Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. VIRGINIA UNDER THE SECOND CHARTER. Lord Delaware?Alarm at Jamestown?New Settlements?Imbecility of Martin ?Civil Dissension?Smith bids adieu to Virginia?The Starving Time? Jamestown Abandoned?Sir Thomas Dale?Division of Property?Sir Thomas Gates, the Governor?Virginia under the Third Charter?Marriage of Rolfe and Pocahontas?Administration of Sir Thomas Yeardley?Establishment of Representative Government?First Mothers of Virginia?Introduction of African Slavery?A Liberal Constitution?The Massacre of March 22, 1622? Dissolution of the London Company?Virginia under Royal Government. It was on the 23d day of May, 1609, that King James revoked the first charter of the London Company, and at the same time granted a new one, by which the government was completely changed. The new patent included all the country lying between the mouth of the Cape Fear river on the south and that of the Hudson on the north, the Atlantic on the east and an undefined boundary on the west. The company was permitted to choose its own councillors, and they in turn were to select the governor. Lord Delaware was chosen to this high position for life. The British government now began to dream of a flourishing empire in the West, which should be tributary to the parent one, then rapidly rising to the first place among the nations of Europe, and accordingly surrounded Delaware with a retinue of stately officers whose high-sounding titles would indicate that they were the dignitaries of an opulent kingdom instead of a half-starved colony on the distant shores of Virginia. Sir Thomas Gates was commissioned lieutenant-general; Sir George Somers, admiral; Christopher Newport, vice-admiral; Sir Thomas Dale, high marshal; Sir Fernando Wainman, master of cavalry. These, with a long list of others...