Date published: 1612-01-01
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The New Life of Virginea: Declaring the former successe and present estate of that plantation (ID232)Author: Johnson, Robert (ID216)
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Race described: English
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1610-06-09 - 1610-06-09
More Viriginia officials find the colony in disrepair
[From 1612 The New Life of Virgina]
...did presently set on with three good ships, wherein the Lord Governour, attended with Sir Ferdinando Wainman and sundry others, set saile from the coast of England, in the beginning of April 1610, and on the 9. of June arrived safely at the disfortified fort in Virginia, where his Lordship finding their desperate condition so poore and meane, and so cleere a consumption of all former emploiments, that scarsely the
steps or print of twenty hundred groats disbursed, which had truly cost the Adventurers here above twentie thousand pounds.
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