HERBERT JEFFREYS.
Colonel Herbert Jeffreys was commissioned Governor of the Colony
of Virginia, October 9, 1676, and Captain Robert Walter appointed his
Deputy the following day, but the latter died without entering upon
office, and Jeffreys was recommissioned Lieutenant-Governor, November
11, 1676. He entered upon his office, April 27, 1677. He effected a
treaty of peace with the Indians (who had long held the Colony in
terror) by which each town agreed to pay three arrows for their land,
and twenty beaver skins annually for protection. Jeffreys died December
30, 1678, and was succeeded by Sir Henry Chicheley.
