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._

Sec. 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 23. They take off the Christians that remained there, and design, by way of Newfoundland, to return to England, 27 Lord Delaware arrives and turns them back, 27 24. Sir Thomas Dale arrives governor, with supplies, 27 25. Sir Thomas Gates arrives governor, 28 He plants out a new plantation, 28 26. Pocahontas made prisoner, and married to Mr. Rolfe, 28 27. Peace with the Indians, 28 28. Pocahontas brought to England by Sir Thomas Dale, 29 29. Captain Smith's petition to the queen in her behalf, 29 30. His visit to Pocahontas, 32 An Indian's account of the people of England, 32 31. Pocahontas' reception at court, and death, 33 32. Captain Yardley's government, 34 33. Governor Argall's good administration, 34 34. Powhatan's death, and successors, 34 Peace renewed by the successors, 34 35. Captain Argall's voyage from Virginia to New England, 35 36. He defeats the French northward of New England, 35 37. An account of those French, 36 38. He also defeats the French in Acadia, 36 39. His return to England, 36 Sir George Yardley, governor, 36 40. He resettles the deserted plantation, and held the first assembly, 36 The method of that assembly, 37 41. The first negroes carried to Virginia, 37 42. Land apportioned to adventurers, 37 43. A salt work and iron work in Virginia, 38 44. Sir Francis Wyat made governor, 38 King James, his instructions in care of tobacco, 38 Captain Newport's plantation, 38 45. Inferior courts in each plantation, 39 Too much familiarity with the Indians, 39 46. The massacre by the Indians, anno 1622, 39 47. The discovery and prevention of it at Jamestown, 40 48. The occasion of the massacre, 41 49. A plot to destroy the Indians, 42 50. The discouraging effects of the massacre, 43 51. The corporation in England are the chief cause of misfortunes in Virginia, 43 52. The company dissolved, and the colony taken into the king's hands, 44