Adam Thoroughgood: Difference between revisions

Young Thoroughgood was from a prominent family in [[King's Lynn]], [[Norfolk]], England, the ninth son of the Rector of [[Grimston, Norfolk|Grimston]], Rev. William Thorowgood. He was baptized at St. Botolph's Church in Grimston on July 14, 1604 [''citation needed'']. Early in his life he became interested in immigrating to the Americas when he heard about exploits in Virginia from some of the members of [[Henry Spelman of Jamestown|Henry Spelman]]'s family who lived in Congham, a mile to the north of Grimston. At the age of 17, he became an [[indentured servant]] in order to pay for passage to the Virginia Colony, a project of the [[Virginia Company of London]] at the time. Around 1622, he settled in an area south of the [[Chesapeake Bay]] and a few miles inland from the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. This area had been passed by when the earlier settlements of the London Colony such as [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] were established beginning in 1607 in favor of locations further inland which would be less susceptible to attacks by other European forces, such as the Spanish.<ref>Bellamy, Joe Davis [https://books.google.com/books?id=XggfG3i-8pIC&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Bellamys of Early Virginia''] (iUniverse, 2005). p. 31.</ref>