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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
s included in the grant of King James of England to the South Virginia colony......April 10, 1606 Capt. John Smith leaves Jamestown to explore the Chesapeake Bay, and discovers the mouths of the Susquehanna, Northeast, Elk, and Sassafras rivers at its head......July-August, 1608 Maryland included in the second charter to Virginia, which covered land from Point Comfort along the coast north for 200 miles, and south the same distance, and from sea to sea (Atlantic to the Pacific)......May 23, 1609 Royal license given to William Claiborne, one of the council and secretary of state of the colony in Virginia, by King Charles to trade in all seas and lands in those parts of the English possessions in America for which there is not already a patent granted, and giving Claiborne power to direct and govern such of the King's subjects as shall be under his command in his voyages and discoveries, ......May 16, 1631 Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, obtains from King Charles the pro
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
ar north as Wyoming Valley......July 24, 1608 Newport arrives with supplies and about seventy immigrants, among them two women, the first in this colony......September, 1608 Smith returns to Jamestown......Sept. 7, 1608 He is made president of the council......Sept. 10, 1608 Smith compels the colonists to labor six hours each day......1608-9 New charter granted the London Company under the title of Adventurers and planters of the City of London, with ample privileges......May 23, 1609 Nine vessels, with more than 500 emigrants, many swine, and a few horses, sail from England for Virginia......June 12, 1609 Capt. John Smith, disabled by an explosion of gunpowder, embarks for England about......Sept. 29, 1609 Colony reduced from 490 to sixty in six months......1609-10 [This is known in Virginia history as the starving time. ] Sir Thomas Gates and the passengers wrecked on the Bermudas construct two vessels and reach Jamestown......May 24, 1610 In their