The Elizabeth left England May 1611 for Virginia, a fleet of three ships and three carvels (?) under Sir Thomas Gates. She was accompanied by the Starr with Captain Christopher Newport, now vice Admiral of Virginia and pilot John Clark, and the Prosperous, three hundred people, supplies, horses, kine, goats, besides "coneies, pigeons and pullen." They reached the Canaries in April, the Dominica West Indies May 9, Porto Rico and anchored at Point Comfort at night, May 22, 1611. The men were listed as "honest, sufficient artificers, carpenters, smiths, coopers, fishermen, tanners, shoemakers, shipwrights, brickmen, gardeners, husbandmen and laboring men of all sorts."

Passengers:
Fisher, Robert, May 1611 voyage, wife Katherine on 1621 Marmaduke
Poole, Reverand
Smith, John, 1611 voyage, at muster at James City, wife Susanna on the Bona Nova
Whitaker, Alexander, minister
Sources:
"The First Republic in America" by Alexander Brown, pg 22
http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0110&L=va-hist&P=8031 (no longer available)

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