Jamestown tributes and toasts . I Rhode Island and Providence NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA Before the Pilgrim Fathers, whose memory we delight tohonor, had moored the May Flower to Plymouth Rock, theadventurous Cavaliers had established themselves in Virginia,and the first permanent settlement of English-speaking peopleon the American continent was made at Jamestown. New York was one of the provincial out-posts of Virginia—her territory extending as far as Nova Scotia, and CaptainSmith writing King James in 1612, that the Dutch had takenpossession of one of the Virginia isla
Jamestown tributes and toasts . I Rhode Island and Providence NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA Before the Pilgrim Fathers, whose memory we delight tohonor, had moored the May Flower to Plymouth Rock, theadventurous Cavaliers had established themselves in Virginia,and the first permanent settlement of English-speaking peopleon the American continent was made at Jamestown. New York was one of the provincial out-posts of Virginia—her territory extending as far as Nova Scotia, and CaptainSmith writing King James in 1612, that the Dutch had takenpossession of one of the Virginia islands—Manhattan. It is especially fitting, therefore, that the foundation ofthe Jamestown Exposition should have been laid through anendorsement of Ex-President Grover Cleveland, a formerGovernor of New York, and that most of its subsequent successas a national and international celebration, should be due tothe untiring and patriotic efforts of another former Governorof New York, President Theodore Roosevelt, who representsto-day the best type of the Twentieth Century American. Th
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