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Bennett's Plantation

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By Nov. 1621, Edward Bennett had obtained a patent from the Virginia Company to establish Bennett's Plantation, also known as Warrascoyack and Bennett's Welcome. By Feb. 1622, the Sea Flower arrived with the first residents and they began settling the south bank of the James River at the lower reaches of Burwell's Bay. On 22 Mar. 1622, the Powhatan-English War of 1622-1632 began with attacks coordinated by Chief Opechancanough against many English settlements including Bennett's Plantation. More than 50 colonists died there and the survivors were transported to Jamestown. Bennett's Plantation was reestablished by June 1623

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

The Rocks, National Register of Historic Places Nomination File (46-94), DHR; Helen Haverty King, Historic Isle of Wight to Accompany the Pictorial Historical Map of Isle of Wight, 1808-1865 (Isle of Wight, Va.: Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors, 1983),103; Helen Haverty King, Historical Notes on Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Va.: Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors, 1983), 3-10; Helen C. Rountree, Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries (Norman, Okla. and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990), 67-77; Helen C. Rountree, “The Powhatans and the English: A Case of Multiple Conflicting Agendas,” in Helen C. Rountree, ed., Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722 (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993), 190-192; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., eds., The Hornbook of Virginia History, 4th ed. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994), 8; E. Randolph Turner III and Antony F. Opperman, Searching for Virginia Company Period Sites: An Assessment of Surviving Archaeological Manifestations of Powhatan-English Interactions, A.D. 1607-1624 (Forthcoming), 3-16 to 3-19.