The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . inias loyal sons thus speaks of her: Here the old world first met the new. Herethe white man first met the red for settlement andcivilization. Here the white man first wielded theaxe to cut the FIRST TREE for the- first log the FIRST LOG CABIN was built for the FIRSTVillage. Here the FIRST Village rose to be theFirst State Capital. Here was the First Capi-tal of our empire of States. Here was the veryfoundation of a nation of freemen, which hasstretched its dominion and its millions across thecontinent to the shores of anoth
The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . inias loyal sons thus speaks of her: Here the old world first met the new. Herethe white man first met the red for settlement andcivilization. Here the white man first wielded theaxe to cut the FIRST TREE for the- first log the FIRST LOG CABIN was built for the FIRSTVillage. Here the FIRST Village rose to be theFirst State Capital. Here was the First Capi-tal of our empire of States. Here was the veryfoundation of a nation of freemen, which hasstretched its dominion and its millions across thecontinent to the shores of another ocean. Virginia liveth not unto herself. Her influence hasbeen salutary, not selfish, and the oppressed of everynation live in hope of freedom, being inspired by the exam-ple of her three sons—Mason, Jefferson, Washington—whogave to the world the Declaration of Independence. Frombeginning to end it was the work of Virginia. A Virginiaplanter conceived it; a Virginia lawyer drafted it; and aVirginia Soldier defended it and made it a living ;MM>^^^ YV7HEN the three ships, the GoodPoynt W Speed, Susan Constant and ^^^?^* Discoverer, bearing the first settlersreached the Chespeake Bay (Mother of Waters) theywere driven by violent storms to the western shore of theBay, where shelter was found, and in commemorationthereof, they named the place Poynt Comfort. When the early settlers in America obtained royal char-ters from King James I, the government of the VirginiaColony was intrusted to the London Company, of whichCapt. John Smith and Bartholomew Gosnold were the lead-ing spirits. In 1609 King James enlarged the boundariesof the Southern Colony. The lines were run from PoyntComfort and included all the territory 200 miles toto the North and 200 miles to the South, of Old Poynt,and to reach up into the land from sea to sea. Afterwards Poynt Comfort was called Old Point Com-fort, to distinguish it from New Point Comfort, just acrosstht^ Bay near Cape Charles. Land
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