Walter Shelley sailed to the English colony at

Jamestown, Virginia The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James (Powhatan) River about southwest of the center of modern Williamsburg. It was ...

before 1619. Walter Shelley was one of the original subscribers to the

London Company The London Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of London, was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N. History Origins The territor ...

. He was a member of the First Legislative Assembly in America and sat for

Smith's Hundred Smith's Hundred or Smythe's Hundred was a colonial English settlement in the Province of Virginia, in the modern United States of America. It was one of the original James River plantations named after the treasurer of the Virginia Company, Sir Tho ...

when they met at Jamestown on July 30, 1619.American Historical Association (1894)
'' Writings on American History''
pp. 307-08. Government Printing Office. His name appears on a monument to the first

House of Burgesses The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia. With the creation of the House of Burgesses in 1642, the General Assembly, which had been established ...

which stands at Jamestown today. Shelley died of fever in 1619, very shortly after the Assembly began.

References

1619 deaths Year of birth unknown Virginia colonial people People from Jamestown, Virginia {{Virginia-politician-stub