New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-16
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y,.e,s1A COLONIAL HisTokY. THE cAvatiLHs 49,
PuzrTass. COMPARATIVE View,
We have already mentioned, in our siA'a hu'n0'
,be, Oh. srs, settlement of Virginia, the ih0't
.nc;e,, Of the British Colonies in Nofth a herica'
commenced in 1907, or one hundred and ten years
after the discovery of the Continent oy label
The expedition was sent out from England oy 'ns
london Company chartered by King James the
r,;,., and was under the commaod OF Captain
cbr;s,opher Newport. The colony consisted OF
1os men, conveyed in three small vessels, whose
;o;n. tonnage amounted to only l60 tons Alter
exploring the country, the emigrants Determined
m se,se on the river Powhatan, which they called
James River. The spot they selected is about
fifty miles from the mouth, and mere the hrst per
rnsnent English settlement in America was mace
and was called jamestown, CATER King James.)-
This place. however never became Popuous or
WEALTHY. and for many years it has been entirely
deserted.
This colony was governed by council OF seven
persons, named by the Company in England, and
elected their own President. Captains Newport
and John Smith were two of the first seven named,
and Edward Wingfeld was elected President on
The arrival of the colony in Virginia. The tlrst
settlers were involved in many difficulties, and the
colony was saved from total ruin by the exertionS
and skill of Captain Smith, decidedly the abieSt
man among them. He was chosen President OF
the colony in 1903, after returning from an e&-
ploring expedition up the Chesapeake Bay. ne
following wear circumstances compelled him to re-
turn to England, where he published map OF his
discoveries and description OF the country and Its
inhabitants. In the meantime considerable nun
Der of emigrants had been added to the co'oHy I'D
when Captain Smith left it. their numb 'ere
about five hundred husial 6I0 fhey ysefel. uced
bv famine sud other caamities 10 onig IN colon
lists, and these were about 10 return - ogland
Dat were met at the mouth of Cbesepea.e Bay By
Lord De lie Ware with squadron loaded with
provisions and every thing for their relief and de-
fence He persuaded them to return to the settle
anlsnt
Toder the auspices and good government of this
nobleman the colony soon revived but without
making any rapid advances for several years. In
1917 the whole number Of planters did not exceed
400, and they were generally employed in cutiya-
1inr tobacco, which soon became the first object OF
agricultural interest in Virginia. The marriage OF
the Indian Princess Pocabontas to MIR. Role, an
English planter, in 1913, had given peace to the
COLONY with the Indians and the distribution OF
land among the planters, instead of being held as
common stock, as at first, accelerated the general
prosperity, by encouraging individual enterprise
The first Colonial Assembly of Virginia was
convened in 1919 by the Governor, Sir Geo. Yeard-
lev. This first North American Legislature met
at jamestown on the 10Th Of June in that year
It consisted of two members from each town, boz
rough or hundred and eleven of these corporations
were represented, They sat in the same house with
The Governor and Council, in the manner of the
Scotch parliament. In 1920 over twelve hundred
colonists, including considerable number OF te-
1nalos, arrived from England. The same year, a
Dutch ship putting into Virginia, sold twenty ne
croes to the planters, and this was the commence
nent of negro slavery in the Colony. Previously
and indeed subsequently,, white servants and labor
ers were sent over from England, and consisted OF
persons who for crimes or misdemeanors had been
sold for term of years.
During the next three years numerous planters
arrived from England and the settlements were
extended along the rivers. But in 1922 the Colo
nv experienced reverse Of fortune by an Indian
War, preceded by conspiracy in which many OF
the settlers were massacred, but sitter severe
struggle, tho Indians were finally subdued. To
the horrors of massacre were soon superadded The
1niseres of famine. The plantations were reduced
from eighty to eight in number. Succors from Eng
land saved them from total destruction. Notwith
standing these disasters, emigration to the Colony
continued, and in 1923 there we're twenty-five hun
dred whites in Virginia, and the cattle were in
creased to over one thousand head. The debt Of
The Company was wholly discharged. Lord De
La Ware did not forget the Colony on his return
10 England, but for eight years he was indefatiga-
bic in doing every thing that could tend the PEG
ping, the support and the good government OF this
settlement, and he died in 1918, in the pursuit o!
The same object, in voyage to Virginia, IN or near
the bay which bears his name
In 1924, tho London Company, which had con-
the King of England, (James l.. assuming the
government of the colony, appointed Governor
and eleven Councillors, vested with full powers
Under this authority, during the reign OF Charles
l., Governors Harvey and Wyatt successfully
ruled the province in an arbitrary manner, which
so much displeased the ceonis.s, that they sliced
Harvey and sent him prisoner TO England. Gov.
Harvey was reinstated in 1886, and was succeeded
in 1859 by Sir Francis Wyatt, who administered
the government for only short period. Sir VIII
liam Berkeley was appointed his successor, aud
arrived in Virginia in l642. His instructions