William Tucker

1589 - 1644  (55 years)

• Name	William Tucker  [1, 2]
  Birth	7 Jan 1589	Saint Clements, Plymouth, Cornwall, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1610	Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Death	Feb 1644	, Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I49534	Master
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary Elizabeth Thompson,   b. 21 Jan 1598, Watlon Stone, Hertfordshire, England d. 1640, , Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Children	+ 1. John Thomas Tucker,   b. 8 Sep 1626, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA d. 5 May 1671, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F11208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 7 Jan 1589 - Saint Clements, Plymouth, Cornwall, England Residence - 1610 - Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA Death - Feb 1644 - , Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA Marriage - - Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  William Tucker (b 1589 - d 1642) Came to Virginia in 1610, on the "Mary and James". He was important in the Virginia Colony - a member of the first House of Burgesses (see monument at Jamestown), Councillor 1625-27, appointed one of the Commissioners to supervise the Virginia Gov't. in 1623; returned to England in 1633. His children were William, Mary, and Thomas. Father: William Tucker b: 1540 in Exeter, Devonshire, England Mother: Honora Erissey b: 1545 Emigrated to Virginia: 1610 in the Mary and James Virginia House of Burgesses: 1619 1625 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia Land Office Patent: 20 SEP 1624 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia 150 acres within the Corporation of Elizabeth City. Abutting eastward upon the land of Richard Boulton. Will Signed: 12 OCT 1642 Will Probated: 17 FEB 1644 Spouse: Mary Lloyde (Wife) b. 1597 in England Children: Alice Tucker b. ABT 1594 in England The first black american born into indentured servitude is owned by Captain William Tucker. Capt. Tucker is born in England and is the son of John Tucker Sr.and Alice Pelharm. Member of the VIRGINIA HOUSE of BURGESS. First arriived in Jamestowne with his wife mary Thompson around 1620. Captain of the ship "MARY and JAMES" Brought indentured servants Antonie and Isabell with him. They have a son and name him William Tucker after the Captain William Tucker Small William is the FIRST NON-SLAVE but indentured servant born in the NEW WORLD later to become the United States.. On March 22 1622 The Powhatan Indian Attack kills 347 colonists, in and around the Jamestowne settlement setting off a war that lasted a decade. By 1623 May 20 in retalliation, the Jamestowne residents have Captain William Tucker conclude a peace negotiation with a Powhatan Indian village by proposing a toast with a drink laced with poison prepared by Jamestowne resident Dr. John Potts; 200 Powhatans die instantly and another 50 are slaughtered. The Indian threat is over. Possible decendents living in Virginia, New York and North Carolina. http://www.beginyouradventure.co.uk/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=152 Capt William Tucker b. 7 Jan 1589 in Cornwall England and Died in Elizabeth City, VA in 1644 Capt. William Tucker was responsible for brutally suppressing the Powhatan Indians in 1623 William Tucker was Kecoughtan's first representative in the house of Burgesses. 'By 1616, there were about 20 English inhabitants at Kecoughtan, and most were engaged in farming. In 1619, Kecoughtan's first two representatives in the House of Burgesses were Captain William Tucker and William Capps. Tucker was the military commander of Kecoughtan and Capps an early landowner on the west side of the Hampton River. At the first session of the legislature, the two men petitioned the Assembly 'to change the savage name of Kicowtan, and to give that Incorporation a new name.' In 1620, the name 'Elizabeth City' was adopted, and it served as the county's name until 1952. ' 'In May 1623 the colonists arranged a spurious peace parley with Opechancanough through friendly Indian intermediaries. On May 22, Captain William Tucker and a force of musketeers met with Opechancanough and other prominent Powhatans on neutral ground along the Potomac River, allegedly to negotiate the release of the other captives. But Tucker's objective was the slaughter of Powhatan leaders. After the captain and the Indians had exchanged 'manye fayned speeches,' approximately 200 of the Powhatans who had accompanied their leaders unwittingly drank poisoned wine that Jamestown's resident physician and later governor, Dr. John Pott, had prepared for the occasion. Many of the Indians fell sick or immediately dropped dead, and Tucker's men shot and killed about 50 more. Some important tribal members were slain, but Opechancanough escaped, and with him went any hopes of a quick return for the captured women. Between May and November of that same year, the colonists ravaged the Powhatans throughout Tidewater Virginia. The 'fraudulent peace' had worked, and the Indians had planted corn 'in great abundance' only to see Englishmen harvest it for their own use. Successful raids by the settlers not only proved the undoing of the Powhatans but made fortunes for several Jamestown corn profiteers. These raids against the Indians helped to heal the emotional wounds of the colonists, but victory came at a high price. While the captive women suffered alongside their captors, the Indian war transformed the colony into an even cruder, crueler place than before. The war intensified the social stratification between leaders and laborers and masters and servants, while a handful of powerful men on Virginia Governor Sir Francis Wyatt's council thoroughly dominated the political, economic, and military affairs of the colony. It soon became clear that the fate of the missing women depended not upon official concern or humanitarian instincts but upon the principle that everything and everybody had a price. Near the end of 1623, more than a year and a half after the uprising, the prosperous Dr. Pott ransomed Jane Dickenson and other women from the Indians for a few pounds of trade beads. After her release, Dickenson learned that she owed a debt of labor to Dr. Pott for the ransom he had paid and for the three years of service that her deceased husband had left on his contract of servitude at the time of his death. She complained bitterly that her new 'servitude . . . differeth not from her slavery with the Indians.' By 1624, no more than seven of the fifteen to twenty hostages had arrived in Jamestown. The majority of them returned with Jane Dickenson. Those who did not come back were presumed killed during the 1622 attack, although one captive, Anne Jackson, was not returned until 1630. Mistress Boyse, the first of the missing women to rejoin the colony, was not mentioned in official records following her return. Another of the captives, Mistress Jeffries, died within a few months of her release. Anne Jackson probably returned to the colony badly broken from the consequences of her captivity, for in 1630 the council ordered that she 'bee sent for England with the first opportunity,' with the stipulation that her brother take care of her until she was on board a ship. Nothing more was heard of Jane Dickenson after she petitioned the council in March 1624 for release from her 'slavery' with Dr. Pott.' Capt William Tucker b. 7 Jan 1589 in Cornwall England and Died in Elizabeth City, VA in 1644 Capt. William Tucker was responsible for brutally suppressing the Powhatan Indians in 1623: 'In May 1623 the colonists arranged a spurious peace parley with Opechancanough through friendly Indian intermediaries. On May 22, Captain William Tucker and a force of musketeers met with Opechancanough and other prominent Powhatans on neutral ground along the Potomac River, allegedly to negotiate the release of the other captives. But Tucker's objective was the slaughter of Powhatan leaders. After the captain and the Indians had exchanged 'manye fayned speeches,' approximately 200 of the Powhatans who had accompanied their leaders unwittingly drank poisoned wine that Jamestown's resident physician and later governor, Dr. John Pott, had prepared for the occasion. Many of the Indians fell sick or immediately dropped dead, and Tucker's men shot and killed about 50 more. Some important tribal members were slain, but Opechancanough escaped, and with him went any hopes of a quick return for the captured women. Between May and November of that same year, the colonists ravaged the Powhatans throughout Tidewater Virginia. The 'fraudulent peace' had worked, and the Indians had planted corn 'in great abundance' only to see Englishmen harvest it for their own use. Successful raids by the settlers not only proved the undoing of the Powhatans but made fortunes for several Jamestown corn profiteers. These raids against the Indians helped to heal the emotional wounds of the colonists, but victory came at a high price. While the captive women suffered alongside their captors, the Indian war transformed the colony into an even cruder, crueler place than before. The war intensified the social stratification between leaders and laborers and masters and servants, while a handful of powerful men on Virginia Governor Sir Francis Wyatt's council thoroughly dominated the political, economic, and military affairs of the colony. It soon became clear that the fate of the missing women depended not upon official concern or humanitarian instincts but upon the principle that everything and everybody had a price. Near the end of 1623, more than a year and a half after the uprising, the prosperous Dr. Pott ransomed Jane Dickenson and other women from the Indians for a few pounds of trade beads. After her release, Dickenson learned that she owed a debt of labor to Dr. Pott for the ransom he had paid and for the three years of service that her deceased husband had left on his contract of servitude at the time of his death. She complained bitterly that her new 'servitude . . . differeth not from her slavery with the Indians.' By 1624, no more than seven of the fifteen to twenty hostages had arrived in Jamestown. The majority of them returned with Jane Dickenson. Those who did not come back were presumed killed during the 1622 attack, although one captive, Anne Jackson, was not returned until 1630. Mistress Boyse, the first of the missing women to rejoin the colony, was not mentioned in official records following her return. Another of the captives, Mistress Jeffries, died within a few months of her release. Anne Jackson probably returned to the colony badly broken from the consequences of her captivity, for in 1630 the council ordered that she 'bee sent for England with the first opportunity,' with the stipulation that her brother take care of her until she was on board a ship. Nothing more was heard of Jane Dickenson after she petitioned the council in March 1624 for release from her 'slavery' with Dr. Pott.' From the Virtual Jamestown timeline: 1623 May: Captain William Tucker concludes peace negotiations with a Powhatan village by proposing a toast with a drink laced with poison prepared by Dr. John Potts; 200 Powhatans die instantly and another 50 are slaughtered. 6 April 1589 [S-6] Christening of Captain William Tucker at St Nicholas Acons, London, England 1610 [S-7] Captain William Tucker immigrated to America on the Mary and James. 1612 [S-6] Captain William Tucker & brother Thomas each received a bequest of 10 pounds sterling from Henry Steevens, Citizen & Haberdasher of London. 1617 & 1618 [S-6] Captain William Tucker sent two men from England in 1617 and followed in 1618. 1618 [S-8] In 1618 Governor Samuel Argall appointed Captain William Tucker commander of Point Comfort. 30 July 1619 [S-5] & [S-12] Captain William Tucker of Kicoughtan was a member House of Burgess. 6 December 1620 [S-20] Captain William Tucker patents 650 acres in Norfolk, along the James River. This property was sold by 1644 to Captain John Sibsey. 17 April 1621 [S-24] William Tucker of Elizabeth City, VA gives a deposition. May 1621 [S-18] Captain William Tucker recommends Richard Norwood as surveyor who was anxious to emigrate to Virginia. 1621 [S-10] Captain William Tucker and Ralph Hamor went to London to see Parliament for Virginia's case in opposing the tobacco contract proposed by Sir Thomas Roe and others. [S-25] William Tucker is involved in a lawsuit. 23 December 1621 [S-1] & [S-23] Governor in Virginia. Commission to William Tucker: To trade in Bay for corn. 22 March 1622 [S-3] & [S-4] The Powhatan Indian Attack kills 347 colonists, setting off a war that lasted a decade. 18 May 1622 [S-23] Commission to Captain William Tucker to command Kecoughtan. 16 July 1622 [S-1] & [S-23] Governor in Virginia. A Commission to William Tucker: To begin a plantation on the Eastern Shore. 3 January 1622/3 [S-2], [S-13] & [S-23] Governor in Virginia. Instructions to Captain William Tucker. 12 May 1623 [S-2] & [S-23] Governor in Virginia. Commission to Captain William Tucker. 22 May 1623 [S-3] & [S-4] Captain William Tucker met with Opechancanough and other prominent Powhatans. 12 July 1623 [S-23] Commission to Captain William Pierce, Captain Samuel Mathews, Captain Nathaniel West and Captain William Tucker to raise men to attack the indians. 23 July 1623 [S-16] Captain William Tucker was assigned the attack upon the "Nansamums, & Wariscoyacks". 31 August 1623 [S-23] Proclamation touching payment of debts: No one shall dispose of any part of his tobacco until he has paid all his debts, whether the debt be to the Magazine, the Company, to Captain Tucker or to private individuals. October 1623 [S-23] Warrant to Captain William Tucker: Levy on tobacco throughout the Plantations to pay for the public debt. Levy on sassafras. 28 October 1623 [S-23] Warrant to Captain William Tucker: To recruit thirty men for the defense of the colony from the plantation under his command. 27 November 1623 [S-2] Governor in Virginia. A Warrant to Captain William Tucker. 26 December 1623 [S-2] Governor in Virginia. A Letter to Captain William Tucker. 31 December 1623 [S-2] Council in Virginia. A Commission to Captain William Tucker. 9 January 1623/4 [S-2] Council in Virginia. An Order to Captain William Tucker. 20 September 1624 [S-6] & [S-20] Captain William Tucker, now commander of Koccoughton, 150@ w/in Elizabeth City County. This property was sold to Ralph Barlowe 18 March 1645. 7 February 1624/5 [S-11] Captain William Tucker and family are listed in Muster. 1625 [S-7] Captain William Tucker member of the King's Council 1626 [S-6] & [S-17] Undated, lands granted by patent to Captain William Tucker, Elizabeth City (150@) and south of the river (650@). 17 October 1628 [S-20] Captain William Tucker patents 50 acres. 17 November 1628 [S-20] Captain William Tucker sells the property he patented a month earlier to Thomas Willoughby. 18 December 1628 [S-21] Captain William Tucker sails for England landing at Plymouth 2 February. 12 May 1630 [S-21] Captain William Tucker gives evidence about the ship the Sun. 28 May 1631 (about) [S-9] William Claiborne "took command" of his Kent Island venture and sailed from England on the ship Africa (hired from William Tucker, who had married a sister of Maurice Thomson) with servants and supplies. 1 June 1632 [S-20] Captain William Tucker patents 100 acres in Elizabeth City. 1632 & 1633 [S-10] William Tucker and Thomas Stone in a syndicate given a right to market the entire Virginian tobacco crop. 6 February 1633 [S-20] Captain William Tucker sells the 100 acres he patented eight months earlier in Elizabeth City to Lancelott Barnes. 17 January 1634 [S-27] Examination of William Tucker of Redrith (co. Surrey), aged 44, "armiger". 1634 [S-19] Richard Thompson of Walton, Herts, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Harsnett (Visitation of Herts, 1634). They had issue: Mary, born 1599, married Captain William Tucker, born1589, who was in Virginia 1610, member of the House of Burgess 1623, member of the Council 1626, and had issue: Elizabeth, born in Viriginia 1624-5. 14 July 1635 [S-20] Captain William Tucker patents 200 acres in Norfolk. This property was sold to Richard Joanis in November of 1646. 9 February 1636 [S-7] & [S-20] Captain William Tucker partner in Berkeley Hundred Land Deal (8000 acres in Charles City Co., VA). 18 June 1638 [S-28] Depositions of William Tucker and William Harris against Ralph Wyatt over a quantity of tobacco brought back from Virginia in the "Globe". 17 September 1638 [S-26] Petition of the defendants John West, Samuel Mathew, William Tucker and others to Lord Coventry. 1638 (about) [S-10] Captain William Tucker was in partnership in trade to an unnamed area with Maurice Thomson, George Thomson and James Stone. 1638 - 1641 [S-10] Captain William Tucker may have been involved in Captain William Jackson's raiding voyage to the Spanish West Indies with William Pennoyer and Thomas Frere. (Brenner, Merchants and Revolution, p. 158 has it that Capt. William Jackson was once an apprentice of William Tucker in the London Clothworkers Company.) 12 October 1639 [S-22] Captain William Tucker involved in auditing accounts between Cloberry and Claiborne (Cleborne). 1 October 1642 [S-14] Captain William Tucker, Assistant to the Committee going to Ireland. 11 October 1642 [S-15] Captain William Tucker to be Assistant to the Committee that are to go into Ireland. 12 October 1642 [S-6] Will of Captain William Tucker written. 22 December 1643 [S-6] !LAND: William Tucker, near land of John Carter, 22 Dec 1643.(p150 Cavaliers & Pioneers of VA vol I). Sources. 1. Thomas Jefferson Papers: Records of the Virginia Company: Table of Contents for Volume III http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/vc03.html 2. Thomas Jefferson Papers: Records of the Virginia Company: Table of Contents for Volume IV http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/vc04.html 3. Virtual Jamestown - Timeline http://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html 4. TheHistoryNet - Powhatan Uprising of 1622 http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/17_18_century/3035981.html?featured=y&c=y 5. The Colonial Virginia Register http://www.newrivernotes.com/va/vareg1.htm 6. William Tucker page by Brad Behrens http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bradsdata&id=I11433 7. The Thom(p)son Conundrum: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bianco/Resources/riddle.html 8. Origin of the Melungeons - 1619, Part 4 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Melungeon/2004-09/1096428217 9. The First Campbells on Jamaica http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/jamaica.htm 10. Merchants and Bankers From 1625-1650 http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/merchants/merchants6a.htm 11. Search the Jamestown 1624/5 Muster Records: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/muster24.html 12. Uncovering Traces of Historic Kecoughtan http://www.wm.edu/wmcar/pentran.html 13. Virginia Company and Colonial Jamestown Documents http://www.reinhardtpublications.com/documents_in_book.htm 14. British History Online: House of Lords Journal Volume 5: 1 October 1642 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34914 15. British History Online: House of Lords Journal Volume 5: 11 October 1642 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34922 16. Isle of Wight Plantation http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lordcornell/iwhr/va/iwplant.htm 17. Early Virginia imigrants/emigrants http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/lines/fact0010.htm 18. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: Chapter VIII http://www.dinsdoc.com/bruce-1-8.htm 19. Virginia Heraldica by William Armstrong Crozier ISBN: 080630085X 20. Virginia Patents of Captain William Tucker Sent to me by Doug Tucker of FL 21. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 4200 (revised 4001) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/04001/0001.tiff http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/04001/0002.tiff 22. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 8901 http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/08901/0001.tiff 23. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 13629 http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/13629/0005.tiff http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/13629/0006.tiff http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/13629/0008.tiff http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/13629/0009.tiff 24. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 8691 http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/08691/0004.tiff 25. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 4240 (revised 4041) http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/D8F6N352SD9JCTHGS13HSHYPG7L3NEPP8TNLAUMB3YDEISNS27-01582?func=full-set-set&set_number=005891&set_entry=000001&format=999 http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/04041/0002.tiff http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/04041/0003.tiff 26. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 7294 http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/07294/0001.tiff 27. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 4201 (revised 4002) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/04002/0004.tiff 28. Virginia Colonial Records Project - Survey Report # 5760 (revised 5496) http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/disk18/CR/05496/0001.tiff

  
  

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  [S1162] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) (Reliability: 3). Name Capt. William Daniel Tucker Gender M (Male) Birth Date 7 janv. 1589 (7 Jan 1589) Birth Place Saint Clements, Plymouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom Death Date févr. 1644 (Feb 1644) Death Place Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA Father John Tucker Mother Alice Pelham Spouse Frances Smythe Mary Elizabeth Thompson Child Alice Tucker Alice Tucker Annette Ann Tucker Elizabeth Tucker John Thomas Tucker Mary Tucker Memory (Infant Death) Tucker Thomas Tucker William Tucker https://gw.geneanet.org/kcanal?n=tucker&oc=&p=capt.+william+daniel https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6974107817:62476?ssrc=pt&tid=192591704&pid=402505393888 [S860] Ancestry.com, Virginia, Biographical Encyclopedia, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) (Reliability: 3). Name William Tucker Residence Place Virginia, USA Comments was born in 1589 and came to Virginia in the "Mary and James" in 1610. He became a member of the Virginia Company in 1620 and was elected to the house of burgesses in 1623-24. He became a councillor on March 4, 1625-26 and was again included in the commission to the council under Yeardley, March 22, 1627-28. He was appointed by the king one of the commissioners to supervise the government of Virginia in 1623. He was for long the principal man in Elizabeth City county and had taken an active part in the defense of the colony against the Indians In August, 1633, Tucker, then in England, presented a memorial to the privy council, in which he endeavored to show that Dutch trade with Virginia, if allowed, would result in great loss to the king and prejudice to the plantation. It is not surprising that Tucker, as an English trader, should take this view since the Dutch-offered a much larger price to the planters for their tobacco than what he had been in the habit of paying, and thus would cut the profits of its sale in Europe. Tucker must have died some time before Feb. 17, 1644, when his will was proved in London. He left three children: William, Thomas and Mary.; ; III--Colonial Councillors of State https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/677:4646?ssrc=pt&tid=192591704&pid=402505393888