An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . r; but Charles confirmed it by the appointing of Culpepper governor for life. He was avaricious and despotic ; and theoffice finally reverted to the crown. The colony remained in ratheian unsettled state until 1092, when its management was conferreuon Sir Edmund Andros. He seems to have conducted himself,during the six years of his administration, with prudence and abi-lity. His s
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . r; but Charles confirmed it by the appointing of Culpepper governor for life. He was avaricious and despotic ; and theoffice finally reverted to the crown. The colony remained in ratheian unsettled state until 1092, when its management was conferreuon Sir Edmund Andros. He seems to have conducted himself,during the six years of his administration, with prudence and abi-lity. His successor, Nicholson, having formed a scheme of unitingthe settlements into a union for mutual defence, which displeasedthe Assembly, was deposed, and the government given to the Earlof Orkney, who held it as a sinecure thirty-six years. Virginia, from this period till the peace of 1763, enjoyed an almostjninterrupled prosperity. She was engaged in military operationsHgainst the French and their Indian allies ; but as these were com-mon to the whole range of states, we prefer to make them, vvith sonifother ma^ercj, iJie subject of u -eneral chapter. CSCIL CALVBBT THB 8BC0ND LORD BALTIMOKB CHAPTER XYL TRGINIA, under the second charter, was ex- 1^ tended so as to embrace in its area theJ whole of the present state of Maryland,[n the territory around Chesapeake Baya valuable trade was carried on with theIndians, principally by William Clayborne,a surveyor of the Virginia Company, andmember of the council. Under directlicense from the crown, he built a numberof establishments on the bay, the proceeds of which were highlybeneficial to the colony. This profitable trade was interrupted by the grant of a charter toSir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, for the land extendingfrom the Potomac to the fortieth degree of north latitude, to be calledMaryland, in honour of the queen. Sir George, having died beforethe grant was fully made out, was succeeded by his son Cecil, w
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