A history of Virginia from its discovery and settlement by Europeans to the present time |
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 | A history of Virginia |  |
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| 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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