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SANDYS, Edwin, Sir [1561-1629] X English colonial organizer
Knighted by James I and employed by him "in several affairs of greatimportance", M.P. from Stockridge 1604-1611, together with Sir FrancisBacon held to be "two men of the greatest parts and knowledge inEngland";
Son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys.qv
He was member of Parliament (1586 et seq) and sat in the first Parliament(1604) of James I, becoming prominent through his attacks on themonopolies. In 1613 he became the object of royal displeasure when he setforth the principle that there were constitutional limits to the power ofboth king and people. He was a member of the East India Company (1618 etseq) and served on its committee (1619-23, 1625-29). A member of theVirginia Company's council in 1607, he became joint manager (1617) andtreasurer (1619-20) of the company, and organized government of colony(1619) despite opposition from the king. This resulted in hisimprisonment (1621) as a suspected plotter to establish a Puritan statewith republican government in America [!]. He nevertheless remainedpowerful in the councils of the company until its charter was revoked(1624) and Virginia became a crown colony. He was of aid to the Pilgrimsin obtaining the charter for the Mayflower.
Sir Edwin may be responsible for the first introduction of black slavesto America ca 1619.
Chronology
1586- M.P.
1604 Sat in 1st parliament of James I
1607 A member of the Virginia Co. council
1613 Espoused constitutional limitations on the crown
1617 Virginia Co. joint manager
1618- Member of the East India Co.
1619-1620 Virginia Co. treasurer
1619 Organized the government of Virginia Colony
1619 First representative legislative body assembled in America(Jamestown, VA)
1619~ First importation of black slaves to America
1621 Imprisoned as suspected plotter to establish a Puritan state inAmerica
1624 Virginia Co. charter revoked; VA becomes a crown colony
Selected Works
Europae Speculum (1599), a work on religion on the Continent, where hehad travelled from 1593-1599,
A Relation of the State of Religion (1605) on reunion of Christendom by anew center party; proposed "an uniforme Lyturgy, a corespondent forme ofChurch-government to bee made of the points both should agree in, and sobe established universally throughout al Christendome R all otherquestions to be confined to the Schooles"vthen suppressed in 1605 asresult of Gunpowder Plot.
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Sandys, Sir Edwin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
SANDYS, FREDERICK look for it
Philadelphia Online | Books | Chapter One Sir Edwin aids ancestors ofGeorge Washington, who were in serious difficulties. Sir Edwin' wife wasLawrence Washington's aunt.
Virginia Biographical Encyclopedia (subscription required)
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Rabb, T.K.: Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629. An excellentbook
Collections, archives - Papers
AIM25: University of London (Library - Senate House): SANDYS, Sir Edwin(1561-1629)
Historical context, background
Places (residences, etc)
The Bermuda Company
Sandys Parish in Bermuda A parish (county) in Bermuda is named for SirEdwin
The Virginia Colony
Account of a Declaration: Introduction Sir Edwin's reforms save theVirginia Colony
The Avalon Project : The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609 Thefull text
USA: Virginia charter 3 The full text
Virtual Jamestown Sir Edwin "was responsible for diverting charity fundsfor the intended development of an Indian college [to] schemes to benefitthe Jamestown community"
Slavery
Chronology On The History Of Slavery, 1619-1789 Sir Edwin imports thefirst black slaves to America!
Evangelism and Enslavement Sir Edwin further implicated: "Among those'tenants' brought over to Virginia by Sandys were twenty 'negars,' thefirst blacks to be brought into the Virginia colonies."
Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8. Virginia Records. Further implicationof Sir Edwin
ENGLISH COLONIZATION An excellent overview of the English colonialexperience. See II.C.4 for our subject. (archive)
Willeford/Williford/Wilsford/Wilford A discourse on the family of SirEdwin's mother, contains a lengthy section discussing his life.
Below fromhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ODTs/SANDS.shtml#SAND140
8 [4] SANDYS, Sir Edwin [8], Kt, M.A., B.C.L., statesman b: 09
| | -Dec 1561 Hawkshead, WOR, ENG d: Oct 1629 #: SAND145
| | + +EVELEIGH, Margaret d: Jul 1588 I "Childbirth" #: SAND155
| | -m: 1583-1587 Father: EVERLEIGH, John, of Dervan
| | 9 SANDYS, Elizabeth (Margaret) b: <1588 #: SAND156
? | | + +WILFORD, Sir Thomas, of Kent #: SAND890
| |
| | + +SOUTHCOTE, Anne, of Devon d: ~1593 _, YKS, ENG #: SAND157
| | -sp: ~1592 Father: SOUTHCOAT, Thomas
| |
| | + +NEVINSON, Elizabeth, of Eastry KEN #: SAND159 m: ~1601
| | -Father: NEVINSON, Thomas, of Eastry KEN
| | 9 SANDYS, Anne d: Child #: SAND182
| |
? | | + +BULKELEY, Lady Catharine b: ~1583 d: >Oct 1629 #: SAND160
| | -m:
| | 9 SANDYS, Capt. Henry [9], of Northbourne Court b: 1605
| | | -Northbourne Manor dsp: 1640 #: SAND162
| | + +HAMMOND, Margaret #: SAND1293 Mother: HAMMOND, Sir William
| | 9 [5] SANDYS, Mary [9] b: 12 Sep 1607 d: 26 Oct 1675 #:SAND1031
? | | + +READE, William b: ~1605 #: SAND1047
| |
| | + +SPENCER, Richard b: 1572-1609 #: SPEN350 m: 1598-1644
| | | -Father: SPENCER, Robert Lord, Duke Marlborough
| | 9 SANDYS, Col. Edwin [9], of Northbourne Ct b: 1608-1630 d:1642
| | | -Worcester, battle of Powyck I "in service of Parliamentary
| | | -army?" #: SAND161
| | + +CHAMPNEYS, Catherine b: ~1610 #: SAND1037
| | |10 SANDYS, Catherine b: ~1630 _, KEN, ENG #: SAND1038
| | 9 SANDYS, Col. Richard [9], of Downe Hall KEN b: 1608-1630 _,
| | | -KEN, ENG d: 1669 #: SAND176
? | | + +AUCHER, Hester b: ~1615 Bourne, LIN, ENG #: SAND1039 m:~1635
| | | -Bourne, LIN, ENG
| | |10 [7] SANDYS, Stephen, Immigrant bp: 26 Jun 1658 _, LAN, ENG
| | | -d: 19 Jan 1731/32 Middletown, Dauphin, PA #: SAND1581
| | |+ +COWGILL, Jane, Immigrant b: 1663 Settle, YKS, ENG d: 26 Nov
| | | -1699 Middletown, Dauphin, PA #: SAND1582 m: 25 Oct 1685
| | | -Middletown, Dauphin, PA Mother: STACKHOUSE, Ellen
| | | -Father: COWGILL, Ralph
| | | 11 SANDS, Richard b: 17 Apr 1687 Middletown, Dauphin, PA d: 30
| | | -Jul 1758 Middletown, Dauphin, PA #: SAND1583
| | | + +GRUBB, Mary #: SAND1595 m: 08 Mar 1711/12 Mt Holly,
| | | -Burlington, NJ
| | | 11 SANDS, John b: 05 Dec 1689 Middletown, Dauphin, PA
| | | -#: SAND1584
| | | + +BUTCHER, Mary b: 03 Oct 1712 Mt Holly, Burlington, NJ
| | | -#: SAND1596
| | | 11 SANDS, Eleanor b: 05 Oct 1692 _, Bucks, PA d: >1744
| | | -Middletown, Dauphin, PA #: SAND1585
| | | + +HOUGH, John, Immigrant b: 06 Jul 1682 Hough, WilmslowPar.,
| | | -CHS, ENG #: SAND1597 m: 01 Jun 1714 Middletown, Dauphin,PA
| | | 11 SANDS, Stephen b: 30 Mar 1694 Middletown, Dauphin, PA d: 17
| | | -Nov 1699 #: SAND1586
| | | 11 SANDS, William b: 28 Dec 1695 Middletown, Dauphin, PA d: 23
| | | -Mar 1758 Bensalem Twp, Bucks, PA #: SAND1588
? | | | + +SCOTT, Mary #: SAND1587 m: 30 Jan 1737/38 Abington, Bucks,
| | | -PA
| | | 11 SANDS, Isabel b: 27 Feb 1697/98 Middletown, Dauphin, PA
| | | -dy: #: SAND1589
| | | 11 [6] SANDS, Edmund b: 29 Jan 1698/99 Middletown, Dauphin, PA
| | | -d: May 1773 _, Bucks, PA #: SAND1591
| | | + +COATE, Mary #: SAND1590 m: 10 Oct 1720 Mt Holly,
| | | -Burlington, NJ
| | |
| | | + +CLOWES, Rachel #: SAND1598 m: 23 Jul 1740 NJ
| | | 12 SANDS, Benjamin b: 16 Feb 1747/48 #: SAND1599
| | | + +(SANDS), Rachel #: SAND1605 m: 1771 _, Loudoun, VA
| | | |13 SANDS, Nathaniel #: SAND1622
| | | |13 SANDS, Hannah #: SAND1623
? | | | |+ +TAYLOR, Robert #: SAND1628 m: 11 Oct 1811
| | | |13 SANDS, Michael #: SAND1619
| | | |+ +GARDNER, Elizabeth #: SAND1620 m: 12 Oct 1808
| | | | 14 SANDS, Benjamin #: SAND1629
| | | |13 SANDS, Othneil #: SAND1624
| | | |13 SANDS, Isaac #: SAND1625
| | | |13 SANDS, Thomas #: SAND1626
| | | |13 SANDS, Mary "Polly" b: 29 Nov 1785 VA #: SAND1608
| | | |+ +FRAKER, Christian #: SAND1621 m: ~1803
| | | |13 SANDS, Jacob b: ~1779 d: 1849 I cholera #: SAND1606
? | | | |+ +BROWN, Ann b: 14 Oct 1780 _ Washington, TN #: SAND1607
| | | | 14 SANDS, Rachel Minerva #: SAND1609
| | | | 14 SANDS, Benjamin #: SAND1610
| | | | 14 SANDS, David #: SAND1611
| | | | 14 SANDS, Mary Ann #: SAND1612
| | | | 14 SANDS, Millie Melinda #: SAND1613
| | | | 14 SANDS, Elizabeth #: SAND1614
| | | | 14 SANDS, Isabella #: SAND1615
| | | | 14 SANDS, Isaac #: SAND1616
| | | | 14 SANDS, Hannah #: SAND1617
| | | | 14 SANDS, Abijah #: SAND1618
| | | |13 SANDS, Joseph b: 1789 VA d: 01 Apr 1866 _, Monroe, TN
| | | | -#: SAND1627
? | | | |+ +HARRISON, Margaret Ann b: NC #: SAND1630 m: 1808
| | | | 14 SANDS, Nathaniel #: SAND1631
| | | | 14 SANDS, Benjamin Richard #: SAND1637
| | | | 14 SANDS, Matilda #: SAND1638
| | | | 14 SANDS, Sarah #: SAND1639
| | | | 14 SANDS, Rachel #: SAND1640
| | | | 14 SANDS, Joseph, jr #: SAND1641
| | | | 14 SANDS, Margaret #: SAND1642
| | | | 14 SANDS, Charity #: SAND1643
| | | | 14 SANDS, Jane #: SAND1644
| | |
| | |+ +NORCROSS, Eliza #: SAND1594 m: 1701
| | 9 SANDYS, Robert [9], Royalist soldier d: >1629 #: SAND1032
| | 9 SANDYS, Sir Thomas [9], Kt d: >1629 #: SAND1036
| | 9 SANDYS, Francis [9] d: <1629 #: SAND1034
| | 9 SANDYS b: Sep 1620 d: Stillborn I a harrowing miscarriage
| | | -#: SAND1035
| | 9 SANDYS, William [9] d: <1629 #: SAND1286
| | 9 SANDYS, Penelope [9] b: 1608-1630 #: SAND1289
| | + +LECHMERE, esq, baron Nicholas, Esq., of Hanley #: SAND1295
| | | -m: <1643
| | 9 SANDYS, Elizabeth [9] b: 1608-1630 d: >1629 #: SAND1290
| | 9 SANDYS, Catherine [9] b: 1608-1630 #: SAND1291
| | + +SCRIMSHIRE, Gerard, of Aquelate STS #: SAND1296
| | 9 SANDYS, Frances [9] d: >1629 #: SAND1322
| | 8 SANDYS, Sir Miles [8], of Wilberton CAM, Kt., Bt. b: 29 Mar
| | -1563 d: 1644 #: SAND146
| | + +COOKE, Elizabeth #: SAND1284 Father: COOKE, Edward, of No.
| | -Gray KEN
| | 9 SANDYS, Sir Myles d: 1644 #: SAND1392
| | + +PARK, Elizabeth #: SAND1393 Father: PARK, Thomas, Esq., of
| | | -Wisbeach Ely
| | 9 SANDYS, Sir Robert [2] #: SAND317
| | + +WASHINGTON, Margaret #: WTON170 Mother: BUTLER, Margaret
| | | -Father: WASHINGTON, Lawrence, of Sulgrave
BELOW from http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/EdwinSandys(SirKnight).htm
Sir Edwin SANDYS, Knight
Born: 9 Dec 1561, Worcestershire, England
Died: Oct 1629
Buried: Northbourne Church, England
Father: Edwin SANDYS (Archbishop of York)
Mother: Cecily WILFORD
Married 1: Margaret EVELEIGH (d. Jul 1588) (dau. of John Eveleigh ofDevonshire)
Children:
1. Margaret SANDYS
Married 2: Anne SOUTHCOTT (d. 1593) (dau. of Thomas Southcott) ABT 1592
Married 3: Elizabeth NEVINSON (dau. of Thomas Nevinson of Eastrey) ABT1601
Children:
2. Anne SANDYS
Married 4: Catherine BULKELEY (b. 1583 - d. AFT 1629) (dau. of RichardBulkeley of Beaumaris, Knight and Mary Borough) BEF Jun 1605
Children:
3. Henry SANDYS (b. 1605 - d. 1640) (m. Margaret Hammond)
4. William SANDYS
5. Edwin SANDYS (m. Catherine Champneys)
6. Elizabeth SANDYS
7. Mary SANDYS (b. 12 Sep 1607 - d. 26 Oct 1675) (m. 1 William Reade -m.2 Richard Spencer)
8. Francis SANDYS
9. Robert SANDYS
10. Richard SANDYS of Downe Hall (b. 1608 - d. 1669) (m. Hester Aucher)
11. Penelope SANDYS
12. Thomas SANDYS (d. AFT 1629)
13. Catherine SANDYS (m. Gerard Scrimshire of Aquelate)
14. Frances SANDYS
15. Son SANDYS (Sep 1620, a harrowing miscarriage)
Second son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys and his second wife, CecilyWildford. Treasurer of the Virginia Company and was instrumental inobtaining the charter that the Pilgrims needed to be granted passage tothe Americas. 1571 entered at Merchant Taylor's School and thence waselected scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, matriculating in Sep1577. He was graduated B.A. on 16 Oct 1579, M.A. on 5 Jul 1583, andB.C.L. on 23 Apr 1589. He was elected fellow of Corpus early in 1580 andon 17 Mar 1581/82 his father presented him the prebend of Wetwang in YorkCathedral. In 1589 he was admitted to Middle Temple as a student.
On 13 Oct 1586 Edwin Sandys entered Parliament as Member from Andover.Soon after the dissolution of Parliament in 1593 Sandys accompanied hisfriend George Cranmer on a three-year tour of the Continent, visitingFrance, Italy, and Germany. He remained abroad after Cranmer's return andwas at Paris in 1599 when he commenced the writing of Europae Speculum.The book, remarkably tolerant for the time, was well received andeventually was translated into Italian, French, and Dutch.
Sandys returned to England in 1599 and in 1602 he resigned his prebend atWetwamg. Next year he made his way to James VI of Scotland andaccompanied him to England, where the latter subsequently ruled as JamesI. Sandys was knighted by the King at Charterhouse on 11 May 1603; on 12Mar 1603 he was returned to James' first Parliament as Member forStockbridge, Hampshire. Despite his other activities and interests inthis period, Sir Edwin's main energies were devoted to the VirginiaCompany. He had been appointed a member of His Majesty's Council forVirginia on 9 Mar 1607. In 1617 he was chosen to assist Sir ThomasSmythe, the treasurer, in the management of the company. In this activityhe warmly supported the request of the Leyden exiles to be allowed tosettle in the company's dominion. It was largely owing to his influencethat a patent was granted them. (A patent was an instrument making aconveyance or grant of public lands; also, the land so conveyed.)
On 28 Apr 1619 a combination of parties resulted in the almost unanimouselection of Sandys to the treasurership, thereby making 1619 'a date tobe remembered in the history of English colonisation'. In May he procuredthe appointment of a committee to codify the regulations of the company,to select a form of government for the Colony, to appoint magistrates andofficers, and to define their functions and duties. Acting on thecompany's instructions, Gov. George Yeardley of Virginia summoned anassembly of burgesses, which met in Bruton Parish church at James Towneon 30 Jul 1619. It was the first representative assembly to meet inAmerica.
On 6 Jun 1619 Sandys obtained the company's sanction for theestablishment of a missionary college at Henrico. Ten thousand acres wereallotted for its maintenance, but the project subsequently was abandoned.During the years 1619, 1629, and 1621 the Virginia Company under Sandysprovided and sent to Virginia 42 ships and 3,570 men and women, withprovisions, cattle, and the like. It despatched the Mayflower fromPlymouth, England, on 6 Sep 1620 with a load of 102 passengers; thevessel landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on 11 Dec. The company alsosent to Bermuda nine ships and some 900 persons to settle there
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