Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688

For many years Virginia had been at peace with the neighboring Indians.[472] The long series of wars which had filled most of the first half of the seventeenth century had broke...

For some years after the Restoration the administration of English colonial affairs had been very lax. The Council of Plantations, which had served as a Colonial Office during t...

There were many who hailed the restoration of the monarchy as the dawn of an era of prosperity and happiness for Virginia. The colony, despite the efforts of some of its people,...

King James I, from the beginning of his reign, was deeply desirous of planting the English nation upon the shores of the New World. It was with envy and alarm that he witnessed...

When the news reached England that the common people of Virginia were in open revolt against their Governor, and had driven him from his capital, the King was not a little surpr...

Sir William Berkeley, who succeeded Governor Wyatt in 1642, is one of the striking figures of American colonial history. Impulsive, brave, dogmatic, unrelenting, his every actio...

In December, 1606, three little vessels--the _Sarah Constant_, the _Discovery_ and the _Goodspeed_--set sail from England under Captain Christopher Newport, for the distant shor...

The people of Virginia sympathized deeply with the London Company in its efforts to prevent the revocation of the charter. The Governor, the Council and the Burgesses gave activ...

Arb. Smith, _Works of Captain John Smith_, Edward Arber. Scobell, _Scobell's Collection of Acts and Ordinances of General Use_. F. R., _The First Republic in America_, Alexander...