Summary of “The Missing Women of Martin's Hundred”
In J. Frederick Fausz’s paper, “Global Implications of Patent Law Variation,” Fausz discloses the unfamiliar historical events surrounding the captured women from Martin’s Hundred plantation during the onslaught of Virginia colonists, which was exerted by Indian warriors as a part of the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. The events surrounding the captured women never gained much attention among historians due to the great interest in researching the effects of the Powhatan Uprising of 1622; often causing the victims to be overlooked historically. Furthermore, little information has survived relating to these ladies’ dramatic adventures. Nevertheless, Fausz’s paper serves as a tribute to the ladies’ …show more content…
Martin’s Hundred was known as one of Virginia’s largest and most crucial private plantations during the seventeenth-century. Martin’s Hundred was loosely expanded 20,000 acres along the James River, containing various settlements including a housing area named Wolstenholme Towne. The plantation and its settlements had suffered a rough start and still suffered from a high mortality rate, thus requiring shipments of a few hundred more colonists in the plantation in 1618. The plantation was described as weakened and confused months before the uprising occurred.
In 1614, paramount chief Wahunsonacock of the Powhatan tribes came to a peace agreement with the English as a result of the English settlers’ capture of the chief’s daughter, Pocahontas. Both the Powhatan tribes and the English greatly benefitted from the peace agreement. However, the two groups’ relationships started to turn sour after the English continued growing their settlements, often destroying land for the tobacco plantations and alike. As a result, chief Opechancanough commanded that his Powhatan tribe would start a vicious assault on the settlements in order to drive the English out of …show more content…
Due to the assumptions surrounding the missing women, there were no search or rescues for the captives. However, after a while, English settlers started to believe that the unaccounted for women might actually be alive, this belief was supported a year later when settler Richard Frethome reported that there were around 15 female captives held by the nearby Indians. Additionally, more evidence erupted in 1624, when Captain John Smith published that he received a message in the summer of 1622 from Mistress Boyse, stating that she was a prisoner with nineteen others, held by the Powhatans. Mistress Boyse was captured along with Mistress Jeffries and Jane
In J. Frederick Fausz’s paper, “Global Implications of Patent Law Variation,” Fausz discloses the unfamiliar historical events surrounding the captured women from Martin’s Hundred plantation during the onslaught of Virginia colonists, which was exerted by Indian warriors as a part of the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. The events surrounding the captured women never gained much attention among historians due to the great interest in researching the effects of the Powhatan Uprising of 1622; often causing the victims to be overlooked historically. Furthermore, little information has survived relating to these ladies’ dramatic adventures. Nevertheless, Fausz’s paper serves as a tribute to the ladies’ …show more content…
Martin’s Hundred was known as one of Virginia’s largest and most crucial private plantations during the seventeenth-century. Martin’s Hundred was loosely expanded 20,000 acres along the James River, containing various settlements including a housing area named Wolstenholme Towne. The plantation and its settlements had suffered a rough start and still suffered from a high mortality rate, thus requiring shipments of a few hundred more colonists in the plantation in 1618. The plantation was described as weakened and confused months before the uprising occurred.
In 1614, paramount chief Wahunsonacock of the Powhatan tribes came to a peace agreement with the English as a result of the English settlers’ capture of the chief’s daughter, Pocahontas. Both the Powhatan tribes and the English greatly benefitted from the peace agreement. However, the two groups’ relationships started to turn sour after the English continued growing their settlements, often destroying land for the tobacco plantations and alike. As a result, chief Opechancanough commanded that his Powhatan tribe would start a vicious assault on the settlements in order to drive the English out of …show more content…
Due to the assumptions surrounding the missing women, there were no search or rescues for the captives. However, after a while, English settlers started to believe that the unaccounted for women might actually be alive, this belief was supported a year later when settler Richard Frethome reported that there were around 15 female captives held by the nearby Indians. Additionally, more evidence erupted in 1624, when Captain John Smith published that he received a message in the summer of 1622 from Mistress Boyse, stating that she was a prisoner with nineteen others, held by the Powhatans. Mistress Boyse was captured along with Mistress Jeffries and Jane