. The new eclectic history of the United States . lishman who ever set foot upon the shores of NewEngland. Until Gosnolds expedition, no English voyager since the Cabots hadsailed by way of tin- northern or direct course across the Atlantic. They hadfollowed in the track of Columbus, by the way of the Canary Islands and theWest Indies. Gosnold was one of the leaders in the company which founded [amestown in 1607, and died in the fall of that year from the hardships of pio-neer life, lie ranks with Sir Walter Raleigh as one of the wisest and greatest ofthe founders of the American colonies. 6.
. The new eclectic history of the United States . lishman who ever set foot upon the shores of NewEngland. Until Gosnolds expedition, no English voyager since the Cabots hadsailed by way of tin- northern or direct course across the Atlantic. They hadfollowed in the track of Columbus, by the way of the Canary Islands and theWest Indies. Gosnold was one of the leaders in the company which founded [amestown in 1607, and died in the fall of that year from the hardships of pio-neer life, lie ranks with Sir Walter Raleigh as one of the wisest and greatest ofthe founders of the American colonies. 6. Captain John SMITH was born in England in 1579 am! died in 1631. Heserved as a soldier in the Netherlands, and in the wars against the Turks inHungary and Austria, where he was taken prisoner and sold as a slave in Con-stantinople. After his return to England from Virginia in 1609, he visited NewEngland and made a map of the coast from (ape Cod to the mouth of thePenobscot. He published several books on America. CHAPTER V. VIRGINIA AND Marriage of Pocahontas. 68. Council of Burgesses —When Sir George Yeard-ley came to be governor,the true life of Virginiabegan. The cruel lawswere changed, and, thatthe planters might have ahand in the governing ofthemselves, it was grantedthat a general assemblyshould be held yearly once,whereat were to be presentthe governor and council,with two burgesses fromeach plantation [/. c, town], freely to be elected by the inhab-itants thereof,—this assembly to have power to make andordain whatsoever laws should by them be thought good andprofitable. The Council of Burgesses, which met atJamestown in July, 1619, was the first law-making body inAmerica which was chosen by the people. 69. Indian Hostilities.—While Powhatan lived,—the chief ofthe forty tribes with which Smith had made friendship,— whitemen and savages were at peace. His daughter, Pocahontas,1married John Rolfe, a young Englishman, and several famousVirginian families
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