Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Rookings 
, 9G Grandfather, R252, 1134, M
, 9G Grandfather, R252, 1134, MBirthbef 1620
FlagsLived in US, Look in VA
Misc. Notes
The original settlement at Jamestown was established on 13 May 1607 by the Virginia Company under charter from King James I of England. It was 60 miles from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on the James River. History tells us that of the 7289 people who migrated to Virginia between 1609 and 1624, 6030 of those died of disease, starvation or infections acqui4red onboard ships in passage. Until the 1660's, only 20% of the arrivals in a given year survived. The majority of the immigrants were indentured servants. They were free persons, but poor, who voluntarily contracted their services for a period of time in return for passage, food, and clothing, with the promise of tools and seed at the end of the indenture. The first representative assembly in the New World convened in a Jamestown church on 30 July 1619. Another crucial event was the arrival of Africans to Jamestown. A Dutch slave trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to the whites. The racial-based slave system did not develop until the 1680's.
On the opposite side of Chippokes Creek in Surry County, VA was "Flying Point," the Rookings Plantation. At least three or four generations of William Rookings lived at Flying Point from 1636. William Rookings I, who patented the land died around 1646, leaving the place to his son, William Rookings II, who played a significant role in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. He was the leader of the rebels who fortified the house of Arthur Allen, which became known as "Bacon's Castle". Like Bacon, William Rookings II died before he could be executed by the triumphant followers of Governor William Berkley. William's brother-in-law, Nicholas Wyatt, petitioned the Surry County Court to restore "Flying Point" to his children. William Rookings III succeeded in inheriting the property and died about 1715. His son, William Rookings IV lived until about 1750. William III was probably the father of Margaret.
-Research of John C. Baird, etal, 6685 Player Drive, Olive Branch, De Soto County, Mississippi, 38654-8255, 13 February 1999.
On the opposite side of Chippokes Creek in Surry County, VA was "Flying Point," the Rookings Plantation. At least three or four generations of William Rookings lived at Flying Point from 1636. William Rookings I, who patented the land died around 1646, leaving the place to his son, William Rookings II, who played a significant role in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. He was the leader of the rebels who fortified the house of Arthur Allen, which became known as "Bacon's Castle". Like Bacon, William Rookings II died before he could be executed by the triumphant followers of Governor William Berkley. William's brother-in-law, Nicholas Wyatt, petitioned the Surry County Court to restore "Flying Point" to his children. William Rookings III succeeded in inheriting the property and died about 1715. His son, William Rookings IV lived until about 1750. William III was probably the father of Margaret.
-Research of John C. Baird, etal, 6685 Player Drive, Olive Branch, De Soto County, Mississippi, 38654-8255, 13 February 1999.