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A fleet was dispatched in October to conquer Virginia and Barbados, another rebellious colony. Robert Dennis, Richard Bennett, Thomas Stegge, and William Claiborne were chosen commissioners to take over the government of Virginia once it had been conquered. Bennett and Claiborne were living in Virginia at the time. Part of the fleet arrived in Virginia waters in January 1652.
It was placed under the command of Captain Robert Dennis; and Thomas Stegge, Richard Bennett, and William Claiborne, members of Berkeley's council, were joined with him in a commission to "use their best endeavors to reduce all the plantations within the Bay of Chesopiack."
Bennett and Claiborne were in Virginia at the time, and probably did not know of their appointment till the ships arrived in Virginia. The fleet left England in October, 1651, carrying six hundred men, but on the way Captain Dennis and Captain Stegge were lost in a storm and the command devolved on Captain Edmund Curtis.
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