Colonial Chesapeake Society
Contributors: Philip D. Morgan (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 29, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780807843437
Subjects: American history; Virginia; History - U.S.; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.); United States - State & Local - General; History: American; USA; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and; United States - Colonial Period; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; History; Maryland
First sentence: TWO YEARS after the Powhatan Uprising of 1622 had nearly destroyed the Virginia colony, Gov. Sir Francis Wyatt declared that "our first worke is expulsion of the Salvages to gaine the free range of the countrey...for it is infinitely better to have no heathen among us, who at best were but as thornes in our sides, then to be at peace and league with them."