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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
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunt, Robert (search)
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), London Company, the (search)
in the west of England, and this was known as the Plymouth Company. The King prepared a code of laws for the colonists, in which kindness to the Indians, regular preaching of the Gospel, and teaching religion to the pagans were enjoined; also providing for the wellordering of a civil community. Under this charter, and laws and instructions from the King, presented in November, 1606, the London Company sent three ships with emigrants from the Thames, on Dec. 20, under the command of Captain Newport, and they landed on the banks of the James River in May, 1607. The company desired more the immediate profits from precious metals discovered than to found a commonwealth. Indeed, the class of men they sent over were totally unfit for such a noble service. The disappointed company demanded impossibilities. In 1608 they sent word to the colonists that, if they did not send them commodities sufficient to pay the charges of the voyage in which their demand was sent ($10,000); a lump of
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.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newport news, (search)
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), Powhatan, -1618 (search)
n of the good or the evil spirit. Then they took him to Powhatan and asked him to decide the prisoner's fate. The emperor, seated upon a raised platform in a stately arbor covered with branches, and with a favorite daughter on each side of him, with solemn words adjudged Smith to death. The sympathy of one of Powhatan's daughters saved him, and through her influence friendship was maintained, with some interruptions, between the emperor and the English until Powhatan died. In 1608 Captain Newport came to Virginia with presents for Powhatan. Among these was a basin, a ewer, some clothes, and a crown for the dusky monarch, with orders for him to be crowned. Captain Smith was then president of the colony, and he, as special ambassador of the King of England, summoned the emperor to Jamestown to undergo the ceremony of coronation. Powhatan, with dignity, refused to go, saying, I also am a king; and if the King of England has sent me gifts, they should be brought to me; I shall no
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
rles II. the lower House of the legislature consisted of six deputies from Newport, four each from Providence, Portsmouth, and Warwick, and two from each of the other towns. The right of suffrage was restricted to owners of a freehold worth $134, or renting for $7 a year, and to their eldest sons. These restrictions, as they became more and more obnoxious, finally produced open discontent. The inequality of representation was the chief cause of complaint. It appeared that in 1840, when Newport had only 8,333 inhabitants, it was entitled to six representatives; while Providence, then containing 23,171 inhabitants, had only four representatives. Attempts to obtain reform by the action of the legislature having failed, suffrage associations were formed in various parts of the State late in 1840 and early in 1841. They assembled in mass convention at Providence July 5, 1841, and authorized their State committee to call a convention to prepare a constitution. That convention asse
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sea adventurer, the (search)
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
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, John 1579-1632 (search)
ginia, and at the age of twenty-seven years, already Capt. John Smith (from an old print.) greatly renowned, he sailed for America, Dec. 19, 1606, with Capt. Christopher Newport, who commanded three vessels that bore 105 emigrants. He was accompanied by Gosnold, Edward Maria Wingfield (one of the London Company), George Percy, Re church that had been built had been Smith's first fight with the Indians. burned, and the settlers were worshipping under a tent. Other emigrants came with Newport in 1608, but they were chiefly idle and dissolute men, sent thither to escape ill destinies at home. Some shining yellow deposits from a stream issuing from a barned to Jamestown early in September, he found the settlers in confusion again, and three days afterwards he was chosen president of the council. Soon afterwards Newport came again with sup- Smith's meeting with Powhatan. Smith subduing Powhatan. plies and seventy emigrants, no better than the former ones. Two women came wit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
t rivers......March 24, 1638 Roger Williams and Governor Winthrop make a joint purchase of Prudence Island......Nov. 10, 1638 First general training or militia muster in Rhode Island held at Portsmouth......Nov. 12, 1638 Aquedneck purchased from the Indians by William Coddington and his friends ......Nov. 22, 1639 First Baptist Church in America founded in Providence......1639 John Clarke and several proprietors of Aquedneck remove to the southern part of the island and found Newport......1639 First Baptist Church in Newport founded......1639 Form of government, twelve articles of agreement, framed and adopted by the inhabitants of Providence......July 27, 1640 Rev. Robert Lenthel called by vote to open a public school in Newport......1640 General Assembly asserts Rhode Island to be a democracy, saving only the right of the King, and grants freedom of religious opinions......March, 1641 Four landholders, three of them original proprietors, at Pawtuxet di
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
and Edward M. Wingfield the exclusive right to occupy the land from lat. 34° to 38° N.......April 10, 1606 Three vessels—Susan Constant, of 100 tons, Capt. Christopher Newport; Goodspeed, of forty tons, Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold; and Discovery, twenty tons, Capt. John Ratcliffe—with 105 emigrants, sail from the Downs, England, ....April 26, 1607 They enter the James River and land at a place they name Jamestown. May 13, 1607 Edward M. Wingfield chosen president......1607 Christopher Newport sails to England for provisions and more settlers......June 15, 1607 Bartholomew Gosnold, the projector of the settlement, dies and is buried at Jamestowdians and captured; his companions killed......December, 1607 Condemned to death by Powhatan, he is saved by his daughter Pocahontas......December, 1607 Captain Newport returns with supplies and 120 immigrants......Jan. 8, 1608 Newport returns to England with a shipload of worthless earth, supposed to contain gold......Apr<
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