A history of the United States . 1G09,the year of Smiths departure, King James gave the VirginiaCompany a new charter, which defined the limits of its territoryin a very vague way and increased its power over its 1612 he gave another charter, which took in the BermudaIslands and allowed the shareholders of the Company to hold 1 Born about 1595; died, 1617. Daughter of the Indian chief reports that when he was talien prisoner by Powhatan and was aboutto be put to death, Pocahontas placed her own head in the way of the execu-tioners club. This may have been a sign tha
A history of the United States . 1G09,the year of Smiths departure, King James gave the VirginiaCompany a new charter, which defined the limits of its territoryin a very vague way and increased its power over its 1612 he gave another charter, which took in the BermudaIslands and allowed the shareholders of the Company to hold 1 Born about 1595; died, 1617. Daughter of the Indian chief reports that when he was talien prisoner by Powhatan and was aboutto be put to death, Pocahontas placed her own head in the way of the execu-tioners club. This may have been a sign that she wished to have Smithspared that he might become her husband. It is at least certain that Smithwas sent back to Jamestown, and that Pocahontas afterward befriended thecolonists. She was converted to Christianity in 1613, and christened Rebecca;married John Rolfe in 1614; went to England in 1616, and was presented atthe court of James I. as Princess Lady Rebecca. From her have descendedmany illustrious families of 28 FIRST PLANTATIONS AND COLONIES, 1607-1630. [§27 general meetings in London. Twelve years later, when thekings Puritan opponents had got control of these meetings andused them for political purposes, he caused the charter to beannulled by a decree of court, which was a legal though not ajustifiable act. The records of the Company were preservedin a romantic way,^ and are now in the possession of the gov-ernment at Washington. 27. Growth of Virginia. — Meanwhile the colony had had vari-ous ups and downs under several governors, — Lord Delaware,Sir Thomas Dale, the tyrannical Samuel Argall, Sir GeorgeYeardley, and Sir Francis Wyatt, — but had on the whole be-come firmly established. Dale was strict, but successful incontrolling the rougher elements ; he also encouraged the policyof allowing settlers to become individual proprietors of was speedily recalled for his misconduct. Liberal sen-timents then prevailed iu the colony, and its i
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