Richard Stephens (burgess)

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Richard Stephens
Died	c. 1636^[1]
Occupation(s)	Merchant, painter-stainer
Spouse	Elizabeth Peirsey^[1]
Children	Samuel Stephens William Stephens

Captain Richard Stephens (b. 1602 in Wiltshire, England^{[citation needed]} – 1636) was a merchant and described "painter-stainer" (which was an investor in the Virginia Company of London).^[1]^[2] Stephens arrived to Colony of Virginia as an unmarried man of means, with two to four servants,^{[citation needed]} on February 16 1624 [O.S. February 1623] aboard the George.^[3] Stephens was an experienced military man and quickly began to establish himself in the colony by acquiring land, and was soon named burgess in the colony. After building a blockhouse and receiving a patent on the same, the captain was issued the first English land grant in the colony as incentive for other landowners to follow his example and build gardens within their property holdings. Captain Stephens amassed nearly 2000 acres. Stephens married Elizabeth Peircy (b. 1600), daughter of Abraham Piercy, cape merchant of Jamestown. They had four sons: John, William, Richard Lawrence, and Samuel.

Stephens fought the first duel in the English colonies after an argument with George Harrison, the latter being struck just below the knee. Harrison died two weeks later, though not from the wound, but some other malady of the time. Such an encounter in North America was not to be repeated for some 100 years.^{[citation needed]}

As burgess, Stephens (and local citizenry as well) often found themselves at odds with the then governor of Jamestown, Governor John Harvey. During a heated conversation, Harvey attacked Stephens with a cane or cudgel, knocking out a number of his teeth.^[4] The governor was eventually deposed and sent back to England, where he faced charges for numerous mistreatments of members of the colony. Upon the Stephens' death, Elizabeth Piercy Stephens married Governor Harvey.^[5] Richard Stephens died at the age of 33 or 34, and was subsequently buried in Jamestown's Fort James Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Two of Stephens' sons, Samuel and Richard (II)^{[citation needed]}, also made names for themselves in the New World. Samuel Stephens rose to prominence and become the second governor of the Albemarle Settlements of North Carolina. Richard Lawrence Stephens for a time dropped his last name as a protective measure as commander of the garrison at Bacon's Castle in the mid-1670s, during Bacon's Rebellion.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c McCartney, Martha W.. Documentary History of Jamestown Island: Biographies of owners and residents. United States, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2000.
^ https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/stephens-stevens-samuel
^ "George 1616 - 1623". packrat-pro.com.
^ TARTER, BRENT. “Sir John Harvey: Royal Governor of Virginia, 1628–1639.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 125, no. 1, 2017, pp. 2–37. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26322580. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
^ Calder Roth, ed. (1999). The Virginia Landmarks Register: Boldrup Plantation Archeological Site. University of Virginia Press.

Jamestown, Virginia Colony (1607–1624)

Timeline of Jamestown, Virginia • History (1607–1699)

Events

Geography

Associated places
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1619 incorporations	James City Charles City Elizabeth City City of Henrico

Colonists
(list)

Original Virginia Governor's Council members	Edward Maria Wingfield (president) Bartholomew Gosnold Christopher Newport John Martin John Ratcliffe George Kendall John Smith

Other notable original colonists	Gabriel Archer Robert Beheathland Samuel Collier Robert Hunt George Percy Thomas Wotton

Notable colonists from
supply missions

Notable colonists
1611–1624

Natives and
native groups

Other notables

Written accounts

"Dale's Code" (1612)
A Description of New England (1616)
The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia (1619)
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1619)
True Reportory (1625)
Pamiętnik handlowca (1625)

Cultural depictions

Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage (1855)
Pocahontas (1910 film)
The Wives of Jamestown (1913)
Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas (1938)
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (2001)
The New World (2005 film)
Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony (2011)
Jamestown (2017)

Associated ships

Park: Historic Jamestowne • Museum: Jamestown Settlement (Jamestown Glasshouse) • Trail: Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

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