| CHAPTER I. |
Obligations of the world to Columbus; His claim to the original discovery
of America disputed; The Northmen; Madoc of Wales;
Merit of Columbus; Henry Seventh of England; Voyage of John
Cabot; of Sebastian; Causes of delay in colonizing North America;
Henry Eighth; Edward Sixth; Mary; Character of Elizabeth; Her
patent to Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Sir Walter Raleigh; Voyage of
Amidas and Barlow; They land on Wococon Island; Charms of the
country; Manners of the natives; Return to England; Elizabeth
bestows a name; Sir Richard Grenville; Attempt at settlement;
Ralph Lane's excursion up the Chowan River; Thomas Heriot; Conflicts
with the Indians; Arrival of Sir Francis Drake; The settlement
deserted; Grenville's small colony; John White arrives; Birth
of Virginia Dare; White returns to England; Raleigh extends to
others the benefit of his patent; Governor White comes again to
Roanoke, but finds not the settlers; Their probable fate; Death of
Grenville; of Walter Raleigh |
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| CHAPTER II. |
Elizabeth dies; Is succeeded by James I.; His character; Progress of
liberty in England; General activity and excitement; Desire for
colonizing; Peace with Spain; One of its effects; Bartholomew Gosnold;
His successful voyage; Richard Hakluyt; Charter granted
by King James to the London and Plymouth Companies; Preparations
for the voyage; The King's articles of instruction; Their prominent
traits considered; First colonists to Virginia; Cavaliers;
Gentlemen; Few labourers or mechanics; They sail from Blackwall;
Are driven to Chesapeake Bay; The River Powhatan; Jamestown;
Captain John Smith; His early history; Secret correspondence;
Three duels; Smith a captive in Tartary; His arrival in
Virginia; Visit to King Powhatan; Distress of the colonists; President
Wingfield; The aborigines; Tribes in Virginia; Giants; Manners
of the natives; Women; Learning and oratory; Religion;
Government and laws; Their gradual decay in America; Conflict
of Smith with the savages; Approach of winter |
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| CHAPTER III. |
Smith's excursion up the Chickahominy River; He is captured by the
natives; Indian superstition; The prisoner conducted in triumph
through several tribes; Brought before Powhatan; The Princess
Pocahontas; She saves the life of the captive; Smith's return to
Jamestown; Levitical law; Arrival of Newport; Blue beads and
Indian corn; A river of gold; Sand and cedar; Smith's first voyage
of exploration; The Potomac; An adventure; The second voyage;
The Susquehanoc Indians; Fight with the Rappahannocs; The
Nansemonds; Return; Smith made president; Newport's third arrival;
Coronation of Powhatan; Jealousy and discord among the
settlers; Disappointment of the London Council; Smith's letter; He
visits Powhatan; Danger of the English; They are preserved by
Pocahontas; Heroism of Smith; His influence with the savages;
German traitors; Arrival of Argal; Second Charter of King James;
Lord Delaware governor; A fleet for Virginia; A storm; Sir George
Somers wrecked on the Bermuda Islands; He sails for Virginia; A
scene of wretchedness; Materials for the colony; Discord; Sedition;
Accident to Smith; He leaves Virginia; Idleness; Profligacy;
Disease; Starvation; Death; Arrival of Somers; The colonists
abandon the settlement; They meet Lord Delaware in the river;
Return to Jamestown, |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
Lord Delaware; Death of Sir George Somers; The governor's health
fails; Sir Thomas Dale, High Marshal of Virginia; Sir Thomas
Smith's martial law; Its expediency; Third Charter of James; The
London Company; Seizure of Pocahontas; Her intermarriage with
Rolfe; Peace with the Indians; Argal captures Port Royal; Baptism
of Pocahontas; Tobacco; Dale embarks for England, accompanied
by Rolfe and Pocahontas; Captain Smith and his preserver; Death
of Pocahontas; Her descendants; Uttamatomakkin; Argal deputy
governor; Death of Lord Delaware; of Raleigh; of King Powhatan;
Argal's tyranny; First General Assembly; Convicts sent to
Virginia; Dispute with King James concerning tobacco; Negro
slaves introduced; Women imported; Sir Francis Wyatt; Opecancanough;
Indian massacre; Its disastrous effects; King James oppresses
the London Company; Their noble independence; Royal
commissioners in Virginia; Writ of quo warranto; Earliest laws of
the Assembly; King dissolves the London Company; He prepares
to issue new laws for Virginia; His death |
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| CHAPTER V. |
Character of Charles I.; His Proclamation concerning the colony; The
representative government continues; Indian war; Death of Sir
George Yeardley; Proposals of the King; Rejected by the Assembly;
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore; He refuses to take the
oath of supremacy in Virginia; Sir John Hervey; Good and evil of
his administration; Settlement of Maryland; William Claiborne;
Hervey deposed; Restored by the King; Tobacco laws; Sir William
Berkeley governor; His character; Prosperous state of the colony;
The Established Church; Intolerant laws; Indian hostilities; capture
of Opecancanough; His death; Increase of population; Shipping;
Rebellion in England; Execution of Charles I.; Ordinance of
the Long Parliament; Virginia remains loyal; Fleet sent to subdue
her; Resistance; Honourable surrender; Independence under the
Protectorate; Samuel Matthews governor; His death; Election of
Sir William Berkeley by the Assembly; Restoration of Charles II. |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
Joy of the colonists because of the Restoration; Their folly; Quakers
in America; Laws against them; New commission from the King
to Berkeley; Navigation laws enacted by the English Parliament;
Their oppressive effect in Virginia; An Assembly of royalists;
Conspiracy of the Oliverians; Promptly crushed by the governor;
Grant of Charles to Culpeper and Arlington; Assembly in vain
seeks redress; Expedition of Captain Batte; Grievances of the
colony; General discontent; Indian murders; Nathaniel Bacon; His
character; He is chosen by the people to lead them against the
Indians; Asks a commission from the governor, which is not
granted; Marches against the savages; A new Assembly; Bacon is
made captive; He is released; Laws of a free legislature; Berkeley
still refuses a commission; Bacon's conduct; Governor leaves
Jamestown; Rebellion; Berkeley flies to Accomac; Meeting of Virginians
at Middle Plantation; Bacon marches against the Indians;
Battle of Bloody Run; Bland  and Carver; Berkeley again in Jamestown;
Advance of the insurgents; Conflict; Defeat of the royalists;
Jamestown burned by Bacon; His successes; His death; Despondency
of the insurgents; Execution of Thomas Hansford; Of Wilford;
Of William Drummond; Martial law; Trial by jury; Execution
of Giles  Bland ; Death of Lawrence; Berkeley's thirst for revenge;
Assembly interferes; Death of Sir William Berkeley; Virginia
before and after the rebellion |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
Royal commissioners; Robert Beverley persecuted; Lord Culpeper
arrives; His proceedings; His covetousness; Act of cohabitation;
Destruction of tobacco plants; Severe measures against the rioters;
Robert Beverley's wrongs; Assembly deprived of judicial power;
Howard of Effingham; Treaty with the Five Nations; Death of
Charles II.; Accession and character of James II.; Rebellion of
Monmouth; White slaves; Revolution in England; William, Prince
of Orange; Francis Nicholson governor; College of William and
Mary; Sir Edmund Andros in Virginia; Nicholson again governor;
Capture of a pirate; Nicholson's ambitious schemes; His proceeding
in New York; Edward Nott; Alexander Spotswood governor;
He promotes the welfare of the colony; His expanded views; Expedition
across the Alleghany Mountains; Knights of the Golden
Horseshoe; Blackbeard the pirate; Spotswood superseded; William
Gooch governor; Expedition against Carthagena; Death of Commissary
Blair; Of Colonel William Byrd; Governor Gooch's charge
to a grand jury; Capitol destroyed by fire; Departure of Gooch;
Robert Dinwiddie governor |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
Improvement in the colonies; Progress of knowledge; Benjamin Franklin;
French and English possessions in America; Encroachments of
the French; Ohio Company; French fort on the River Le Bœuf;
George Washington; Sent by Dinwiddie to the French commander
on the Ohio; His danger; His return; Preparations for war; Fort
Duquesne; Washington advances; Defeat and death of M. Jumonville;
The Great Meadows; Fort Necessity attacked by French and
Indians; Gallant defence; Honourable capitulation; Dinwiddie's Wild
plans; La Force, the prisoner; Major-General Edward Braddock;
His army marches from Fort Cumberland; Difficulties of the way;
Washington's advice; Braddock's confidence; Passage of the Monongahela;
A battle in the forest; Total defeat of the English army;
Danger of Washington; Death of General Braddock; Colonel Dunbar
retires to Philadelphia; Indian cruelties on the frontier of Virginia;
Prowess of Samuel Bingaman; Washington's distress; Lord
Loudon commander-in-chief; Governor Dinwiddie leaves the colony;
His character; Francis Fauquier; William Pitt, Prime Minister of
England; General Forbes marches against Fort Duquesne; Defeat
of Major Grant; Heroism of Captain Bullet and his men; Capture
of Fort Duquesne; Burial of the remains of Braddock's army; Campaigns
of 1758 and 1759; Successes of England; Peace of Paris
in 1763 |
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