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... Thomas Dale , High Marshal . Sir Thomas Gates , Governor ... VIII . - Pocahontas visits England . Her Death . Yeardley , Deputy Governor 92 112 IX . - Argall , Governor . His Administration . Powhatan's Death .. 124 X. - Sir Walter ...
... Thomas Dale , High Marshal . Sir Thomas Gates , Governor ... VIII . - Pocahontas visits England . Her Death . Yeardley , Deputy Governor 92 112 IX . - Argall , Governor . His Administration . Powhatan's Death .. 124 X. - Sir Walter ...
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... - Daniel Boone ...... 595 LXXIX . - Second Virginia Convention . Henry's Resolutions and Speech ..... 599 LXXX . - Thomas Jefferson 603 CHAPTER LXXXI . - Dunmore removes the Gunpowder . Revolutionary SUMMARY OF CONTENTS . XV.
... - Daniel Boone ...... 595 LXXIX . - Second Virginia Convention . Henry's Resolutions and Speech ..... 599 LXXX . - Thomas Jefferson 603 CHAPTER LXXXI . - Dunmore removes the Gunpowder . Revolutionary SUMMARY OF CONTENTS . XV.
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... . , of Berkley . Thomas Nelson ...... 652 LXXXIX . - Richard Henry Lee . Francis Lightfoot Lee . Carter Braxton ..... 659 XC . - Dunmore retires from Virginia . Events of the War in the North . Death of General Hugh Mercer ...
... . , of Berkley . Thomas Nelson ...... 652 LXXXIX . - Richard Henry Lee . Francis Lightfoot Lee . Carter Braxton ..... 659 XC . - Dunmore retires from Virginia . Events of the War in the North . Death of General Hugh Mercer ...
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... Thomas Cavendish , afterwards renowned as a circumnavigator of the globe ; Thomas Hariot , a friend of Raleigh and a profound mathematician ; and John Withe , an artist , whose pencil supplied materials for the illustra- tion of the ...
... Thomas Cavendish , afterwards renowned as a circumnavigator of the globe ; Thomas Hariot , a friend of Raleigh and a profound mathematician ; and John Withe , an artist , whose pencil supplied materials for the illustra- tion of the ...
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... Thomas Smith , Treasurer -Government of the Colony - Three Vessels under Newport sail for Virginia -The Voyage -- Enter Chesapeake Bay - Ascend the James River - The Eng- lish entertained by the Chief of the Quiqoughcohanocks - Landing ...
... Thomas Smith , Treasurer -Government of the Colony - Three Vessels under Newport sail for Virginia -The Voyage -- Enter Chesapeake Bay - Ascend the James River - The Eng- lish entertained by the Chief of the Quiqoughcohanocks - Landing ...
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Page 118 - You did promise Powhatan what was yours should be his, and he the like to you; you called him father being in his land a stranger, and by the same reason so must I do you...
Page 273 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 493 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 316 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 133 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Page 338 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this• day seven-night I was witness of: the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, etc.
Page 616 - That these Resolves be in full force and virtue until instructions from the Provincial Congress regulating the jurisprudence of the province shall provide otherwise, or the legislative body of Great Britain resign its unjust and arbitrary pretensions with respect to America.
Page 99 - I'd divide And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 218 - That Virginia shall be free from all taxes, customs and impositions whatsoever, and none to be imposed on them without consent of the Grand assembly; and soe that neither fforts nor castle bee erected or garrisons maintained without their consent.
Page 293 - No, may it please your honor, we will not hurt a hair of your head, nor of any other man's; we are come for a commission to save our lives from the Indians, which you have so often promised, and now we will have it before we go.