This three piece communion service now at St. John's Church, Elizabeth City Parish, Hampton, Virginia, has the longest history of use in the United States of any church silver. The set, a gift to the church founded in 1618 at Smith's Hundred in Charles City County, was made possible by a legacy in the will (date 1617) of Mrs. Mary Robinson of London. Smith's Hundred renamed Southampton Hundred, 1620, was practically wiped out in the Indian Massacre of 1622. This communion set delivered in 1627 to the Court at Jamestown for safe keeping, supposedly, then was given to the second Elizabeth City Church built on Southampton (now Hampton) River. The inscription in one line on the base of the Chalice is: _The Communion Cupp for Snt Marys Church in Smiths Hundred in Virginia_. Hall marks on all three pieces bear London date-letters for 1618-19. Courtesy Mrs. L. T. Jester and Mrs. P. W. Hiden] [Illustration: The Glebe House, Charles City County, Virginia Courtesy Valentine Museum, Richmond] [Illustration: Glebe House, Gloucester County, Virginia Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce] [Illustration: Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce] [Illustration: Merchant's Hope Church, Prince George County, Virginia Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce] [Illustration: Saint Lukes Church, Isle of Wight County, Virginia Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce] [Illustration: Saint Peters Church, New Kent County, Virginia Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce] [Illustration: Robert Hunt Memorial Plaque Altar-piece. A bronze bas-relief representing the administration of the first Anglican communion in America, June 21, 1607. George T. Brewster, sc. Gorham Co., founders. Courtesy Cook Collection, Valentine Museum] [Illustration: Robert Hunt Memorial Shrine Erected by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia. Presented to the Diocese of Southern Virginia of the Protestant Episcopal Church, June 15, 1922. It was placed in the perpetual care of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Courtesy Cook Collection, Valentine Museum and National Park Service] CHAPTER FIVE The Coming of the Negro A new element came early into the life of Virginia, with permanent and continuous hurt to the welfare of the colony and later to the Commonwealth; an element to which the colony was compelled to adapt itself because it did not have the power to eradicate it after men perceived its danger. It was the element of human slavery.