THE ORIGINAL EMPERORS OF VIRGINIA
POWHATAN AND OPECANCANOUGH
The first permanent settlement made in the original thirteen States was at Jamestown, Virginia, by the English in the spring of 1607. The settlers were at once brought in contact with two famous Indians, to whom we must now give attention.
The London Company, formed for the planting of colonies in the New World, sent three ships across the ocean in the month of December, 1606. They carried one hundred and five men, but no women, and were in charge of Captain Christopher Newport. They sailed up the Chesapeake Bay, and were charmed by the soft breezes, the fragrant wild flowers and the beautiful scenery. They halted at a peninsula (now an island), about fifty miles from the mouth of the James, so named in honor of their king, and began putting up cabins. Thus Jamestown was founded on the 13th of May, 1607.
At that time the country from the Allegheny to the ocean, and from the southern James to the Patuxent River, was inhabited by three families of Indians, each composed of a number of tribes. With two of them we have nothing to do.
THE INDIANS DEFEATED AT FALLEN TIMBERS.
This was one of the most memorable battles ever fought with the Indians.
It broke their power and gave supremacy to the whites. August 20, 1794.
SURPRISING AN INDIAN CAMP.