CAPTAIN GEORGE PERCY.
Captain George Percy, a younger brother of Henry, Earl of Northumberland,
President of the Colony of Virginia from August, 1609, to
May 23, 1610, and from March 28, 1611, to May 19, 1611, and sometime
its faithful treasurer, was born September 4, 1586, and died, unmarried,
in March, 1632. He was "a gentleman of honor and resolution,"
and had served with distinction in the wars of the Low Countries,
and his soldierly qualities were evidenced in the Colony as a leader against
the Indians, as well as his administrative ability as the successor of John
Smith. The portrait of him given in this work is from a faithful copy
of the original at Syon House, the seat of the Duke of Northumberland,
made, in 1853, for the Virginia Historical Society. A mutilated hand in
the portrait, it is said, was the result of a wound received in battle.
