More about John Crowe our (supposed) immigrant

ABSTRACT OF THE *■ ■ 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Virginia Company of London

i 6 i 9 — i 624, (1619-1620)

PREPARED FROM THE 

RECORDS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRE5S 

CONWAY ROBINSON, 

AND EDITED WITH AN 

INTRODUCTION AND NOTES 

R. A. BROCK, 

Corresponding Secretary and Librarian of the Society. 

p. 154 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

" To Arthur Swain, Nathaniel Basse, adventurers, and to their

associates, who undertake to transport ioo persons to Virginia.

"To Rowland Truelove and divers other patentees, adven-

turers, and to their associates, who undertake to transport ioo

persons.

"To John Crowe, of Newton, in the county of Washford, in

Ireland, Esquire, an adventurer, who undertakes to transport ioo

persons.

“The system of large plantations was in vogue in Virginia from the early years of the 17th century. Even before the days of Sir William Berkeley, many of the colonists possessed extensive tracts of land, only part of which they could put under cultivation. Doubtless the dignity which the possession of land gave in England was the principal inducement for the planter to secure as large an estate as his means would permit. The wealthier Virginians showed throughout the entire colonial period a passion for land that frequently led them into the grossest and most unjustifiable fraud.[43]

The tendency was accelerated by the law, made by the Virginia Company of London to encourage immigration, which allotted fifty acres of land to proprietors for every person they brought to the colony, "by which means [37]some men transporting many servants thither, and others purchasing the rights of those that did, took possession of great tracts of land at their pleasure."[44] In 1621 a number of extensive grants were made to persons thus engaging themselves to take settlers to Virginia. To Arthur Swain and Nathaniel Basse were given 5,000 acres for undertaking to transport one hundred persons. Five thousand acres was also given Rowland Truelove "and divers other patentees." Similar tracts were given to John Crowe, Edward Ryder, Captain Simon Leeke and others.[45] Sir George Yeardly received a grant of 15,000 acres for engaging to take over three hundred persons.[46]”  From Patrician or Plebian the Origin of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion. By Thomas J. Wertenbaker

WHO OUR JOHN CROWE WASN’T
1635 John Crowe that landed in Plymouth, Mass on the Ship Hopewell.  His descendants changed their name to Crowell and went north, according to internet research.

IN CONCLUSION
If this is our John Crowe, he emigrated from Newton, in the county of Washford, Ireland.