Excerpt from Williamsburg, the Old Colonial Capital For twenty-three years after the landing at Jamestown, the English settlements in Virginia were confined to the valley Of the James and. To Accomac over the bay. Nevertheless, the need Of a colony on York River, to act as a curb to the Indian tribes, seated on a branch Of the York River, known as Pamun key River, had long been recognized. As far back as I61 I, Sir Thomas Dale, then governor, in a letter to the Earl Of Salis bury, recommended the establishment Of a ...
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Excerpt from Williamsburg, the Old Colonial Capital For twenty-three years after the landing at Jamestown, the English settlements in Virginia were confined to the valley Of the James and. To Accomac over the bay. Nevertheless, the need Of a colony on York River, to act as a curb to the Indian tribes, seated on a branch Of the York River, known as Pamun key River, had long been recognized. As far back as I61 I, Sir Thomas Dale, then governor, in a letter to the Earl Of Salis bury, recommended the establishment Of a fortified settlement at Chiskiack, some twenty miles from Point Comfort. But probably on account Of the peace concluded in 1616 with the Indians by Dale, nothing was immediately done in furtherance Of the suggestion. Chiskiack attracted attention again after the appalling massacre of 1622, when, Of the settlers in Martin's Hundred, Situated opposite on the James, seventy-three were slain, and the plantation there was so alarmed and weakened that it was temporarily abandoned. Then, in 1623, Governor Wyatt and his council wrote to the Earl Of Southampton that they had under consideration a plan Of winning the forest by running a pale between the James and York from Martin's Hundred to Chiskiack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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