Excerpt from Abstract of the Proceedings of the Virgin Company of London, 1619 1624, Vol. 2: Prepared From the Records in the Library of Congress The last proceedings of the Company in one volume are on the 3d of July, 1622; those in the next are on the 17th of the same month. A motion was made, that forasmuch as Mr. Truelove and his associates intend to proceed in their plantation, being no whit discouraged with this late massacre of the English by the treacherous Indians, are now setting forth a bark called the Truelove of London, of about 46 tuns to Virginia, they there fore desired the honorable favour of this court to grant them a commission for the said ship and voyage, which the court agreed unto. Upon the humble request of William Sheffield, petition ing for leave to administer upon the goods (that are saved) of his son, Thomas Sheffield,1 lately slain by the Indians, which goods he desires to preserve for a son of the said Thomas, a child about the age of two years, saved alive in that bloody mas sacre; for so much as it was supposed this would prove a leading case, and the suit of many others to be relieved in, it was there fore thought fit to referr it to a commissioner to consider what power and authority may be granted to the surviving friends of such as are slain, or shall hereafter decease, to administer upon the goods left unto them, and what course may best be taken for recovery and preservation of all such goods from loss and em bezeling to the use and behoof of the true proprietors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.