10 Facts About Francis Wyatt

Governor Wyatt spearheaded trading and expansion of the Virginia colony.

Francis Wyatt was born at Boxley Manor in Kent, and attended St Mary Hall, Oxford, and Gray's Inn.

Francis Wyatt had dealings with Nemattanew and leader Opechancanough, during a time of strife and leading up to the Indian massacre of 1622.

In 1624, Francis Wyatt resided in Jamestown with his wife, his brother Haute, and seventeen servants.

Francis Wyatt was appointed governor again in 1639, sailing from England to take up his post.

Francis Wyatt arranged the purchase of the home of the previous governor to use as the first designated "state house" of the colony, the government previously having met in the church.

Francis Wyatt returned to England after his second term as governor and died in Boxley.

Sir Francis Wyatt organized the General Assembly which had been called in 1619.

Sir Francis Wyatt caused its privileges to be embodied in a written constitution, the first of its kind in the New World.

Francis Wyatt's grandfather was Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger, who had led the Kent faction of Wyatt's rebellion to the Spanish marriage of Queen Mary in support of Lady Elizabeth, and was executed for treason as a result.