Martin's Hundred

Martin's Hundred is a Virginia historical marker in James City County, dedicated 2005.

Rte. 60, just east of intersection with Plantation Rd.

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This plantation was allocated to the London-based Society of Martin's Hundred by 1618 and was later assigned 21,500 acres. It was initially settled in 1620 around Wolstenholme Town, its administrative center, located near the James River. Archaeologists discovered the town site in 1977. They also located the graves of several people who died during the 22 March 1622 Indian attacks on English settlements coordinated by Chief Opechancanough, when 78 colonists here--half the plantation's population--were reported killed. These attacks were in response to English expansion into Indian lands. The area was soon resettled but the Society of Martin's Hundred's town was never rebuilt.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1630 · Nova Virginia Tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1671 · Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1781 · Carte de la campagne de la division aux ordres du Mis. de St. Simon en Virginie depuis le… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1862 · Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point of interest of the… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering the location of Martin's Hundred, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Martin's Hundred

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