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INTRODUCTION. 29 CHAPTER II. Voyage of captainNewport.... Colony settled at Jamestown ....Distress of the colonists.. ..Influence and activity of captain Smith.. ..He is captured by the Indians... .Con- demned to death by Powhatan.... Saved by Pocahontas.... Returns to Jamestown.. ..Newport arrives with an addi- tional supply of settlers.. ..Smith explores the Chesa- peak.,...Is chosen president... .New charter.. ..Third voy- age of Newport.. ..Smith sails for Europe. ...Condition of the colony... Determination to abandon the colony. ..Stop- ped by the arrival of lord Delawar, the governor gene- ral....Sir Thomas Dale....New charter....Captain Argal seizes Pocahontas... .She marries Mr. Rolf.. ..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 assem- bly.. ..First arrival of females in the colony.... And of convicts.... First importation of African slaves. ...Two councils established.. ..Prosperity of the colony .... At- tempt of the Indians to massacre all the whites. ...General war... .Dissension and dissolution of the company.... Co- lony taken into the hands of the king.. ..Arbitrary mea- sures of the crown... .Sir John Harvey.. ..Sir William Berkeley. ...Provincial assembly restored.. ..Virginia de- clares in favour of Charles II. ...Grant to lord Baltimore ....Arrival of a colony in Maryland under Calvert.... Assembly composed of all the freemen.. ..William Clayborne.... Assembly composed of representatives.... Divided into two branches.. ..Tyrannical proceedings. ALTHOUGH several men of rank and for- tune were concerned in the companies which had been formed in England, for colonising 1606.