3. "A Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia in the years 1675 and 1676," by an unknown writer. 4. "An Account of our late Troubles in Virginia," written in 1676 by Mrs. An. Cotton, of Q. Creeke. 5. "A Review, Breviarie and Conclusion," by Herbert Jeffreys, John Berry, and Francis Morrison, Royal Commissioners, who visited Virginia after the rebellion. 6. "A List of those who have been Executed for the late Rebellion in Virginia, by Sir William Berkeley, Governor of the Colony." 7. "The History of Virginia," by Robert Beverley, is often inaccurate, but contains a full and interesting account of the government and society of the Colony at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Stith's "History of Virginia" to the year 1624 is remarkable for its accuracy, but it is avowedly based on Smith's "General History." Keith's is of no original authority. 8. Coming to the eighteenth century we have, for the administration of Spotswood, one of the ablest of the early Governors, the official statement of his collisions with the Burgesses, printed in the "Virginia Historical Register;" for his march to the Blue Ridge with the Knights of the Horseshoe, Hugh Jones' " Present State of Virginia ;" and for the personal picture of the man in private life, the "Progress to the Mines," by Colonel William Byrd of Westover. 9. For Braddock's Expedition, the Journal of Captain Orme, the letters of Washington at the time, and Mr. Winthrop Sargent's history of the Expedition from original documents. 10. For Dunmore's Expedition to the Ohio, and the Battle of Point Pleasant, the memoirs by Stuart and Campbell. 11. For the settlement of the Valley, and life on the frontier, Kercheval's "History of the Valley of Virginia." 66 12. For the struggle between the Establishment and the Non-conformists, Bishop Meade's "Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia," Dr. Hawks' “ Ecclesiastical History," Dr. Rice's "Memoir of President Davies," Foote's "Sketches of Virginia," and Semple's "Virginia Baptists." III. For the period beginning with the middle of the eighteenth century and reaching to the present time, the authorities are the writings of Washington, Jefferson, the Lees, and other public men; books of travel and observation in America, like the work of the Marquis de Chastellux; and memoirs of special occurrences. It seemed possible to the writer to draw, with the aid of this material, a faithful likeness, if only in outline, of the Virginians. He has written, above all, for the new generation, who, busy in keeping off the wolf of poverty, have had little time to study the history of their people. What this history will show them is the essential manhood of the race they spring from; the rooted conviction of the Virginians, that man was man of himself, and not by order of the king; and that this conviction was followed by the long and strenuous assertion of personal right against arbitrary government. Beginning in the earliest times, this protest continued through every generation, until the principle was firmly established by the armed struggle which resulted in the foundation of the American Republic. CONTENTS. PAGE The Reformation; Shakespeare; The Unrest of the The Virginia Enterprise; John Smith; The King's The Adventurers; Arrest of Smith; The Landing; The First Church; The Council; An Indian Attack; The First Jury Trial in America. V. THE TERRIBLE SUMMER OF 1607 The Fever; Percy's Description of it; Wingfield At- tempts to Escape; Smith in Command; The Pin- nace again Seized; Arrest of the Mutineers; The Fever Disappears; Smith Sails for the South Sea. The Virginia Savage; The Women; The One Alone, called Kiwassa; The Priesthood; A Future Life; Smith is Captured; Preserved by Pocahontas; His Re- turn to Jamestown; The Mutineers Again; The Newport Returns; Imperial Trading; The Gold Fe- ver; The Chesapeake Voyages; Ratcliffe Deposed and Smith President; Pocahontas and her Troop; Snow and Famine; The Raid on Powhatan; Smith is The Old Disturbers Back; The Factions; Arrest of the XII. THE FIRST AMERICAN RULER AND WRITER. Smith's After-Life; Attacks on Him; The "General Jamestown at the End of 1609; What was Wanted; Virginia Under Delaware; His Splendor; Ceremonies at Church; He Returns to England; His Death. The Iron Hand; Breaking on the Wheel; An Alarm; Capture of Pocahontas; Dale goes to the York; Poca- hontas and Her Brothers; Rolfe's Passion; His Anne; His Interview with Pocahontas; The Question of their Relations; Her Death; De- XVIII. VIRGINIA UNDER A WATCH-DOG AND A HAWK . . 106 The High Marshal; The Acadian Affair; A New Land Law; Argall; The Case of Brewster; Flight of Argall; Representative Government. XIX. THE FIRST AMERICAN ASSEMBLY AND CONSTITUTION 113 The King and the Company; The Great Grant; The First Assembly; Its Proceedings; The Constitu- XX. THE MAIDS AND FIRST SLAVES . Effect of their Surroundings; Character of their Style; Smith's Writings; The Early Relations; Strachey's" Wrack of Sir Thomas Gates "; Ha- mor's "Present Estate of Virginia"; Whitaker's "Good News"; Sandys' Translation of Ovid; |