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Personal data Sea Capt. Christopher Edward Newport Admiral of Virginia. 

• He was born about December 1561 in Limehouse, a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. It is 3.9 miles (6.3 km) east of Charing Cross, on the northern bank of the River Thames, Greater London, England.Sources 2, 7, 21
• He was baptized on June 30, 1677 in Shrivenham, Berkshire, England.Sources 15, 21
• Resident:
• in the year 1607: Virginia, Virginia Colony, VA.Source 5
• Stepney, Middlesex, England.Source 22
• Stepney, Middlesex, England.Source 21
• (Arrival) in the year 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.Source 11
• He died about August 16, 1617 in Died on ship "GOOD HOPE" Bantan, Java, Indonesia buried at sea.Sources 2, 7, 9, 12, 19, 21
• He is buried in Buried at Sea.
• A child of John Newport and Dorothy (Jane) Newport (Hatton)
• A child of Anastacia Bowditch
• This information was last updated on July 19, 2023.

Household of Sea Capt. Christopher Edward Newport Admiral of Virginia.

(1) He is married to Sarah Newport.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. William Henry Newport  1819-????

(2) He is married to Katherine Newport (Proctor).

They got married on October 19, 1584 at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Middlesex, England.Source 23

Child(ren):

1. Mary ·ÄòMolly·Äô Bragg (Newport)  1585-1662 

(3) He is married to Elizabeth Glanfeild.

They got married on October 1, 1595 at Stepney, Middlesex, England.Sources 17, 22

(4) He is married to Elizabeth Newport Glanfield.

They got married on October 1, 1595 at England.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Marian Mary Newporte Hatcher Newport  ± 1615-> 1655 
2. Jane Newport  1825-????

• The couple has common ancestors.



Child(ren):

1. Glanfielde Newport  1590-1596
2. Jane Newport  1825-????
3. Joseph Newporte  1599-????




Notes about Sea Capt. Christopher Edward Newport Admiral of Virginia.



Sea Capt. Christopher Edward Newport
Gender:
Male
Birth:
December 1561
Harwich, Essex, England
Death:
August 16, 1617 (55)
Bantam, Java (Died at sea)
Place of Burial:
Buried at Sea

Immediate Family:
Son of John Newport of Harringham, Warwickshire and Dorothy Newport (Hatton)

Husband of Katherine Newport (Proctor);
Ellen Ade or Heath
and Elizabeth Newport (Glanfield)

Father of Mary ·ÄòMolly·Äô Bragg (Newport); Christopher Newport, III; Elizabeth Newport; John (Joseph) Newport and Marian Hatcher (Newport)

Brother of Sir William Newport, later Hatton

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Admiral & Captain Christopher Newport
Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestor # A5711
Find A Grave Memorial # 71450407
'===Curator Note:
Capt. Christopher Newport was married three times, to Katherine Proctor, Ellen Ade and Elizabeth Glanfield. He had four children -- Christopher, Jane, John and Elizabeth. Two additional daughters are hotly disputed - Molly and Marian. See notes on their profiles. [Source for the four known children: Capt. Christopher Newport, Admiral of Virginia·Äô·Äù by A. Bryant Nichols Jr., Copyright 2007. ISBN: 9780615140018] -- Maria Edmonds-Zediker, Curator, 22 May 2011.

Admiral of Virginia, Newport led the fleet of colonists who established the first permanent English settlement in the New World. He chose the site for Jamestown, led the initial exploration for King James, and negotiated peacefully with Chief Powhatan's Indian tribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Newport

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Christopher Newport (1561·Äìafter August 15, 1617)
Christopher Newport was an English privateer, ship captain, and adventurer who helped to establish the first permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown in 1607. Born the son of a shipmaster on the east coast of England, he worked in the commercial shipping trade and, beginning in 1585, as a privateer, or sanctioned pirate, in the war between England and Spain. His assistance in the capture of the Spanish ship Madre de Dios in 1592 won him such wealth and prestige that in 1606 the Virginia Company of London appointed him leader of the voyage to the newly chartered colony. In the first few months, he played a key role in negotiating between Virginia's often-fractious leaders. He also sailed between the colony and England, carrying news and delivering precious supplies. In 1608, he participated in an unsuccessful "coronation" of the Indian chief Powhatan, who refused to submit himself to the English. In 1609, as captain of the Sea Venture, Newport was shipwrecked off the islands of Bermuda, arriving in Virginia the next spring. Newport left the Virginia Company's employment in 1612 and entered the service of the East India Company. He died in Banten (Bantam), Java, sometime after August 15, 1617.
Time Line:
December 29, 1561 - Christopher Newport is christened at Harwich, England. He is the son of Christopher Newport, a shipmaster.
1580 - Christopher Newport jumps ship at Bahia, Brazil, while serving on the Minion of London.
October 19, 1584 - Christopher Newport marries Katherine Proctor.
1587 - Christopher Newport serves as a privateer against the Spanish for English merchants. He is a master's mate on John Watts's ship the Drake during an attack on the Spanish port city of C√°diz.
1589 - Christopher Newport is the master of the ship the Margaret, of London, the property of merchant Robert Cobb and others.
1590 - Christopher Newport marries Ellen Ade after his first wife, Katherine Proctor Newport, dies.
1591 - Christopher Newport, again sailing for John Watts, is promoted to captain of the Little John. He makes his first privateering trip to the Caribbean and loses his right arm while engaging two Spanish treasure ships off Cuba. He also takes part in the Barbary Coast trade.
1592·Äì1595 - Christopher Newport is made captain of the Golden Dragon, owned by John Moore, and sails in the West Indies.
1592 - Christopher Newport commands a flotilla of privateers and attacks Spanish towns in the Caribbean. Near the Azores, he helps to capture the very rich Spanish ship Madre de Dios and sails it back to England.
1595 - Christopher Newport marries Elizabeth Glanville, a London goldsmith's daughter. Soon after, he partners with her brothers and others as one-sixth owner of the heavily armed ship the Neptune.
1595·Äì1603 - As captain of the ship the Neptune, Christopher Newport raids Spanish towns in the Caribbean.
1604 - Christopher Newport's privateering career ends when a peace agreement is signed between England and Spain.
1604·Äì1605 - Christopher Newport leads trading voyages in the Caribbean.
1606 - Christopher Newport receives a post as a master of the Royal Navy. The Virginia Company of London gives him command of its first fleet to sail to Virginia.
December 20, 1606 - Three ships carrying 104 settlers sail from London bound for Virginia. Christopher Newport captains the Susan Constant, Bartholomew Gosnold the Godspeed, and John Ratcliffe the Discovery.
April 26, 1607 - Jamestown colonists first drop anchor in the Chesapeake Bay, and after a brief skirmish with local Indians, begin to explore the James River.
May 21·Äì27, 1607 - Captain Christopher Newport, Captain John Smith, George Percy, and others explore the James River, making mostly friendly contact with the Kecoughtans, the Paspaheghs, the Quiyoughcohannocks, and the Appamattucks.
May 26, 1607 - While Christopher Newport and a party of colonists explore the James River, an alliance of five Algonquian-speaking Indian groups·Äîthe Quiyoughcohannocks, the Weyanocks, the Appamattucks, the Paspaheghs, and the Chiskiacks·Äîattacks Jamestown, wounding ten and killing two.
June 22, 1607 - Christopher Newport departs from Jamestown for England, carrying a letter to the Virginia Company of London that exaggerates the Virginia colony's commercial possibilities.
August 12, 1607 - Christopher Newport arrives in London.
January 2, 1608 - John Smith returns to Jamestown after being held captive by Powhatan. Only thirty-eight colonists survive, Smith's seat on the Council is occupied by Gabriel Archer, and the Council accuses Smith of killing his companions. Smith is sentenced to hang, but the charge is dropped when Christopher Newport arrives with the first supplies from England.
February 1608 - Christopher Newport and John Smith visit Powhatan, the paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, at his capital, Werowocomoco. Powhatan feeds them and their party lavishly, and Newport presents the chief with a suit of clothing, a hat, and a greyhound. The English continue upriver to visit Opechancanough at the latter's request.
April 10, 1608 - Aboard the John and Francis, Christopher Newport leaves Jamestown for England. Among those with him are Gabriel Archer, Edward Maria Wingfield, and the Indian Namontack.
May 21, 1608 - Christopher Newport arrives at Blackwell, England, having sailed from Virginia.
September 1608 - Christopher Newport returns from England with a plan to improve relations with Virginia Indians by bestowing on Powhatan various gifts and formally presenting him with a decorated crown. The subsequent crowning is made awkward by Powhatan's refusal to kneel, and relations sour.
December 1608 - Christopher Newport returns to England from Jamestown accompanied by the Indian Machumps. John Smith, meanwhile, attempts to trade for food with Indians from the Nansemonds to the Appamattucks, but on Powhatan's orders they refuse.
Mid-January 1609 - Christopher Newport arrives in London.
May 23, 1609 - The Crown approves a second royal charter for the Virginia Company of London. It replaces the royal council with private corporate control, extends the colony's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean, and installs a governor, Sir Thomas West, twelfth baron De La Warr, to run operations in Virginia.
June 2, 1609 - The largest fleet England has ever amassed in the West·Äînine ships, 600 passengers, and livestock and provisions to last a year·Äîleaves England for Virginia. Led by the flagship Sea Venture, the fleet's mission is to save the failing colony. Sir Thomas Gates heads the expedition.
July 24, 1609 - A hurricane strikes the nine-ship English fleet bound for Virginia on a rescue mission. The flagship Sea Venture is separated from the other vessels and irreparably damaged by the storm.
Winter 1609·Äì1610 - While the English colonists starve in Virginia, the shipwrecked crew and passengers of the Sea Venture make camp in Bermuda. They build two new boats, the Patience and Deliverance, from Bermuda cedar and the scavenged remains of the Sea Venture.
February 11, 1610 - Captain Christopher Newport and William Strachey serve as witnesses to the christening of John Rolfe's daughter, named Bermuda after the group of islands on which they are stranded. The girl and her mother both die.
March 25, 1610 - Captain Christopher Newport, William Strachey, and James Swift become godfathers to a baby boy called Bermudas after the group of islands on which they are stranded.
May 24, 1610 - The party of Virginia colonists headed by Sir Thomas Gates, , now aboard the Patience and Deliverance, arrives at Jamestown. They find only sixty survivors of a winter famine. Gates decides to abandon the colony for Newfoundland.
September 1610 - Christopher Newport returns to England.
May 12, 1611 - Christopher Newport arrives at Jamestown for the last time, bringing Sir Thomas Dale with him.
August 20, 1611 - Christopher Newport sails from Virginia.
October 1611 - Christopher Newport arrives in England.
1612 - Christopher Newport assumes his Royal Navy post of 1606 and enters the service of the East India Company.
1613 - Christopher Newport sails to Banten (Bantam), Java.
1615 - Christopher Newport sails to India.
November 16, 1616 - Christopher Newport writes his will. About to sail for the third time to the East Indies, he takes his son Christopher Newport with him as master's mate.
May 1617 - Christopher Newport arrives at Saldanha Bay north of Cape Town, South Africa.
August 15, 1617 - Christopher Newport arrives in Banten (Bantam), Java, and dies soon afterward.
1961 - Christopher Newport College is established in Newport News, taking its name from the early Virginia explorer.
Citation:
Salmon, J. Christopher Newport (1561·Äìafter August 15, 1617). (2013, August 7). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Newport_Christopher_1561-after_...
Salmon, John. "Christopher Newport (1561·Äìafter August 15, 1617)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 7 Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.
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Further reading
* A. Bryant Nichols Jr., Captain Christopher Newport: Admiral of Virginia, Sea Venture, 2007
* David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of A New Nation, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
* Breese, Steven, Actus Fidei, Steven Breese and Associates, 2007
* Smith, John, The Generall Historie of Virginia [%E2%80%9CG.H.%E2%80%9D London, 1623].
* Wingfield, Jocelyn R., Virginia·Äôs True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield, etc, [Charleston, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4196-6032-0].

Christopher Newport (1561·Äì1617) was an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was also in overall command of the other two ships on that initial voyage, in order of their size, the Godspeed and the Discovery.
He made several voyages of supply between England and Jamestown; in 1609, he became Captain of the Virginia Company's new supply ship, Sea Venture, which met a hurricane during the Third Supply mission, and was shipwrecked on the archipelago of Bermuda. Newport, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati,[1] and Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, were named in his honour.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Newport
Christopher Newport was born in Limehouse, an important trading port on the River Thames in December 1561. His father, also named Christopher Newport, was a shipmaster who worked in the commercial shipping trade on the east coast of England. The maiden name of his mother Jane is unknown. Newport was christened at Harwich on 29 December.[1] Newport went to sea in 1580, and he quickly rose to the rank of a master mariner and dealt with trade going into London. On 19 October 1584 he married Katherine Proctor in Harwich.[2]

Source:
[1] https://www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk/news/1656746.harwich-remembering-a-hero/
[2] https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/newport-christopher-1561-after-august-15-1617/#start_entry

Christopher Newport, who was baptised in Harwich on December 29, 1561.
As captain on the Sea Venture and vice-admiral of the expedition, the nine-vessel party was hit by a great storm which separated their fleet.
The Sea Venture, a new ship, lost her caulking and, leaking like a sieve, was intentionally driven on to Bermuda's shores.
The island was then known as The Isle of Devils, because of countless ships lost there in the past, but the crew members struggled ashore, together with 150 colonists and a dog.
They established a base there and used the ship's remains and Bermudan cedar to build two ships. They then set sail for Jamestown, leaving two men behind to maintain the claim on the island.
When they arrived at Jamestown, they discovered the colony had hardly prospered.
Eighty per cent were dead, one man had been executed for eating his wife's body and rumours still abound that some dug up the dead and consumed their flesh.
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At about age nineteen, Newport sailed from Harwich for Brazil on November 3, 1580, aboard the merchant vessel Minion of London. He jumped ship with some other crewmen at Baya (Bahia), Brazil, in 1581 after a quarrel erupted with the ship·Äôs master, Stephen Hare. Newport may have returned to England by 1582, when his name appeared on a list of shipmasters in Harwich. He married Katherine Proctor there on October 19, 1584.

In 1609, as captain of the Sea Venture, Newport was shipwrecked off the islands of Bermuda, arriving in Virginia the next spring. Newport left the Virginia Company·Äôs employment in 1612 and entered the service of the East India Company. He died in Banten (Bantam), Java, sometime after August 15, 1617.
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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/newport-christopher-1561-after-august-15-1617/

In 1609, as captain of the Sea Venture, Newport was shipwrecked off the islands of Bermuda, arriving in Virginia the next spring. Newport left the Virginia Company·Äôs employment in 1612 and entered the service of the East India Company. He died in Banten (Bantam), Java, sometime after August 15, 1617.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Newport

Christopher Newport, was a shipmaster who worked in the commercial shipping trade on the east coast of England. The maiden name of his mother Jane is unknown.

Capt. Christopher Newport was married three times, to Katherine Proctor, Ellen Ade and Elizabeth Glanfield. He had four children --
Christopher,
Jane,
John
and Elizabeth.
Two additional daughters are hotly disputed -
Molly
and Marian.
See notes on their profiles.
[Source for the four known children: Capt. Christopher Newport, Admiral of Virginia·Äô·Äù by A. Bryant Nichols Jr., Copyright 2007. ISBN: 9780615140018] -- Maria Edmonds-Zediker, Curator, 22 May 2011.

Christopher Newport (1561·Äì1618) was an English seaman and privateer. He was married three times. He made five trips to establish settlement of Jamestown, VA. He had a long career on the high seas and died off the coast of Java, in current Indonesia.

Christopher Newport (1561·Äì1617) was an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was also in overall command of the other two ships on that initial voyage, in order of their size, the Godspeed and the Discovery.
He made several voyages of supply between England and Jamestown; in 1609, he became Captain of the Virginia Company's new supply ship, Sea Venture, which met a hurricane during the Third Supply mission, and was shipwrecked on the archipelago of Bermuda. Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, was named in his honor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Newport

Christopher Newport (1561·Äìafter August 15, 1617)
Christopher Newport was an English privateer, ship captain, and adventurer who helped to establish the first permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown in 1607. Born the son of a shipmaster on the east coast of England, he worked in the commercial shipping trade and, beginning in 1585, as a privateer, or sanctioned pirate, in the war between England and Spain. His assistance in the capture of the Spanish ship Madre de Dios in 1592 won him such wealth and prestige that in 1606 the Virginia Company of London appointed him leader of the voyage to the newly chartered colony. In the first few months, he played a key role in negotiating between Virginia's often-fractious leaders. He also sailed between the colony and England, carrying news and delivering precious supplies. In 1608, he participated in an unsuccessful "coronation" of the Indian chief Powhatan, who refused to submit himself to the English. In 1609, as captain of the Sea Venture, Newport was shipwrecked off the islands of Bermuda, arriving in Virginia the next spring. Newport left the Virginia Company's employment in 1612 and entered the service of the East India Company. He died in Banten (Bantam), Java, sometime after August 15, 1617.
Time Line:
December 29, 1561¬â€ - Christopher Newport is christened at Harwich, England. He is the son of Christopher Newport, a shipmaster.
1580¬â€ - Christopher Newport jumps ship at Bahia, Brazil, while serving on the Minion of London.
October 19, 1584¬â€ - Christopher Newport marries Katherine Proctor.
1587¬â€ - Christopher Newport serves as a privateer against the Spanish for English merchants. He is a master's mate on John Watts's ship the Drake during an attack on the Spanish port city of C√°diz.
1589¬â€ - Christopher Newport is the master of the ship the Margaret, of London, the property of merchant Robert Cobb and others.
1590¬â€ - Christopher Newport marries Ellen Ade after his first wife, Katherine Proctor Newport, dies.
1591¬â€ - Christopher Newport, again sailing for John Watts, is promoted to captain of the Little John. He makes his first privateering trip to the Caribbean and loses his right arm while engaging two Spanish treasure ships off Cuba. He also takes part in the Barbary Coast trade.
1592·Äì1595¬â€ - Christopher Newport is made captain of the Golden Dragon, owned by John Moore, and sails in the West Indies.
1592¬â€ - Christopher Newport commands a flotilla of privateers and attacks Spanish towns in the Caribbean. Near the Azores, he helps to capture the very rich Spanish ship Madre de Dios and sails it back to England.
1595¬â€ - Christopher Newport marries Elizabeth Glanville, a London goldsmith's daughter. Soon after, he partners with her brothers and others as one-sixth owner of the heavily armed ship the Neptune.
1595·Äì1603¬â€ - As captain of the ship the Neptune, Christopher Newport raids Spanish towns in the Caribbean.
1604¬â€ - Christopher Newport's privateering career ends when a peace agreement is signed between England and Spain.
1604·Äì1605¬â€ - Christopher Newport leads trading voyages in the Caribbean.
1606¬â€ - Christopher Newport receives a post as a master of the Royal Navy. The Virginia Company of London gives him command of its first fleet to sail to Virginia.
December 20, 1606¬â€ - Three ships carrying 104 settlers sail from London bound for Virginia. Christopher Newport captains the Susan Constant, Bartholomew Gosnold the Godspeed, and John Ratcliffe the Discovery.
April 26, 1607¬â€ - Jamestown colonists first drop anchor in the Chesapeake Bay, and after a brief skirmish with local Indians, begin to explore the James River.
May 21·Äì27, 1607¬â€ - Captain Christopher Newport, Captain John Smith, George Percy, and others explore the James River, making mostly friendly contact with the Kecoughtans, the Paspaheghs, the Quiyoughcohannocks, and the Appamattucks.
May 26, 1607¬â€ - While Christopher Newport and a party of colonists explore the James River, an alliance of five Algonquian-speaking Indian groups·Äîthe Quiyoughcohannocks, the Weyanocks, the Appamattucks, the Paspaheghs, and the Chiskiacks·Äîattacks Jamestown, wounding ten and killing two.
June 22, 1607¬â€ - Christopher Newport departs from Jamestown for England, carrying a letter to the Virginia Company of London that exaggerates the Virginia colony's commercial possibilities.
August 12, 1607¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives in London.
January 2, 1608¬â€ - John Smith returns to Jamestown after being held captive by Powhatan. Only thirty-eight colonists survive, Smith's seat on the Council is occupied by Gabriel Archer, and the Council accuses Smith of killing his companions. Smith is sentenced to hang, but the charge is dropped when Christopher Newport arrives with the first supplies from England.
February 1608¬â€ - Christopher Newport and John Smith visit Powhatan, the paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, at his capital, Werowocomoco. Powhatan feeds them and their party lavishly, and Newport presents the chief with a suit of clothing, a hat, and a greyhound. The English continue upriver to visit Opechancanough at the latter's request.
April 10, 1608¬â€ - Aboard the John and Francis, Christopher Newport leaves Jamestown for England. Among those with him are Gabriel Archer, Edward Maria Wingfield, and the Indian Namontack.
May 21, 1608¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives at Blackwell, England, having sailed from Virginia.
September 1608¬â€ - Christopher Newport returns from England with a plan to improve relations with Virginia Indians by bestowing on Powhatan various gifts and formally presenting him with a decorated crown. The subsequent crowning is made awkward by Powhatan's refusal to kneel, and relations sour.
December 1608¬â€ - Christopher Newport returns to England from Jamestown accompanied by the Indian Machumps. John Smith, meanwhile, attempts to trade for food with Indians from the Nansemonds to the Appamattucks, but on Powhatan's orders they refuse.
Mid-January 1609¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives in London.
May 23, 1609¬â€ - The Crown approves a second royal charter for the Virginia Company of London. It replaces the royal council with private corporate control, extends the colony's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean, and installs a governor, Sir Thomas West, twelfth baron De La Warr, to run operations in Virginia.
June 2, 1609¬â€ - The largest fleet England has ever amassed in the West·Äînine ships, 600 passengers, and livestock and provisions to last a year·Äîleaves England for Virginia. Led by the flagship Sea Venture, the fleet's mission is to save the failing colony. Sir Thomas Gates heads the expedition.
July 24, 1609¬â€ - A hurricane strikes the nine-ship English fleet bound for Virginia on a rescue mission. The flagship Sea Venture is separated from the other vessels and irreparably damaged by the storm.
Winter 1609·Äì1610¬â€ - While the English colonists starve in Virginia, the shipwrecked crew and passengers of the Sea Venture make camp in Bermuda. They build two new boats, the Patience and Deliverance, from Bermuda cedar and the scavenged remains of the Sea Venture.
February 11, 1610¬â€ - Captain Christopher Newport and William Strachey serve as witnesses to the christening of John Rolfe's daughter, named Bermuda after the group of islands on which they are stranded. The girl and her mother both die.
March 25, 1610¬â€ - Captain Christopher Newport, William Strachey, and James Swift become godfathers to a baby boy called Bermudas after the group of islands on which they are stranded.
May 24, 1610¬â€ - The party of Virginia colonists headed by Sir Thomas Gates, , now aboard the Patience and Deliverance, arrives at Jamestown. They find only sixty survivors of a winter famine. Gates decides to abandon the colony for Newfoundland.
September 1610¬â€ - Christopher Newport returns to England.
May 12, 1611¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives at Jamestown for the last time, bringing Sir Thomas Dale with him.
August 20, 1611¬â€ - Christopher Newport sails from Virginia.
October 1611¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives in England.
1612¬â€ - Christopher Newport assumes his Royal Navy post of 1606 and enters the service of the East India Company.
1613¬â€ - Christopher Newport sails to Banten (Bantam), Java.
1615¬â€ - Christopher Newport sails to India.
November 16, 1616¬â€ - Christopher Newport writes his will. About to sail for the third time to the East Indies, he takes his son Christopher Newport with him as master's mate.
May 1617¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives at Saldanha Bay north of Cape Town, South Africa.
August 15, 1617¬â€ - Christopher Newport arrives in Banten (Bantam), Java, and dies soon afterward.
1961¬â€ - Christopher Newport College is established in Newport News, taking its name from the early Virginia explorer.
Citation:
Salmon, J. Christopher Newport (1561·Äìafter August 15, 1617). (2013, August 7). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from¬â€ http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Newport_Christopher_1561-after_August_15_1617

Salmon, John. "Christopher Newport (1561·Äìafter August 15, 1617)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 7 Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.

Christopher Newport, (baptized Dec. 29, 1561, Harwich, Eng.·Äîdied August 1617, Bantam, Java, Dutch East Indies [now Indonesia]), British sea captain who was one of the founders of the Jamestown Colony.

Newport went to sea at a young age, and he quickly rose to the rank of a master mariner. After years spent as a privateer attacking Spanish settlements and raiding Spanish ships, he was made a captain in 1590. His first command was the Little John, a privateer vessel belonging to a London merchant, with which he continued to campaign against Spanish settlements in the Caribbean. It was during that period that he lost his right arm in battle. Newport·Äôs other commands included the Golden Dragon and a four-ship flotilla. One of his greatest coups was the taking in 1592 of a treasure-laden Portuguese ship, the Madre de Dios. He became part owner of the Neptune, a privateering vessel, in the mid-1590s.

Newport was elevated to the rank of principal master of the Royal Navy in 1606, the same year that he was chosen by the Virginia Company to lead a colonizing mission to the New World. He set sail from London in December 1606 in command of the Discovery, the Godspeed, and the Susan Constant. That small fleet entered Virginia·Äôs Chesapeake Bay on April 26, 1607. Following their landing at Cape Henry, Newport was made a member of the colony·Äôs seven-person governing body, according to the sealed instructions of the Virginia Company that were opened at landfall. Also at the company·Äôs behest, the colonists settled inland from the coast, on a peninsula in the James River. That settlement, named Jamestown for England·Äôs King James I, was established on May 13, 1607. Between 1606 and 1611, Newport led a total of five voyages between Virginia and England, bringing supplies and additional settlers back to the fledgling colony. On one such trip, in 1609, his ship was blown onto a reef in Bermuda, leaving the passengers stranded until they were able to construct new vessels. They returned to Jamestown nearly a year after the shipwreck.
Newport left the employ of the Virginia Company for that of the East Indies Company in 1612. He sailed to Persia (Iran) aboard the Expedition of London in early 1613 and to India in 1615. During his third voyage with the company, as commander of the Hope in 1617, Newport died on the island of Java.
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"Capt. Chrisopher Newport, Admiral of Virginia'" by A. Bryant Nichols Jr., Copyright 2007
ISBN: 9780615140018
Notes from reading this book
BACKGROUND
A commoner but educated (we don't know where), as shown by his writing skills.
Born in Harwich, Essex, England in Dec. 1561.
Baptised at St. Nicholas Church, in London 29 Dec. 1561, the son of Christopher Newport and Jane his wife.
FAMILY
Father Christopher, Sr., was a ship master and "victualler," with a surety bond recorded 23 Feb 1580. The bond states he owned an ale house in Harwich. Christopher Sr. had a brother Thomas, a shipowner.
By 1584, Christopher Jr. is living in Limehouse, a hamlet of Stepney, Middlesex, outside London.
In Oct. 1584, marriage to Katherine Proctor, St. Dunstan's church Stepney Green. She dies within five years of the marriage.
Married Ellen Ade of London on 29 Jan 1590. She died soon after, before 1595.
Had a wife and 4 children "left behind" during his voyages to Virginia.
CAREER
In 1580, at age 19, according to depositions at the High Court of Admiralty, sailed to Brazil aboard the ship Minion.
By 1582, he was a ship's master's apprentice.
In 1587, he sailed as crew under Sir Francis Drake, bound for Spain to attack the Spanish fleet.
In 1590, appointed captain at age 29, with the Roanoke Company, to resupply Roanoke Colony and engaging in privateering activities. He loses his right arm from a saber wound in a sea battle off Cuba.
Part of Sea Venture that wrecked in Bermuda on the way to Jamestown.
Died at age 55 during a trading voyage to Java
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Captain Christopher Newport¬â€ was an English sailor and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the¬â€ Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was born in 1561, and died in 1618. He made several voyages of supply between England and Jamestown. In 1609, he became Captain of the new supply ship¬â€ Sea Venture, which met a hurricane and was shipwrecked in Bermuda. That event began Bermuda's permanent settlement by England.

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Further reading
* A. Bryant Nichols Jr., Captain Christopher Newport: Admiral of Virginia, Sea Venture, 2007 * David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of A New Nation, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 * Breese, Steven, Actus Fidei, Steven Breese and Associates, 2007 * Smith, John, The Generall Historie of Virginia [%E2%80%9CG.H.%E2%80%9D London, 1623]. * Wingfield, Jocelyn R., Virginia·Äôs True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield, etc, [Charleston, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4196-6032-0].

Christopher Newport (1561·Äì1617) was an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was also in overall command of the other two ships on that initial voyage, in order of their size, the Godspeed and the Discovery.
He made several voyages of supply between England and Jamestown; in 1609, he became Captain of the Virginia Company's new supply ship, Sea Venture, which met a hurricane during the Third Supply mission, and was shipwrecked on the archipelago of Bermuda. Newport, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati,[1] and Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, were named in his honour.

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