Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . e Emperor was content he should live to makehim hatchets, beads and copper. ^^^^^^ In 1609, Powhatan plotted to destroyJamestown, but throughPocahontas, his daugh-ter, the colonists werewarned in time to pro-tect themselves. Subsrquently Pocahontas wasbaptized by the nameof Rebecca. She mar-ried Rolfe, with whomshe visited ? England,where she died, leav-ing- one son. It hasPOCAHONTAS , to . , . been said she was in love with Capt. Smith, who was many years hersenior and whom she after met
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . e Emperor was content he should live to makehim hatchets, beads and copper. ^^^^^^ In 1609, Powhatan plotted to destroyJamestown, but throughPocahontas, his daugh-ter, the colonists werewarned in time to pro-tect themselves. Subsrquently Pocahontas wasbaptized by the nameof Rebecca. She mar-ried Rolfe, with whomshe visited ? England,where she died, leav-ing- one son. It hasPOCAHONTAS , to . , . been said she was in love with Capt. Smith, who was many years hersenior and whom she after met in England. When Smith left for England, the Colony numberedfive hundred, but famine and pestilence besieged thehardy pioneers and in May, 1610, only sixty disheartened, haggard settlers remained. June 7, 1610,with the drums rolling a dirge, the few dejectedcolonists set sail for England, arriving at HamptonRoads in time to meet the ships of Lord Delaware,the new governor, Avho had jnst arrived with a supply of provisions and one hundred and eighty newadventurers who put new hope into their — 15 — From this time the Colony prospered. In 1619, inthe wooden church at Jamestown, Gov. Yeardly con-vened the first legislative assembly in Virginia, theupper house being called the Council and the lowerone the House of Burgesses. March 22, 1622, three hundred and forty-seven ofthe colony were butchered by the Indians. In 1624,the Crown took over the government of the colony,dissolving the charter of the London Company. Upto this time nine thousand colonists had been sentto Virginia, but only two thousand had conveyed by the London Company were takenaway and settlers deprived of their lawful holdings;agents sent to England to remedy the wrong, re-turned unsuccessful and after years of abuse at thehands of the king, discontent culminated in open insur-rection under the leadership of Nathaniel Bacon. Governor Berkeley refused to dispatch forces againstthe Susq
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