Henry Dawkes Sr. (1575 - bef. 1632)

Born 1575 in England

Died before 17 Sep 1632 before age 57 in Virginia

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Biography

Henry Dawkes Sr. was a Virginia colonist.

Dawkes, Henry, an ancient planter, came to Virginia in 1608, and in 1632 his "son and heir apparent," William Dawkes of Varina, patented lands due him for the personal adventure of his father, and for a subscription to the stock of the London Company, paid by his father. ^[1][2]

Henry and Mary Dyke"Dawkes", (brother & sister) each invested 25 pds and came on the ship, "2nd Supply" arriving in Jamestown in October 1608.

Immigration: Henry Dawkes, arrival 1608, Virginia.^[3]

1609 Charter lists a Henry Dawkes: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va02.asp

Mary married William Leigh, of Leigh High, Cheshire, as soon as she arrived in Virginia. There were earlier Dyke/Leigh marriages in Cheshire. Richard Dyke (Daux) was Captain of Foot in London and he sent his son, Walter "Daux" to Virginia.

In 1608, Henry Dawkes & his brother-in-law William Leigh, both of London, took a bill of adventure from London Company, & settled at Varina in 1632, which was for a long period the county seat of Henrico County.^[4]

Henry "Dawkes" received the first patent of land in present Henrico Co., Virginia, on Two Mile Creek, NW of the James River, south of Powhattan's Tree. It was 250 acres in a neck of land commonly called the Verinas. abutting easterly upon a creek known as two mile Creek, and thence extending westerly towards the land of Thomas Parker.

His son, Henry Jr., born in 1602, came to Charles City County, Va. in 1635, age 33, after the death of his father. Henry Jr. went to York County, the area that became St. Peters Parish, New Kent Co., Virginia.

Parentage

Thomas Dykes (Dykes-8) has been removed as his father. Mary Gray Radcliffe (Radcliffe-106) has been removed as his mother. There seems to be no evidence of a connection.

A more likely candidate for his father would be Edward Dawkes of London who had a son Henry Dawkes (birth and baptism in 1579): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NLFP-S9B

Unfortunately I could not find a daughter Mary for Edward Dawkes, just the following children (although Anne would be right age if her name was Mary Anne):

Thomazine Dawkes Birth 11 June 1580 St Mildred Poultry with St Mary Colechurch, London, England, United Kingdom FatherEdward Dawkes

Edward Dawkes Birth 12 August 1584 Christening 16 August 1584 St Mildred Poultry with St Mary Colechurch, London, England, United Kingdom FatherEdward Dawkes

Henry Dawkes Birth 28 July 1579 Christening 7 August 1579 St Mildred Poultry with St Mary Colechurch, London, England, United Kingdom FatherEdward Dawkes

Anne Dawkes Birth 29 March 1583 Christening 31 March 1583 St Mildred Poultry with St Mary Colechurch, London, England, United Kingdom FatherEdward Dawkes

Thomas Dawkes Birth 20 November 1585 Christening 28 November 1585 St Mildred Poultry with St Mary Colechurch, London, England, United Kingdom FatherEdwad. Dawkes

Sources

1. ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, page 221
2. ↑ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Virginia_Immigrants_and_Adventurers_1607/orDbMGpInaQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=dawkes
3. ↑ Citation: "Source Publication Code: 9025; Annotation: Entries located in the Introduction are indicated in this index by the code I. Source Information: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. Source Bibliography:"
   • STEWART, ROBERT ARMISTEAD. "Ancient Planters [1607]." In Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, by Nell Marion Nugent. Richmond, Va.: Dietz Printing Co., 1934, vol. 1, pp. xxvi-xxxiv (Introduction). Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1963. (page 28)
4. ↑ Richard De Leigh Family, citing History of Perquimans County by Ellen Goode Rawlings Winslow. Published 1931.

• Martha W. McCartney, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary published 2007, Genealogical Publishing Com. (Google Booksne, accessed 8 September 2018)

• Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume 1, page 221 ([1].

• Ancient Planters, listed by the Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (accessed 8 September 2018)

• Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, Jamestowne Ancestors, 1607-1699: Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the Landing at James Towne, 1607-2007 (Google Books, accessed 8 September 2018)