the Bermuda Triangle of Nansemond
Cue B Movie suspense music, thunder, lightning and a harrowing chilly wind…
Paraketo Point the Nansemond Fort Newgate
Thar be dragons here…
Down the River a couple miles and on the southern shore… there it is! Paraketo Point. And yeah… the colonist is named John Parrott. But to bring it up again… an adjoining patent to Robert Newman also uses the expression Paraketo Point. So explain this bit of feathery mysteriousness to me… what does it mean?
I hear tell of now extinct East Coast “parakeets”. Supposedly they swarmed in the millions but eventually got wiped out (were the parakeets around in the 1600s?) Was this area of Virginia once known for it’s noisy chirping?
I can just visualize a Colonist standing on the shore of the Nansemond River shaking his fist and shouting “We shall call this area of land after the pretty birds!” Naw… it fails to make me timbers shiver…
https://www.geni.com/people/John-Parrott-of-Paraketo-Point/6000000026284175672
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The Nansemond Fort. The nice man wrote a Master’s Thesis on it… very helpful
It seems reasonable to me that the colonists were a bit nervous around the locals. Anyway, the “fort” was in the general area.
I would have built the fort closer to the parakeets… but that is probably why I am not known for building forts.
I still cannot figure out exactly where Mr. Pecoraro was digging close enough to put a little star on my map…
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Newgate
At least one of the settlers of Nansemond was known for having passed through the lovely Newgate prison before finding his way to Virginia.
But then… what does the infamous prison have to do with this patch of ground in Virginia?
What the heck was this Newgate in Nansemond in the 1640s?
Below are the patents what got my feathers all ruffled…
Making sense of the numerous patents for George White has so far proven elusive to me… but he seems to be ground zero and bullseye for all this intrigue… has it all something to do with him? I dunno…
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