Walter Shelley sailed to the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia before 1619. Walter Shelley was one of the original subscribers to the London Company. He was a member of the First Legislative Assembly in America and sat for Smith's Hundred 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 establishe ...

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

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