Black Dutch
06-11-2006, 03:21 PM
Found this while researching my Chiles family.
"Even though Walter Chiles had entered the political arena and was represented as one of the members of the 1641 Virginia Assembly, his thoughts were on expansion of the Colony and trading with the Indians to the west. In June, 1641, Walter Austin, Rice Hoe, Joseph Johnson and Walter Chiles petitioned the General Assembly "for leave and encouragement to undertake the discovery of a new river of lands bearing west southerly from Appomattox River." Their petition was granted in March, 1642, with a right to enjoy all profit from their adventure for fourteen years. "West southerly" from Appomattox would lead to Pittsylvania and its vicinity, where the Sapony and Occaneechi Indiana lived, who were famed for their trade. "
"Even though Walter Chiles had entered the political arena and was represented as one of the members of the 1641 Virginia Assembly, his thoughts were on expansion of the Colony and trading with the Indians to the west. In June, 1641, Walter Austin, Rice Hoe, Joseph Johnson and Walter Chiles petitioned the General Assembly "for leave and encouragement to undertake the discovery of a new river of lands bearing west southerly from Appomattox River." Their petition was granted in March, 1642, with a right to enjoy all profit from their adventure for fourteen years. "West southerly" from Appomattox would lead to Pittsylvania and its vicinity, where the Sapony and Occaneechi Indiana lived, who were famed for their trade. "