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| VIRGINIA. |
| IN 1606 a company of
merchants, called the
"London Company," sent
from England three small ships
and 105 colonists who arrived in
Virginia in April, 1607. They
sailed up and down a river, which
they named the James River, and
selected a place to live upon
which they called Jamestown.
Captain John Smith was the
leading man in the new
settlement, and came at length to
be governor. But it did not
thrive, and the ruined church is
all that is left of this
settlement. It was the first
English settlement on the
Continent. The Virginia Company
of London, which held the
government of the colony in
November, 1618, granted to
Virginia a "Great
Charter," under which the
people of the colony were allowed
a voice in making their own laws.
This was the beginning of free
government in America. The
government of the United States,
by President and House of
Representatives, shows that the
ideas put into the "Great
Charter" have left their
mark on the Constitution of our
country. |
| The
advance of the French military
post along the Alleghanies led to
war in 1754, and George
Washington led the Virginia
troops in an attempt to recover
the colony's outposts on the
upper Ohio. |
| Virginia
took a leading part in the
Revolution, and the Declaration
of Independence was proposed by
one of her deputies. |
| Early
in 1861 the people of Virginia
refused, by a majority of 60,000,
to secede from the Union; but a
few weeks later, after blood had
been shed, she left the Union. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
The
Ruins of the Old Church; First
Settlers at Jamestown, 1607;
Pocahontas Saving the Life of
Capt. John Smith; Punish-
ment by Pillory in Colonial Days;
The Fight Between
the "Monitor" and the
"Merrimac" in 1862. |
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