Twenty-two burgesses were elected to that Assembly, two each from eleven designated settlement areas in the colony.
Yeardley designated his secretary, John Pory, a council member, as Speaker of the General Assembly.
Its legal standing was put in doubt when the London Company was dissolved in May 1624 and Virginia came under the direct administration of the Crown.
[1][2] A crisis developed in the spring of 1635 when an unpopular governor, Sir John Harvey, was arrested and deported to England by his own Council.
However, they maneuvered to elect one of their own, Thomas Stegg, as the first Speaker of the new House when it convened in March 1643.