The Birth of the Nation, Jamestown, 1607Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice
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The Birth of the Nation, Jamestown, 1607
Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Delaware's Wise Rule. A Nemesis for Traitors. Delaware's 294-313
return to England. Strachey's Manuscripts. Friendly Indians.
The Marriage of Pocahontas to Kocoun. Indian Marriage Customs.
The Costume of an Indian Princess. Human Sacrifices to Okeus.
Pocahontas held for Ransom. John Rolfe's Letter to Governor
Dale. The Baptism of Pocahontas. Her Marriage to John Rolfe.
"The Lady Rebekah"
CHAPTER XX
Governor Dale asks in Marriage Powhatan's Youngest Daughter. 314-321
Powhatan's Reception of the Messenger. The Alliance Politely
Declined. The Last Years of the Old Emperor. His Successor.
The Great Massacre. Jamestown saved by Chanco. The capture and
Death of Opechancanough
CHAPTER XXI
Pocahontas at Court. Smith writes the Queen of her Goodness to 322-331
the Colony. Her Dignified Deportment. King James's Jealousy.
Pocahontas reproaches John Smith. Her Death and Burial. Her
Son and his Descendants. John Randolph of Roanoke
CHAPTER XXII
The Patriots of Jamestown. Their Services as Founders of the 332-339
Freedom of America. Address of Hon. Roger A. Pryor. The Town
after Seat of Government was removed to Williamsburg. The Old
Graveyard. The Lone Cypress. The Gift of Jamestown, by Mr. and
Mrs. Barney, to the Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities. Gift of the Government to Women of the
Association. Restoration by Them. The Old Town Exhumed. Relics
found beneath the Mould of More than Two Centuries
CHAPTER XXIII
Legends of the Old Stone House: Pocahontas; Smith; Blackbeard 340-352
and his Hidden Treasure; Nathaniel Bacon. Conclusion
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The First English Church in America Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Queen Elizabeth 8
King James I. 20
Old London--1607 44
Memorial erected by Clergy of the Episcopal Church at 52
Jamestown Island
"The trembling Indian in his canoe hurried past it 68
with bated breath"
Smith's Island, where John Smith was captured by the 124
Indians
The Mirror in the Woods 138
"She rushed forward, and laid her own head upon his" 144
King James and a Petitioner 162
Powhatan Oak, over Three Hundred Years Old 166
Old Fort--Jamestown Island 180
"The newly crowned potentate started with terror" 200
"'Powhatan comes to kill you all'" 222
Captain George Percy 258
St. Luke's, near Smithfield, built in 1623. The 266
Oldest Protestant Church in America
Captain John Smith. From the Bust by Baden-Powell 270
Lord Delaware 286
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