. Historic Virginia homes and churches . :it JHii >i;. .1 \.Ml;.-^lll\^ \. JAMESTOWN ClintCIl AND OLD lOWKli JAMESTOWN 5 After this, though there were still great suffViing andmany deaths, Virginia grew in strength. In 1(»1 l- the bap-tism of Poealiontas and her marriage with Joliii Kolfemade a bond of friendship l)etween the red man and thewhite. In 1619 Virginians were given the right to sliare intheir own government. A jjopuhir legishiture was author-ized and the House of Burgesses, the first representativeAssembly, not only of Ameriea, hut of all the Kings Col-onies, met on July
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . :it JHii >i;. .1 \.Ml;.-^lll\^ \. JAMESTOWN ClintCIl AND OLD lOWKli JAMESTOWN 5 After this, though there were still great suffViing andmany deaths, Virginia grew in strength. In 1(»1 l- the bap-tism of Poealiontas and her marriage with Joliii Kolfemade a bond of friendship l)etween the red man and thewhite. In 1619 Virginians were given the right to sliare intheir own government. A jjopuhir legishiture was author-ized and the House of Burgesses, the first representativeAssembly, not only of Ameriea, hut of all the Kings Col-onies, met on July 30, in the chinch. In this year alsotwenty picked maidens, jjure and undetiled, were sentover to make homes for such of the bachelor settlers aswere willing to pay for their transjjortation—provided saidbachelors took the fancy of the maids—and when the pair-ing off was accomplished Parson Biicke united the twentjhappy jjairs in holy wedlock. These auspicious events were followed by a frightfuldisaster—the Indian INIassacre of 1622, when nearly fourhundred Colonists were m
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