Fran, Sorry, the list is over 2000 entries and I don't have a scanner. At best, if you hit me with a surname I will eyeball the list and let you know if I find anything that appears to be a match or anything similar. I tried to post surnames that I recognized that were the same surnames of families that later generations of Wilburns married. For example: Sibley, Waters, Jordan. Vikky ----- Original Message ----- From: jazzmatt@bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:01 PM To: WILBURN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WILBURN-L] Re: WILBURN-D Digest V03 #15 Vikky, I would love to see the complete list if it is something you could forward to the list or to me personally. Thanks. Fran in Florida > > From: WILBURN-D-request@rootsweb.com > Date: 2003/02/06 Thu PM 02:01:51 EST > To: WILBURN-D@rootsweb.com > Subject: WILBURN-D Digest V03 #15 > > WILBURN-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 15 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [WILBURN-L] early colonial VA ance ["Vikky Anders" <vikkya@msn.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from WILBURN-D, send a message to > > WILBURN-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > Vikky here. > > I thought that at least a few of you might find this tidbit of information of some interest. > > Just a brief note of history. The First Company of colonists which included the legendary Captain John Smith arrived at the shores of Virginia in 1607. A year later until 1610, were known as the starving years. Literally many early colonists perished due to disease and starvation. Indian hostilities also factored in to the high death rate. The vast majority of the first settlers were of gentlemen class and they had no concept of survival skills in a wilderness land. From the onset the First Company experienced tremendous hardships and over a short period of time things went from bad to worse. > > By 1621, there were approximately 2500 hundred colonists scattered within a sixty mile radius throughout VA. In addition, slavery had already begun in 1619, when some Dutch traders bartered four black men as slaves in exchange for so many bales of tobacco. In March of that same year, an Indian upraising occurred. A sneak attack if you will. Within hours many unsuspecting colonists had been slaughtered. In all, over 446 colonists lost their lives, including women and children. However, the Indians were beaten back in the process and many former Indian friends were killed in retaliation. > > The following year in February of 1623, a muster was taken to record the names of all colonists who survived the Indian attack. This muster or roster survives today and many books in genealogy libraries report the names recorded back in 1623. (Please note, that spelling during this era was for the most part, very much different than we spell today. It is often easy to miss surnames of our ancestors due to such vast differences. > > For example: Thompson was then spelled Thompfon. The letter F used instead of S. > Osborne was spelled Ofborne. etc. etc. > > The given name Isaac was then spelled Ifacke. And appearing as a survivor in 1623 was one John Walfbourne. I am now convinced that this was John Wellsbourne or Welbourne. > > And due to this method of spelling, I indeed overlooked him many years ago, as I searched to see if indeed any Welborn was in the tiny VA colony before or while this muster was taken. What all of this means is that it is indeed possible that there was a John Wellsbourne or Welborn on board the 'Sea-Venture' as has been reported for many years now. Had this name NOT appeared on this muster, then the obvious answer would be that the 'Sea-Venture' carrying any Welborn is not based upon fact. In my mind anyway, this does open up the possibility. And my own thinking is that this is likely to be a true account. BUT that's a very long way from proving this to be the case. > > Now this muster does show some names of individuals and (again to my thinking) they are probable and/or possible ancestors of those of you who also have Welborn/Wilburn ancestors. Again, this is not conclusive. And there is no way that I can fill in the gaps and tell anyone with any certainty that they descend from one of these early colonial VA colonists. However, with some of the more uncommon surnames, this does present a very high possibility. What we do know is that the vast majority of us on this Wilburn website have very early colonial ancestors. And it goes without saying that they lived long enough to marry and have children or we would not be here today. > > Please keep in mind that I am only postings surnames that are known to me and have knowledge that those whose surnames I will post are the same surnames of individuals who later married into various and sundry Wilburn families. > > I will only post one individual of same surname...and will omit some individuals whose surnames are just too commmon, i.e., Jones, Williams, Walker, Baley. > > Robert Champer (Champ) > Edward Hobfon (Hobson) > > John Day > Nicholas Chapman > Gabriell Holland > John Wattfon (Watson) > Thomas Ofborne (Osborne) > John Dods (Dodson) > William Sharp > Ann Woodley > Thomas Harris > Hugh Hilton > Thomas Floyd > Ellias Longe > Thomas Baugh > Chriftopher Beane > Richard Biggs > Andrew Dudley > Nathanial Caufrey (Coffee) > John Gibbs > Thomas Havey > Robert Peake > Thomas Mimes (Mims) > Thomas Barnett > Samuel Woodfon (Woodson) > Roger Lewis > William Sifmore (Sizemore) > Edward Temple > Robert Hudfon (Hudson) > William Whitt > Richard Townfend (Townsend) > John Rose > Hugh Baldwine (Baldwin) > Stepehn WEBB > Mr Swift > Thomas Farley > Hugh Hughes > Richard BArtlett > Capt Ifacke Whittakers (isaac) > Thomas Hrding > Edward Barnes > John Hampton > Nocholas Row > Nath Gammon > Robert Brittaine > Jeremy Dickerfon Dickerson) > John Sibley > Edward Watters (Waters) > Francis Hill > Thomas Blacklocke (Bablock or Blaclock) > Thomas Park (Park or Parks) > > I have the complete list if you think that you might have others that you would like to learn about. Let me know. > > Cheers, > > Vikky > > ==== WILBURN Mailing List ==== To post a message to the list, address it to Wilburn-L@rootsweb.com