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Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English

Mary Johnston

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. . .Spring came again with the dogwood and the honeysuckle and the strawberries, the gay, returning birds, the barred and striped and mottled serpents. The colony was one year old. Back to England sailed the Francis and John and the Phoenix, carrying home Edward-Maria Wingfield, who has wearied of Virginia and will return no more.

What rests certain and praiseworthy in Smith is his thoroughness and daring in exploration. This summer he went with fourteen others down the river in an open boat, and so across the great bay, wide as a sea, to what is yet called the Eastern Shore, the counties now of Accomac and Northampton. Rounding Cape Charles these indefatigable explorers came upon islets beaten by the Atlantic surf. These they named Smith's Islands. Landing upon the main shore, they met "grimme and stout" savages, who took them to the King of Accomac, and him they found civil enough. This side of the great bay, with every creek and inlet, Smith examined and set dow. . . Read More

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- Clayton - Feb 19, 2016

It is here in this fifth volume of the Chronicle series that we at last come to the formation of those first American colonies. Providing exhaustive coverage of the settlement and formation of the colony of Virginia and it's governmental changes and experiences before eventually moving on to cover t

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