History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of VirginiaCampbell, Charles
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History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia
Campbell, Charles
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
[117:A] Sir Thomas Dale, at one haul with a seine, had caught five
thousand fish, three hundred of which were as large as cod, and the
smallest of the others a kind of salmon-trout, two feet long. He durst
not adventure on the main school, for fear it would destroy his nets.
[120:A] Court and Times of James the First, i. 388.
[120:B] Letter of John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, dated at
London, March, 1617, in Court and Times of James the First, ii. 3.
[121:A] Letter of C. W. Martin, Leeds Castle, England, to Conway
Robinson, Esq., in Va. Hist. Reg, ii. 187.
[121:B] Stith, 136 and 285.
[122:A] Smith, ii. 31; Beverley, B. i. 27.
[122:B] Stith, 144; Beverley, B. i. 34.
[122:C] Of Farmingdale, or Farmingdell, John Randolph of Roanoke said,
in a letter dated 1832: "But the true name is Kippax, called after the
village of Kippax and Kippax Park, adjacent thereto, the seat of my
maternal ancestors, the Blands, of the West Riding of York." Bland, of
Kippax, County York, anciently seated at Bland's Gill, in that county,
was raised to the degree of baronet in 1642. The present representative
(1854) is Thomas Davison Bland, of Kippax Park, Esq. Gill signifies dell
or valley.
[123:A] Inscription of date on Smith's likeness, prefixed to his
history; Stith, 55, 127.
CHAPTER IX.
1617-1618.
Argall, Governor--Condition of Jamestown--Death of Lord
Delaware--Name of Delaware River--Argall's Martial Law--
Brewster's Case--Argall leaves Virginia--His Character--
Powhatan's Death--His Name, Personal Appearance, Dominions,
Manner of Life, Character--Succeeded by Opitchapan.
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