Discovery of Chesapeake bay by the corporation of London adventurers; their colony at Jamestown, and proceedings during the government by an elective president and council.
| §13. | The companies of London and Plymouth obtain charters, | 18 |
| 14. | Captain Smith first discovers the capes of Virginia, | 19 |
| 15. | He plants his first colony at Jamestown, | 20 |
| An account of Jamestown island, | 20 | |
| 16. | He sends the ships home, retaining one hundred and eight men to keep possession, | 20 |
| 17. | That colony's mismanagement, | 21 |
| Their misfortunes upon discovery of a supposed gold mine, | 21 | |
| 18. | Their first supplies after settlement, | 22 |
| Their discoveries, and experiments in English grain, | 22 | |
| An attempt of some to desert the colony, | 22 | |
| 19. | The first Christian marriage in that colony, | 23 |
| They make three plantations more, | 23 |
History of the colony after the change of their government, from an elective president to a commissionated governor, until the dissolution of the company.
| §20. | The company get a new grant, and the nomination of the governors in themselves, | 24 |
| They send three governors in equal degree, | 24 | |
| All three going in one ship, are shipwrecked at Bermudas, | 24 | |
| They build there two small cedar vessels, | 24 | |
| 21. | Captain Smith's return to England, | 25 |
| Mismanagements ruin the colony, | 25 | |
| The first massacre and starving time, | 25 | |
| The first occasion of the ill character of Virginia, | 26 | |
| The five hundred men left by Captain Smith reduced to sixty in six months time, | 26 | |
| 22. | The three governors sail from Bermudas, and arrive at Virginia, | 26 |
| 23. | They take off the Christians that remained there, and design, by way of Newfoundland, to return to England, | 27 |
| Lord Delaware arrives and turns them back, | 27 | |
| 24. | Sir Thomas Dale arrives governor, with supplies, | 27 |
| 25. | Sir Thomas Gates arrives governor, | 28 |
| He plants out a new plantation, | 28 | |
| 26. | Pocahontas made prisoner, and married to Mr. Rolfe, | 28 |
| 27. | Peace with the Indians, | 28 |