William Ferrar

William Ferrar is a physician and surgeon in service of Samuel Jordan, and is the older brother of Nicholas Ferrar, a successful scholar, businessman and a prominent figure in the Virginia Company.

Virginia Company
The Ferrar family is a major investor of the Virginia Company, and as a part of the family's ambitions William was sent to the colony after finishing his education as a physician. William, who struggled during his education and ever lived in the shadow of his younger brother, obeyed his father's wishes reluctantly. In Jamestown he failed to enjoy his new life, so he turned to drinking, racking up quite the debts and negative reputation in the process. Eventually Samuel Jordan offered to pay his debts in return for William's services as a surgeon in Jordan's fighting pit near Beggar's Bush. William accepted and though the drinking didn't exactly stop, he at least found a friend in Jordan's wife Cicely, whom he regularly assists in taking care of her infant daughter Temperance.