Category: History - American
“These things that follow in this ensuing relation are certified by divers letters from Virginia, by men of worth and credit there, written to a friend in England, that for his own and others’ satisfaction was desirous to know these particulars and the present estate of that c...
A learned son of Old Virginia, who is fond of wrapping up a bookful of meaning in a single pithy sentence, has declared that “a true history of tobacco would be the history of E...
15. CHAPTER XV.“St. Augustine, a Spanish garrison, being planted to the southward of us about a hundred leagues, makes Carolina a frontier to all the English settlements on the Main.” These me...
11. CHAPTER XI.The rapid development of maritime commerce in the seventeenth century soon furnished a new occasion for human folly and greed to assert themselves in acts of legislation. Crude...
17. CHAPTER XVII.It is time for our narrative to return to Virginia, where in June, 1710, just a hundred years after the coming of Lord Delaware, there arrived upon the scene one of the best and...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The accession of William and Mary, which wrought so little change in Virginia, furnished the occasion for a revolution in the palatinate of Maryland. To trace the causes of this...
10. CHAPTER X.“These things that follow in this ensuing relation are certified by divers letters from Virginia, by men of worth and credit there, written to a friend in England, that for his...
16. CHAPTER XVI.At no other time in the world’s history has the business of piracy thriven so greatly as in the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth. Its golden age may be s...
26. ii. 226;Smith, John, i. 80-118, 121, 143, 147, 151, 152-156, 159, 164-166, 172, 173; ii. 72; fiery dragons invented by, i. 84; Turks’ heads cut off by, i. 84; name for Cape Ann, i. 88;...
27. part iv. pp. 36-39. The historian was son of Major Robert Beverley[158] Hening, iii. 461; vi. 111. In England in the Middle Ages such mutilation was a common punishment for rape; sometimes, in addition, the culprit’s eyes were put out. See Pol...
12. CHAPTER XII.Between the breaking out of Bacon’s rebellion in the summer of 1676 and the Declaration of Independence, the interval was exactly a hundred years. It was for Virginia a century...
25. ii. 350;his treachery and cruelty, ii. 351-353; Puerto del Principe captured by, ii. 351; Porto Bello captured by, ii. 351; Maracaibo sacked by, ii. 353; Gibraltar, Venezuela, sacked by...
22. ii. 25, 37, 42, 66, 98, 128, 175, 191, 201, 202, 204, 213, 224,London Company, the, i. 62-72, 80, 113, 129, 130; second charter of the, i. 144-146, 192; its third charter, i. 177; its quarter sessions, i. 178; factions form in, i. 182, 188;...
7. CHAPTER XV.6. CHAPTER XIV.2. CHAPTER XI.1. CHAPTER X.9. CHAPTER XVII.8. CHAPTER XVI.24. ii. 12;5. scene 14423. ii. 146;Maryland, i. 63, 145; origin of the name, i. 265; called the Scarlet Woman, i. 295; Puritans in, ii. 137, 150; Quakers in, ii. 138; Catholics in, ii. 150; sheriffs in, ii. 153;...
3. CHAPTER XII.19. ii. 29;18. ii. 237-239;Huguenots, in Florida, i. 17, 18; in Brazil, i. 17; massacre of, i. 18, 23, 73; expelled from France, ii. 160; in Virginia, ii. 204; in Carolina, ii. 274; in South Carolina, ii....
4. CHAPTER XIII.21. i. 201-203;20. ii. 256, 391;censures Rolfe for marrying a princess, i. 171, 193; tries to get on without a parliament, i. 196; his hatred of Raleigh, i. 197; tries to interfere with election of treasurer o...