What to see in America . he year 1619 a shiploadof respectable maidens for wives to the planters. Youcan also visit the spot on which were sold that same yeartwenty negars brought to Jamestown by a Dutch man-of-war. This was the beginning of negro slavery in theUnited States. The church, now represented by the ruinedtower, was erected about 1680. In an earlier wooden churchPocahontas was married to John Rolfe in 1614. ManyVirginians and others are proud of their descent fromPocahontas. Two of her descendants were PresidentsWilliam Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison. Another became the wife o
What to see in America . he year 1619 a shiploadof respectable maidens for wives to the planters. Youcan also visit the spot on which were sold that same yeartwenty negars brought to Jamestown by a Dutch man-of-war. This was the beginning of negro slavery in theUnited States. The church, now represented by the ruinedtower, was erected about 1680. In an earlier wooden churchPocahontas was married to John Rolfe in 1614. ManyVirginians and others are proud of their descent fromPocahontas. Two of her descendants were PresidentsWilliam Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison. Another became the wife of Presi-dent Wilson in was burnedin 1676 during BaconsRebellion, and nothingwas left standing excepta few blackened chim-neys. The town was re-built, but when it wasburned a second time,toward the close of thecentury, it was aban-doned. Williamsburg, sevenmiles distant, became theseat of government in1699, and the authoritiesbegan laying out ; oj Old ( ihi,<ji, Jamestown streets to make W and. Virginia 147
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