قراءة كتاب The History of Virginia, in Four Parts
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Discovery of Chesapeake bay by the corporation of London adventurers; their colony at Jamestown, and proceedings during the government by an elective president and council.
§13. | The companies of London and Plymouth obtain charters, | 18 |
14. | Captain Smith first discovers the capes of Virginia, | 19 |
15. | He plants his first colony at Jamestown, | 20 |
An account of Jamestown island, | 20 | |
16. | He sends the ships home, retaining one hundred and eight men to keep possession, | 20 |
17. | That colony's mismanagement, | 21 |
Their misfortunes upon discovery of a supposed gold mine, | 21 | |
18. | Their first supplies after settlement, | 22 |
Their discoveries, and experiments in English grain, | 22 | |
An attempt of some to desert the colony, | 22 | |
19. | The first Christian marriage in that colony, | 23 |
They make three plantations more, | 23 |
History of the colony after the change of their government, from an elective president to a commissionated governor, until the dissolution of the company.
§20. | The company get a new grant, and the nomination of the governors in themselves, | 24 |
They send three governors in equal degree, | 24 | |
All three going in one ship, are shipwrecked at Bermudas, | 24 | |
They build there two small cedar vessels, | 24 | |
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