The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-15
lror the Dispatch.l
n sketch ofCaptain christopher Now
>ort TITS Services 90 the Colony.

cral VOYAGES to the West Indies In the lat-
Ter mart OF the sixteenth and first oil the
seventeenth centuries which Il Is not ne
cessary 20 dwell on. lie was regarded as
ga Mariner Of Ability" and on The 10Th OF
December, 1905, he was given by the eoun-
sci for the Virginia Company the "sole
charge and command OF all the captains
soldiers, ard mariners, and other persons,
that shall go in any the said SHIPS aIv
pinnace in the said voyage IRON tue oay W
the date hereof until such time rs tne!
shall fortune to land upon lle said oo , ~
"a co,nmand,, Of the first expedition OF
Enellsbmen that landed in the present VIZ.
pinia. TThc name Christopher Is worthy OF
r.msrk Columbus bore the same name. III
,nc.ns .sbearinc Christ" This was one OF
The ideas Of The expcdition.l He left Lon
don on Saturday the 10th OF December,
Ic0e. arrived in Virginia 10th April,
Ieo7. "On the oath Of May, being Whit
SUNDAY. after dinner,v "upon one OF the
little iietts ut the mouth OF the falls (Rich-
mont) he sett up crosse, with this IN
scriptiop. .,Jacobus. Rex, 1901 and his
owne name belowe." Thus he command
cd the first expedition to Richmond.
UUayinc set all things in ORDER" on the
god June. 1907, he sailed from Jamestown,
sakino with him q map OF James river
Tdrown bv Thomas TIndall. gunner TO Hen
nv. Prince OF Wales, the noble patron OF
Virginia. for whom Cape Henry, city OF
Henricus and county OF Ilenriro, which
for many years embraced the valley OF
the James from the mouth OF Apo
mattox TO the Blue Ridge morntainsJ,
the first ever drawn. description
of the country and inhabitants, relation
-. 1t fsnv ~ aonnril
&C., and load OF clapboards and sassairas,
with ga say Of gold, which proved 10 De
STOOLS cold.v On the Goth OF July, 1907,
the vessels anchored in Plymouth Sound,
England. On the Sd or Sth OF January,
1CO7-S. he again arrived at jamestown with
emigrants and supplies, where he found
everything in confusion Captain John
Smith was " to be hanged the next day."
Wingfeld was deposed, over haU OF the
colonists dead, &c. He at once straight
cned up matters and put things in order.
On the 10th Of April, 1908, with load OF
cedar, walnut boards, saSSairas. and iron
ore. and with Archer and Wingfield as pas
sengers,. he sailed for England, where
he arrived on the goth OF May, 1908.
About Michaellmas (29th September), 1908,
CAPTAIN Newport again arrived in Virginia,
and again had TO restore harmony ut James
town. ain October, November, and De
cember" he was leading an expedition
into "the country OF the Monacans." We
have no reliable account Of this expedition.
IL was the first expedition for any distance
by land into this unknown region. The
first time they went beyond the safe refuge
OF their boats they thought they found
good indications Of silver. In March, 1923.
the Governor and Assembly OF Virginia
write that "they have great hopes that the
mountains are very rich, from the discoy-
cry OF silver mine, made nineteen years
ago, at place about four days journey
from the falls OF James river" This,
i suppose, refers TO Viewpoints eXpe-
ditlon. At any rate, they must have
reached the gold belt, and reached point
beyond, the settlement Of an hundred years
later. Some time in December, 1908, New
port sailed from Virginia, taking small
quantities Of "divers sorts OF wood. soap
ashes, pitch and tar, certain unknown
kinds OF herbs for dyeing, including, as is
supposed, cochineal," and iron ore, which
was smelted, and seventeen tons OF metal,
sold to the East India Company at 81 per
ton. He reached England about the 23d
OF January, 160S-9, and soon after was
made yice-admiral. In June, 1909. be lett
England on his fourth voyage to Virginia.
He was wrecked on "the yeXed Ber-
morthes," and did not reach Virginia IN
til May. 1910. They found Jamestown !
"at the last gasp; "within four |
days all would have been dead";
everything was past hope, and on |
the It'll OF June, 1910, jamestown was |
abandoned; but the colonists were turned |
back by the opportune arrival OF Lord |
Della War;. On the 10th July, 1910, Gates |
and Newport returned to England for sup |
plies, &C., and carrying load ''of cedar,
clap-board, blacke walnut, and iron oare." /
II may be noted that these vessels (The |
Blessing and The Hercules) took in their |
freight ut Weroscoiek Say in the |
stream at Days Point, across the river |
westward from Newrort's News. Gates |
and Newport reached England in Septem-
Der, 1910, carrying the first news OF the |
shipwreck on the Bermudas. They found |
Virginia in very bad repute, but finally !
the letters from Lord Della War; |
and their statements restored some !
confidence, and the company went
TO work to supply the necessarics, &c. On |
the 18th OF March, 1Gl0-1l, he left Eng |
land for the fifth time, carrying supplies |
TO the colony, and reached there the 18th
OF May, 1911. IL seems that Newport,
while in England rebutting the bad re-
ports OF Virginia circulated by those who
Gran away with the swallow went to the
other extreme and represented affairs in
Virginia as being better than they really |
were. When Sir Thomas Dale arrived and
found ou5 the Misrepresentation Of New
port, he was very much incensed. Under
the circumstances we can forgive him; he
may have lied; hut he was lying for the
sake Of Old Virginia. Newport remained
A. Ia Of ,..I,
he sailed from Virginia in "The Stare,
OF 800 tons burthen," and j cannot find
that he ever returned 10 Virginia again.
He carried back with him tie dangh-
tiers OF Sir Thomas Gates, and his vessel,
being fitted for the purpose, was loaded
"with forty fine and large pines suitable
for masts." He reached England early in
December, 1911, and soon after was APP
pointed one of the six Masters OF the Royal
Navy. He was employed by the East India
Company to carry the Persian Ambassador,
Sir Robert Sherley, to Persia, with whom
he sailed from Grayesend on the 9TH OF
January, 1923, made safe voyage
round the Cape of Good Hope to Persia,
and returning anchored in the Downes on
the 10th OF July, 1914. There is an ac-
count OF this voyage in Purchas l., writ
ten by Captain Walter Peyton, who speaks
highly OF Newport. He was also in the
expedition that carried "Sir Thomas Roe,
Knight Lord Embassadour from his Ma
jestie OF Great Britaine, to the Great Mo-
gol," Shah Jehan. This expedition left
England early in 1915 On the 9TH of
June, 1918, they "ancbored in the Road OF
Soldania." / doubt II Newport ever re-
turned to England. But will not discuss
farther his Asiatic voyages. The last re-
cord OF him that have been able to find is