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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
ise, were directed to Virginia. The brave and ingenious Gosnold, who had himself witnessed the fertility of the western soil, long solicited the concurrence of his friends for the establishment of a colony, Ebmund Howes' Continuation of Stowe, 1018—a prime authority on Virginia. See Stith, 229. and at last prevailed with Edward Maria Wingfield, a groveling merchant of the west of England, Robert Hunt, a clergyman of persevering fortitude and modest worth. and John Smith, the adventurer of like dogs, to be buried. Fifty men, one half of the colony, perished before autumn; among them Bartholomew Gosnold, the projector of the set- Aug. 22 tlement, a man of rare merits, worthy of a perpetual memory in the plantation, Edmund Howes, 1018. and whose influence had alone thus far preserved some degree of harmony in the council. Smith, i. 154. Percy, in Purchas, IV. 1690. Smith and Percy were both eye-witnesses. Disunion completed the scene of misery. It became necessary to