CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Commission of Cabot.... His voyage to America.... Claims of the French to the discovery of North America.... All further views of discovery, or settlement, relinquished by Henry VII.... Renewed by Elizabeth.... Letters patent granted to sir Humphrey Gilbert.... His voyages and death.... Letters patent granted to sir Walter Raleigh.... Voyage of sir Richard Grenville.... Colonists carried back to England by Drake.... Grenville arrives with other colonists.... They are left on Roanoke island, and destroyed by the Indians.... Arrival of captain John White.... White dispatched to England for succour.... Raleigh assigns his patent to sir Thomas Smith and company.... Patent to sir Thomas Gates and others.... Code of laws drawn up for the proposed colony by king James.
CHAPTER II.
Voyage of captain Newport.... Colony settled at Jamestown.... Distress of the colonists.... Influence and activity of captain Smith.... He is captured by the Indians.... Condemned to death by Powhatan.... Saved by Pocahontas.... Returns to Jamestown.... Newport arrives with an additional supply of settlers.... Smith explores the Chesapeak.... Is chosen president.... New charter.... Third voyage of Newport.... Smith sails for Europe.... Condition of the colony.... Determination to abandon the colony.... Stopped by the arrival of lord Delawar, the governor general.... Sir Thomas Dale.... New charter.... Captain Argal seizes Pocahontas.... She marries Mr. Rolfe.... Separate property in lands and labour in some degree established.... Expedition of captain Argal against the French colony at Port Royal.... Against the Dutch at Manhadoes.... Fifty acres of land laid off for each settler.... Tobacco.... Sir Thomas Dale.... Mr. Yeardly.... First colonial assembly.... First arrival of females in the colony.... And of convicts.... First importation of African slaves.... Two councils established.... Prosperity of the colony.... Attempt of the Indians to massacre all the whites.... General war.... Dissension and dissolution of the company.... Colony taken into
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