The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . or a time received a pension out of the dues on Imports 211 from Virginia. By her he had seven children, and If wemay believe her petition, he left her only £io per annum,so great had been his expenditures In Virginia. It has beensaid of Lord De la Warr : The people of America will not fail, when time has made thingsvenerable, and when an Intermixture of fable has moulded usefultruths Into popular opinions, to
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . or a time received a pension out of the dues on Imports 211 from Virginia. By her he had seven children, and If wemay believe her petition, he left her only £io per annum,so great had been his expenditures In Virginia. It has beensaid of Lord De la Warr : The people of America will not fail, when time has made thingsvenerable, and when an Intermixture of fable has moulded usefultruths Into popular opinions, to mention with equal gratitude, andperhaps similar heightening circumstances, her Columbus, herCastro, her De Polncy, her De la War, her Baltimore, and her colony of Virginia was so fast rooted by the care of Lord de laWar,that It was enabled to stand two terrible storms; two massacresmade by the Indians, in which the whole colony was nearly cut off;and to subdue that people, so as to put it utterly out of their powerfor many years past to give them the least disturbance. The Illustration is from a painting in the State Library,Richmond, after an original in England. 212. THOMAS WEST Lord De la Warr 1577-1618 (213) PQBLIC LIBRARY NEW YORK NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE Epke, the son of Jacob, whose descendants took thename Banta, was a farmer at Oosterbierum, near the en-trance to the Zuyder Zee, in Friesland, when his second sonwas born, in 1654. He soon moved to a neighboring vil-lage called Minnertsga, where his next three sons wereborn. With his wife and five sons he went on board theship De Trouw, early in 1659, ^^^ sailed from the port ofHarlingen, paying 159 florins for the passage. Epke settled at Flushing, on Long Island, and in 1662was known as the worthy Epke Jacobs, innkeeper. In1671 he bought a mill in the adjoining town of or three years later, Epke moved to Bergen, NewJersey, and was of sufficient prominence to be made a mem-ber of a Specia
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