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<header>
<series>HCA 15/5</series>
<folio>f.99</folio>
<picture>P1150616</picture>
<summary></summary>
<document-date></document-date>
<status>First cut transcription started and completed on 18/05/13 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet, 18/05/13</first-transcriber>
</header>

<document-start>
1. Petitio Prescilla Lockyer
2. presentat. 28th Septem
3. 1650./
4.
5. To the right worshipfull the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie:./
6. The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and
7. George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the Virginia Merchant (whereof John
8. Lockier was Captaine or Comander./
9. Sheweth
10. That the petitioners husbands were hired by the said Captaine Lockier at severall monethly wages to serve in the said shipp for a voyage
11. to be made from this port of London to Virginia and from thense hither backe againe, which service they performed from
12. the 6th of September 1649 untill March last being 6 monethes lacking 4 dayes, but by reason the sayd Shipp was become
13. unserviceable at Virginia your petitioners husbands could not come home in her but are left behind to shift for themselves
14. the said Captaine Lockier and some others coming home as passengers in another Shippe And your petitioners seeing their husbands come
15. not home as they expected demanded their wages of the Captaine for the time they served him, but he denyed to pay the
16. same, for which your petitioners have sued the said Captaine Lockier in the Court And whereas all Masters of Shipps that goe to
17. Virginia use to carry 3 monethes ˹victualls˺ at the least out with them; The sayd Captaine Lockier had not layd in above 6 weekes
18. victualls in his said shipp when she sett saile from Gravesend outward bound; which Mr George Putt cheife Mate and pilot of
19. the said Shippe taking notice of, asked the said Captaine why he had soe slenderly victualled the shipp telling him, it would not
20. serve halfe way; he replyed that he would take in more victualls at the Downes which he did not at all performe
21. notwithstanding there were 35 seaman and above 130 passengers neere upon 200 persons in all in the said Shippe, whereof 62
22. passengers and 4 Seamen by reason of the want of provisions were starved to death before the shipp came to Virginia.
23.
24. That within a fortnight next after the said Ship set saile from Gravesend both SEamen and passingers were put to their allowance
25. videlicet the Seamen to two, and the passingers each man to one biskett a day, afterwards to halfe a biskett a day and at length to halfe a
26. pint of parched pease a day betweene 2 men, they having neither beere nor water in the shippe to drincke but what they were
27. Constrayned to drinkeof strongwaters of their owne which they Carried with them for adventures: and the famine came
28. soe violently upon them that divers in the said Shippe would willingly have given 10: s for one of the Shipps ratts (which some
29. of the Seamen catched) to have eaten, their being but one small fish of the value of 6: d allowed for a meale to 15 or 20 men:/
30. That the said Captaine Lockier sett 23 persons ashore upon an unknowne Island to gett freshwater promising to
31. fetch them on board againe: but after they were soe sett on shoare the sayd Captaine Lockier presently carried the Shippe
32. away to Virginia and most in humanely and barbarously left all the said 23 persons in that unknowne place to be starved there
33. noe manner of food to be found soe that they were forced to live a whole 3 weekes with water and the leaves of trees: And at the
34. length the rage and violence of their famine soe much increasing and being not able to eate those leaves and longer they cast
35. lotts which of them should be shott the next day to serve for food for the rest; which was miraculously prevented by the
36. suddaine and unexpected fall of a great tree that night which killed 2 men and a woman of their Company: which the rest of the Company
37. left alive were forced to eate and live upon untill such time as they were by Gods providence XXXXXXXX releived by the very
38. heathen and by them in Canoes transported over the river to the other side and soe travelled to Virginia by land where
39. divers of them dyed as soone as they came thense, and some dyed on that Island by famine./
40.
41. That the petitioners have spent all they have even their very {XXXX} from under them in prosecution of this suite to gett
42. their wages and are like to be utterly ruined and undone they having each of them a great Charge of Children to
43. bring up and maintaine all which premisses your petitioners are able to prove by the oathes of sufficient witnesses
44.
45. Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that your worships would be pleased to take
46. their sad conditions into their your pious and serious Considerations, and to order
47. the sayd Captaine Lockier to pay your petitioners their whole wages due to their husbands
48. forthwith or els to give your petitioners leave to give in an allegation in Court to the effect
49. of the premisses above weitten: the same being altogether omitted in the allegation
50. given in on your petitioners behalfe; and to produce and examine witnesses thereupon, that
51. soe the iustice of your petitioners Cause and the great wrong they have received may appeare;
52.
53. And your petitioners as in humble duty
54. bound shall ever pray etcetera
55.
56. The marke of P L Prescillia Lockier
57. The marke of S Sara Sparges./
</document-end>

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"About the fifteenth day of September, 1649, the "Virginia
Merchant," Captain John Locker, a ship of three hundred
tons burden, sailed for Jamestown with many passengers.
Among those who engaged passage were Colonel Norwood, a
relative of Governor Berkeley; Major Francis Morison, a
sympathizer with the King, and Major Stevens, (1) who had
served under Waller in the Parliamentary Army when it
besieged Exeter, then held by Sir John Berkeley, the Gov-
ernor's brother. Driven by a storm, the ship found itself
on the 12th of January, 1650, among the islands of
Assateague Bay, on the Atlantic coast of Maryland. Upon
one of these, Colonel Norwood, Major Morison, Stevens,
Francis Gary, and others landed, and after several days,
crossed over to the main land and were hospitably treated by
the Indians. A white fur trader, Jenkin Price, (2) arrived,
and under his guidance they began their journey to
Nathaniel Littleton's plantation, the nearest in Accomac.
Toward night of the first day, they reached a point opposite
Chincoteague Island, and at the close of the second day,
after twenty-five miles of travel, they came to Price's post
on the Littleton Plantation. From thence they proceeded to
the Plantation of Stephen Charlton, who gave them fresh
clothing. Lower down in Accomac, now Northampton
County, they visited Argoll Yeardley, the son of the former
Governor, who was born at Jamestown, in 1621, and had
recently married."^[2]

FOOTNOTES:

(1.) Major William Stevens probably for some time remained in Accomac,
where Yeardley and others held his political sentiments, and was perhaps
the same person who in March 1651 declared his fealty to the "common-
wealth of England as it is nowe established without Kins: or House of
Lords." He may have been the one who settled near the spot, where
he was cast away, in 1650, and thus became a citizen of Maryland. In
the records of Somerset County, Maryland, is the following: "Richard
Stevens, brother to William Stevens of Somerset County, in ye Province
of Maryland, was youngest son of John Stevens of Lebourn in ye Parish
of Buckingham in England, died at the house of his brother William
aforesaid, ye 22d day of April, 1667, and was buried at his plantation
called Rehoboth in ye county and province aforesaid, in America, ye
25th day of April."

In 1679, Col. William Stevens entered a tract of two thousand acres
on the shores of the upper part of Assateague Bay near where, in 1650,
the "Virginia Merchant's" passengers landed in distress.

(2) In October, 1650, the Assembly gave 5,000 pounds of tobacco to
Jenkin Price for the preservation of certain persons. Price was now
poor and evidently this was a gratuity for his kindness to Norwood,
now become Treasurer of Virginia.

(Norwood's narrative of his voyage and adventures is contained in A voyage to Virginia. Force's Collect. of Historical Tracts, vol. III)

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1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
2. ↑ Jennings Cropper Wise, Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke, or, The Eastern Shore of Virginia in the seventeenth century (Richmond, VA, 1911), pp.111-112