wroth. Notes from Lists showing Total Number
of Emigrants to Virginia[262]
1622
Manchester Papers, No. 298
Document in Public Record Office, London
List of Records No. 288
The first list §1619§ agrees with my first Calculac̃on to a man vizt: 887
Persons
§in y
e beginning
of March 1619§
The second list of the yeare 1620—taken about the latter end of the yeare
or in the beginning of 1621 amount to 843 Persons, and whereof about
240 haue their names Crossed, and it was Confessed §this day§ by the
Secretarie of the Virginia Companie Mr Collingwood that they were all
dead so that the remainder is few more than 600: b and in thend of this
list it appeares that there was aboue 120 Persons that ranne away and
dyed in their passage. most
§in the latter end
of 1620 and the
begining of 1621.§
The Third list 1621 was by the first Calculac̃on but 1472, but vpon a
second reveiwe wee find it to bee 1501 and so ther is 29 Difference wch
must bee added.
§in August and
September 1621§
The 4th list taken in the yeare 1622. about the tyme of the Massacre, wee
find about 1240 and rather vnder then ou9: saue that there is menc̃on of
the la: Yardlie's familie, and Mr Colliers Familie, and of 2 houses wherein
some of Martins hundred people were placed, And also of 3 houses wherein
Warresquiacke people were placed.
§the latter end of
the yeare 1622§
Md̴ that in the yeares 1619: 1620: 1621 there was 3560 or 3570 Persons
transported to Virginia, and Sr Thomas Smith left aboue 700 Persons, s
wch in all makes 4270 Persons, whereof the Remainder being §about§
1240 about the tyme of the Massacre it Consequentlie followes, that wee
haue §had then§ lost 3000 Persons within those 3 yeares.
And in the latter end of the yeare 1622 there were transported neare
vpon 1000 Persons whereof manie dyed by the way and it appeareth by
some ɫres that by the sword and sicknes there are perished aboue 500
since the massacre. So that by this Accompt there cannot be aboue 1700
Persons in the Collonie.
[Indorsed by Sir Nathaniel Rich:] Notes out of the lists of men taken by
Mr Wrott.
