Thomas West twelfth baron De La Warr (1576–1618)

Biographical Information

• Biography in Alexander Brown, "Sir Thomas West, Third Lord De La Warr," Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries 9 (1883): 18–30
• Biography in Brown, ed., The Genesis of the United States . . . (1897), 2:1048–1049 (with variant birth date of July 9, 1577)
• birth year derived from Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714 . . . (1891–1892), 4:103 (age fifteen on March 9, 1592)
• marriage date from parish register of Saint Dunstan's in the West, London, in Evelyn Philip Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana; or the Annals of the Shirley Family . . . , 2d ed., rev. (1873), 258
• death date of July 7, 1618, in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company of London (1906–1935), 3:419–420
• variant death date of June 7, 1618 in Cole's Escheats, Thomas Cole Collections, vol. 5, Harley 760, p. 421, British Library, London, England
• burial place in Peter Wilson Coldham, ed., "The Voyage of the Neptune to Virginia, 1618–1619, and the Disposition of Its Cargo," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 87 (1979): 32

Primary Sources

• copies of commission and instructions in Papers Relating to the Foundation of Virginia, Add MS 21993, fols. 183–189, British Library, London, England
• copies of commission and instructions in Ashmolean MSS 1147, fols. 191–206, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
• numerous references in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company of London (1906–1935), including instructions on 3:24–29
• De La Warr et al. to company, July 7, 1610, Relation of a Voyage to Virginia, Harleian MSS 7009, fols. 58–61, British Library, London, England
• De La Warr to earl of Salisbury, n.d., received September 1610, Public Record Office, Colonial Office Papers 1/1, fol. 85a, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• De La Warr to earl of Salisbury, June 22, 1611, Public Record Office, State Paper Office 14/64 no. 53, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• John Pory to Sir Dudley Carleton, October 25, 1618, Public Record Office, State Paper Office 14/103/46 (quotation), National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• Mark Nicholls, ed., "George Percy's 'Trewe Relacyon': A Primary Source for the Jamestown Settlement," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113 (2005): 251–257

Secondary Sources

• J. Frederick Fausz, "An 'Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides': England's First Indian War, 1609–1614," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 98 (1990): 3–56

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