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AMERICA. Chap. II. 



andaPinacc, who on Decemb. \ 9 . x6o6. fet Sail from £lack^all, and were by 

 Storm, contrary to expectation, caft upon the firft Land, which they call'd Cape 

 Henry, \t the Mouth of the Bay of Qxfapeack, lying in thirty ieven Degrees , or 

 thereabouts, of Northerly Latitude : Here their Orders were open'd and read, and 

 eight declar'd of the Council, and impower'd to chofe a Prefident for a year, who 

 with the Council Oiould Govern that Colony : Till May 13. they fought a place 

 to Plant in, Mr. Winkfeld was chofe the firft Prefident , who caus'd a Fort to be 

 rais'd at Powhatan, now ca\YdJames-To»n : In June following, Captain Newport re- 

 turned for England, leaving a hundred Men behind him . fince which time they have 

 been fufficiently fupply'd from England, and by the indefatigable Induftry and Cou- 

 rage of Captain John Smith, (one of the Council at that time, and afterward Prefi- 

 dent of the Colony) they made fcveral Difcovcries on the Eaftern fliore, and up to 

 the Head -of the Bay of Chefapeack, and of the principal Rivers which fall into the 



faid Bay. 



Virginia being thus Difcover'd and Planted, King James by his Letters Patent 

 bearing Date April 10. in the fourth year of his Reign, 1607. Granted Licence to 

 Sir Thorns Gates, Sir George Summers, and others, to divide themfelves into two fe* 

 veral Colonies, for the more fpeedy Planting of that Countrey, then call'd Virgi- 

 nia, between the Degrees of thirty four and forty five of North Latitude, that is to 

 fay', taken in that large extent, mention'd in the beginning : The firft Colony to 

 be undertaken by certain Knights, Gentlemen, and Merchants, in, and about the 

 City of London: The fecond to be undertaken, and advane'd by certain Knights, 

 Gentlemen, and Merchants, and their Affociatcs, in, or about the City of Brijlol, 

 Exon, Plymouth, and other parts. 



At the firft Colonies Requeft, in the feventh year of the fame King, a fecond 

 Patent was Granted to feveral Noblemen arid Gentlemen, (including Sir Thomas 

 Gates, and fome of his former Fellow-Patentees) bearing Date May 13. 1610. where- 

 by they were made a Corporation, and Body Politique, and ftil'd, The Treafurer, 

 and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London, for the firji Colony of Vir- 

 ginia : And by this Patent, there was Granted to them, their SucccfTors and Af- 

 figns, two hundred Miles to the Southward, from a Cape of Land in Virginia, call'd 

 Point Comfort 5 and two hundred Miles to the Northward of the faid C^e,alongthe 

 Sea«fliore, and into the Land from Sea to Sea. 



And on March 12. 1612. the faid King, in the ninth year of his Reign, Grants 

 them a third Patent, of all Iflands lying in the Sea, within two hundred Miles of 

 the Shore of that Trad of Land on the Continent, granted to them by the faid for. 



mer Patent, Jac. 7* 



In the Year 161 5. Captain Smith procur'd by his Intereft at Court, and the 

 King's Favor, a Recommendation from His Majefty, and divers of the Nobility, 

 to all Cities and Corporations, to Adventure in a Handing Lottery, which was 

 ercded for the benefit of this Plantation, which was contriv'd in fuch a manner, 

 that of 100000. Pounds which was to be put in, 50000. onely, or one half was to 

 return to the Adventurers, according as the Prizes fell out j and the other half to 

 be difpos'd of for the Promotion of the Affairs of Virginia, in which, thpugh it were 

 three years before it was fully accompftfli'd, he had in the end no bad Succefs. 



In the eighteenth Year of the faid King's Reign , at the Requeft of the fecond 

 Colony, a Patent was Granted to feveral Noblemen and Gentlemen, of all that 

 Traftof Land lying in the parts of America, between the Degrees of forty and for- 

 ty eight of Northerly Latitude, and into the Land from Sea to Sea , which was 

 call'd by the Patent ^e^ England in America : For the better Government whereof, 



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