The History of Virginia, in Four Parts. Beverley Robert

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СКАЧАТЬ The first child born there of Christian parentage, 14 Third settlement, incorporated by the name of the city of Raleigh, in Virginia, 14 Mr. White, their governor, sent home to solicit for supplies, 14 9. John White's second voyage; last attempts to carry them recruits, 14 His disappointment, 15 10. Capt. Gosnell's voyage to the coast of Cape Cod, 15 11. The Bristol voyages, 16 12. A London voyage, which discovered New York, 16

       CHAPTER II.

      Discovery of Chesapeake bay by the corporation of London adventurers; their colony at Jamestown, and proceedings during the government by an elective president and council.

§13.	The companies of London and Plymouth obtain charters,	18
14.	Captain Smith first discovers the capes of Virginia,	19
15.	He plants his first colony at Jamestown,	20
	An account of Jamestown island,	20
16.	He sends the ships home, retaining one hundred and eight men to keep possession,	20
17.	That colony's mismanagement,	21
	Their misfortunes upon discovery of a supposed gold mine,	21
18.	Their first supplies after settlement,	22
	Their discoveries, and experiments in English grain,	22
	An attempt of some to desert the colony,	22
19.	The first Christian marriage in that colony,	23
	They make three plantations more,	23

       CHAPTER III.

      History of the colony after the change of their government, from an elective president to a commissionated governor, until the dissolution of the company.

§20.	The company get a new grant, and the nomination of the governors in themselves,	24
	They send three governors in equal degree,	24
	All three going in one ship, are shipwrecked at Bermudas,	24
	They build there two small cedar vessels,	24
21.	Captain Smith's return to England,	25
	Mismanagements ruin the colony,	25
	The first massacre and starving time,	25
	The first occasion of the ill character of Virginia,	26
	The five hundred men left by Captain Smith reduced to sixty in six months time,	26
22.	The three governors sail from Bermudas, and arrive at Virginia,	26
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