. Historic Virginia homes and churches . nd cornices of unusual beauty. In historicinterest it is second to that of none of the James Rivermansions. Its story begins before the Harrisons came to Virginia,when, in 1618, the London Company granted Berkeleyplantation to Sir William Throckmorton, Sir GeorgeYeardley, Richard Berkeley and John Smith of December 4, 1619, the ship Margaret, of Bristol,arrived at Jamestown, bringing, under care of Caj^tainJolui Woodlief, thirty-five settlers for the Town andHundred of Berkeley, which then contained about 8,000acres. In 1621, Reverend John Pau
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . nd cornices of unusual beauty. In historicinterest it is second to that of none of the James Rivermansions. Its story begins before the Harrisons came to Virginia,when, in 1618, the London Company granted Berkeleyplantation to Sir William Throckmorton, Sir GeorgeYeardley, Richard Berkeley and John Smith of December 4, 1619, the ship Margaret, of Bristol,arrived at Jamestown, bringing, under care of Caj^tainJolui Woodlief, thirty-five settlers for the Town andHundred of Berkeley, which then contained about 8,000acres. In 1621, Reverend John Paulett, a kinsman ofIvord Paulett, was minister at Berkeley Hundred. In1622, the year of the great Indian massacre Avhich nearlywiped Virginia out of existence. ]Mr. George Thorpe,formerly a gentleman of the Kings Privy Chamber, whohad been appointed by the ^irginia Company head of the * Papers relative to settlement, etc., Berkeley Hundred, arepublished in Bulletin of the Xeu> York Public Library, iii, Nos. 4—7(April to July, 1899).. HAMPTON ROADS AND LOWER JA^FES Si) proposed college, was one of tlie nine residents of BerkeleyHundred murdered by the Indians. After the massacrethe plantation was al)andoned for a time. Later, it becamethe property of John Bland, a London merchant, whoseson Giles Bland lived there until he was haned, in l(i7(),by Sir \Villiam Berkeley, for his part in Bacons Rel) this Berkeley passed into the hands of the ILarrisonfamily, who owned and occupied it through five genera-tions, during which it was the birtlnjlace of a governor ofVirginia and signer of the Declaration of Independence,a Revolutionary general and a president of the UnitedStates. The first of the Harrisons to be master of Berkeleywas Benjamin (1673-1710), third of the name in Virginia,who was attorney-general and speaker of the House ofBurgesses and treasm-er of the Colony. He was the sonof the Honorable Benjamin Harrison II (1695-1712),of Wakefield, Surry County, and bro
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