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“Bermuda Hundred”

By Jeannette Holland Austin US Copyright 2024

Preface

Bermuda Hundred was inspired by personal genealogical research of early Colonial families in Virginia. The characters herein are fictional. However, the historical events are expressed accurately. The immigrants to Colonial Virginia suffered one of the most incredible tasks of mankind by risking the lives of their families and friends to carve a home out of a wilderness supplanted by the various tribes of Powhatan, who, in 1622/3, attacked the white settlers from Hampton Roads to the tidewaters, killed more than half of the first settlers to the region. There was a time when most English males chose to settle in Jamestown. The Virginia Company thereafter sent women to the region for marriage. My ancestor was married three times. The first wife was killed in the massacre of Powhatan. The second wife died early in the marriage. Gabriel Holland returned to London at least three times to find a wife.

Jeannette Holland Austin

1. Bermuda Hundred

With the plummeting of the fortunes of old English estates, many sons had reached the end of the hierarchy. Those persons sold everything they owned and established themselves in the wild virgin lands of Virginia, where the promise of acreage was based upon the number of…