. Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907. Powhatan in 1618, Opitchapan, then anold man, became chief, but he was quickly succeeded by Opechan-canough, who secretly plotted for four years to exterminate theEnglish. And in the early spring of 1622, the Indians attackedthe English at every settlement from Falling Creek to the Vir-ginia Capes, at the same day and hour, killing three hundredand forty seven persons. The surviving colonists arose en masseand hunted down the Indians, butchering them in every di-rection without mercy. In 1624
. Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907. Powhatan in 1618, Opitchapan, then anold man, became chief, but he was quickly succeeded by Opechan-canough, who secretly plotted for four years to exterminate theEnglish. And in the early spring of 1622, the Indians attackedthe English at every settlement from Falling Creek to the Vir-ginia Capes, at the same day and hour, killing three hundredand forty seven persons. The surviving colonists arose en masseand hunted down the Indians, butchering them in every di-rection without mercy. In 1624, James I. took the government of the Virginiacolony out of the hands of the London Company, and began tocompose a new set of laws for Virginia, but before completingthe work, he died in March, 1625, and Charles I. became Kingof England, and officially recognized the Virginia Burgesses asa branch of the English government. The figures of governors come and go in long procession:Francis Wyatt was governor during 1625, but returned to Eng-land and George Yeardley resumed authority until his death in. 118 HISTORICAL EVENTS OF VIRGINIA 119 1627, when he was succeeded by Francis West, brother of LordDelaware. In 1628, he gave way to John Pott, whose rule wasbrief and uneventful. In 1629, came Sir John Harvey who ruled the Virginians ina most tyrannical manner, until April 28, 1635, when he wasthrust out of the government by the Virginia Assembly, butappealed to Charles I. who ordered him back to Virginia,where a little later he was succeeded by Francis Wyatt whoreturned from England and ruled as governor for two years,until the arrival of Sir William Berkeley, who for more thanthirty years, was one of the most conspicuous figures in Virginiahistory. John Smith died in the year 1631, at the age of fifty-twoand was buried under the chancel of Saint Sepulchres Church,London. In 1634, Cecilius Calvert (the second Lord Baltimore), whohad obtained a grant through his father, from Charles.
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