Voyage of Newport.... Settlement at Jamestown.... Distress of
colonists.... Smith.... He is captured by the Indians.... Condemned to
death, saved by Pocahontas.... Returns to Jamestown.... Newport arrives
with fresh settlers.... Smith explores the Chesapeake.... Is chosen
president.... New charter.... Third voyage of Newport.... Smith sails
for Europe.... Condition of the colony.... Colonists determine to
abandon the country.... Are stopped by Lord Delaware.... Sir Thomas
Dale.... New charter.... Capt. Argal seizes Pocahontas.... She marries
Mr. Rolf.... Separate property in lands and labour.... Expedition
against Port Royal.... Against Manhadoes.... Fifty acres of land for
each settler.... Tobacco.... Sir Thomas Dale.... Mr. Yeardley.... First
assembly.... First arrival of females.... Of convicts.... Of African
slaves.... Two councils established.... Prosperity of the colony....
Indians attempt to massacre the whites.... General war.... Dissolution
of the company.... Arbitrary measures of the crown.... Sir John
Harvey.... Sir William Berkeley.... Provincial assembly restored....
Virginia declares in favour of Charles II.... Grant to Lord
Baltimore.... Arrival of a colony in Maryland.... Assembly composed
of freemen.... William Claybourne.... Assembly composed of
representatives.... Divided into two branches.... Tyrannical
proceedings.