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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 (search)
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 Historian; born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1813; became a member of the chief historical societies of the country; author of Some notices of Samuel Gorton; First Plymouth patent; Bibliography of Governor Hutchinson's publications; Wingfield's discourse of Virginia; Smith's true relation; and editor of Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), London Company, the (search)
several gentlemen, some of them personal friends of Raleigh, to petition King James I. to grant them a patent for planting colonies in North America. Raleigh's grant was made void by his attainder. There was not an Englishman to be found in America then, and there was only one permanent settlement north of Mexico, that of St. Augustine. The petition was received by the King, and on April 10, 1606, James issued letters-patent to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, Edward Maria Wingfield, and others, granting to them a territory extending from lat. 34° to 45° N., together with all the islands in the ocean within 100 miles of the coast. The object of the patent was to make habitations and plantations, and to form colonies by sending English people into that portion of America commonly called Virginia, with the hope of Christianizing and civilizing the pagans there. The territory was divided into two districts, called, respectively, North and South Virginia. A supre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, John 1579-1632 (search)
ls that bore 105 emigrants. He was accompanied by Gosnold, Edward Maria Wingfield (one of the London Company), George Percy, Rev. Robert Hunt arrogant, and quarrels with him were frequent. At the Canaries, Wingfield charged him with conspiring to usurp the government in Virginia, they should land in Virginia. Some of the passengers, believing Wingfield's charge to be true, confined Smith and kept him a prisoner untilThey returned and found the government organized by the choice of Wingfield as president, who, to get rid of Smith, proposed that he should rant soldier demanded an instant trial. His innocence was proven, Wingfield withdrew the charges, and Smith took his seat in the council, whe president should pay Smith £ 200 for false imprisonment. All of Wingfield's property was seized to pay it, when Smith generously placed it were scarcely ten men who could stand up. It was discovered that Wingfield was living on the choicest stores, and was preparing to desert th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
1587 John White returns to Roanoke......Aug. 9, 1590 [He found the settlement deserted. Its fate is conjectural.] James I. of England grants the London company, including Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, 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, Caa......Dec. 19, 1606 They enter Chesapeake Bay, naming the capes at its entrance Charles and Henry, after the sons of King James......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 Jamestown......Aug. 22, 1607 Before au
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
t a settlement. In December, 1606, the London Company sent three ships, under Capt. Christopher Newport, with 105 colonists, to make a settlement on Roanoke Island (q. v.). They took First settlements on the Chesapeake and Delaware. the long southern route, by way of the West Indies, and when they approached the coast of North Carolina a tempest drove them farther north into Chesapeake Early settlers. Bay, where they found good anchorage. The principal passengers were Gosnold, Edward M. Wingfield, Captain Smith, and Rev. Robert Hunt. The capes at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay Newport named Charles and Henry, in compliment to the King's two sons. Landing and resting at a pleasant point of land between the mouths of the York and James rivers, he named it Point Comfort, and, sailing up the latter stream 50 miles, the colonists landed on the left bank, May 13, 1607, and there founded a settlement and built a village, which they named Jamestown, in compliment to the King. The
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
ational Constitution. State officers and representatives in Congress were chosen at the same time: and in January, 1870, Virginia was admitted to representation in the Congress. On Jan. 26, 1870, General Canby, in command of the department, formally transferred the government to the civil authorities. Population in 1890, 1,655,980; in 1900, 1,854,184. See United States, Virginia, in vol. IX. governors under the colonial government. Presidents of the council. Name.Term. Edward Maria Wingfield1607 John Ratcliffe1607 to 1608 Capt. John Smith1608 to 1610 George Percy1610 to 1611 Governors. Lord Delaware1611 Sir Thomas Dale1611 Sir Thomas Gates1611 to 1614 Sir Thomas Dale1614 to 1616 George Yeardley1616 to 1617 Samuel Argall1617 to 1619 Sir George Yeardley1619 to 1621 Sir Francis Wyatt1621 to 1626 Sir George Yeardley1626 to 1627 Francis West1627 to 1629 John Potts1629 John Harvey1629 to 1635 John West1635 to 1636 John Harvey1636 to 1639 Sir Francis Wyatt1
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.) (search)
l of New England. London, 1631. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. III. pp. 7, 29, 30, 44. There is a memoir of Captain Smith, by G. S. Hillard, in Sparks's American Biography, vol. II. I.—Captain John Smith in Virginia. Captain Bartholomew Gosnoll, More often written Gosnold. one of the first movers of this plantation, having many years solicited many of his friends, but found small assistance, at last prevailed with some gentlemen, as Captain John Smith, Mr. Edward Maria Wingfield, Mr. Robert Hunt, and divers others, who depended Waited. a year upon his projects; but nothing could be effected, till, by their great charge and industry, it came to be apprehended by certain of the nobility, gentry, and merchants, so that his Majesty by his letters-patents gave commission for establishing councils to direct here, and to govern and to execute there. To effect this was spent another year; and by that, three ships were provided,—one of a hundred tons, another o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Index. (search)
T. Taignoagny, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110. Tellez, Captain, 77, 81. Theodoro, Don, 76. Thomas, John, 298, 300, 301. Thorvald, 10-12. Tilley, Edward, 314, 319. Tobacco used by Indians, 336. Tyrker, 8. U. Ucita, 127, 128 129, 130. V. Vaca, Cabeza (or Cabeca) de, Voyage of, 71-94, 122. Vasconselos, Andrew de, 122, 124. Verrazzano, John de, Letter of, 60-69, 54 99. Vetamatomakkin, 261. Vinland, 2, 9, 10. Virginia, Colonies in, 186, 189, 229, 263. W. Wassenaer's Historie van Europa, 280. Water of New England, The, 349. Waymouth, Captain, George, Voyage of, 202, 213-221. Welcome, Englishmen! 333. White, Governor, John, 189, 196. Whittier's Norsemen, 2. Wilson, William, 296, 298, 299, 300, 302. Wingfield, E. M., 231, 233. Wingina, 180. Winslow, Governor, Edward, 310. Winthrop, Governor, John, 355, 357, 360. Worthington, William, 59. Wydhouse, Thomas, 302. Y. Young's Chronicles of Plymouth, 310; of Massachusetts, 340.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
for the establishment of a colony, Ebmund Howes' Continuation of Stowe, 1018—a prime authority on Virginia. See Stith, 229. and at last prevailed with Edward Maria Wingfield, a groveling merchant of the west of England, Robert Hunt, a clergyman of persevering fortitude and modest worth. and John Smith, the adventurer of rare emigrants themselves were weakened by divisions, and degraded by jealousy. So soon as the members of the council were duly constituted, they proceeded to choose Wingfield president; and then, as by their instructions they had power to do, they excluded Smith from their body, on a charge of sedition. But as his only offence consisSmith, i. 154. Percy, in Purchas, IV. 1690. Smith and Percy were both eye-witnesses. Disunion completed the scene of misery. It became necessary to depose Wingfield, the avaricious president, who was charged with engrossing the choicest stores, and who was on the point of abandoning the colony and escaping to the West Indies