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Elizabeth of England died in 1603. There came to the English throne James Stuart, King of Scotland, King now of England and Scotland. In 1604 a treaty of peace ended the long war with Spain. Gone was the sixteenth century; here, though in childhood, was the seventeenth century.
Bacon with an increased army now rode out once more against the Indians. He made a rendezvous on the upper York--the old Pamunkey--and to this center he gathered horsemen until...
6. CHAPTER VI. SIR THOMAS DALEIn a rebuilded Jamestown, Lord De La Warr, of "approved courage, temper and experience," held for a short interval dignified, seigneurial sway, while his restless associates adv...
15. CHAPTER XV. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOODIn the spring of 1689, Virginians flocked to Jamestown to hear William and Mary proclaimed Lord and Lady of Virginia. The next year there entered, as Lieutenant-Governor, Franci...
16. CHAPTER XVI. GEORGIABelow Charleston in South Carolina, below Cape Fear, below Port Royal, a great river called the Savannah poured into the sea. Below the Savannah, past the Ogeechee, sailing sout...
2. CHAPTER II. THE ADVENTURERSWhat was this Virginia to which they were bound? In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the name stood for a huge stretch of littoral, running southward from lands of...
4. CHAPTER IV. JOHN SMITHWith the cool weather began active exploration, the object in chief the gathering from the Indians, by persuasion or trade or show of force, food for the approaching winter. Her...
9. CHAPTER IX. MARYLANDThere now enters upon the scene in Virginia a man of middle age, not without experience in planting colonies, by name George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. Of Flemish ancestry,...
10. CHAPTER X. CHURCH AND KINGDOMVirginia, all this time, with Maryland a thorn in her side, was wrestling with an autocratic governor, John Harvey. This avaricious tyrant sowed the wind until in 1635 he was li...
5. CHAPTER V. THE "SEA ADVENTUREExperience is a great teacher. That London Company with Virginia to colonize had now come to see how inadequate to the attempt were its means and strength. Evidently it might be...
12. CHAPTER XII. NATHANIEL BACONTo add to the uncertainty of life in Virginia, Indian troubles flared up again. In and around the main settlements the white man was safe enough from savage attack. But it was n...
8. CHAPTER VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENTIn November, 1620, there sailed into a quiet harbor on the coast of what is now Massachusetts a ship named the Mayflower, having on board one hundred and two English Non-conform...
3. CHAPTER III. JAMESTOWNIn historians' accounts of the first months at Jamestown, too much, perhaps, has been made of faction and quarrel. All this was there. Men set down in a wilderness, amid Virgini...
14. CHAPTER XIV. THE CAROLINASThe first settlers on the banks of the James River, looking from beneath their hands southward over plain land and a haze of endless forests, called that unexplored country Sout...
11. CHAPTER XI. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATIONOn the 30th of January, 1649, before the palace of Whitehall, Charles the First of England was beheaded. In Virginia the event fell with a shock. Even those within the colony wh...
7. CHAPTER VII. YOUNG VIRGINIAThe choice of Sir Edwyn Sandys as Treasurer of the Virginia Company in 1619 marks a turning-point in the history of both Company and colony. At a moment when James I was aiming...
1. CHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAILElizabeth of England died in 1603. There came to the English throne James Stuart, King of Scotland, King now of England and Scotland. In 1604 a treaty of peace ended the long wa...