PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE 
OF 
ARTS AND SCIENCES 
VoL. I Oct. 1921I—MAy 1922 PART 4 
The Settlement of Virginia * 
‘Hon. Howarp RanpotpH BAYNE 
We may well honor the memory of Washington on this, his 
birthday, by turning from the busy cares of everyday affairs and 
dwelling a while upon that settlement at Jamestown on May 13, 
1607, which developed into the State where he was born and under 
whose traditions his character was formed. 
“The spacious times of Great Elizabeth” had drawn to a close. 
John Hawkins, the son of a merchant of Plymouth, himself a 
voyager of some daring, had in successive voyages carried the 
English flag to the coast of Guiana, to Florida, to the West Indies, 
and had rendered perhaps his greatest service by introducing to 
his country that great sea captain, Francis Drake. Drake, in his 
time, had taught Frenchmen and Spaniards alike to fear an English 
greeting upon the high seas. He had penetrated the Pacific 
through the Straits of Magellan, and in spite of the loss of all his 
consorts had proceeded with his small ship and his eighty men to 
harry the Spanish settlements on the Pacific coast, and then, turn- 
ing homeward through the chartless Pacific and around the Cape 
of Good Hope, had encircled the globe, to the astonishment and 
1An address at the meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Staten 
Island Institute, February 22, 1922. 
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