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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
in Lawes Divine, &c. p. 92. The colony now numbered seven hundred men; and Dale, with the consent of Gates, went far up the river to found the new plantation, which, in honor of Prince Henry, a general favorite with the English people, was named Henrico; and there, on the remote frontier, Alexander Whitaker, the self-denying apostle of Virginia, assisted in bearing the name of God to the gentiles. But the greatest change in the condition of the colonists, resulted from the incipient establishmthat Sir Thomas Gates built in the tyme of his government, with one wherein the governor allwayes dwelt, and a church, built wholly at the charge of the inhabitants of that citye, of timber, being fifty foote in length and twenty in breadth. At Henrico, now Richmond, there were no more than three old houses, a poor ruinated church, with some few poore buildings in the islande. For ministers to instruct the people, only three were authorized; two others had never received their orders. The na