The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

grim Fathers" In obtaining permission
to cmigratc to America. HIS tomb is
In the church.
Leeds Castle. Kent-was the home
of Thomas Lord Culpeper. Governor
of Virginia. 16S0-16S3. and tho prop
crty of his grandson. Thomas. Lord
; Fairfax. who removed to Virginia.
Sutton-at- Home. Kent-Sutton Place.
in this parish. was the home OF Sir
Thomas Smith, "Treasurer' (president)
i of the Virginia Company of London.
when Virginia was settled in 1907. His
I tomb is in the church.
/ Gravesend. Kent-The burial place
OF focahontas wife of John not
i Thomas. as in the reEister) Rolfe.
There will soon be in the church n
! memorial window to her, erected BY
the Society of Colonial Danes in the
State of Virginia.
Stratford. Essex formerly called
@.ratioru. Langthorn)--was the home
81 hichard Lee. who emigrated to Vir-
gina. and was tho ancestor Of Cen
! crnl Robert T.. Lee
Whitcchurch Canonicorum Dorset
SIR George Somers. of this place. was
noted seaman at the end of the sin
teehtn ana at the beginning Of the
! seventeenth centuries He took an ac-
i've part In the settlement of Virginia
ana the wrecking of his feet on the
bermudas Cor Somers Islands. named
III ms honor) is believed to have suS-
Rested Shakespeare's ",remuest" He
died III the Bermudas. but his heart
was buried at Whitechurch.
East sutton, Kent-The BIRTHPLACE Of
sir samuel Argall, Governor of Vir-
sihla. An expedition commanded by
,,iit III 1918 (sent out from jamestown.
( Val, which broke up the French sot
Elements near Mount Desert prohohlv
saved New England for the English.
Banbury, Warwickshirc-Near Ran
bury is Morton Horell, the birtbnlare
OF William Randolph. emigrant to Vir-
= ma. VINO was an ancestor OF Thomas
Jefferson, John Marshall and Robert T.
! Lee "
Blackwall. London-From Rlackwall
on December 10, 1906. sailed the three
ships. Susan Constant. Cod Speed
, ana discovery, with the first colonists
WaNham Norfolk-Henrv Wood
house son OF Sir Henry Woodhouse. OF
ms place, was an early Governor of
bermuda, and has many descendants
in Virginia
Wilioushby, Lincolnshirc-The birth
gnia fame
Penrith-Thomas Nelson. Of yir-
GINA, siGner of the Declaration of In
dependence, was a grandson OF Thomas
Nelson OF Penrith, who emigrated to
.9otHcTSeC-WnS the birth
place OF Sir William Berkeley. Governor
Oh Virginia, 1641 1877 and of Pbilin
Audwell' an ancestor Of Richard Henry
and Francis I.ightfoot Lee of Virrinia
ooth sisners Of the Declaration OF In,
dependence ="
Sittingbourne, Kent-John Catlett Of
I Sll..ihgbourne, emigrated to Virginia.
ana was an ancestor of President MI
ison 'i'"
Saffron Walden, Essex-The birth-
place of William Strachey. ono of tho
earnest settlers and historians of vir-
Enia u
BoNloy, Kent-sir Francis WYATT
Governor OF Virginia. 1921 1926. 1919,
W. lived here and is buried in tho
Ghnrch Boxley Church is also rio
nurlai place of George Sandvs. once
treasurer Of Virginia, and whose trans
Iauon In part of Ovids 'Metamor-
moses WAS the first English verse
written in America. &c
hcNerstonc Castle. Gloucestcrshiro
Ionh Berkeley tdied 1927. son Of Cir
!ohn Berkeley, of this place onigr,tod
10 virginia and established thc rrst
IRON works in the English colonies
hilham kent-The birthnlacc &c
toward piEees, Governor OF Virpiria
100, le5S who has many desccndam,s,