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Walter Shelley sailed to the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia before 1619.
Walter Shelley was one of the original subscribers to the London Company.[1] He was a member of the First Legislative Assembly in America and sat for Smith's Hundred when they met at Jamestown on July 30, 1619.[2] His name appears on a monument to the first House of Burgesses which stands at Jamestown today.
Shelley died of fever in 1619, very shortly after the Assembly began.[2] It was thought by most scholars that he was related to the Percy Bysshe Shelley family.[1]
- ^ a b Bruce, Philip Alexander (1927). Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Higher Planter Class, Together with a Description of the Habits, Customs, and Diversions of the People. p. 35.
- ^ a b American Historical Association (1894). Writings on American History, pp. 307-08. Government Printing Office.