gold-hunting Captain Martin, concluded to return with her to England. Of
the 120 settlers brought by Newport and Nelson, there were 33 gentlemen,
21 laborers, (some of them only footmen,) 6 tailors, 2 apothecaries, 2
jewellers, 2 gold-refiners, 2 goldsmiths, a gunsmith, a perfumer, a
surgeon, a cooper, a tobacco-pipe maker, and a blacksmith.[54:A]
FOOTNOTES:
[36:A] See charter in Stith's Hist. of Va., Appendix; "Notes as to the
Limits of Virginia," by Littleton Waller Tazewell, in Va. Hist.
Register, No. 1.
[36:B] Hening's Statutes at Large, i. 57.
[37:A] Hen. 67; Stith, 36, and in Appendix.
[37:B] Stith, 42.
[38:A] Smith's Hist. of Va., ii. 276.
[39:A] Narrative (in Purchas' Pilgrims, iv. 1685,) by George Percy,
brother of the Earl of Northumberland, and one of the first expedition.
See Hillard's Life of Smith in Sparks' Amer. Biog., 211 and 214 in note.
(Hillard in the main follows Stith.) Smith's Newes from Virginia.
[39:B] Smith, i. 140-41.
[40:A] Percy's Narrative.
[41:A] Stith, 46.
[43:A] Smith, i. 153; Newes from Virginia; Anderson's History of the
Colonial Church, i. 217.
[45:A] Newes from Va., 7.
[48:A] Smith, ii. 30. In Newes from Va., Smith calls her "a child of ten
years old." This was a mistake.
[48:B] Stith, 53; Newes from Virginia, 11.
[49:A] Anderson's History of the Colonial Church, i. 221, referring to
Wingfield's MS. Journal.
[49:B] List of the first planters, Smith, i. 153.
[51:A] Purchas, iv. 1710, cited in Anderson's History Col. Church, i.
222.
[51:B] Hawks' Contributions, 22.
[52:A] Captain John Smith's "Advertisements for the Unexperienced
Planters of New England, or anywhere," etc. A rare pamphlet, written at
the house of Sir Humphrey Mildmay, in the Parish of Danbery, Essex
County, England, dedicated to the excellent Archbishop Abbot, and
published in 1631. Cited in Anderson's History of Col. Church, ii. 747.
[53:A] Grahame's Col. Hist. U. S., Amer. ed., i. 28, in note.
[54:A] Smith, i. 170.
CHAPTER IV.
1608.
Smith's First Exploring Voyage up the Chesapeake Bay--Smith's
Isles--Accomac--Tangier Islands--Wighcocomoco--Watkins'
Point--Keale's Hill--Point Ployer--Watts' Islands--Cuskarawaok
River--The Patapsco--Potomac--Quiyough--Stingray Island--Smith
returns to Jamestown--His Second Voyage up Chesapeake Bay--
The Massawomeks--The Indians on the River Tockwogh--
Sasquesahannocks--Peregrine's Moun
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