Afterward, Newport searched briefly for the Lost Colonists and gold mines, but to no avail. He then set sail for England. Early in June, Newport sailed again for Virginia, this time as captain of the Sea Venture , the flagship of a nine-ship flotilla that represented the so-called third supply.
Avoiding the Spanish West Indies, the fleet sailed on as direct a course to Virginia as possible. The hurricane scattered the fleet and drove the Sea Venture onto a reef off the islands of Bermuda. For the next eight months, as the other ships straggled into Jamestown, Gates, Somers, and Newport struggled to maintain order among the passengers and crew of the Sea Venture. Remarkably, all had lived through the shipwreck, but several did not survive the dissentions, intrigues, and charges of mutiny that surfaced in Bermuda and resulted in executions ordered by Gates.
In May , the party finally departed the islands in two small vessels that ship carpenters and crew had cobbled together from local trees and fragments salvaged from the wreck. They arrived in Jamestown later in the month and found disaster. Having endured the Starving Time over the winter, the few remaining colonists at Jamestown were barely alive.
Most of the buildings had been burned for firewood, and the palisade surrounding the fort was down. To the relief of many there, Gates announced they would abandon Jamestown. On June 7, the survivors boarded ships and sailed down the James River to the Chesapeake Bay, where they spent the night. The next morning, while waiting for the tide to turn, they spied a longboat headed toward them from the east. On his orders, the colonists turned around.
Most important, he brought a strict regimen of order and discipline, confirming and reinforcing a set of rules that came to be known as the Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall. In the spring of , Newport sailed to Virginia for the last time, taking Sir Thomas Dale with him, and arrived on May Newport remained in Virginia for several months, overseeing the construction of a bridge at Jamestown. He sailed for England about the end of August and arrived there late in October.
He made three long voyages over the next few years. The first, aboard the Expedition of London to Banten also called Bantam , a major trading town on the west coast of Java, was undertaken early in The second, to India, was made in Newport wrote his will on November 16, , as he was about to sail to the East Indies for the third time.
He dropped anchor at Banten on August He died soon afterward. After he died, the grant was converted into 1, acres of land in Virginia, along with another acres for six men whom his widow claimed as headrights in Presumably, the land was located in the area of present-day Newport News. Encyclopedia Virginia Grady Ave.
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Skip to content. Contributor: John Salmon. Early Years and Privateering Newport was christened at Harwich, a prominent port town on the east cost of England, on December 29, Sir Francis Drake. George Percy. Aerial View of Jamestown. First Supply Newport sailed for England on June 22, carrying an optimistic letter from the council. Ould Virginia. Indian Corn. Third Supply. Christopher Newport Statue.
December 29, Christopher Newport is christened at Harwich, England. He is the son of Christopher Newport, a shipmaster.
October 19, Christopher Newport marries Katherine Proctor. He makes his first privateering trip to the Caribbean and loses his right arm while engaging two Spanish treasure ships off Cuba. He also takes part in the Barbary Coast trade. Near the Azores, he helps to capture the very rich Spanish ship Madre de Dios and sails it back to England.
Soon after, he partners with her brothers and others as one-sixth owner of the heavily armed ship the Neptune. The Virginia Company of London gives him command of its first fleet to sail to Virginia. December 20, Three ships carrying settlers sail from London bound for Virginia. April 26, Jamestown colonists first drop anchor in the Chesapeake Bay, and after a brief skirmish with local Indians, begin to explore the James River.
May 26, While Christopher Newport and a party of colonists explore the James River, an alliance of five Algonquian-speaking Indian groups—the Quiyoughcohannocks, the Weyanocks, the Appamattucks, the Paspaheghs, and the Chiskiacks—attacks Jamestown, wounding ten and killing two.
For the next few years, Captain Newport spent most of his time engaging in battles on the sea. In , Captain Newport was asked to join the Virginia Company. Three ships set sail on the journey. They were the Susan Constant , the Discovery , and the Godspeed. Captain Newport was the captain of the Susan Constant. In April of , they reached land, settling on an area near the mouth of a large river. Building a small pinnace rather than await rescue if it even arrived , they set sail, arriving in Virginia in May Upon conclusion of this service to the London Company, and still not ready to settle down, he was employed by the East India Company in to carry Sir Robert Sherley to Persia.
This obligation was carried out between January 7, , to July 10, , when in command of "the Expedition of London of about tunnes burthen," he made his first voyage to the East Indies. Newport's third and final voyage to the East Indies began early in , when he sailed in command of Hope , with Hound as consort.
Alexander Brown takes up the tale whereby the Hope arrived at Bantam, on the isle of Java, on August 15, , with "commander Captain Newport, who reported that seven ships were sent this year from England to Surat.
Ranging the both Atlantic and Indian oceans, Captain Christopher Newport was not one to remain idle while the Seven Seas remained to be sailed and explored. From his beginnings--somewhere, someplace in England--we perceive our first glimpse of him "commanding in the waters of the West Indies; we leave him as he sinks to rest beneath the far-off waters of the East Indies.
If there were to ever be a monument to this most notable among notables, it would be incomplete without this accompanying description:. Conway W. Putnam's Sons, , Andrews, K. Barbour, Philip L. Brown, Alexander. The Genesis of the United States , Vol. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Sams, Conway W. New York: G. Putnam's Sons, The Dictionary of National Biography , Vol. London: Oxford University Press,
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