Robert Remini
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Lawrence Indians.
But the Iroquois saw in this only another attempt at French conquest, so they hung red hot stones about the missionaries' necks, or they burned them to death, or they cut them to pieces while yet living.
For a century and a half, the Iroquois stood between the Dutch and the English settlers and their common enemies in Canada.
Few events in American history, therefore, have had such great consequences as Champlain's unprovoked attacks upon the Iroquois.
End of Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Virginia and Maryland 31 The Virginia Company, 1606
English people were now beginning to think in earnest of founding colonies.
It was getting harder and harder to earn one's living in England, and it was very difficult to invest one's money in any useful way.
It followed from this that there were many men who were glad to become colonists, and many persons who were glad to provide money to pay for founding colonies.
In 1606, the Virginia Company was formed, and colonization began on a large scale.
32.
Founding of Jamestown, 1607.
The first colonists sailed for Virginia in December 1606.
They were months on the way and suffered terrible hardships.
At last, they reached Chesapeake Bay and James River and settled on a peninsula on the James, about 30 miles from its mouth.
across the little isthmus which connected this peninsula with the mainland they built a strong fence or stockade to keep the indians away from their huts their settlement they named jamestown the early colonists of virginia were not very well fitted for such work some of them were gentlemen who had never labored with their hands others were poor idle fellows whose only wish was to do nothing whatsoever
There were a few energetic men among them as Ratcliffe, Archer, and Smith, but these spent most of their time in exploring the bay and the rivers, in hunting for gold, and in quarreling with one another.
With the summer came fevers, and soon 50 of the 105 original colonists were dead.
Then followed a cold, hard winter, and many of those who had not died of fever in the summer now died of cold.
The colonists brought little food with them.
They were too lazy to plant much corn, and they were able to get only small supplies from the Indians.
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