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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18528509
Lieutenant Colonel Steveprutz/maryland/fleet | |
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| Born | c. 1602[1] Kent, Kingdom of England |
| Died | 1661 (aged 58–59) Fleet's Island, Lancaster County, Colony of Virginia |
| Other names | Fleet, Fleets[2] |
| Occupation(s) | Trader, interpreter, politician |
| Spouse | Sarah Stone |
| Children | Henry Fleet II |
Henry Fleete (or Fleet) was an early English trader in the Virginia colony and Maryland. He was a Burgess representative for the Virginia Colony, and interacted with William Claiborne during the time of conflict between Protestant Virginians and Catholic Maryland leadership. During a trading expedition with Henry Spelman of Jamestown, he was abducted and held captive by the Anacostan people for almost five years.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Family and early life
editFleete was the son of William Fleete of Chatham, Kent, and Debora Scott Fleete.[3][4] He was a great-grandson of Thomas Wyatt the Younger.[citation needed] Henry had brothers named Edward, John, and Reynold.[5]
In the New World
editHenry Fleete emigrated to Jamestown, Virginia in 1621 with incoming John Harvey (Virginia governor).[6]
During a trading expedition with Henry Spelman of Jamestown, Fleete was abducted and held captive by the Anacostan people for almost five years.[7] He was 24 years old at the time of his capture.[8] Henry was ransomed to the government of Virginia in c. 1626.[9] Fleete returned to England to tell others of his abduction, but soon voyaged back to Virginia and set up a lucrative beaver fur trading with natives. Fleete's first property, West St. Mary's Manor still stands in present day.
Fleete settled at "St. George's Hundred" on land granted to him.
In 1631, he was put on trial for tax evasion, but let free.[10]
In 1634, "Captain Henry Fleete, gentleman" sailed with Leonard Calvert's colonists to act as a guide for the natives in Virginia and Maryland.[11][12] While most of the settlers were Roman Catholic, Fleete was listed as a Protestant.[citation needed] With Governor L. Calvert, Fleete negotiated with the Piscataway and Yoacomaco to setup a colony in St. Mary's City, Maryland in trade for armed protection for the natives' enemies.[13]
In 1635, "Fleete's Hill" trading post was established near Petersburg, Virginia.[14]
Henry Fleete is credited for capturing infamous Opechancanough with Virginian forces in 1646.[15]
Fleete died in Lancaster County on a plantation property. Fleete's namesake island and Fleets Bay [sic] both like north of the mouth of the Rappahannock River.[16] His descendents go by the surname "Fleet".[17]
Whatlinkshere
editNotes
edit- ^ https://fleetsislandfoundation.org/
- ^ Neill, Edward Duffield. The Founders of Maryland as Portrayed in Manuscripts, Provinical Records and Early Documents. United States, Joel Munsell, 1876.
- ^ Virginia Gleanings in England (Continued). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 28, no. 4, 1920, pp. 340–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243787. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
- ^ https://socarkdove.org/adventurer
- ^ Neill, Edward Duffield. The Founders of Maryland as Portrayed in Manuscripts, Provinical Records and Early Documents. United States, Joel Munsell, 1876.
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-henry-fleete-1600-1660-a-vi/23753950/
- ^ https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=24638
- ^ Pendergast, James F. The Massawomeck: Raiders and Traders Into the Chesapeake Bay in the Seventeenth Century. United States, American Philosophical Society, 1991.
- ^ https://mdroots.thinkport.org/library/henryfleet.asp
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-henry-fleete-1600-1660-a-vi/23753950/
- ^ https://socarkdove.org/adventurer
- ^ Hall, Clayton Colman. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. United States, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
- ^ Hall, Clayton Colman. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. United States, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-henry-fleete-1600-1660-a-vi/23753950/
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-henry-fleete-1600-1660-a-vi/23753950/
- ^ https://store.usgs.gov/assets/MOD/StoreFiles/DenverPDFs/24K/VA/VA_Fleets_Bay_1992_geo.pdf
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-henry-fleete-1600-1660-a-vi/23753950/
Further reading
edit- Fleet, Betsy. Henry Fleete: Pioneer, Explorer, Trader, Planter, Legislator, Justice & Peacemaker. United States, Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, 1989.
- Fleet, Henry. A Brief Journal of a Voyage Made in the Bark Warwick to Virginia and Other Parts of the Continent of America. 1631.
[[Category:People from colonial Virginia]] [[Category:Interpreters]] [[Category:English emigrants]] [[Category:People from Kent]] [[Category:English soldiers]]