Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625Lyon Gardiner Tyler C. Scribner's Sons, 1907 - 478 pages |
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... felled and Corn planted • • PAGE • 1 3 5 6 9 11 · 13 • 15 • 18 • · • 2225 19 20 25 27 • 32 • 33 35 • 36 37 · 37 39 · · 44 • 47 50 51 52 52 52 53 55 60 61 64 65 Punishment of thieving Indians Pocahontas visits the Fort Captain Nelson ix.
... felled and Corn planted • • PAGE • 1 3 5 6 9 11 · 13 • 15 • 18 • · • 2225 19 20 25 27 • 32 • 33 35 • 36 37 · 37 39 · · 44 • 47 50 51 52 52 52 53 55 60 61 64 65 Punishment of thieving Indians Pocahontas visits the Fort Captain Nelson ix.
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Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Punishment of thieving Indians Pocahontas visits the Fort Captain Nelson returns to England • DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLONIE INTRODUCTION Title and Prefaces of the Description Indian ...
Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Punishment of thieving Indians Pocahontas visits the Fort Captain Nelson returns to England • DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLONIE INTRODUCTION Title and Prefaces of the Description Indian ...
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... Pocahontas PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY , 1619 INTRODUCTION List of Burgesses • Captain Martin's Plantation denied Representation Committees appointed Petitions to the Authorities in England The Great Charter ; the Price of ...
... Pocahontas PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY , 1619 INTRODUCTION List of Burgesses • Captain Martin's Plantation denied Representation Committees appointed Petitions to the Authorities in England The Great Charter ; the Price of ...
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... Pocahontas visits England • · • Captain Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Death of Pocahontas The Government of Captain Samuel Argall Lord Delaware dies on the Voyage over Murder of Killingbeck and of William Fairfax's Family The State of ...
... Pocahontas visits England • · • Captain Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Death of Pocahontas The Government of Captain Samuel Argall Lord Delaware dies on the Voyage over Murder of Killingbeck and of William Fairfax's Family The State of ...
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... Pocahontas has led some to doubt the truth of his assertions ; but it appears that Smith omitted any particular mention of several other prominent incidents since his departure from London , affecting him per- sonally . He has nothing ...
... Pocahontas has led some to doubt the truth of his assertions ; but it appears that Smith omitted any particular mention of several other prominent incidents since his departure from London , affecting him per- sonally . He has nothing ...
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Adventurers amongst arrived arrowes Assembly barge better boats brought bushels businesse called Canow Captaine Argall Captaine Martin Captaine Newport Captaine Smith cause Colony copper Corne desired divers doth England English extreame farre feare fish generall Governour hath himselfe honour hundred Indians inhabited James citty James Towne John John Rolfe Kecoughtan King labour land live Lord Lordship Master Matie miles Monacans moneths Nathaniel Powell neere night Nuport Opechancanough Pamaunke Paspahegh Patawomek peece perswaded Pinnace plant Plantation Planters Pocahontas pounds Powhatan present President provision rest returned river Salvages Samuel Argall Scrivener selfe sent severall shew shipps ships shore shot Sir George Sir Thomas Dale Sir Thomas Smith slaine souldiers swords thereof thing Thomas Gates Tobacco trade trees twenty tyme unto victuall Virginia Company warre Werowance William woods yeere
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Page 10 - ... faire meddowes and goodly tall Trees, with such Fresh-waters running through the woods, as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof.
Page 22 - ... salt, at a low tide full of slime and filth, which was the destruction of many of our men.
Page 81 - Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, for large and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for mans habitation being of our constitutions, were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people.
Page 131 - Fort, but procured his owne libertie, and got himselfe and his company such estimation amongst them, that those Salvages admired him more then their owne Quiyouckosucks.
Page 156 - All these things were carried so pleasantly as within a weeke they became Masters : making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell ; but the Axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe to drowne the eccho...
Page 14 - Hee went formost, and all the rest of his people and our selves followed him up a steepe Hill where his Palace was settled. Wee passed through the Woods in fine paths, having most pleasant Springs which issued from the Mountaines : Wee also went through the goodliest Corne fieldes that ever was seene in any ny -1X Countrey. When wee came to Rapahannos Towne, hee 1688.] entertained us in good humanitie.
Page 12 - When we came first a Land they made a dolefull noise, laying their faces to the ground, scratching the earth with their nailes. We did thinke that they had beene at their idolatry. When they had ended their Ceremonies, they went into their houses and brought out mats and laid upon the ground, the chiefest of them sate all in a rank ; the meanest sort brought...
Page 326 - That some ten years ago being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their...
Page 105 - Beyond the mountaines from whence is the head of the river Patawomeke, the Salvages report inhabit their most mortall enemies, the Massawomekes, upon a great salt water, which by all likelihood is either some part of Cannada, some great lake, or some inlet of some sea that falleth into the South sea.
Page 166 - Think you I am so simple, not to know it is better to eat good meat, lie well, and sleep quietly with my women and children, laugh and be merry with you, have copper, hatchets, or what I want being your friend...