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Sir Francis Wyatt succeeds Harvey as governor......November, 1639 Sir William Berkeley appointed governor, and arrives in Virginia......February, 1642 Massachusetts sends three clergymen to Virginia at the request of Puritans there......1642 Virginia Assembly enacts that all ministers in the colony shall conform to the order and constitution of the Church of England or depart......1643 Indians, incited by Opechancanough, sachem of the Powhatans, massacre 300 colonists......April 18, 1644 Indians are quickly overcome, and the aged Opechancanough is captured and dies in prison......1644 Governor Berkeley sails for England, and leaves Richard Kemp as deputy......June, 1644 Virginia in sympathy with the Cavaliers of England. Population consists of 20,000 whites and 300 negroes; average yearly export of tobacco, 1,500,000 lbs.......1648 Dissenters having increased to 118, encounter all the rigor of colonial authority, and are suppressed by imprisonment and banish