The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-06
IFor the Dispatch, through r. A. Brock, ESQ.,
COLONIAL GOVERNORS OF VIRGINIA

IFcr the Dispatch, through r. A. Brock, ESQ.,
COLONIAL GOVERNORS OF VIRGINIA
No. V.
by REV. EDWARD .. NEAL,
Prssidert of Macslister College, Minneapolis, MINI.
Sir John Harvey, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
John Harvey was choleric and impatient.
and had been bold, adventurous, and not
too-scrupulous sea-captain. In November,
1917, the East India Company ordered that
Captain Harvey, suspected to be about to
sail to the East Indies with ship well VIC
tua,led, and furnished with twenty pieces
OF ordnance" be made to give security.
TheVenetian Ambassador the next month,
suspecting that Haryey's vessel, wind-bound
in the TeEel, was about TO commit depreda-
tons against the commerce OF Venice,
caused it to be detained, but he convinced
the English Ambassador at the Hague that
he was bound for Guiana. Again, on the
18th Of january, the Lord Admiral Of Eng
land informed the East India Company that
Captain Harvey was making a voyage in a
great ship from Flushing to the East Indies.
Two months after the decision Of Chief
Justice Ley against the Virginia Company
of London, Harvey was one OF the commits
sioners appointed in August, 1923, by the
King to examine the condition OF affairs in
the Colony. He arrived in 1924 and re-
NAMED until February, 1925, when he
sailed for England and reported q popula-
ton Of 1,2C0, more than half Of which were
able men, and that there we're thirty-threc
pieces OF ordnance, ten OF which were
mounted; one horse and one mare, five
I,,rl RI
kids, and five hundred meat cattle.
He returned to Jamestown rs Sir John
Harvey, knight, and Governor OF Virginia,
early in the year 1880, and found Samuel
Matthews and William Ferrar the principal
councillors and there were sworn as new
members Captain John West, Henry Finch,
Christopher Cooling, Captain Richard Ste
phens,* Captain John Ute, and Captain
Nath. Basse. Thomas Purify and William
Pcircc.-Besse vras authorized by tue Cuun-
ell. on the 9th Of March, 1631-'32, o. S., to
trade between 81 and Al degrees, north lati-
tude, and to 60 to New England, Nova SEQ
tia, or West India Islands, and invite the
inhabitants 10 Virginia, especially those OF
Ne,c ENGLAND, and to offer them settlement
on Delaware Bay.
George Griffith, a London merchant, with
some associates, after sending colony to
the neighborhood OF Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, in the ship Warwick, after
wards sent that vessel to trade for corn and
furs in the Potomac. Governor Winthrop,
OF Massachusetts, in his journal, under date
OF March ID, 1631-'32, o. S., alludes TO the
return of the Warwick from the Potomac;
and then, on the 9th OF April, speaks OF u
second voyage in these words: ''The bark
Warwick and Mr.. Mavericks pinnace went
out toward Virginia"
onfn NJ hn
wick, and became member Of the first
Legislature Of Maryland, as well as promi-
nent citizen OF Virginia. On the 2Sth OF
August, 1852, while trading in the Potomac
near where Washington now is, he was ar
rested by one of Governor Haryey's coun-
eillors, Captain John Ute, who said:
"Captain Fleet, am sorry to bring Ill
news and trouble you in these courses,
being so good; but as am an instrument, SO
7 pray you to excuse me, for, in the Kings
name, arrest you, your ship and goods,
and likewise your company, to answer such
things rs the Governor and Council snail
object"
On the 7th OF September Fleet presented
himself to Governor Harvey at jamestown,
who used him with unexpected courtesy,
and every man seemed TO be des1rous TO pc
q partner with him in the fur trade. The
CAPTAIN wrote to his employers: 81 made
as fair weather as might be, with them, to the
end might know what would be the bust
ness in question"
He soon discovered that Governor Har-
vey wished to use him as his own agent for
making money. The complaint OF George
Griffith, Of London, and the other owners
of the Warwick, made in 1854, is still pre-
served, in which they state that three years
before they sent ship TO Virginia for trade
and discovery, OF which Henry Fleet was
factor, to return in year, but by authority
Of Governor Harvey, Fleet had retained the
vessel and its profits.
In March, 1888, there arrived from Man
haitian Captain David Peterson DeVries, the
first Dutch trader to visit jamestown. PasS-
ing the Gookin plantation at "Newport
Snaw," or Newport News, he tarrled III.
tie while at Blunt Point, the residence ~of
Captain Samuel Mathews, who "hVed brave
II and well,o and about that time had mar
RED the daughter OF Sir Thomas Hinton.
His next stopping-place was Littleton, the
plantation OF George Menetie, awealthy to-
bacco trader, and Eere, for the first time In
America, be saw peach-trees growing. On
the 18th OF March he was met at jamestown
landing by Governor Harvey with few
halberdiersG and musketeerS, and the next
day. while dining with the Governor, it was
discovered that they had met before in the
East Indies.
Whatever may be thought OF the personal
qualities Of Governor Harvey, he gave COM
merclal importance to Virginia, and the
planters having surplus Of corn and cattle
shipped it to Boston. Corn, in 1851, was
sold at Is. Cd, aud hogs flesh at EOS. per
hundred. In the fall OF 1888 Captain Stone,
with vessel laden with cattle, sailed for
Massachusetts,; and 1t was said 10 have
been the first Virginia bark that stopped at
Manhattan. While there pinnace came
in from Plymouth Rock, and Stone, upon
pretence that those OF Plymouth had re-
preached Virginia, q when the sailors were
ashore seized the vessel and sailed away.
The Dutch pursued and brought it back.
AS the Yirginians had been drinking they
were dismissed, but when Stone arrived ut
Boston he was arrested and bound over to
appear at the meeting OF the court. Re
turning TO Virginia, be stopped to trade
81 "a duel was fought by this Richard Stephens on
the 2ath Of Apni, G24. with George Giarrson. In
~ ne issnsS q the Of January geth