History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . SAVING JAMESTOWN FROMMASSACRE. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH SLAYING THEINDIAN CHIEF. London to settle on their lands, and loaned them on theirholdings from his own pocket and without interest threehundred pounds sterling. Thus far, from 1607 to 1620, Virginia was like NewNetherland from 1607-1624. It had no homes or home-makers. Without women or children from their owncountry, here was but a camp of adventure. It was thissame Sir Edwyn Sandys who made Virginia a place ofhomes, and thus insured its continuanc
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . SAVING JAMESTOWN FROMMASSACRE. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH SLAYING THEINDIAN CHIEF. London to settle on their lands, and loaned them on theirholdings from his own pocket and without interest threehundred pounds sterling. Thus far, from 1607 to 1620, Virginia was like NewNetherland from 1607-1624. It had no homes or home-makers. Without women or children from their owncountry, here was but a camp of adventure. It was thissame Sir Edwyn Sandys who made Virginia a place ofhomes, and thus insured its continuance as a he did by an unique stroke of genius and commonsense. In 1620, the year the Pilgrims landed on PlymouthRock, emigrants flocked in large numbers to Virginia proper. 2l8 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS. OPECHANCANOUGH CARRIED TO BATTLEON HIS WARRIORS SHOULDERS. Among them was a separate shipment, consisting of ninetyhistory-making, pure and uncorrupt young women. Thesewere sent by Sir Edwyn Sandys to be wives for lonelybachelor colonists yearning to become husbands and parents, and enjoy family life. Ofthe many nursing fathers ofthis great state, Sir EdwynSandys leads all in the voiceand claims of history. Thestatue we urge for himshould be erected on the soilof Virginia. Eager-eyed, lonesomebachelors were those James-town pioneers when Sir Ed-wyn Sandys cargo of pros-pective brides arrived! Each maiden was purchased by herfuture husband at a price ranging from ninety to one hun-dred and twelve dollars in tobacco value. This netted theshippers a generous sum over expenses. A second cargo ofhomemakers enabled those who had imported them to reapeven a more profitableharvest. To Sir Edwyn in 1617wrote the pioneer Pilgrims, |^^^John Robinson and William |Brewster, in the spirit ofthe tie
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