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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Argall, Sir Samuel, 1572-1626 (search)
Argall, Sir Samuel, 1572-1626 English adventurer; born in Bristol, England, in 1572. He was inJamestown, and provisions became very scarce. Argall was sent with a vessel on a foraging expeditioich the Indians had stolen. Powhatan rejected Argall's proposal for a ransom with scorn, and would oung Englishman's affections; and the crime of Argall led to peace and happiness. The next year (1613) Argall went, with the sanction of the governor of Virginia, to expel the French from Acadia as it Port Royal, in Acadia, willingly accompanied Argall as pilots thither in order to be revenged. ArArgall plundered the settlement, and laid the village in ashes, driving the people to the woods, and breaking up the colony. In 1617 Argall became deputy governor of Virginia. On going to Jamestown heand the number of the settlers there reduced. Argall's rule was so despotic that, in 1619, he was rwealth. After the death of Lord Delaware, Captain Argall took charge of his estate, and Lady Delawa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colonial settlements. (search)
th comforts, they were attacked by Samuel Argall (q. v.), of Virginia. The French made some resistance, but were compelled to surrender to superior numbers. One of the Jesuits was killed, several were wounded, and the remainder made prisoners. Argall took fifteen of the Frenchmen, besides the Jesuits, to Virginia; the remainder sailed for France. This success induced the governor of Virginia to send an expedition to crush the power of the French in Acadia, under the pretext that they were encroaching upon the rights of the English. Argall sailed with three ships for the purpose. On his arrival he broke in pieces, at St. Saviour, a cross which the Jesuits had set up, and raised another, on which he inscribed the name of King James. He sailed to St. Croix and destroyed the remains of De Mont's settlement there; and then he went to Port Royal and laid that deserted town in ashes. The English government did not approve the act, nor did the French government resent it. Though the