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His will was probated in England in the summer of 1608. Assigned to Virginia from the parish of Heathfield in Sussex in 1606, he arrived with the first settlers in 1607, and his pastoral service extended through early 1608. Burial in the chancel, or elsewhere in the parish church, was and remains customary for founding pastors, although this burial seems as likely because his death occurred so far from his home in England.
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The Reverend Robert Hunt, whose identity seems the most certain, was the first pastor of the Anglican parish at Jamestowne.
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The remains were buried under the chancel, before the altar. The ruins of the later parish are above and to the left of the earlier structure. Representation of the first Jamestowne parish church. While not the first Englishmen to die in the nascent American colony, they were nearly so, probably interred in Virginia soil in 16, more than a decade before the Mayflower arrived on American shores these men were certainly among the colony’s founders. The announcement Tuesday of the (probable) identification of the remains of four men buried under the chancel of the first parish church at Jamestowne, Virginia – first discovered in 2010 and unearthed in 2013 – has now made the front page of The Wall Street Journal and appeared in other leading news outlets. Seal of the King of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, as President of the Virginia Council.