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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
im to return to England in the fall of 1609. Then the colonists gave themselves up to every irregularity; the Indians withheld supplies; famine ensued, and the winter and spring of 1610 were long remembered as the starving time. The Indians prepared to exterminate the English, but they were spared by a timely warning from Colonial seal of Virginia. Pocahontas. Six months after Smith left, the settlement of 500 souls was reduced to sixty. The three commissioners reached Jamestown in June, 1610, and Gates determined to leave for Newfoundland with Cultivation of tobacco in colonial the famished settlers, and distribute them among the settlers there. In four pinnaces they departed, and were met at Point Comfort by Lord Delaware, with provisions and emigrants. Failing health compelled him to return to England in March, 1611, and he was succeeded by a deputy, Sir Thomas Dale, who arrived with 300 settlers and some cattle. Sir Thomas Gates came with 350 more colonists in Septembe