Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-29
OrERIES & ANSWERS.
.,u,Ne ABOUT The NAME AND
sOmasTosY OF BERMUDA HUNDRED.
,n.,lcal Questionable Squirrel
rrOblcm--Pstent L"w'-c0iSrsd
Cadets, SC.

~. y,f3sY Of TIC D,spdtcN'
J. ~ -. publish, /. When was Bermuda
,,ii-'i-ei settled?
- 'Ry shom
2 az AID BOW did 1t receive its namey
8 h"' A SUBSCRIBER,
Bermuda Hundred.
,.,, Cir Thomas Dale marohed against
10 ..,,ramatucks" Indians and took
tA' ,sb,tation from them, besides all
iH'. I'm and duly considering how com
ia',' % babitation and seat It might be
I.,rs English, "tooke resolution to pos
i'' All plant IL, and at that very instant
F'' ,t'o parno OF the new Bermudas.
1T, be laid out and annexed 20 be
-, IN the freedome and corporation
tf'.-- many miles Of champion and wood
i"', s.verall Hundreds, as the Upper
A. y'.s,, Bermudas Hundreds, Rcch-
y, ~, Hundred, Wests-Sherly Hundred and
n',-es bis hundred"
"a. a.. .sttrement was first begun IN the
neither Hundred IN the next
december 1881 aud whether we
"" ,,mmodity or security (Which we
ally aimed at against lorraine de-
Pc. I'D mansions. II - most hopeful
~...,,r II is seated by land some five
.s..rr Ucnrico. but by water fourteene
and with pale cut over from river
..,.r about two miles long, we have Sc
I'D .ome eight miles circuit Of ground.
~. most part champion and exceeding
"a corn ground. etc.
meeting Of the Council in Virginia
-v.r q. 1911, It was resolved 9" to 60 up
.re Falls ward 10 search ana advise
,..gto for a new Towne"; prior 10
I'm, II August Sir Thomas Dale had
....,,,s5 q convenient. strong, healthie.
"a sus,te seato 70 plant new Towue
-. .ard N September, 1911, he began
49,. che town Of HenriCO (named for
.,..-, Prince Of Wales) and within four
18Th. had made the town better and OF
-..su.r,h than all tho work ever done
....., since the colonie began. II stands
..,eck Of very high land. three parts
'.-..f inyroned with the main river,
.f.., .ycr betWecne the two bends OF
g.. -ysr. with a strong pale, which
....... che neck OF land an island" This
....r known as Dutch Gap, IN Henrico
..r Bermuda Neither Hundred was
,U. rresoEt county of Chesterfield in
... I.r4 Of james river between Curtis
X.-ss,I the mouth Of Appomattox river.
7ts..fartifed towns enrico City gar
....f and fortified during September-De-
.....r ED and the Bermudas City, In
r..ant,r 1913. were intended as places OF
,....-, and defence tor the colony IN case
r. >upiards should be able to force by
d.. s.-f. AZ Point Comfort. jamestown
V..ao, naturally very strong site, but
pie mouth Of the river was. 1t could
,.,-.,.y be passed by the vessels Of that
,.,.t when the only channel was so fully
..uu.ndei by land batteries as this chan
O.. 'lrn was.
The great strategic importance of this
o.,, hos been constantly and fully recog-
MOD from that day TO this.
The selection Of James river by the
managers Of the enterprise as the location
(which To take the first firm-hold for the
Ir,l,h on the New World was most excel
,,, Without doubt the Spanish fleets
nader B-ochero, or the celebrated Fajardo,
., some one Of tho convoy fleets constant
,ra.us from the West Indies along our
r...frr the Gulf stream, would have at
,.nr.,l the removal of the colony, if its
s,rst.1u had been at all fairly assailable
O., them.
SrIhomas Dale had served long in the
vars of the Reformation in the Neither
h,is and the bends of the river at Hen
ne. and Bormudas Hundreds naturally APP
r.,.ai 10 his eve as being capable of being
male Wcn-nigh imprecnable against the
then implements of war when cut across
Old fortified by Dutch Gap, pales, dikes,