Hooton family tree from England To America:Information about John Dodson
John Dodson (b. Abt. 1588, d. Bef. 1670)
Notes for John Dodson:
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The following information is copied from "Ancestors of Robert Dodson and his descendants".
John Dodson came to America with Capt. John Smith in 1607. There were a hundred and five men in this company that founded the first permanent English Colony in America.
They reached the capes of Virginia, on April 1607, and sailed up the broad river's, thirty miles from the rivers mouth. They named the river, James and their settlement, Jamestown, in honor of their King.
The colonists soon erected cabins out of poles and branches and some dug caves to live in. The site of the colony was unhealthy, and the deaths, especially during the first few years of the colony, were horrifying. From 1606 to 1618, a period of twelve years, eighteen hundred immigrants sailed from England for Virginia. At the end of that time only six hundred were living. Attacks by Indians, starvation, and the system of holding property in common added to the difficulties of the colonist. But in 1812 they began to grow tobacco and they fared better.
The year 1619 brought three important events to Virginia and the colonists, Virginia was permitted to enjoy a measure of self government, and a ship load of eighty prospective wives arrived from England (probably Jesse and William Dodson married two of these women). The colonist could secure a wife, with her permission, and by paying her transportation, in the amount of one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco about $500.00 dollars worth, and the first Negro slaves landed in Virginia.
In spite of all the hardships, John Dodson survived and was reported to have been a mighty hunter and fur trader and in his dealings with the Indians became the possessor of large bodies of land. And it was said that he was a good citizen.
We find descendants of this early Jamestown Settler in every emigrant western movement.
More About John Dodson:
Emigration: 1607, Came with Captain Cook to Jamestown, Virginia.211
More About John Dodson and Jane Eagle Plume:
Marriage: Abt. 1619211
Children of John Dodson and Jane Eagle Plume are:
- +Jesse Dodson, b. Abt. 1623, Jamestown City, Virginia211, d. August 01, 1716, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, VA.
- William Dodson, b. Abt. 1619211.
- Benjamin Dodson, b. Abt. 1624211, d. Bet. 1657 - 1715211.