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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Henrico College. (search)
ution when the dreadful massacre by the Indians (1622) occurred. Mr. Thorpe and the minister at Henrico were victims, and a blight fell upon the enterprise. In 1621 Rev. Patrick Copeland, returning from the East Indies in the Royal James, one of the ships of the East India Company, commanded by Martin Pring, collected about $350 from members of that company on board for the purpose of establishing a church or a school in Virginia. The London Company determined to found a free school at Charles City, and call it the East India School. Early in 1622 a carpenter, with apprentices, was sent over to construct a building for it, and provision was made for a school-master, when the massacre paralyzed all efforts in that direction. The university scheme was abandoned, but in 1625 efforts were made to establish the East India School, and this project also failed. No school for the education of the Indians in Virginia was established afterwards until Robert Boyle's benefactions towards th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stuart, James Ewell, Brown 1833-1864 (search)
t the middle of June, 1862, he, with 1,500 cavalry and two pieces of artillery, rode completely around the Army of the Potomac. He attacked and dispersed two squadrons of National cavalry at Hanover Old Church, and, sweeping round to the White House, by Tunstall's Station, seized and burned fourteen wagons and two schooners, laden with forage, at Garlick's Landing, above the White House. He captured and carried away 165 prisoners, 260 mules and horses, rested three hours, and, during the night, crossed the Chickahominy on a hastily built bridge, and then leisurely returned to Richmond on the Charles City road. He was especially active on the flanks of McClellan's army, and in the next year during the Gettysburg campaign, though invariably defeated by the National cavalry. In Grant's campaign against Richmond, in 1S64, he was mortally wounded in an encounter with Sheridan's cavalry near the Confederate capital, and died in Richmond, June 12, 1864. The wounding of General Stuart.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
and......1629-30 Governor Potts superseded as governor by Sir John Harvey......March, 1630 Trouble with Maryland as to land titles......1632-44 Virginia divided into eight counties or shires, viz., Elizabeth City, Warwick, James City, Charles City, Henrico, Isle of Wight, York, and Accomac......1634 William Clayborne, a Virginian contestant, sent to England by Governor Harvey to answer for attempting to establish his claim against Maryland......1635 Governor Harvey deposed by the federacy, dies at Narraganset Pier......Sept. 18, 1898 The Dismal Swamp opened......Oct. 14, 1899 Memorial to Winnie Davis, the Daughter of the Confederacy, unveiled at Richmond, Va.......Nov. 8, 1899 The fence law declared constitutional......February, 1900 Ex-Gov. Henry H. Wells dies at Palmyra, N. Y.......Feb. 12, 1900 Monument to the Confederate dead unveiled at Charles City......Nov. 21, 1900 William Wirt Henry, historian, dies at Richmond......Dec. 5, 1900 Washington
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
the whole council had to consent to the levy of men for the public service; older settlers, who came before Sir Thomas Gates (1611), and their posterity were to be exempt from personal military service; the burgesses were not to be molested in going to, coming from, or during the sessions of the Assembly; every private planter's lands were to be surveyed and their bounds recorded; monthly courts were to be held by special commissioners at Elizabeth City, at the mouth of the James, and at Charles City, for the accommodation of more distant plantations; the price of Berkeley, Virginia, near Harrison's Landing. corn was to be unrestricted; in every parish was to be a public granary, to which each planter was to bring yearly a bushel of corn to be disposed of for public use by a vote of the freemen, and if not disposed of to be returned to the owner; every settler was to be compelled to cultivate corn enough for his family; all trade in corn with the Indians was prohibited; every freema