d council._

Sec. 13. The companies of London and Plymouth obtain charters, 18
14. Captain Smith first discovers the capes of Virginia, 19
15. He plants his first colony at Jamestown, 20
An account of Jamestown island, 20
16. He sends the ships home, retaining one hundred and eight men
to keep possession, 20
17. That colony's mismanagement, 21
Their misfortunes upon discovery of a supposed gold mine, 21
18. Their first supplies after settlement, 22
Their discoveries, and experiments in English grain, 22
An attempt of some to desert the colony, 22
19. The first Christian marriage in that colony, 23
They make three plantations more, 23

CHAPTER III.

_History of the colony after the change of their government, from
an elective president to a commissionated governor, until the
dissolution of the company._

Sec. 20. The company get a new grant, and the nomination of the
governors in themselves, 24
They send three governors in equal degree, 24
All three going in one ship, are shipwrecked at Bermudas, 24
They build there two small cedar vessels, 24
21. Captain Smith's return to England, 25
Mismanagements ruin the colony, 25
The first massacre and starving time, 25
The first occasion of the ill character of Virginia, 26
The five hundred men left by Captain Smith reduced to sixty in
six months time, 26
22. The three governors sail from Bermudas, and arrive at Virginia, 26
23. They take off the Christians that remained there, and design, by
way of Newfoundland, to return to England, 27
Lord Delaware arrives and turns them back, 27
24. Sir Thomas Dale arrives governor, with supplies, 27
25. Sir Thomas Gates arrives governor, 28
He plants out a new plantation, 28
26. Pocahontas made prisoner