n 1622 very favorable intelligence from Virginia reached
England, and upon this occasion, on the seventeenth of April, the Rev.
Mr. Copeland, by appointment, preached before the Virginia Company, at
Bow Church. He was shortly afterwards appointed a member of the Virginia
Council and rector of the college established for the conversion of the
Indians; but all these benevolent purposes and hopeful anticipations
were suddenly darkened and defeated by the news of a catastrophe which
had, in a few hours, blasted the labors of so many years.

FOOTNOTES:

[158:A] The following is found in the early records:--

THE CORPORATION OF HENRICO.

On the northerly ridge of James River, from the falls down to
Henrico, containing ten miles in length, are the public lands,
surveyed and laid out; whereof, ten thousand acres for the
university lands, three thousand acres for the company's
lands, with other lands belonging to the college. The common
land for that corporation, fifteen hundred acres.

On the southerly side, beginning from the falls, there are
there patented, viz.:--

Acres.
John Petterson 100
Anthony Edwards 100
Nathaniel Norton 100
John Proctor 200
Thomas Tracy 100
John Vithard 100
Francis Weston 300
Phettiplace Close 100
John Price 150
Peter Nemenart 110
William Perry 100
John Plower 100
Surveyed for the use of the iron-work.
Edward Hudson 100
Thomas Morgan 150
Thomas Sheffield 150

Cosendale, within the Corporation of Henrico:--

Acres.
Lieut. Edward Barckley 112
Richard Poulton 100
Robert Analand 200
John Griffin 50
Peter Nemenart 40
Thomas Tindall 100
Thomas Reed 100
John Laydon 200

CHAPTER XVI.

1622.

The Massacre--Its Origin, Nemattanow--Opechancanough--Security
of Colonists--Perfidy of the Indians--Particulars of Massacre--
Its Consequences--Brave Defence of some--Supplies sent from
England--Captain Smith's Offer.

ON the twenty-second day of March, 1622, there