Errata.
On page 108, it is stated that Lord Dunmore removed the powder from the magazine
at Williamsburg on the 19th of April, 1775. It should read, on the night of the 19th of
April.
On page 146, the age and date of the decease of Gov. Thomas Nelson is stated erroneously.
They are accurately given in his biographical sketch, on page 522.
On page 282, evidence is presented to prove that Shelly, in Gloucester county, was the spot
where Pocahontas rescued Capt. Smith. Since that form was printed we have received a letter
from the author of the article alluded to, in which he says: "From a description of
Werowocomoco, the scene of Smith's rescue, in `Newes from Virginia,' (by Smith) republished
in the last [January 1845] number of the Southern Literary Messenger, and from other circumstances,
I am now satisfied that I was mistaken in supposing the scene of the rescue was
at Shelly, and that it was some miles lower down York river, at or near what is still known as
`Powhatan's Chimney;' which, I take it, was attached to the house built for the Emperor by
the English."
