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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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o consist of Bartholomew Gosnold, John Smith, EdwardWingfield, Christopher Newport, John Ratcliffe, John Martin, andGeorge Kendall. The next seventeen days were spent in looking for 1 Smiths General History. ^ See instructions in full in Neills History of the Virginia Company in London. 1607.) THE BUILDING OF JAMESTOWN. 271 a suitable place to plant the colony, about which there was much dis-agreement, and on the 13th of May they fixed on the present siteof Jamestown — so named in honor of the king — on a pe-ninsula about forty miles from the mouth of the Pow- the site ofhatan, which, also in honor of James, they called the Kings,and afterward James River. This was to be their permanent home;the council, excepting Smith, were sworn into office, and Wingfieldchosen president. Then falleth every man to worke; the Councell contrive theFort, the rest cut downe trees to make place to pitchtheir Tents; some provide clapboard to relade theships, some make gardens,some nets, etc. ^ It was
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Newports Embarkation. the laying of the first solid foundation of that English nation, whichRaleigh had said five years before he should yet live to see. In the instructions of the Council the emigrants were commanded todiscover the communication which was supposed to exist by some riveror lake between Virginia and the South Sea. This they evidentlylooked upon as one of their first d.uties, and accordingly within a weekCaptain Newport fitted out a shallop with provision and all neces-saryes belonging to a discovery —they believed they had not far toseek — and proceeded with five gentlemen, four maryners, andfourteen saylors, with a perfect resolutyon not to returne, but either tofinde the head of this ryver, the laake mentyoned by others hereto- 1 Smiths History, book i., chap. 1. 272 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. (Chap. XL fore, the sea againe, the mountaynes Apalatai (Appalachian) or someissue. ^ The issue was that they returned within the week withouthaving discovered ei

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