[CHAPTER I.]

History of the first attempts to settle Virginia, before the discovery of Chesapeake bay.

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§1.Sir Walter Raleigh obtains letters patent, for making discoveries in America,[8]
2.Two ships set out on the discovery, and arrive at Roanoke inlet,[9]
Their account of the country,[9]
thier account of the natives,[9]
3.Queen Elizabeth names the country of Virginia,[10]
4.Sir Richard Greenvile's voyage,[10]
He plans the first colony, under command of Mr. Ralph Lane,[11]
5.The discoveries and accidents of the first colony,[11]
6.Their distress by want of provisions,[12]
Sir Francis Drake visits them,[12]
He gives them a ship and necessaries,[12]
He takes them away with him,[12]
7.Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Richard Greenvile, their voyages,[13]
The second settlement made,[13]
8.Mr. John White's expedition,[13]
The first Indian made a Christian there,[14]
The first child born there of Christian parentage,[14]
Third settlement, incorporated by the name of the city of Raleigh, in Virginia,[14]
Mr. White, their governor, sent home to solicit for supplies,[14]
9.John White's second voyage; last attempts to carry them recruits,[14]
His disappointment,[15]
10.Capt. Gosnell's voyage to the coast of Cape Cod,[15]
11.The Bristol voyages,[16]
12.A London voyage, which discovered New York,[16]

[CHAPTER II.]

Discovery of Chesapeake bay by the corporation of London adventurers; their colony at Jamestown, and proceedings during the government by an elective president and council.

§13.The companies of London and Plymouth obtain charters,[18]
14.Captain Smith first discovers the capes of Virginia,[19]
15.He plants his first colony at Jamestown,[20]
An account of Jamestown island,[20]
16.He sends the ships home, retaining one hundred and eight men to keep possession,[20]
17.That colony's mismanagement,[21]
Their misfortunes upon discovery of a supposed gold mine,[21]
18.Their first supplies after settlement,[22]
Their discoveries, and experiments in English grain,[22]
An attempt of some to desert the colony,[22]
19.The first Christian marriage in that colony,[23]
They make three plantations more,[23]

[CHAPTER III.]

History of the colony after the change of their government, from an elective president to a commissionated governor, until the dissolution of the company.

§20.The company get a new grant, and the nomination of the governors in themselves,[24]
They send three governors in equal degree,[24]
All three going in one ship, are shipwrecked at Bermudas,[24]
They build there two small cedar vessels,[24]
21.Captain Smith's return to England,[25]
Mismanagements ruin the colony,[25]
The first massacre and starving time,[25]
The first occasion of the ill character of Virginia,[26]
The five hundred men left by Captain Smith reduced to sixty in six months time,[26]
22.The three governors sail from Bermudas, and arrive at Virginia,[26]
23.They take off the Christians that remained there, and design, by way of Newfoundland, to return to England,[27]
Lord Delaware arrives and turns them back,[27]
24.Sir Thomas Dale arrives governor, with supplies,[27]
25.Sir Thomas Gates arrives governor,[28]
He plants out a new plantation,[28]
26.Pocahontas made prisoner, and married to Mr. Rolfe,[28]
27.Peace with the Indians,[28]
28.Pocahontas brought to England by Sir Thomas Dale,[29]
29.Captain Smith's petition to the queen in her behalf,[29]
30.His visit to Pocahontas,[32]
An Indian's account of the people of England,[32]
31.Pocahontas' reception at court, and death,[33]
32.Captain Yardley's government,[34]
33.Governor Argall's good administration,[34]
34.Powhatan's death, and successors,[34]
Peace renewed by the successors,[34]
35.Captain Argall's voyage from Virginia to New England,[35]
36.He defeats the French northward of New England,[35]
37.An account of those French,[36]
38.He also defeats the French in Acadia,[36]
39.His return to England,[36]
Sir George Yardley, governor,[36]
40.He resettles the deserted plantation, and held the first assembly,[36]
The method of that assembly,[37]
41.The first negroes carried to Virginia,[37]
42.Land apportioned to adventurers,[37]
43.A salt work and iron work in Virginia,[38]
44.Sir Francis Wyat made governor,[38]
King James, his instructions in care of tobacco,[38]
Captain Newport's plantation,[38]
45.Inferior courts in each plantation,[39]
Too much familiarity with the Indians,[39]
46.The massacre by the Indians, anno 1622,[39]
47.The discovery and prevention of it at Jamestown,[40]
48.The occasion of the massacre,[41]
49.A plot to destroy the Indians,[42]
50.The discouraging effects of the massacre,[43]
51.The corporation in England are the chief cause of misfortunes in Virginia,[43]
52.The company dissolved, and the colony taken into the king's hands,[44]