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soon returned to X'irginia and once more took part in the colony's atYairs, being even em- ployed again against the Indians. He was commissioned a member of the council, Aug. 26, 1624, but probably died before his com- mission reached him.

Farrar or Ferrar, William, was probably William Ferrar, who was a younger son of Nicholas Ferrar, an eminent merchant of Lon- don and a distinguished member of the \'ir- gmia Company, and a brother of John and Nicholas Ferrar, who were both deputy treas- urers of the company, the latter being also M. P. In certain verses of John Ferrar, Jr.. grandson of the elder Nicholas, "William Fer- rar," of X'irginia, is referred to as "honored kinsman." The infant colony had no more use- ful friend than the Ferrar family, and William Ferrar, who is said to have been a barrister, had come himself to Virginia in or before 1621, as in that year he was living there. On March 14, 1625, he was appointed a councillor and his commission was renewed in March, 1627-28. On April 29, 1635, he was one of the councillors who deposed Harvey. He died in or before 1637. leaving descendants.

Tucker, William, was born in 1589 and came to \'irginia in the "Mary and James" in 1610. He became a member of the X'irginia Company in 1620 and was elected to the house ct burgesses in 1623-24. He became a coun- cillor on March 4, 1625-26 and was again in- cluded in the commission to the council under Yeardley, March 22, 1627-28. He was ap- pointed by the king one of the commissioners to supervise the government of \^irginia in 1623. He was for long the principal man in Elizabeth City county and had taken an active part in the defense of the colony against the Indians. In August, 1633, Tucker, then in

Fngland, presented a memorial to the privv council, in which he endeavored to show that Dutch trade with X'irginia, if allowed, would result in great loss to the king and prejudice to the plantation. It is not surprising that 'I ucker, as an English trader, should take this view since the Dutch ottered a much larger price to the planters for their tobacco than what he had been in the habit of paying, and thus would cut the profits of its sale in Europe. Tucker must have died some time before Feb. 17, 1644, when his will was proved in Lon- don. He left three children : William, Thomas and Mary.

Utie, John, first appears in Virginia in Feb., 1O23, when Ensign John L'tie is returned in the census as living at Hog Island with liis wife and son John, then an infant. In the year following, he had a grant of 100 acres on the south side of James river, and in 1629 was burgess for the plantations be- tween Archer's Hope and Martin's Hundred and for Hog Island in 1629-30. On May 29, 1630, Governor Harvey writes that since his ( Harvey's) arrival in \'irginia, he had abided Captain John Utie to the council, and on De- cember 20, 1631, Utie was one of the signers of the accord between the governor and coun- cil. On Oct. 8, 1630, a resolution of the coun- cil stated that Capt. John West and John Utie had "seated" the first settlement on the York river, and ordered that they should each receive 600 acres there for so doing. Later Capt. Utie added largely to his estate in that region and named his whole property "Utie- maria." When Harvey's misgovernment be- came unbearable, Utie was one of the leaders of the opposition to him and took part in the final .scene which ended in the governor's deposition. When the governor struck George