A History of the Valley of VirginiaHeritage Books, 2009 - 416 страници If you'd like to know more about the history of Native Americans and early American settlers, this book is for you. Written not long after the Revolutionary War, the author was himself a young eyewitness to the life and times described, and the weight of |
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... Capt . Christopher Newport to Virginia , December 20 , 1606 , with a colony of one hundred and five persons , to commence a settlement on the island of Roanoke , now in North Carolina . By stress of weather , however , they were driven ...
... Capt . Christopher Newport to Virginia , December 20 , 1606 , with a colony of one hundred and five persons , to commence a settlement on the island of Roanoke , now in North Carolina . By stress of weather , however , they were driven ...
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... Capt . Brent the troop of horse in that county , ( both dwelling six or eight miles downwards ) having speedy notice raised 30 , or mote men , & pursu'd those Indians 20 miles up & 4 miles over that river into Maryland , where landing ...
... Capt . Brent the troop of horse in that county , ( both dwelling six or eight miles downwards ) having speedy notice raised 30 , or mote men , & pursu'd those Indians 20 miles up & 4 miles over that river into Maryland , where landing ...
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... Capt . Brent ( a papist ) coming hither on a visit and seeing his little prisener thus lauguishing said " perhaps he is pawewawd i . e . bewitch'd , and that he had heard baptism was an effectual remedy against witch- craft wherefore ...
... Capt . Brent ( a papist ) coming hither on a visit and seeing his little prisener thus lauguishing said " perhaps he is pawewawd i . e . bewitch'd , and that he had heard baptism was an effectual remedy against witch- craft wherefore ...
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... Capt . Brent and other gentlemen of that county invited me to stand a candidate ; a matter I little dreamt of , having never had inclina- c'ions to tamper into the precarious intrigues of Govern't . and my hands being full of my own ...
... Capt . Brent and other gentlemen of that county invited me to stand a candidate ; a matter I little dreamt of , having never had inclina- c'ions to tamper into the precarious intrigues of Govern't . and my hands being full of my own ...
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... Capt . Carver , and said he had been to wait on the Generall for a co'mission , and that he was resolved to adventure his old bones against the Indian rogues with other the like discourse , and at length told me that I was in mighty ...
... Capt . Carver , and said he had been to wait on the Generall for a co'mission , and that he was resolved to adventure his old bones against the Indian rogues with other the like discourse , and at length told me that I was in mighty ...
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