xploration. It was he who found, and named for
the Lord Governor, Delaware Bay. He went up the Potomac and traded for
corn; rescued an English boy from the Indians; had brushes with the
savages. In the autumn back to England with a string of ships went that
tried and tested seafarer Christopher Newport. Virginia wanted many
things, and chiefly that the Virginia Company should excuse defect and
remember promise. So Gates sailed with Newport to make true report and
guide exertion. Six months passed, and the Lord Governor himself fell
ill and must home to England. So away he, too, went and for seven years
until his death ruled from that distance through a deputy governor. De
La Warr was a man of note and worth, old privy councilor of Elizabeth
and of James, soldier in the Low Countries, strong Protestant and
believer in England-in-America. Today his name is borne by a great
river, a great bay, and by one of the United States.

In London, the Virginia Company, having listened to Gates, projected
a fourth supply for the colony. Of those hundreds who had perished in
Virginia, many had been true and intelligent men, and again many perhaps
had been hardly that. But the Virginia Company was now determined to
exercise for the future a discrimination. It issued a broadside,
making known that it was sending a new supply of men and all necessary
provision in a fleet of good ships, under the conduct of Sir Thomas
Gates and Sir Thomas Dale, and that it was not intended any more to
burden the action with "vagrant and unnecessary persons... but honest
and industrious men, as Carpenters, Smiths, Coopers, Fishermen, Tanners,
Shoemakers, Shipwrights, Brickmen, Gardeners, Husbandmen, and laboring
men of all sorts that... shall be entertained for the Voyage upon such
termes as their qualitie and fitnesse shall deserve." Yet, in spite of
precautions, some of the other sort continued to creep in with the sober
and industrious. Master William Crashaw, in a sermon upon the Virginia
venture, remarks that "they who goe... be like for aught I see to those
who are left behind, even of all sorts better and worse!" This probably
hits the mark.

The Virginia Company meant at last to have order in Virginia. To this
effect, a new office was created and a strong man was found to fill it.
Gates remained De La Warr's deputy governor, but Sir Thomas Dale went
as Marshal of Virginia. The latter sailed in March, 1611, with "three
ships, three hundred people,