Francis Moryson

Rather than deposit the passengers at Jamestown, the colony's capital as planned, the ship's crew left them on a small island in Assatague Bay on the Eastern Shore, where they nearly starved, as Norwood later recalled in a book.

When The Virginia Merchant had grounded again in the James River, Berkeley had ordered a search for Moryson's party, possibly because they may have carried a payment of 1000 pounds from Edmund Custis.

[6] Moryson may have also stayed with relatives, for his brother Richard, who died in 1648, had for a decade served as commander of Fort Point Comfort, and left a plantation nearby.

When the late Speaker William Whitby's widow Katherine returned to England in 1657, the Lancaster County Court named Moryson as guardian of her three young brothers, who remained in Virginia.

[10] Moryson returned to his wife and home in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire in 1663, with his nephew Charles succeeding him as commander at Point Comfort.

Morison then acted as the Virginia colony's English agent for a 200 pound sterling annual salary, with particular directions to protest against the grant of the Northern Neck Proprietary to royal favorites.

[13] By 1699 his son Henry was colonel of the Colstream Foot Guards His silver communion service remains, occasionally used by historic Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg.