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Title: Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
Publisher: Norfolk, Va., Standard lithographing and publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s came to Virginia. In 1693, Rev. Jas. Blair founded William and Mary Collegeat Middle Plantation (now Williamsburg) second oldest insti-tution of its kind in America, Harvard being the first. He wasits first president and was rector of church at Jamestown andlater of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg. In 1698, Sir Francis Nicholson again returned to Virginia,displacing Sir Edmund Andros. He laid out.a city at MiddlePlantation and named it Williamsburg. In 1698 and in 1699,when the State House at Jamestown was burned, he removedthe seat of government to Williamsburg. In 1700, Queen Anne succeeded William and Mary to thethrone of England. In 1705, Yorktown was established, although settled andlaid off into streets as early as 1619. First Custom House inAmerica built there in 1715. In 1710, Alexander Spotswoodcame to Virginia, at age of 34 years. He was a man of force anda determined ruler. He built iron furnaces and made wine atGermanna on the Rapidan. Founded an Indian school-mission
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124 HISTORICAL EVENTS OF VIRGINIA 125 on the Meherrin River (in 1716), and went on an expeditionbeyond Blue Ridge Mountains with a large party of good com-panions. The shoeing of the horses with iron gave rise to theorder of the Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe. He senttwo ships to capture Blackbeard the pirate, in Pamlico Sound(Nov. 21, 1718), and Lieut. Maynard commanding the Virgin-ians boarded the pirate ship and a hand to hand fight followed.Blackbeard was killed and his head stuck on the bowspritof one of the vessels, and thirteen of the pirates hung at Williams-burg. Blackbeards skull is still preserved in Virginia, andfashioned into a drinking cup, rimmed with silver. GovernorSpotswood had another residence at Temple Farm, the formername of the Moore House, where, Oct., 1781, Lord Corn--wallis surrendered, and here he spent his last days after retiringas governor. In 1740, he was commissioned major-general to commandan expedition to the West Indies, but died suddenly (June 7,1

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