Smith's Hundred

Smith's Hundred

Smythe's Hundred or Smith's Hundred was a colonial English settlement in Virginia. It was one of the original James River plantations. It was settled by the English in 1617 and after 1619, was known as Southampton Hundred. The site was originally home to the Paspahegh Indians. The area is now called Sandy Point in Charles City County, Virginia. The site is located 8 miles above the English fort at Jamestown. Paspahegh villages were located on the south bank of Chickahominy River on the north bank of James River in Charles City County.

The first House of Burgesses in 1619 included two reprensatives for Smythe's Hundred Plantation: Captain Thomas Graves and Walter Shelley.

Smith's Hundred or Southampton Hundred extended from Weyanoke Hundred to the the south bank of Chickahominy River on the north bank of James River. Weyanoke was the next settlement after Jamestown.

St. Mary's Church was established at Smith's Hundred by 1617. The oldest church artifact in the United States is a 1619 Communion cup inscribed "St. Mary's Church in Smith's Hundred in Virginia." The cup is preserved at St. John’s Church in Hampton, Virginia.

The settlement was abandoned after Powhatans' Uprising of 1622.

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