Governor's
Message
Carter
Branham Snow Furr, Esq., Norfolk, Virginia
Governor of the
Jamestowne Society
Welcome to the Jamestowne Society. Please peruse this site for additional information on our activities and purposes. One of the missions of the Society is to discover and record the names of all living descendants of those early settlers of Jamestown who founded Virginia and our nation. If you should be interested in exploring membership, please look through the Qualifying Ancestors Index to see if you have an ancestor through whom you may qualify as a member. The Membership Application and Process page will explain what you will need to do.
Another excellent way to obtain information on the Society is to contact one of the companies of the Society located nearest to you. See the listing on this site for the company governor who will be glad to help you. The companies perform a great service to the Society in having members gather together for social, historical and business activities in their local areas, since many members cannot always get to the national Society’s two yearly meetings, in Richmond and in Williamsburg.
The Jamestowne Society is interested in educating the public as to our early colonial history. This is accomplished through speakers and programs of the Society as well as through the 37 companies in various states. For example, at the Society’s membership meeting in November 2009 in Richmond, the program was provided by two archeologists from the Werowocomoco Research Group, David Brown and Thane Harpole. On this site, you can see slides from their presentation of archeological discoveries they made at the site of Chief Powhatan’s capital Werowocomoco, which was recently located along the York River in Virginia after being lost for almost 400 years. Then at our May 2010 meeting in Williamsburg, we had an excellent speaker, archeologist Alain Outlaw, who has recently found and uncovered Argall Town, which can be called the first suburb of Jamestown. It was founded by Virginia’s Lt. Governor Samuel Argall. For more information . Click on the following links to see more details from our 2009 Fall Meeting and 2010 Spring Meeting..
We also grant post-graduate scholarships for colonial studies, help restore colonial court records and contribute to the Jamestown Rediscovery Project of Preservation Virginia (APVA) in its remarkable archeological work on Jamestown Island.
The Society’s next membership meeting will be held on November 6, 2010 in Richmond where we shall have the pleasure of being entertained by Captain Gabriel Archer, an original Jamestown settler, who will give us a spellbinding historical portrayal of the early years. This will be the work of well known historical performer Bill Young. of Talks & Totems, Inc.
If you would like more information, please contact our office in Richmond or one of the companies’ governors.
Carter Branham Snow Furr, Esq.
Governor
The Jamestowne Society
