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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Argall , Sir Samuel , 1572 -1626 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlain , Samuel de 1567 -1635 (search)
Dale, Sir Thomas,
Colonial governor; was a distinguished soldier in the Low Countries, and was knighted by King James in 1606.
Appointed chief magistrate of Virginia, he administered the government on the basis of martial law; planted new settlements on the James, towards the Falls (now Richmond); and introduced salutary changes in the land laws of the colony.
He conquered the Appomattox Indians.
In 1611 Sir Thomas Gates succeeded him, but he resumed the office in 1614.
In 1616 he returned to England; went to Holland; and in 1619 was made commander of the East India fleet, when, near Bantam, he fought the Dutch.
He died near Bantam, East Indies, early in 1620.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Disbrowe , Samuel , 1619 -1690 (search)
Disbrowe, Samuel, 1619-1690
Magistrate; born in Cambridgeshire, England,. Nov. 30, 1619; came to America in 1639; and bought from the Indians the site of Guilford, Conn. The constitution of this settlement in the writing of Disbrowe is still preserved and provides for judiciary, executive, and legislative departments, etc. He returned to England in 1650, and died in Cambridgeshire, Dec. 10, 1690.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorges , Sir Ferdinando 1565 -1647 (search)
Porey, John
Author and traveller; educated at Cambridge.
While in Italy, in 1813, he was imprisoned for debt, from which he was released by Sir Dudley Carleton, who wrote to a friend: I fear he has fallen too much in love with the pot to be much esteemed.
At about the same time another wrote of Porey: He must have both meat and money; for drink he will find out himself, if it be above ground, or no deeper than the cellar.
Porey was made secretary of the Virginia colony in 1619, but, on account of his exactions, was recalled in 1622.
Early in that year he, with some friends, penetrated the country southward beyond the Roanoke River, with a view to making a settlement (see State of North Carolina). On his arrival in London, Porey joined the disaffected members of the London Company, which so excited the mind of the King against the corporation that, in 1624, he deprived them of their charter.
He had been sent early in that year as one of the commissioners to inquire into the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sandys , Edwin 1561 -1629 (search)
Sandys, Edwin 1561-1629
Statesman, born in Worcester, England, in 1561; was a son of the Bishop of York; became a pupil of Richard Hooker at Oxford; travelled much in Europe; and, on the accession of King James, was knighted.
He became an influential member of the London Company, in which he introduced reforms; and in 1619, being treasurer of the company, he was chiefly instrumental in introducing representative government in Virginia, under Yeardly.
The fickle King forbade his re-election in 1620; but he had served the interest of the colony and of humanity by proposing to send young maidens to Virginia to become wives of the planters.
He died in Northbourne, Kent, in 1629.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)