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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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triangular affair, withcrescent-shaped bulwarks at each cornor, upon which was mountedthe artillery, three guns at each, so that now the Indians were nolonger a menace, provided the settlers kept close. The stockadedplace measured 420 feet along the river, the two other sides 300feet each. Within the palisade were also the chapel, common storeand guardhouse. By July 1st they had their corn planted, and it being Sunday,Communion was celebrated. On this day Captain Newport gave afarewell supper, and on Monday he set sail for England in the SarahConstant, the Godspeed accompanying; but the Discovery (pinnace)being of but twenty tons with no capacity for transporting food fora crew of any size, remained. He left behind one hundred and fourpersons, promising to return in the fall with supplies for farmingon a greater scale, as well as to prosecute the mining of gold, for withhim he took a keg of what proved to be false gold. Two weeks later a majority of the settlers became seriously ill,
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>. 3 C 11 0 r X > X _ 9) o £ Z 0 h- ■OU <T) c < 0 m ct a. <T) 2 Z .c < £ n c z 0 -1 4) £ E 0 Jamestown Settlement 63 due to the climatic affections to which they were unaccustomed, andno less than fifty or sixty of the hundred died before the cooler weatherof October. Captain Gosnold was one of those to succumb, dyingon September 1st, and seven days later Thomas Studley, the chiefmerchant, who had charge of the public stores, died. Soon there-after, pressed by many adversities and sorely tried, the factionalbickerings began. Country Described No historian is able to enhance the graphic description of thecountry as it appeared at that time, as given by one of the colonists,for that which later writers might add in order to enlarge the storywould be of less value because of discrepancy, and how may oneliving in the present write with such vividness as was the spontaneousoutcome created by the impression of those who were aglow withchildish wonderment and enthusias

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