Identifier: illustratedhisto00deni_0 (find matches)
Title: An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history of the United States to the present time ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Denison, John Ledyard, 1826-1906
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn., H. Bill
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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general enthusiasm kindled throughout the nation, enabled the company to equipan expedition of nine vessels and five hundred emigrants. Manydistinguished individuals were ready to embark their fortunes in thisenterprise; and, with the consent of the old members, the companywas remodelled on a larger scale and under a new charter. Theterritory was augmented from a hundred miles of coast to fourhundred. Lord Delaware, distinguished by his talents and virtues, wasnamed governor for life ; and, as he could not depart immediately?Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Summers were to rule in themean time. The vessels set sail on the 15th of May, 1609, andseven arrived on the 11th of August, at Jamestown; but unfortu-nately they had encountered a violent storm, in which two, havingon board Gates and Summers, were separated and thrown upon theBermudas. In their absence. Smith justly claimed the rule; butuiany of the new comers, being bankrupts, spendthrifts, or others OHARACTEK Of THE SETTLERS. 219
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POCA-HO-STTA-S RBSCUINS CAPTAIN SMITH. sent abroad for misconduct at home, were indisposed to obey him. Forsome time, total anarchy reigned ; but its evils at length became sogreat, that he was entreated to resume the government. He evertedhimself to settle the emigrants advantageously, of whom two parties,a hundred and twenty each, were settled at Nansemond, and at theFalls of James River. Both, however, mismanaged their affairs,quarrelled with the Indians, and lost a number of their men; whilethey rejected all his efforts to remedy these disorders. In returninafrom the latter place, a bag of gunpowder burst and severely man-gled his person, so that he reached home in extreme torture. Herehe was told that plots were forming against his life. Unable, in hisdebilitated state, to struggle against so many difficulcies, he returned 220 SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA. to England, quitting for ever the colony which had been so mucfcindebted to him. He received at home neither honours nor rewards.Th

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