cil.

FOOTNOTES:

[412:A] Old Churches, i. 385.

[413:A] The Carter arms bear cart-wheels, vert.

CHAPTER LV.

1727-1740.

William Gooch, Governor--The Dividing Line--Miscellaneous--
Colonel Byrd's Opinion of New England--John Holloway--William
Hopkins--Earl of Orkney--Expedition against Carthagena--Gooch
commands the Virginia Regiment--Lawrence Washington--Failure
of attack on Carthagena--Georgia recruits Soldiers in Virginia
to resist the Spaniards--Acts of Assembly--Printing in
Virginia--In other Colonies--The Williamsburg Gazette--
Miscellaneous Items--Proceedings at opening of General
Assembly--Sir John Randolph, Speaker--Governor Gooch's Speech--
Richmond laid off--Captain William Byrd--Bacon Quarter--Colonel
Byrd and others plan Richmond and Petersburg in 1733--Virginia
Gazette--The Mails.

IN June, 1727, George the Second succeeded his father in the throne of
England. About the middle of October, William Gooch, a native of
Scotland, who had been an officer in the British army, became Governor
of Virginia. The council, without authority, allowed him three hundred
pounds out of the royal quit-rents, and he in return resigned, in a
great measure, the helm of government to them. Owing partly to this
coalition, partly to a well-established revenue and a rigid economy,
Virginia enjoyed prosperous repose during his long administration. There
was at this time one Presbyterian congregation in Virginia, and
preachers from the Philadelphia Synod visited the colony.

During the year 1728 the boundary line between Virginia and North
Carolina was run by Colonel Byrd and Messrs. Fitzwilliam and Dandridge,
commissioners in behalf of Virginia, and others in behalf of North
Carolina. "A History of the Dividing Line," by Colonel Byrd, has been
published in a work entitled the "Westover MSS.;"[414:A] it contains
graphic descriptions of the country passed through, its productions, and
natural history. The author was a learned man and accurate observer.

There remained in their native seat two hundred Nottoway Indians, the
only tribe of any consequence surviving in Virginia.

There were also still remains of the Pamunkey tribe, but reduced to a
small number, and intermixed in blood. The rest of the native tribes had
either removed beyond the limits of the colony, or dwindled to a mere
handful by war, disease, and intemperance. An act of parliament
pro