Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 deals with the first eight decades of the colony of Virginia from the arrival of three little vessels—the Sarah Constant, the Discovery and the Goodspeed— under Captain Christopher Newport until the Glorious Revolution in England. This book covers in detail organization of the British rule as well as the formation of the new Virginian aristocracy. Contents The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period
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Thomas J. Wertenbaker. Virginia under the Stuarts: 1607-1688
Virginia under the Stuarts: 1607-1688
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PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA
CHAPTER II. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER III. THE EXPULSION OF SIR JOHN HARVEY
CHAPTER IV. GOVERNOR BERKELEY AND THE COMMONWEALTH
CHAPTER V. THE CAUSES OF BACON'S REBELLION
CHAPTER VI. BACON'S REBELLION
CHAPTER VII. THE PERIOD OF CONFUSION
CHAPTER VIII. THE CRITICAL PERIOD
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Thomas J. Wertenbaker
History of the Colonial Virginia Series
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It is remarkable that the enterprise, in the face of these stupendous difficulties, should ever have succeeded. The explanation lies in the great enthusiasm of all England for this attempt to extend the British domains to the shores of the New World, and in the devotion of a few brave spirits of the London Company, who would not be daunted by repeated failures. It mattered not to them that thousands of pounds were lost in the undertaking, that many hundreds of men perished, the English flag and the English religion must gain a foothold upon the American continent.
Sir Thomas Gates found the colony in a pitiable condition. The tomahawk of the Indians, famine and pestilence had wrought terrible havoc with the settlers. A mere handful of poor wretched men were left to welcome the newcomers and to beg eagerly to be taken away from the ill-fated country. The town "appeared rather as the ruins of some auntient fortification, then that any people living might now in habit it: the pallisadœs he found tourne downe, the portes open, the gates from the hinges, the church ruined and unfrequented. … Only the block house … was the safetie of the remainder that lived: which yet could not have preserved them now many days longer from the watching, subtile, and offended Indians."72
