OTWELL FAMILY HISTORY, MICHIGAN

  DID THOMAS OTTOWELL PURCHASE A SECOND WIFE? If you can find a complete copy of the below mentioned article, it is well worth the read! It can be found online, but only through a site where you must pay a membership fee (or find a library that has a subscription) so that you may print out and read the whole article. I have a copy of the article, but it won't allow me to reproduce it here. For some reason it just won't go through. I can print it out, but even if I try and scan and post the pages to this blog, it won't allow it. Not sure how that works. The First American Boom: Virginia 1618 – 1630 Author: Edmund S. Morgan Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, April 1971 Volume: 28, No. 2, Pages 169 – 198 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Another good source of some information – although it is very brief and lacks detail – is the article at: https://thehistoryjunkie.com/jamestown-colony-facts/ Jamestown Colony Facts: Econ...

HOW DID THOMAS OTTOWELL GET TO YORK COUNTY, VA? There is information out there that says the Thomas Ottowell owned land (his own plantation) in the area of Chisman Creek, Va. He also died in that area and was buried there. Let's see how this may have happened. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/cheesman-john-ca-1598-by-1665/#chron10 John Cheesman (ca. 1598–by 1665) Contributor:  Julie Richter Contributor:  the Dictionary of Virginia Biography  “ He became a merchant and probably established connections with other merchants before he traveled to Virginia in 1621 aboard the  Flyinge Hart .  " “ He engaged in commerce between Virginia and England during the 1620s and moved to Charles River County (after 1643 York County) soon after that part of the colony was opened to settlement in 1630. Cheesman acquired more than 1,000 acres of land and lived on a 600-acre tract on what became known as Chisman Creek. He may have used his connections to other me...

THOMAS OTTOWELL: JUST WHEN DID HE ARRIVE IN JAMESTOWN? WE MAY NEVER KNOW, AND HERE'S WHY... Jamestown artwork showing the original triangular James Fort, and the “New Towne” called James Cittie that was later built outside of the fort, as more settlers came to the colony. There is a LOT of misinformation online about when Thomas Ottowell arrived in Jamestown. In different posts it ranges from 1618 to 1623. The problem is, that NO ONE knows when Thomas Ottowell arrived in Jamestown, and HE may not have known when he arrived in Jamestown.  Following is some information from a very informative research paper done in 1980. You can find it at jstor.org.  Unless you get a subscription, or you have a local library or university/college that has a subscription to this place, you cannot see the whole article, but I was able to get my hands on it anyway.  This information is from the original article: Early Passengers to Virginia: When Did They Really Arrive ? By: Av...

  WHO NAMED AND BUILT THE OTWELL HOUSE IN OXFORD, MARYLAND? There is some helpful information in the following source... “ MARYLANDS COLONIAL EASTER SHORE: HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF COUNTIES AND OF SOME NOTABLE STRUCTURES” By: Swepson Earle and Percy G. Skirven Printed in 1916 https://ia902600.us.archive.org/24/items/marylandscolonia00earlrich/marylandscolonia00earlrich.pdf Continuation of information about the OTWELL HOUSE text from page 41... There is another image of this house taken in 1936, at the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/hhh.md0756.photos.084835p/ The house looks in good shape, and there is a dog standing in the front yard, so it appears to be lived in at the time of this image. Here is an image from 1936 of the other side of the house. As you can see there was a large porch on it. Below is the Otwell House today, restored. Where the large porch was in the above image, now seems to be the front door of the current restored house. At Wi...

" OVER THE RIVER FROM JAMESTOWN [JAMES CITTY ]" The land across the James River is where there were many plantations. This post is showing information from the below mentioned EBook that has insight into life "over the river". It helps to understand what life would have been like for Thomas Ottowell during his indentured servant days. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624, by Charles E. Hatch From: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30780/30780-h/30780-h.htm#PLANT Plantations "Over the river from Jamestown"  (33) Early in 1609 "We built also a fort for a retreat, near a convenient river, upon a high commanding hill, very hard to be assaulted, and easie to be defended: but ere it was halfe finished, this defect caused a stay," it is recorded in  The Proceedings of the English Colonies in Virginia  (1612). This was envisioned as a place of refuge in the event that enemy attack would force an evacuation of Ja...