An Assembly had been held in March, 1624, and its acts are preserved: they are brief and simple, coming directly to the point, without the redundancy of modern statutes; and refer mainly to agriculture, the church establishment, and defence against the Indians.[177:B] The following is a list of the members of this early Assembly:—
| Sir Francis Wyat, Knt., Governor, etc. | ||
| Captain Francis West, | John Pott, | |
| Sir George Yeardley, | Captain Roger Smith, | |
| George Sandys, Treasurer, | Captain Ralph Hamor, | |
| And John Pountis, of the Council. | ||
| BURGESSES. | BURGESSES. | |
| William Tucker, | Nathaniel Bass, | |
| Jabez Whitakers, | John Willcox, | |
| William Peeine, | Nicolas Marten, | |
| Raleigh Crashaw, | Clement Dilke, | |
| Richard Kingsmell, | Isaac Chaplin, | |
| Edward Blany, | John Chew, | |
| Luke Boyse, | John Utie, | |
| John Pollington, | John Southerne, | |
| Nathaniel Causey, | Richard Bigge, | |
| Robert Adams, | Henry Watkins, | |
| Thomas Harris, | Gabriel Holland, | |
| Richard Stephens, | Thomas Morlatt, | |
| R. Hickman, Clerk. | ||
FOOTNOTES:
[170:A] Stith, 243, 268.
[170:B] Court and Times of James the First, ii. 389.
[170:C] Stith calls him Spilman; Burk, Spiller. (See Belknap, art. Wyat.)
[171:A] His father, of the same name, a London merchant, was one of the leading stockholders in the Virginia Company. Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Edwin Sandys, and the like, were frequent guests at his table.
[171:B] Belknap, art. Wyat, in note; Foster's Miscellanies, 368.