The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the PeopleEggleston, Edward
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People
Eggleston, Edward
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Virginia colony, the, 8;
emigrants set sail, 25;
code of laws and orders, 26;
character of the emigrants, 27;
arrival, 27;
first meetings with the Indians, 28;
the winter of misery, 29;
fear of attack from the Indians, 30;
food bought of the Indians, 31;
five hundred colonists arrive under Archer and Ratcliffe, 36;
settlements at Nansemond and the falls of the James River, 37;
famine of 1609-'10, 38;
only sixty survivors in June, 1610, 40;
arrival of Gates and Somers, 40;
Jamestown abandoned, 41;
arrival of De la Warr, 41;
De la Warr's government, 42;
flight of De la Warr, 43;
second lease of life, 43;
inefficient government of George Percy, 44;
martial law and slavery under Thomas Dale, 45;
ten men escape, 47;
Dale's services, 47;
private gardens allowed, 48;
tobacco cultivated, 49;
Argall's government and treachery, 50-52;
the Great Charter, 1618, 55, 173;
joy at its receipt, 56;
feared re-establishment of the old tyranny, 56, 70, n. 16;
wives supplied, 57;
the first homes, 58;
whole number of colonists, 58;
four fifths perished, 59;
petition to the king, 65, n. 5;
began raising silkworms, 76;
the silk-grass craze in, 79;
glass and iron works established and failed in, 83;
planted tobacco, 84;
struck root and its life assured, 85;
gained impetus from the king's opposition, 89;
government of, passed to the Crown, 92;
reached its greatest prosperity, 186, n. 8;
inhospitable to Lord Baltimore, 230;
opposes Roman Catholics, 231, 261, n. 9;
reckless living of people and clergy, 231;
expulsion of Lord Baltimore from, 232;
new emigration to, 344;
second generation of native Virginians appears, 345;
better ministers in the parishes and order in the courts, 345.
Virginia colony, map of, by John White, 1586, 8, 21, 22.
Virginia Company, letter of, to Governor Wyatt quoted, 22, n. 5;
code of laws and orders for its colonists, 26;
swindled and robbed, 52;
fall of the lottery, 53;
revival of interest, 53;
records destroyed, 54;
change in conduct of affairs, 55;
cruelty of agents paralleled by those of the East India
Company, 67, n. 9;
overthrow of the company, 70, n. 16;
dissolved in 1624, 85, 89, 92;
organized for trading, 86;
passed out of the control of traders, 87;
King James interferes with the election, 88;
grants two charters and a liberal patent to the Pilgrims, 172;
also leave to establish a provisional government, 173;
Lord Baltimore a member and councilor of, 224, 229, 230;
attempt to take away privileges granted to the colonists, 230.
Virginia Company's Manuscript Records. See MANUSCRIPT RECORDS,
VIRGINIA COMPANY.
Virginia Richly Valued, 79, m.; 95, n. 3.
Virginians obliged to pay quitrents in Maryland, 249.
Vries, David P. de, Voyages, 308, n. 7.
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