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27-655: The small river was initially known as Tanner's Creek. At the time of the arrival of the English colonists in 1607, the area around the creek was inhabited by the Chesepians , a group of eastern-Algonquian speaking Native Americans (American Indian) affiliated with the Powhatan Confederacy . The main village of the Chesepians was called Skicoak , believed to have been located along Tanner's Creek. As

54-550: A compilation of the colonial laws put in place by the governors. He then produced an extended manuscript about the Virginia colony, The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia , dedicating the first version to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland , in 1612. The manuscript included his eyewitness account of life in early Virginia, but borrowed heavily from the earlier work of Richard Willes, James Rosier , John Smith , and others. Strachey produced two more versions during

81-492: A degree. In 1605 he was at Gray's Inn , but there is no evidence that he made the law his profession. In 1602 he inherited his father's estate following a legal dispute with Elizabeth Brocket, his stepmother. Strachey wrote a sonnet, Upon Sejanus , which was published in the 1605 edition of the 1603 play Sejanus His Fall by Ben Jonson . Strachey also kept a residence in London, where he regularly attended plays. He

108-658: A great river." In 1585, their name was recorded by English colonists as Ehesepiooc. Their name is spelled many different ways and also listed as Chesapians. The main village of the Chesepian was on the Lynnhaven River in Princess Anne County. Two other Chesepian towns were Apasus and Chesepioc, both near the Chesapeake Bay in what is now the independent city of Virginia Beach. Chesepioc

135-459: A subdivided area of the original shire in 1691 known as Norfolk County . Eventually, after a series of annexations by the growing and expanding commerce center of the independent city of Norfolk to the south, all of the waterway became located within the corporate limits. (The remaining portion of Norfolk County not previously annexed by the growing cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and tiny South Norfolk were consolidated with South Norfolk to form

162-580: Is no manner of doubt on the evidence and from the signature of his deposition, was the well-known voyager and writer whose account of the Bermuda voyage left its marks on Shakespeare’s Tempest . He gave evidence in the suit as ‘William Strachey, of Crowhurst, Surrey, gentleman, aged 34’ on 4 July 1606. Strachey became friends with the city's poets and playwrights, including Thomas Campion , John Donne , Ben Jonson , Hugh Holland , John Marston , George Chapman , and Matthew Roydon , many of them members of

189-604: The Carolina Algonquian . In 1607, the Chesepians had about 100 warriors and a total population estimated at 350. By 1669, they ceased to exist as a tribe. According to William Strachey 's The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia (1618), the Chesepian were wiped out by the Powhatan , the paramount head of the Virginia Peninsula –based Powhatan Confederacy, sometime before the arrival of

216-585: The New World , and in 1609 purchased two shares in the Virginia Company and sailed to Virginia on the Sea Venture with Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers in the summer of that year. Strachey was a passenger aboard the flagship Sea Venture with the leaders of the expedition when the ship was blown off course by a hurricane . Leaking, and with its foundering imminent, the ship

243-672: The "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen" who met at the Mermaid Tavern . By 1605 Strachey was in precarious financial circumstances from which he spent the rest of his life trying to recover. In 1606 he used a family connection to obtain the position of secretary to Thomas Glover , the English ambassador to Turkey . He travelled to Constantinople , but quarrelled with the ambassador and was dismissed in March 1607 and returned to England in June 1608. He then decided to mend his fortunes in

270-718: The British Colony of Virginia expanded, the Native Americans were overwhelmed, initially moving further inland. In 1634, the original eight shires of Virginia (counties) were formed, and the area of Tanner's Creek was designated as within Elizabeth River Shire . (Despite popular misconception that the namings were related Queen Elizabeth I , both Elizabeth River Shire and the Elizabeth River were named to honor Princess Elizabeth Stuart ,

297-601: The English at Jamestown in 1607. The Chesepian were eliminated because Powhatan's priests had warned him that "from the Chesapeake Bay a nation should arise, which should dissolve and give end to his empire". Though historians of the period express little doubt that the Powhatans eradicated the Chesapeake tribe, Strachey's belief that these rumored prophesies indicated the Christian God's intervention on behalf of

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324-557: The Jamestown Colony against "The Devil's Empire" appears, in hindsight, rather eccentric. William Strachey William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America . He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of

351-553: The achievement of United States' freedom from British rule. Chesepian The Chesepian or Chesapeake were a Native American tribe who lived near present-day South Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia . They occupied an area which is now the Norfolk County or Princess Anne County . The name Chesapeake is an anglicization of the Algonquian word, K'che-sepi-ack , which translates as "country on

378-527: The author of Description de Tous les Provinces de France . By his father's first marriage Strachey had three brothers and three sisters. Strachey's mother died in 1587, and in August of that year Strachey's father married Elizabeth Brocket of Hertfordshire , by whom he had five daughters. Strachey was brought up on an estate purchased by his grandfather in the 1560s. In 1588, at the age of sixteen, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge , but did not take

405-565: The colonial ship Sea Venture , which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia. The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during the ten months they spent on the island. His account of the incident and of the Virginia colony is thought by most Shakespearean scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest . William Strachey, born 4 April 1572 in Saffron Walden , Essex ,

432-417: The daughter of King James I of England . She was the sister of the ill-fated Prince Henry and his younger brother Prince Charles, who later ascended to the throne as King Charles I ). The naming of Tanner's Creek and Tanner's Point at its confluence with the Elizabeth River each derived from one of the early settler's and adjacent landowners, Daniel Tanner. The areas drained by Tanner's Creek became part of

459-584: The few first-hand descriptions of Virginia in the period. His glossary of words of the Powhatan is one of only two records of the language (the other being Captain John Smith 's). Strachey remained at Jamestown for less than a year, but during that time he became the Secretary of the Colony after the drowning death of Matthew Scrivener in 1609. He returned to England probably in late 1611 and published

486-592: The new independent city of Chesapeake in 1963). In 1892, the City of Norfolk purchased the 114 acres (0.46 km) of land near Tanner's Creek for a park. It was named Lafayette Park in 1899. Soon after, Tanner's Creek was renamed the Lafayette River in honor of the Marquis de La Fayette , a French Army officer who became a popular American Revolutionary War hero as French forces aided with vital assistance in

513-619: The next six years, dedicating one to Francis Bacon and the other to Sir Allen Apsley . It too was critical of the Virginia Company management of the colony, and Strachey failed to find a patron to publish his work, which was finally first published in 1849 by the Hakluyt Society . Strachey died of unknown causes in August 1621. The parish register of St Giles' Church, Camberwell , in Southwark records his burial on 16 August 1621. He died in poverty, leaving this verse: Hark! Twas

540-602: The precarious state of the Jamestown colony. Being critical of the management of the colony, it was suppressed by the Virginia Company. After the dissolution of the company it was published in 1625 by Samuel Purchas as "A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir THOMAS GATES Knight" . It is generally thought to be one of the sources for Shakespeare 's The Tempest because of certain verbal, plot and thematic similarities. Strachey's writings are among

567-483: The theatre for some years. Evans assigned his rights in the property and the company in two stages, first one-half in sixths to [Edward] Kirkham, [Thomas] Kendall and [William] Rastell, and subsequently the second half in sixths to John Marston , William Strachey, and his own wife. There were later complications. But in 1606 William Strachey had a one-sixth share in the Blackfriars Theatre . Strachey, there

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594-401: The trump of death that blew My hour has come. False world adieu Thy pleasures have betrayed me so That I to death untimely go. In 1996, Strachey's signet ring was discovered in the ruins of Jamestown , identified by the family seal, an eagle . On 9 June 1595 Strachey married Frances Forster, 'the daughter of a prosperous Surrey family with political connections'. Frances Forster

621-566: Was a shareholder in the Children of the Revels , a troupe of boy actors who performed 'in a converted room in the former Blackfriars monastery', as evidenced by his deposition in a lawsuit in 1606. According to Sisson: In 1600 Richard Burbage leased to [Henry] Evans his Blackfriars property, and the Children of the Revels under Nathaniel Giles , with Evans as landlord and partner, occupied

648-480: Was located in near Great Neck Point . Archaeologists and others have found numerous Native American arrowheads, stone axes, pottery, and beads in Great Neck Point. Several Native burials are present as well. Although they spoke an Eastern Algonquian language like many tribes within the Powhatan Confederacy , archaeological evidence suggests that the Chesepian people originally belonged to another group,

675-553: Was run aground off the coast of Bermuda , accidentally beginning England's colonisation of that Atlantic archipelago . The group was stranded on the island for almost a year, during which they constructed two small boats in which they eventually completed the voyage to Virginia. Strachey wrote an eloquent letter dated 15 July 1610, to an unnamed "Excellent Lady" in England about the Sea Venture disaster, including an account of

702-674: Was the daughter of William Forster and Elizabeth Draper (died 22 April 1605), widow of John Bowyer (died 10 October 1570) of Shepton Beauchamp , Somerset , and daughter of Robert Draper of Camberwell , Surrey , Page of the Jewels to King Henry VIII , by Elizabeth Fyfield. Strachey lived in London while Frances remained at her father's estate in Crowhurst, Surrey . They had two children, William Strachey (died 1635), born in March 1596/97, and Edmund Strachey, born in 1604. Frances died before 1615, and at some time before that date Strachey married

729-509: Was the grandson of William Strachey (died 1587), and the eldest son of William Strachey (died 1598) and Mary Cooke (died 1587), the daughter of Henry Cooke, Merchant Taylor of London, by Anne Goodere, the daughter of Henry Goodere and Jane Greene. Strachey's maternal grandfather, Henry Cooke (died 1551), held Lesnes Abbey in Kent ; he was succeeded by his son, Edmund Cooke (died 1619), while his younger son, Richard Cooke, has been identified as

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