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Title: Pioneers of the Old South
A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, Volume 5 In
The Chronicles Of America Series

Author: Mary Johnston

Editor: Allen Johnson

Posting Date: December 29, 2008 [EBook #2898]
Release Date: November, 2001

Language: English

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Produced by Dianne Bean, Justin Philips, The James J. Kelly
Library Of St. Gregory's University, and Alev Akman

PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH

A CHRONICLE OF ENGLISH COLONIAL BEGINNINGS

By Mary Johnston

CONTENTS

I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL
II. THE ADVENTURERS
III. JAMESTOWN
IV. JOHN SMITH
V. THE SEA ADVENTURE
VI. SIR THOMAS DALE
VII. YOUNG VIRGINIA
VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENT
IX. MARYLAND
X. CHURCH AND KINGDOM
XI. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION
XII. NATHANIEL BACON
XIII. REBELLION AND CHANGE
XIV. THE CAROLINAS
XV. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD
XVI. GEORGIA

THE NAVIGATION LAWS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH

CHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL

Elizabeth of England died in 1603. There came to the English throne
James Stuart, King of Scotland, King now of England and Scotland. In
1604 a treaty of peace ended the long war with Spain. Gone was the
sixteenth century; here, though in childhood, was the seventeenth
century.

Now that the wars were over, old colonization schemes were revived
in the English mind. Of the motives, which in the first instance had
prompted these schemes, some with the passing of time had become weaker,
some remained quite as strong as before. Most Englishmen and women knew
now that Spain had clay feet; and that Rome, though she might threaten,
could not always perform what she threatened. To abase the pride of
Spain, to make harbors of refuge for the angel of the Reformation--these
wishes, though they had not vanished, though no man could know how long
the peace with Spain would last, were less fervid than they had been in
t