Colonial Chesapeake Society
Contributors: Jean Burrell Russo (Editor)
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Published: January 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780807818008
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Virginia; History - General History; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); United States - State & Local; History: American; USA; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.); 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."