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SOURCE: AMERICAN PLANTATIONS AND COLONIES: The Ship "SEA VENTURE." Note: "Newly appointed governor of Jamestown, Virginia, Sir William Gates, and Sir George Somers, sailed for Virginia with 9 ships: (cit. 2, Page 139), June 2, 1609 on board the "Sea Venture." The Sea Venture was the flagship of the "Third Supply" (six ships and two pinnaces), departed London, England. A hurricane caught the flotilla on July 23, 1609 separating the Sea Venture from the others. Four days later, the Sea Venture suddenly took on water to 5 ft. above her ballast, but within sight of land. Approching, the ship was caught between two sections of reef less than a mile from shore and all 150 passengers on board (encluding John Proctor] were safely rowed to shore, then the crew salvaged most of the equipment and supplies before the ship sank. (A 45-foot section of the keel, with a few artifacts, was discovered in 1959, then further recoveries were made in 1978 for the Bermuda Maritime Museum Association.) During the next 9 months, under the direction of Sir George Somers, the men built two pinnaces, in the form of small barks, which were named the PATIENCE and the DELIVERANCE. All but two men, who became the permanent settlers of Bermuda, sailed on in the pinnaces arriving at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 10, 1610. SHIP INFORMATION: Burthen: about 240 tons; Keel length, possibly 75 ft. (25cm); Built: East Anglia, England, about 1603. PASSENGERS INFORMATION: Sir Thomas Gates, Knight; governor of Jamestown, Virginia, Sir George Somers, Admiral fo the flotilla "Sea Venture;" William Strachey (who established eye-witness account in 1610), Silvester Jourdain (who also published an eye-witness account in 1610), and Samuel Sharpe (Samuel's wife, Elizabeth Sharpe arrived on the MARGARET & JOHN in 1621). Listed on the Musters of the Sea Venture were also: Josuah Chard, age 36, in Virginia Muster, January 24, 1624; his wife Ann Chard, arrived on the BONNY BESSIE in 1623. John Proctor, see name in Virginia Muster, February 4, 1624, (John Proctor's wife, Allis Graye, arrived on the GEORGE in 1621.)* A TRUE REPERTORY OF THE WRECK AND REDEMPTION OF SIR THOMAS GATES, KNIGHT, by William Stachey, 1610. * DISCOVERY OF THE BERMUDAS OTHERWISE CALLED THE "ISLE OF DEVILS" by Jourdain, 1610. * THE TEMPEST, written by William Shakespeare in 1611, is believed to be based on these two works. * THE VIRGINIA ADVENTURE: Roanoke to Jamestown, Virginia, an archeological and historical odyssey, by Ivor Noel Hume, Copyright, 1994. - John Proctor mentioned on Page 367- Excerpts from Pages 366-367- Richard Pace, Page 363- Fort Pain, Pages 39, 86- John Pain, Pages 39, 86. Note (1): As for James Fort, Virginia, if it provided a refuge for the Islands beyond the pale inhabitants, no record has survived to tell us. Indeed, were it not that we have passing references to it in 1624, one might be tempted to conclude that it had ceased to exist before "Opechancanough" played his ace. Like modern newspaper stories, which invariably report the anomalous but rarely the commonplace, so it has been throughout recorded history. Consequently, much of what we know about life in early Virginia we owe to the lawbreakers, to the people who wound up in court. Richard Barnes, was one of them. Note (2): The second case involving James Fort, Virginia, went to trial on October 10, 1624, when John Proctor was accused of killing his servant "Elizabeth Abbott." She evidently was not the best of maids; but that seemed hardly to warrant a beating of five hundred lashes. Nor was it her first such punishment. A witness who had seen her bruished and bleeding testified that she had been whipped with "fishhooks." Another witness reported finding her body [about two stones cast of the houses within the Fort.] We know, therefore, that as late as October 10,