The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-06
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.was killed by the Pequods.
The oyefbearing department OF Harvey
soon led to 4 serious fend between him and
tile Council of The Colony, and on April p.
1851, lc wrote to England that they denied
that his vii! was law, and asserted that his
nower &c the. Council Board was limited to-
casting vote, and that heeould do nothing
without their advice and consent, and he
prayed that the King would make some
proper distinction between the Governor
and councillors. for he was now contempti-
BILE Ia their sight.
Captain Thomas Young, with the first
English expedition that explored the Della
ware. river and the region around and above
Philadelphia, in July, 1854, visited Gov
ernor Harvey at jamestown few months
after Leonard Calvert had landed with his
colony in Maryland. OF Lord Baltimore'5
plantation he writes:
s 1t will be to little purpose for my Lord
to proceed in his Colony, against which
they have SO eXasperated and incensed
all the English Colony Of Virginia, rs here
it is accounted q crime almost as hcinous
as treason to favor-nay, almost to speak
well of-that Colony Of my Lords. And
have observed myself palpabie kind OF
strangeness and distance between those OF
the best sort in the country who have for
merlv been very familiar and loving to one
another only. because the one hath been
suspected to have been well-wisher to the
Plantation Of Maryland"
Speaking Of Governor Harvey, Young
states: s<He hath acquired to himself eX-
treme hazard and malice from ali the rest OF
the country, to whom / can find only two
of his Council Indifferent: the one OF them
called Captain Purfree [Puriiyl, soldier,
and man OF open heart, honest, and free,
hating. for aught I can perceive, all kinds
OF discrimination; the other an honest and
plain man, but OF small capacity and less
power"
Governor Harvey, in attending the meet
ings OF the Council, was made to feel that
the colonists would not tamely submit to
| arbitrary power, and in acknowledging the
receipt Of the complimentary letter from the
King, he wrote that while he was anxious
to aid Lord Baltimore as far as possible, his
power was limited, for almost all the voices
at the Council-table were against him, espe-
ciaIly when it concerned Maryland.
In the month of December, 1884, Richard
Kemp came from England and became
Secretary Of the Colony in the place OF
Clayborne. With his cooperation Harvey
became more despotic, and attempting to
levy tax in opposition to his Council, he
called forth the indignation Of the people.
On the 9th Of April, 1886, few days
after the seizure of the property OF Viz
giniaIis by MarylanderS, meeting was held
at the residence OF William Warren, OF
York, Speaker Of the House Of Burgesses.
Speeches were made by William English,
the sheriff, and others, also declaration OF
grievances was read by Francis Pott, late
in command at Point .ComfOrt. Harvey
caused him and others to be arrested and
brought before the Council, when Council
Tor Matthews told the Governor that it was
useless to resist the people; when Harvey,
rising from bis seat, said: "Do you say so?
arrest you upon suspicion Of treason" Cap
tains Ute and Matthews then, placing their
hands upon the Governors shoulder, said,
| "We arrest you for treason" and he was
| placed under guard Of thirty armed men,
ordered in by DR.. Pott, the former Coy
| ernor.
A special meeting Of the House OF Bur-
gesses, convened on the It'll OF May, and the
Council elected John West, brother Of Lord
De Ia Ware, Governor al INTERIM, and Har-
vey was allowed guard for protection un-
til he sailed for England to answer the
charges that were preferred.
Councillor Matthews, in letter to Sir
John Wolstcnholme Il few days after the
deposition Of the Governor, gave the fol-
lowing reasons in justification Of the Coun-
Gil and Assembly:
l. Harvey had detained letter from the
Assembly to the King relative to the con-
tract for tobacco.
2. He usurped all the power, without re-
gard to the votes OF the Council.
3. He had reduced the Colony to great
straits by complying with the Marylanders
90, hot no riy,in moi c,11f
from the usual places Of trade, could not
obtain corn at a time when two thousand
immigrants had Just arrived. ---
4. He had made dangerous peace with
the Indians, contrary to the Councils ad-
vice.
S. The people heard with indignation
that the Marylanders had taken Captain
Clay bornc's pinnace. and that they were
upheld by Governor Harvey, contrary to
his Maiesty's letter.
Captain Francis Pott aud Thomas Har-
wood, as compliments in behalf Of the Colo
ny, Went over in the same ship with the
Governor, and, upon their arrival at Ply
mouth on the 14th of july Harvey managed
to have them arrested as insurgents; and on
the same day lie wrote to Windebank, secre-
tarv OF the Privy Council, excusing himself
for leaving his post without permission, and
stating that the Assembly Of Virginia was
composed OF a rude, ignorant, and ill-con-
Gitioned people, and that the Council had
laid violent hands upon him and charged
him with bctraying them into the hands
Of their enemies in MARYLAND; and he fur
Their declared that he believed the mutt
neers, as he called the Virginians, intended
to overthrow the Colony of Maryland. He
also alleged that Utie's dislike proceeded
from demand made for some CATTLE and
that Matthews hated him because he had
assisted Captain Thomas Young in his en-
ploration OF the Delaware river; that Clay
borne was an enemy because he had dis
covered his attempt against Maryland; that
DR.. Pott was his foe because Of the Gov
ernor'S conduct toward him, and that
Francis Pott was chagrined because he
had been dismissed from command OF the
fort at Point Comfort.
He moreover stated that Sir John Couch,
who came to Virginia in November, 1854,
was s'of the Puritan Sect" and that he was
now in England, and probably desired to
be Governor.
On December the 10th, 1855, the Priyy
Council-the King and Archbishop Laud
being present-proceeded to consider the
difficulty in Virginia.
At first the letter Of the Virginia Council
written on the 10th OF May was read. The
King then spoke, and thought it was neces-
sary to send the Governor back, even if he
stayed but dag; for it was an assumption
Of regal power for the Council to assume to
send Harvey to England.
The Virginians here charged that the