Person:Walter Chiles (3)

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Walter was a ship owner and sea captain between 1640 and 1660 inVirginia. He resided in the "Kemp House" at Jamestown. It was the first brick house in America. It was first erected by Richard Kemp, Sir William Berkely and by him sold to Chiles, who added thirty feet to it. (Wm. and Mary Quarterly and Cradle of the Republic)

He served in the House of Burgesses in 1645, 46, 49, 52, 53 in Virginia, also elected speaker between 1658 and 1660, and 1663. (Hennings Statutes, 1, 1322-338).

He served on a jury in Oct 1670 in James City, Virginia.

He was present at the Council held in Jame sCity, Sept. 29, 165. (Northcumberland Records, and Va., Hist., mag., vol 8, 107)

In 1660-61 he was appointed Councillor to act with Sir William Berkely and others during recess of the Assembly. (Hennings Statutes, II, 811)

Acquired by grant land bordering on the James River in 1655 and 1661. (Land Office)

April 4, 1671 he appeared on behalf of his sons John and Henry, relative to 1500 acres of land in Westmoreland Co., VA. Nov 23, 1671 he is mentioned in a suit, as Church Warden of Jamestown Parish. (Meades old Churches)

On his death his second wife Susannah received a grant of "200 acres in Jame sCity Co., and etc. Held the title Colonel.

When his ship "The Fame of Virginia" was returning from Rotterdam in 1652, whence she had sailed January 24, 1651, upon reaching Chesapeak Bay, she first put into port in Accomac Co., after being for a time in Accomac waters, the ship sailed from thence bound for James City, Virginia, but was pursued and captured by Capt. Robert Henfiled who held a commission from the "Protectors of the Liberties of England" (Cromwell); three hours after which, in Hungers Road, Eastern Shore, the ship "Hopeful Adventure" capt, Richard Husband, came up and made seizure under pretext that Chiles had no license from Parliment and was bound worthwith a cargo for Brazil. Col. Chiles immediately applied to the Northhampton authorities for assistance maintaining that the serzure was "Contrarie to ye peace of this contrye and also contry to ye damage of ye pet towe thousand pounds Sterling." (Northhampton Record). The ship was ordered released but Capt. Husband sailed away with the vessel, "to ye great indignation of ye commissioners thereof." (William and Mary Quarterly, i, 152-53) It was rumored that the country would be called upon by the commissioners to pay large sums of money to Walter Chiles. Some of the inhabitents met i Hacke's "old field" where Stephen Horsey called the commissioners a company of "asses and villyans." (William and Mary Quarterly, I, 75-7) The ensuing controversy finally concluded March 16, 1658 by reversal of the orders. (Henning, I, 380)

Came to Virginia as a young man with his father, was the eldest son.

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The first mention of Walter is in the records of the High Court of Admiralty Examinations, Ms. Vol. 53, 1637-1638, London, England.Walter was a witness in a case between Phillipp Luxon and others v.William Harris and Nicholas Jollye dated 24 July 1637. The Captain of the Blessing, Phillipp Luxon, was accused of drinking some of thewhiskey cargo on the voyage to VA.

(High Court of Admiralty Examinations, 1637-1638, Ms. Vol. 53. London,England) Witness: Walter Childes (signs Chiles) of Bristol, cloth worker, aged 29. That he was a passenger on the "Blessing" of Falmouth, and was employed by the defendants to assist Henry Tutton, the purser, to help him sell their goods in Virginia.

Witness kept the key of one case containing twelve bottles of strongwater belonging to the defendants, stowed in the gun room. He went ashore in Virginia and on his return perceived that the case had been opened, and six bottles taken out, each containing three quarts;shortly after another was taken. That such waters cost in Bristol 6(cents) a gallon, and in Virginia each gallon would yield twenty or twenty-five pounds of tobacco, at which rate the remaining bottles were trucked away.

That at the time the ship left Virginia for London: Virginia tobacco was commonly sold in London at 6 (cents) per lb., the buyer paying the customs and other petty charges. At Virginia six and a half gallons of aquavit were drawn by the master and company, worth in England 3(cents) per gallon, and in Virginia twelve pounds of tobacco.

That at Virginia there was missing, four pounds of pepper worth six pounds of tobacco, two pounds of cloves, mace, nutmeg and cinnamon,worth sixty pounds of tobacco. Hoes and axes worth ten pounds oftobacco each; thirty pounds of raisons of the sun and currants, worthevery pound, two pounds of tobacco; one pound of prunes worth one pound of tobacco; one pound of ginger worth five pounds of tobacco. A gallon of sack worth ten pounds of tobacco.

That witness has seen the plaintiff and his boy go to the hold to drawsack.

At Virginia the plaintiff put a lock on the cabin door and would not allow the planters from the country, who came down to truck tobacco,to come therein to be entertained, as is the use in other ships, which made divers of the planters, as they afterwards told witness, refuse to trade with the ship, whereby the defendants sustained losses to the value of 50 (pounds) at least.

That the ship was at Virginia for fourteen weeks during which period the following victuals were bought, ___two oxen, four hogs, eleven hundred weight of Newfoundland fish, eleven or twelve thousand poundsof bread, as much Virginia corn as cost in tobacco at 6 (cents) perlb., 5 (pounds), on kilderkin of butter, five hogsheads of beer andone of vinegar. There were besides the provisions brought from England, so that he doth not believe the company were constrained to beg victuals for the preservation of their lives.

That the grocery-wares, wines, apparel, etc, sold at Virginia were worth thirteen or fourteen thousand pounds of tobacco. That the company consisted of fourteen, besides two or three passengers. James Sherland was master's mate, John Marten, boatswain and Phillip Callow,steward.

That homeward bound some tobacco was damaged with wet owing to neglectand want of pumping.

Walter II served as a member of the Assembly from James City Co., in1645, 1646, and 1649. He served as a burgess in the Assembly in 1653,1658, 1659 and 1660.

In Nov. 1655, Walter II sold the 813 acres in Charles City Co. owned by his father. (Virginia Colonial Abstracts, by Beverly Fleet, Vol.10, p. 24)

Court records indicate that many men were financially indebted to Walter II.

Walter served as churchwarden of James City Parish. (Old VirginiaChurches and Families of Virginia, by bishop Meade).

In 1664, Walter II served as a justice of James city County. (VirginiaColonial Abstracts, by Fleet, Vol. 12, p. 103).

On May 20, 1670, Walter II obtained the land known as "Black Poynt"which was due him from his father as heir. (Cavaliers and Pioneers,by Nugent, Vol. 2, p. 112). "Black Poynt" is the first point viewed from the James River as the Island of Jamestown is approached.

By 1671, Walter II had increased the size of the "Kemp House" he had inherited from his father. (Jamestown Archeological Excavation by Formand and Day). Walter also purchased another house in Jamestown from Edward Hill of Charles City County. (Va Colonial Abstracts, byDuvall, Vol. 4, p. 4).

On Oct. 27, 1670, Walter served on a jury concerning a land dispute in James City County. (Foreign Business and Inquisitions, 1665-1676, MSSDivision of Library of Congress).

On Apr. 4, 1671, the council Journal records the appearance of WalterII on behalf of his sons, John and Henry Chiles, concerning 1500 acresin Westmoreland County. (Minutes of the Council and General Court ofVA, by McIlwaine, p. 245).

After the death of Walter II, Susannah sold the "Kemp House" to John Page, on Nov. 20, 1673 for seven thousand pounds of tobacco. (Ambler Manuscript #24, Library of Congress). Walter appears to have diedbetween 15 Nov 1671 and 15 May 1672. The deed from Susannah names thewill date of 15 Nov. 1671 and on 15 May 1672, Susannah was addressedas executrix of Walter Chiles. (Walter Chiles of Jamestown, by Eakin,p. 20). The sale of "Kemp House" to {age appears to have been a request of Chiles will or a sale to a family member. I would seem unlikely that Susannah would sell such a fine house for a mere sum ofseven thousand pounds of tobacco to someone not close to the family.

Birth: 1631 in Middlesex, England Death: 15 NOV 1671 in Jamestown, James Citty, VA

Father: Walter CHILES b: 20 MAR 1608 in St. Mary Redcliff Parish, Bristol, Somerset, England Mother: Elizabeth SANDERS b: 1602 in Middlesex, England

Marriage 1 Susanna BROOKS b: ABT 1630

Married: ABT 1647 in Jamestown, VA

Children

1. Henry CHILES b: 1661 in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent county, VA

Marriage 2 Mary PAGE b: 25 JUN 1648 in Lamborne, Berkshire, England

Married:

Children

1. Elizabeth CHILES b: 1663 2. John CHILES b: 1666 in James City, VA

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The Smithsons and Relatives by G. Eugene Smithson PO Box 694 - 1813 5th St. N. W. - Hickory, North Carolina 28601: Walter lived in James Town Virginia in the famous Kemp House. Probably the first brick house built in America, which was inherited from his father. He was the Church Warden of James Town Parish. He owned ships, probably inherited from his father, traded with Holland, England, and Brazil. He was a member of house of Burgess 1658, 59, 60, & 63. He was Speaker of the House of Burgess 1658-60 & 63. He was a member of His Majesties Council. In 1660-61 was appointed with Sir William Berkley and others to act during recess of the Assembly. He appeared in behalf of his sons, John and Henry relative to 15,500 acres of land in Westmoreland Co., Virginia on 4 April 1671.: !He came to America in his own ship, in 1637, with his wife Elizabeth and sons, William and Walter and four other persons. For this he received 400 acres of land. Later the same year he received an additional grant of 250 acres of land on the Appomattox River. In 1649 he was granted 813 acres of land on the Southerly side of the Appomattox River, in Charles City Co., Virginia. Walter was a member of the house of Burgess 1642-1643-1651, he was also a member of the House of Burgess the year before his death when he was elected Speaker, which was declined because of business responsibilities.:

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The author of this site, William B. Snavely of Oxford, Ohio, is a 13th generation decendent of Left. Col. WalterChiles, born in England, who emigrated to Jamestown prior to 1638. He sailed to Virginia in his own ship with his wife Elizabeth, sons William and Walter, and four other persons: Henry Fulton, John Shaw, John Govey, and Sarah Cole.

For these emigrants he was awarded 400 acres in Charles City County, now Prince George, Virginia, near the falls of the Appomattox River. The stipulation was as follows: 50 acres being due for his own adventure, 50 for his wife Elizabeth, 50 for son William, 50 for son Walter, and 200 for the transportation of four other persons to the colony.

On May 2, 1638, he received a further grant of 250 acres on the Appomattox River (land book 551 and 625). This grant was described as westerly from ye river and easterly, upon the land of Edward Tunstall. He received 50 acres for his own personal adventure and 200 for the transportation of four other persons: William Webb, Stephan Corris, John Kimberlin, and Ann Polory.

He later received other grants - 613 acres in Charles City County, March 1638 (L.O.I., 859) and others.

In 1641 he was granted a charter to undertake to discover a new river, or unknown land, bearing West, southerly from the Appomattox River, and given the privilege of trading with the Indians there found for the period of 14 years.

Colonel Walter Chiles reportedly built the first brick house in the New World in Jamestown (Kemp House) which was later willed to his son Walter.

He served in the House of Burgesses and represented James City in council, elected Speaker 1652.

Walter Chiles was the son of William Childes and his wife, Margaret Payne, who lived in Wrington Parish, Somerset, England. Walter's father, William, had been born ca. 1520. The parents were married in Wrington Parish on 8 December 1565. William died there in November, 1616. The parish record contained the note, "he was almost 100 years old." Margaret also died in Wrington Parish, and was buried on 9 October 1625.

Walter was baptized in the same parish on 1 May 1572. On 28 September 1592 in Bristol, England, he was apprenticed to Francis Knight, a dealer in textiles. The term was for eight years, and Walter was "to be instructed in the art, occupation craft or mystery that the statutes require."

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Lieut. Col. Walter Chiles

Lyon G. Tyler

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol, 1,

No. 2 (Oct., 1892), pp. 75-78.

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LIEUT. COL. WALTER CHILES.

BY THE EDITOR.

He was perhaps the "Walter Chiles, merchant," who was granted 1st of March, 1638, 400 acres in Charles City county (in that portion known afterwards as Prince George), near the falls of the Appomattox River, "50 acres being due to him for his own personal adventure; 50 acres for his wife, Elizabeth; 50 acres for his son William, and 50 acres for his son Walter, and 200 acres for the transportation" to the colony of four other persons. A second grant was made to him of 250 acres, due "for his own personal adventure" and the transportation of four persons, 2d May, 1638.(1)

Walter Chiles, the merchant, was perhaps the burgess from Charles City in 1642-43, and at the session he was appointed with Walter Austin, Rice Hooe, and Joseph Johnson and "such others as they shall think fit to joyn them" to undertake the dis- covery of "a new river or unknowne land, bearing west southerly from Appomattocke River." (2)

In November, 1645, Walter Chiles represented James City county in the House of Burgesses. (3) He was a representative _____________

(1) Land Office. (2) Hening Stats., 1, 239.262. (3) Hen. Stats., 1, p. 299.

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again in 1645-46, and in 1649. (1) In the Northampton records 15th June, 1652, it is stated that Walter Chiles sailed from Rotterdam in his own ship, "The Fame of Virginia." After being for a time in Accomac waters the ship sailed for James City, and was pursued and captured by Capt. Robert Henfield, who held a commission from the "Protectors of the Liberties of Eng- land;" three hours after which in Hungar's Road, Eastern shore, the ship "Hopeful Adventure," Capt. Richard Husband, came up and made seizure under pretext that Chiles had no license. The Court of Northampton ordered a release. Thereupon, Richard Husband and his prize sailed away, to the great indignation of the commissioners thereof. It being rumored that the County would be called upon by the commissioners to pay a large sum of money to Walter Chiles, some of the inhabitants met in Dr. Hacke's "old field," where Stephen Horsey called the commissioners a company of "asses and villyans."

At the Assembly which convened July 5,1652, Gov. Bennet sent a note to the House of Burgesses in which, after protesting that he did not intend 'to intrench upon the right of Assemblies in the free choice of a Speaker, nor to undervalue Lefft. Col. Chiles," advised(2) "that it was not so proper nor so convenient at this time to make choice of him, for that there is something to be agitated in this Assembly concerning a shipp lately arrived, in which Lefft. Coll. Chiles hath some interest.

The Burgesses, however, did not seem inclined to take the advice of their Governor, for the record states that "Left. Col. Walter Chiles" was chosen, next day, by a plurality of votes, Speaker of the Assembly, It is, however, to the honor of Col. Chiles, that he at once declined the election, having represented(3) "to the house his extraordinarie occasions in regarding to the dispatch of some shipping now in the country in which he is ______________________

(1) Ibid, 322, 358. (2) Ibid, 377. (3) Ibid, 378.

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much interested." At the same session, Chiles was allowed to have the ship "Leopoldus" for L400 sterling, said ship having been confiscated for violation of the navigation laws.

On July 26, 1653, the Court of Northampton, according to an order of the late Assembly, (determined upon despite a petition of part of the inhabitants of the county, representing that the rumors of their disloyalty to parliament was false, and their complaint was against the taxes laid, on account of Capt. Chiles' ship) declared "all the subscribers of that writing called a protest incapable of holding office."

In 1671, under date of April 4th, Walter Chiles appeared in behalf of his sons, John and Henry, relative to 1,500 acres of land in Westmoreland county. According to the notes of Dr. E. D. Neill, Walter Chiles was the son-in-law of Col. John Page(1) and probably, had married his daughter Mary.(2) The Ludwell MSS. (in Va. Historical Society) show that he was dead before May 15, 1672, when his widow, Susannah, received a grant for 200 acres in James City County, in Passbehayes for 99 years on account of buildings and improvements on the Main there, according to an order of the General Court of June 7, 1638, for strengthening the Main on this side Powhatan Swamp by leasing it out in parcels. In Sept., 1693, the same year, John Chiles was appointed messenger to the Council (Council Journal MS).

On June the 25th, 1683, judgment was entered in York Court in favor of "Mr. Henry Tyler as marrying Elizabeth Chiles against Maj. Otho Thorpe for the payment of twenty-one pounds sterling, with costs of suit als execucon."

Col. Page in his will dated March 5, 1686-87, and recorded February 24, 1691-92, speaks(3) of his grandson. John ____________________

(1) Neill's "Va. Carolorum," p. 232. (2) See note on John Page to "the Digges family," next issue of Quarterly. (3) Letters and Times of the Tylers, 1, p. 49.

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Chiles, and his "grandsonne John Tyler." sonne of my grand-daughter, Elizabeth Tyler" At a county court held for York County, June 24, 1707, John Tyler, who describes himself "as son of Mr. Henry Tyler of York County and grandson of Col. John Page, formerly of ye sd county dec'd," came into court and acknowledged a receipt(1) from John Page, of ye county of Gloucester, of L50 sterling "for a legacie left me (the said Henry Tyler) by the last will and testament of ye said Coll. John Page, dec'd." Under the will of Col. Page, John Tyler(2) received land in the forks of the swamp Powhatan, in James City county where, until a few years ago, there stood a modest brick building, which was built by him.

Col. John Page left a ring of twenty shillings to his "grandson, John Chiles." In St. Peters Parish Register, New Kent county, are the entries of the baptism between 1699 and 1706 of Henry, Walter and James, children of Henry Chiles, Gent. Hanover county ws taken from New Kent in ------; and 6 Sept. 1735, Henry Chiles sold lands on Southern Branch, Hanover county. Louisa county was taken from Hanover and in 1772 James Chiles and Elizabeth, his wife, were living there. By his will proved 10 Oct., 1774, John Chiles left his estate to his neices Olive Edwards, daughter of Joseph Martin and Susannah his wife and to Mary, daughter of John Wright and Jane, his wife. __________________

(1) Ibid. Note 1, p. 49. (2) This John Tyler was great-grandfather of President John Tyler. -- See "Letters and Times of the Tylers."