OK, folks, I've found the two big-time Indian Massacres there (not from the same source I originally found, but good enough) Good old Google, twenty clicks and 6 hours of reading later. Still searching VA Archives for original source which was way more descriptive. There were other raids and massacres from the get-go, but the first MAJOR hostile Indian raid and massacre was in 1622 in Jamestown - over 400 people were killed. The second MAJOR hostile Indian raid was in 1644 during the first ten year (1640-1650) tenure of Lord William Berkeley, Governor. It was sudden and swift, and hundreds were killed, a number of them gathered at Berkeley's plantation for a meeting, and which would have been the one during which the (Nansemond) DANIEL plantation owner and his young son were killed. Hundreds, up and down the river, were killed. Whether this DANIEL was a Huguenot is debatable, since records show the first Huguenots coming into VA about 1675, too late for this massacred DANIEL planter's arrival. The main groups of them came into the Manakintown/Nansemond area after 1700 (mine came in 1703), and that the name DANIEL is listed among them could have been that his descendant(s) were already established there and were neighbors (or married a Huguenot woman). OR -- is this our elusive Christopher??? Don't know - can't guess - but there was definitely a DANIEL there in 1644. Anne

From my notes on the Berkley's. <<< From Edmund Berkeley the descent of the Virginia Berkeley's is fully supported by the family Bibles, the lately published register of Middlesex county, the register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, and the recorded wills in Middlesex county. Edmund Berkeley, son of Edmund Berkeley and Mary, who married, secondly, John Mann, married in 1703, Lucy, daughter of Major Lewis Burwell, of the Virginia Council and Abigail Smith, his wife, niece of President Nathaniel Bacon, of Virginia, a scion of the illustrious house of the Bacons of England. This Edmund Berkeley was in 1713 made a member of the Virginia Council. Before 1712 he lived in Gloucester, but shortly after that date he removed to Middlesex, an adjoining county, where in 1718 >>> The BERKLEYS tie into the RANDOLPHS and they tie into the Middlesex DANIELS. John R. Clarke 229-228-1961 2417 N. Patterson St:Thomasville, GA 31792 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne O'Brien" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:47 PM Subject: [DANIEL-L] Re: Daniel in Nansemond (Joseph, 1714) AND EARLIER > OK, folks, I've found the two big-time Indian Massacres there (not from > the same source I originally found, but good enough) Good old Google, > twenty clicks and 6 hours of reading later. Still searching VA Archives > for original source which was way more descriptive. > > There were other raids and massacres from the get-go, but the first MAJOR > hostile Indian raid and massacre was in 1622 in Jamestown - over 400 > people were killed. > > The second MAJOR hostile Indian raid was in 1644 during the first ten > year (1640-1650) tenure of Lord William Berkeley, Governor. It was sudden > and swift, and hundreds were killed, a number of them gathered at > Berkeley's plantation for a meeting, and which would have been the one > during which the (Nansemond) DANIEL plantation owner and his young son > were killed. Hundreds, up and down the river, were killed. > > Whether this DANIEL was a Huguenot is debatable, since records show the > first Huguenots coming into VA about 1675, too late for this massacred > DANIEL planter's arrival. The main groups of them came into the > Manakintown/Nansemond area after 1700 (mine came in 1703), and that the > name DANIEL is listed among them could have been that his descendant(s) > were already established there and were neighbors (or married a Huguenot > woman). OR -- is this our elusive Christopher??? > > Don't know - can't guess - but there was definitely a DANIEL there in > 1644. > > Anne > > > ==== DANIEL Mailing List ==== > IF YOU MISS ANY MESSAGE: You can easily search the DANIEL List Archives > at: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=DANIEL > >