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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 43 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 31 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers | 4 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for Christopher Newport or search for Christopher Newport in all documents.
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Hunt, Robert
First pastor of the Virginia colony; went out with Newport and the first settlers as chaplain, having been recommended by Richard Hakluyt (q. v.). He is supposed to have been a rector in Kent.
He was a peace-maker amid the dissenters of the first colonists.
Mr. Hunt held the first public service at Jamestown, under an awning, but soon afterwards a barn-like structure was erected for worship.
In the winter of 1608 a fire burned his little library, and the next year he died.
He was succeeded for a brief season by Rev. Mr. Glover, who soon died.
He had accompanied Sir Thomas Gates to Virginia.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newport , Christopher 1565 - (search)
Newport, Christopher 1565-
Navigator; born in England about 1565; commanded the first successful expedition for the settlement of Virginia, landing, April 30, 1607, at a place which he named Point Comfort because of his escape from a severe storm.
On May 13 he arrived at Jamestown.
He had been engaged in an expedition against the Spaniards in the West Indies not long before.
He made several voyages to Virginia with emigrants and supplies.
Before he returned to England for the last time he joined with Ratcliffe in an attempt to depose Captain Smith from the presidency of the colony.
He was defeated, and acknowledged his error.
Newport's manuscript work, called Discoveries in America, was published in 1860, by Edward Everett Hale, in Archaeologia Americana.
Newport news,
A strategic point on the James River, not far from Hampton Roads.
It was originally a compound word, derived, it is believed, from the names of Captain Newport (who commanded the first vessel that conveyed English emigrants to Virginia) and Sir William Newce, who, at the time George Sandys was appointed treasurer of the colony, received the appointment of marshal of Virginia.
Captain Smith wrote his name Nuse. Newport News is now an important railroad terminus, ship-building point, and commercial port.
Population in 1890, 4,449; in 1900, 19,635.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
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Sea adventurer, the
Under the new charter of the London Company given in 1609, Sir Thomas Gates, lieutenant-governor of Virginia, Sir George Somers, admiral, and Captain Newport, vice-admiral, sailed in the Sea Adventurer with eight other vessels, bearing about 500 emigrants to Virginia.
The fleet was dispersed in a storm, and the Sea Adventurer was wrecked on one of the Bermuda islands— the still vexed Bermoothes of Shakespeare.
William Strachey was with them, who wrote a vivid account of the wreck.
Such was the tumult of the elements, wrote Strachey, that the sea swelled above the clouds, and gave battle unto heaven.
It could not be said to rain: the waters like whole rivers did flood in the air.
For three days and four nights they were beaten by this storm, while the ship was leaking fearfully.
the Sea Adventurer outlived the storm; when it ceased she lay fixed between two rocks on the Bermuda shore.
It is believed that Strachey's account of this storm and shipwreck ins