BY ROBERT BEVERLEY,
A native and inhabitant of the place.
REPRINTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S SECOND REVISED EDITION, LONDON, 1722.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY CHARLES CAMPBELL,
Author of the Colonial History of Virginia.
J. W. RANDOLPH,
121 MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
1855.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
J. W. RANDOLPH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court in and for the Eastern District of Virginia.
H. K. ELLYSON'S STEAM PRESSES, RICHMOND, VA.
THE TABLE.
History of the first attempts to settle Virginia, before the discovery of Chesapeake bay.
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| §1. | Sir Walter Raleigh obtains letters patent, for making discoveries in America, | 8 |
| 2. | Two ships set out on the discovery, and arrive at Roanoke inlet, | 9 |
| Their account of the country, | 9 | |
| thier account of the natives, | 9 | |
| 3. | Queen Elizabeth names the country of Virginia, | 10 |
| 4. | Sir Richard Greenvile's voyage, | 10 |
| He plans the first colony, under command of Mr. Ralph Lane, | 11 | |
| 5. | The discoveries and accidents of the first colony, | 11 |
| 6. | Their distress by want of provisions, | 12 |
| Sir Francis Drake visits them, | 12 | |
| He gives them a ship and necessaries, | 12 | |
| He takes them away with him, | 12 | |
| 7. | Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Richard Greenvile, their voyages, | 13 |
| The second settlement made, | 13 | |
| 8. | Mr. John White's expedition, | 13 |
| The first Indian made a Christian there, | 14 | |
| The first child born there of Christian parentage, | 14 | |
| Third settlement, incorporated by the name of the city of Raleigh, in Virginia, | 14 | |
| Mr. White, their governor, sent home to solicit for supplies, | 14 | |
| 9. | John White's second voyage; last attempts to carry them recruits, | 14 |
| His disappointment, | 15 | |
| 10. | Capt. Gosnell's voyage to the coast of Cape Cod, | 15 |
| 11. | The Bristol voyages, |
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