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Cokie Roberts

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Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

    Raleigh Croshaw

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    • 10th Great-grandfather of Cokie Roberts — 13th Generation
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    • Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestor

      Jamestowne (Second Supply September 1608)

      Member of the London and Virginia Companies

      About 1623 a patent was issued to Raleigh Croshaw "for 500 acres near Old Point Comfort, due for his personal adventure and transportation out of England of his servant and his wife, who came in the Bona Nova in 1620 and £25 adventured." If this reference to a wife is Raleigh Croshaw's rather than his servant's, he must have been married twice as his time in Virginia covers the birth of his son Joseph.

      According to a letter from Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar dated 18 SEP 1620, he states that the ship Bona Nova set sail on 07 SEP 1620. This is shortly after the Mayflower set sail from Southampton. Aboard the Bona Nova were young women sent by the Virginia Company to be brides for the bachelor colonists. The men paid their bride's passage in tobacco. If the earlier reference to a wife was his, it would appear that she was one of these "mail order" brides.

      There is no evidence to support the claims that Raleigh Croshaw had wives named Unity Powhatan or Ursula Daniels.

      Raleigh Croshaw's given name is also seen as Rawleigh, and his surname as Chroshaw or Crashaw.

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  • Sources for Raleigh Croshaw

    • 2 Jamestowne Society, Qualifying Ancestors, A2008, Record for Raleigh Croshaw, (accessed 03/28/2020).
    • 3 Smith, John, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles . . ., London: Printed by I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Edward Blackmore (1632), 72.

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