l history. We can find
no legal enactment requiring such a census to be taken, and no order to
that effect, save in the Instructions to Governor Wyatt, dated 24th
July, 1621, where, among other things, he is directed "To make a
catalogue of the people in every plantation, and their conditions; and
of deaths, marriages and christenings."--Hening, Vol. I., p. 115.

The entries are as brief as possible, no middle names are given, and
foreigners are entered according to nationality, or not more than one
name allowed them. Not the least curious is the small number of negroes.
Rolfe states, "About the last of August (1619) came in a Dutch man of
warre that sold us twenty Negors" (Smith, p. 126), and nearly five years
after, when this census was taken, there were but twenty-two in the
Colony.

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_Volume 3, No. 2._ }

LISTS OF THE LIVINGE & DEAD IN VIRGINIA

Feb. 16th, 1623.

A LIST OF THE LIVINGE.

_At the Colledg Land._[Q]

Thomas Marlett,
Christopher Branch,
Francis Boot,
William Browning,
Walter Cooper,
William Welder,
Leonard More,
Daniell Shurley,
Peeter Jorden,
Nicholas Perse,
William Dalbie,
Isaias Rawton,
Theoder Moises,
Robert Champer,
Thomas Jones,
David Williams,
William Walker,
Edward Hobson,
Thomas Hobson,
John Day,
William Cooksey,
Robert Farnell,
Nicholas Chapman,
Mathew Edlow,
William Price,
Gabriell Holland,
John Wattson,
Ebedmeleck Gastrell,
Thomas Osborne. 29

[Q] _The Colledge Land._--In "1619 Sir Edwin Sandys moved and obtained
that ten thousand acres of land should be laid off for the University at
Henrico, a place formerly resolved on for that purpose. This was
intended as well for the colledge for the education of the Indians as
also to lay the foundation of a seminary of learning for the
English."--Stith, London ed., p. 163.

"On the northerly side of James river, from the falls down to Henrico,
containing ten miles in length, are the public lands reserved and laid
out, whereof ten thousand are for the University lands, three thousand
are for the company's lands, with other lands belonging to the
College."--MS. in the McDonald paper, entitled "Particulars of Land in
Virginia," which was made out in 1625 or '6, the communication of the
Governor in which he informs their lordships that he sends it, being
dated May 17, 1626. McDonald papers, Vol. I., pp. 2