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Cape Henry Colony
We serve the greater Hampton Roads area of Southeast Virginia, welcoming members/applicants from all areas. Our fall meeting is in Virginia Beach VA (Oct) and our spring meeting is in Hampton VA (April). Our next meeting is April 22 at the Hampton Yacht Club in Hampton, VA
Cape Henry Colony was chartered April 2, 2017 and it has grown to a membership of 17 with several new applications in for approval. We have members from NY, LA, NC as well as VA. In VA we have members from Virginia Beach, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Port Hayward, Poquoson, Newport News, Portsmouth, and Richmond.
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Cape Henry was named on April 26, 1607 in honor of Henry Frederick Stuart, the elder of two sons of King James I of England to survive to the age of 18 and heir-apparent to the throne of Great Britain, by an expedition of the London Company branch of the proprietary Virginia Company headed by Captain Christopher Newport. After an unusually long voyage of 144 days from England, it was their first landfall, an event which has come to be called "The First Landing". Soon after this landing the English colonists erected a wooden cross and gave thanks for a successful crossing to a new land.[1] In the First Charter of Virginia, King James I devoted parcels of land for the purpose of spreading the Christian religion. The Charter reads in part: "We greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance..."
Captain Newport, with his three ships, Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, and the group of 104 men and boys, subsequently explored inland and established Jamestown which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. (Information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Henry)
Contact information can be found on this link.
Cape Henry Colony
We serve the greater Hampton Roads area of Southeast Virginia, welcoming members/applicants from all areas. Our fall meeting is in Virginia Beach VA (Oct) and our spring meeting is in Hampton VA (April). Our next meeting is April 22 at the Hampton Yacht Club in Hampton, VA
Cape Henry Colony was chartered April 2, 2017 and it has grown to a membership of 17 with several new applications in for approval. We have members from NY, LA, NC as well as VA. In VA we have members from Virginia Beach, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Port Hayward, Poquoson, Newport News, Portsmouth, and Richmond.
Please send Cape Henry inquiries here.
Cape Henry was named on April 26, 1607 in honor of Henry Frederick Stuart, the elder of two sons of King James I of England to survive to the age of 18 and heir-apparent to the throne of Great Britain, by an expedition of the London Company branch of the proprietary Virginia Company headed by Captain Christopher Newport. After an unusually long voyage of 144 days from England, it was their first landfall, an event which has come to be called "The First Landing". Soon after this landing the English colonists erected a wooden cross and gave thanks for a successful crossing to a new land.[1] In the First Charter of Virginia, King James I devoted parcels of land for the purpose of spreading the Christian religion. The Charter reads in part: "We greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance..."
Captain Newport, with his three ships, Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, and the group of 104 men and boys, subsequently explored inland and established Jamestown which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. (Information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Henry)
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