The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-04
small beginning to.be sure, but the
hArblnEer of q vast commerce In the


by storm near Cape Henry and
driven back to the West Indies. Hot
long delay in reaching her destination
the aay That As Men os
The cold winter Of 1607-'8 was all the
darker and more dreary to them be-
cause she came not. In April follow
ta rysf ana Wien
supply OF adventurers landed. swelling
the list of settlers by more than \
hundred, there was much JOY In the
camp. Among the daring and valu-
Russell and Richard Feath erstone, the
latter of whom was destined to find ali
early and lonely grave on the Kappa
hammock. where his name is still pre-
served.
When Captain Newport returned to
England with his cargo of cedar he
carried also an Indian lad Nalnontack
by name. said to have been of "a
exchange with Powhatan. On New
ports return from this trip he sailed
in a new vessel, the Mary and Mar
garet, which seems to have been APP
propriately called by her doubly femi-
nine name, since she brought over two
women--Mrs. Thomas Forrest and her
maid, Anne Burruss--the first females
Of the .Anglo-Saxon race to set foot IN
Virginia. The latter was the. bride of
the first marriage solemnized here, and
her babe, Virginia, the first child born
in the settlement. The two women.
Mrs Forrest and Mrs. John Layton,
appear in Chapman's famous painting,
Tho Baptism Of Pocahontas."
On this same ship, Mary and Mar
garet, We're brought the presents from
James !. to his swarthy. majesty. King
Powhatan, including the crown, the
scarlet robe, the SHOES. and other arti-
cles, with which Newport decorated
and crowned him ut his abode In the
forest on York River.
At this period in the settlement on
the James appeared young Capt. sam
brought the Intelligence of the reor-
ganlzation of the London Company
and the appointment Of Lord Delaware
to the presidency of the council. The
connection Of this vessel with the for
tunes of the colonists belongs to the
STARVATION period" when the five hum
dred souls on the island were rapidly
reduced to not over silky. The em-
Ing corn and cruising for sturgeon
gave most timely aid. In that hour
| of famine and distress her white sails
must have appeared at times like the
It was on this vessel sell that that Henry
| Spilman returned to Jamestown from
his captivity in the Indian camps; and
on her, not long afterwards, Captain
Argall visited Cape Cod In his cruise
| colony at Mount Desert, on the coast
Of Maine, and later, having entered
Hudson River, raised the flag of Eng
land over the point on Manhattan
Island where the Dutch traders had
planted a settlement.
| In another cruise in the Discovery
Argall, While trading with the Indians
on the Potomac, learned of the pres
vicinity of Currioman Bay, on that
river, and by stratagern enticed her
aboard of his vessel and brought her
captive to jamestown. s
Amidst the awful privations OF the
spring Of 1910, when the little company
of survivors meditated abandoning the
| settlement and seeking better sources
of support in Newfoundland the Dis
covery was one OF the four vessels OF
which they, hung their hopes Of max
| June 18th, after their apparel, imple
ments, scant supplies and household
goods had been put aboard. the guns
OF the fort. buried. a parting dirgt
beaten on the drums. and the escape
4 begun. this vessel was the principa
one Of the little fleet that dropped
down to Mulberry Island for the night
i ia Having discovered the ships OF I1or;
stDelaWare next morning I'M Hampton
Roads coming to their relief the Dis
4 covery, with her consorts, returned t
i Jamestown, and the occupancy Of thu
island was resumed. From the decl
4 nizatton in Virginia had been seen t
j sink to It's nadir, and to rise agai,
4 under Delaware5in course OF perma
i nence and power.
i Among the four small crafts me
by Lord Delaware with the wan AM
famished colonists on June s, 1910, wa
the Patience. commanded by Sir Georg
Somers, one of the charter member
J Of the most capable navigators ofahi
! day. He had sailed from Englan,
with Sir Thomas Gates. on June
, 1909, in company with feet of niu
the Sea Adventure. which he com
J manded, had been stranded in tn
! same treacherous Bermudas water
, which had been the scene of the ship
wreck of Juan Bermudez in 1872, an
of Henry May in 1893.
Having. escaped with his mem fror
the wrecked ship in singularly for
tuitous way. somers and those VIII
J had sailed with him remained on a
island for nine months In which the
:, busted themselves building two yes
! sells as means Of escape. These wer
! built Of cedar. with which the islam
! abounded. and the pieces were fas
. tened, together with wooden pins, !
. the absence of metal nails and spike
/, The seams were made tight with sol
3 substances taken from the earth an
. . cast up by the sea- which hardened
the air. These vessels, 1T Is believe
J We're the earliest examples Of nav,
: architecture among the Virginia colo
: nists. The Patience was one of the>
q One week after Delawares arriv;
= Somers, at his own solicitation. S,
: sal! for the island Of his captivity ]
? ? quest of wild hogs, which he had see
. to be abundant there, and which coul
y be converted into excellent sailed porl
. IAe was accompanied by Captain Arga
2 on this expedition, from whom, how
!. ever, he became soon hopelessly sep;
= rated in a dense fog. The skies d
q not smile propitiously on this exped
. ton in quest of sailed pork. Admir-
Somers was taken Ill and died ne.
Il st. George. on the group of Some.
Il Il Islands. His heart and bowels we
i buried near the spot where he dis
/. and have been suitably commemorate
!, with a monument. His body was bor1
e to England on his own good vesst
II and he was Inferred at Whiteha
il Church with imposing military honor
" When he lay dying amidst the aloe
4 oleanders and sage bushes Of II
p his last breath in exhorting his m,
!. not to abandon Jamestown, and tn
: in dying, as In living, proved himse
h one of the truest and worthiest
r. those who through privation and per
,e sickness ana suffering, laid the fou
i C,,cl