Basse's Choice

K-242

In Nov. 1621, Capt. Nathaniel Basse received a grant of 300 acres of land, now known as Basse's Choice, located nearby. It was one of the first English settlements in Isle of Wight County, though humans had lived there more than 5000 years. On Mar. 1622, during the Powhatan-English War of 1622-1632, attacks coordinated by Chief Opechancanough struck various English settlements including Basse's Choice. Basse was in England when this event occurred. He resettled the region by 1624, when twenty people lived there. Basse later served in the House of Burgesses and was appointed to the governor's council in Mar. 1630.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Basse’s Choice/Days Point Archaelogical District, 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; John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1 (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998), 382-383; Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 235; 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), 3-14 to 3-16.