Captain Roger Smith, The Immigrant

After John Rolfe's death, Jane Pierce remarried to Roger Smith. They adopted Sarah (Maycock) Pace, Jamestown Orphan as well as having two sons, John and Francis.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 1 Part I; Pg 2

CAPT. ROGER SMITH, Dec 1624, p. 4. In the precincts of James Citty, butting Swd. upon the pale of the Governments garden & Nwd. upon ground of Sir Georg Yeardly. This parcell of ground is devided into two peeces by the highway which parteth it, the said highway being about three pole broad the Westerne side toward the parke is 28 po. The remainder being 96 acs. is taken up at Archers Hope by order of Court the 12 Dec. 1625.

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From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stevensp...

"Minutes of the Council and General court of colonial Virginia, 1622-1632. Published in Richmond, VA by The Colonial Press, Everett Waddey Co. in 1924. Call number J87.V85 This book is located in the Manuscript Reading Room in the Madison Bldg., Rm 101.
However, I was unable to copy the pages due to the poor condition of the book. (The spine was broken and the pages were becoming unstitched.)
But there was a copy made. It was back in the Jefferson reading room. It was a photocopy of the same book (at 99%). We found that it had a different call number (they are in the process of assigning them the same call number) It was F229 N523. Published by the Virginia State Library in 1979.
The preface indicates that these records are compiled from the partially burned remnants of records that were saved after the Richmond fire of 1865. English records, and other papers. Virginia has these remnants in a fireproof vault (Is the vault located in their Archives?).
Transcribed: VIIIth day of May 1626 A courte held the viiith day of May 1626 beinge p[?]fent Sr ffrancis Wyatt Knight Gournor &c, Capt ffranis Weft Capt Roger Smith Capt Samuel Mathewes Mr William Cleybourne.
Yt is order yt Sara Maycock for fower fervants brought over in the Abigaill 1622 vppon the Accompt of Mr Samuell Maycock fhall have two hundred acres of lande to be taken vpp by her in any place not fomerly Taken vpp.

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• Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915) Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I-II. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Archive.org link
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7575...