By
George MacLaren Brydon
Historiographer of Diocese of Virginia
Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
Williamsburg, Virginia
1957
COPYRIGHT©, 1957 BY
VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Historical Booklet, Number 10
| Introduction | ||
| Chapter | Page | |
| One | Beginnings | 1 |
| Two | The Colonists at Worship | 6 |
| Three | Making Bricks Without Straw | 12 |
| Four | Building a Christian Community | 22 |
| Five | The Coming of the Negro | 26 |
| Six | Fighting Adverse Conditions | 34 |
| Seven | The Last Decade | 42 |
| Bibliography | 46 | |
| Appendix A | 47 | |
| Appendix B | 48 |
The settlement of Englishmen at Jamestown in 1607 was theoutgrowth of a vision of transatlantic expansion which had beengrowing stronger steadily during the preceding generation. Itwas in the following of that vision that Queen Elizabeth grantedto a group of men headed by Sir Walter Raleigh the authorityto establish a colony upon the remote shores of the Atlantic ocean,and out of the plans of this group came the ill-fated colony whichwas started at Roanoke Island, in what is now the State of NorthCarolina, in the year 1585. This colony after a life of a few yearsdisappeared: whether destroyed by Indian attack, or by a Spanishfleet which resented the settlement of Englishmen in a land thatwas claimed for Spain, or by famine or disease, no one knows tothis day. The one permanent result was the giving of the nameVirgin