Book/Printed Material Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at Jamestown : May 13, 1857.
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- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 5 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … •(S. -yy CELEBRATION r^y ^f Sitoo piutbrtlr aiib Jfiftittlj liinubersarij ENGLISH SETTLEMENT JAMESTOWN. MiA^ a©. ai5i WASHINGTON: PRINTED BY JNO. T. 4 LEM. TOWERS. 1857.
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 7 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWiN. Report of the Proceedings of the Celebration of the Two Hun- dred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the English Settlement at Jamestoion. The Jamestown Society of Washington City, an association…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 8 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … Z CELEBKATION AT JAMESTOWN. Lt. Colonel Gary, of the First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, the officer having charge of the military arrangements, received the Society with distinguished courtesy, and extended to them…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 9 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 3 Ex-Presideut Tyler was then introduced to the meeting, and pro- nounced the following Oration Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Jamestown Society I congratulate you on the success…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 10 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 4: CELEBEATION AT JAMESTOWN. extraordinary faculty of extricating himself from situations of extreme peril, together with the romantic turn manifested by him from an early period of life, gave to his representations…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 11 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 5 deep enoiigh to float either of the vessels that brought over the first emigrants and what though tiie waters now cover a large portion of what in earty…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 12 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 6 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. most beneficial consequences. How rapidly was this condition of things al- tered upon his retiring from the presidency and returing to England all fell again into disorder, and…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 13 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. I an engine of despotism in his. He had, however, to deal with a people who could be letter governed by leniency than by force and a representation made…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 14 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 8 CELEBKATION AT JAMESTOWN. sliipping interests of Old England and New England entered actively into the trade, and all the then colonies became African slave marts. It was ascertained, however, after full…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 15 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. convened, and an organized giovernraent put into operation.^ Tobacco had al- ready become the staple of Virginia, and constituted the basis ot domestic trat- fic and commercial exchange. Notwithstanding…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 16 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 10 CELEBKATION AT JAMESTOWN. One of the controlling reasons which had led many to unite in the formation of the London Company, was the generous and praiseworthy object, to spread the trutlis…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 17 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 11 as having no parallel in the previous history of the world. I can only glance at it. A General Assenably was directed to be annually holdeii, based on…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 18 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 12 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. •who crowded the bar of the House of Lords, broke forth into lond acclamations as soon as the clerk had pronounced the ancient form of words, by which…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 19 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBEATION AT JAMESTOWN. 13 act the obedience whicli had been wisely withheld. Moored close in to the shore were certain Dutch ships, who, in violation of recent laws, iiad visited Virginia for…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 20 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 14 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. ting foi freedom of trade and exemption from imports or taxes, it at the same time exacts a stipulation against the erection of forts or castles, or the…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 21 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 15 cil on the offenders, proves very clearly that they esteemed such course neces- sary to restrain others. It was soon evident that Virginia had become, by reason of…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 22 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … ;16 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. For two years Virginia was exempt from all foreign control. Assemblies were held at Williamsburg, which passed laws, levied war against the Indians, and conducted public affairs as…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 23 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 17 ■dinary intercoiirse of society was only equalled by his habitual deference, and lespect for the General Assembly. The advocate of the divine right of kings, and he, the…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 24 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … l8 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. view of disinterring his remains, and exposing them upon a gibbet. Fortu- nately for tlie cause of liumanity and reason, he was baffled in his barbarous design; and…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 25 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 19 dwell upon incidents with which all are familiar. The traveller, as he wends his way over the Cumberland road, lingers amid those mountain passes by the grave of…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 26 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 20 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. men pointed out the way which led to success. Nearly two years before the great declaration was issued by Congress, she had armed against the acts of the…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 27 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 21 ■with each great work. When those institutions have been assailed in any vital part, has she carelessly folded her arms chaiuiting praises to the Union, without repelling the…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 28 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 22 CELEBKATION AT JAMESTOWN And, through these mists, what epic scenes arise What stoned pictures start before our eyes! What grand, historic forms, superb and vast, Loom tlirough the vapors gathered o…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 29 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 2|3 And the poor Indian would I might narrate His piteous story and his tragic fate! A great mind tells us, that, on all earth s sods, Men crucify,…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 30 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 24 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. Nor of my native river, which glides down Through scenes where rose a happy Indian town; But, leaving these and Chesapeake s broad bay. Resume my story in…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 31 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 25 And wlien they met the white man hand to hand, Twilight and sunrise stood npon the strand Twilight and sunrise? Saxon sunshine gleams To-day o er prairies, and…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 32 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 26 CELEBEATION AT JAMESTOWN. Leaving so few, tliat, when their story s drowned, Twill sink, alas! with no fair garland crowned. What strange vicissitudes and perils fell On the first settlers, tis…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 33 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. 27 One other name but no my song is done As well might Persian, who adores the sun, Think that, by hymns or solemn-ehaunted lays, He gave new splendor…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 34 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 28 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. National Guards, Capt. Bayly. Virginia Rifles, Capt. Lybrock. Petersburg Artillery, Capt. Nichols. Norfolk Junior Volunteers, Capt. Robinson. Portsmouth Regiment, commanded by Col. D. S. Walton. Portsmouth Rifles, Capt.…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 35 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. The following letter from Governor Wise was read Washington City, April 20th, 1857. n Q,v T hPff vou to present my acknowledgments to the Jamestown ^IZ 5 wLS .ton…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 36 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 80 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. By H. M. Morfit Virginia, the resting place of our ancestors, anH the home of our birth niay her sons cherish a happj remembrance of her history, and…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 37 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … CELEBKATION AT JAMESTOWN. OJ. mS.^ .ses-^it Etc- e;.r^ J^s/=4rSe:J in the hearts of their citizens. This toast was resi^oiuled to by Virgil D Parris, Esq, of Maine, who said hltwhr the ime…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 38 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … 32 CELEBRATION AT JAMESTOWN. ANCIENT EPITAPHS. The tomb stones, grey and worn with time, many broken and disi()lving into earth, present a rare and interesting reminiscence of foi-mer days. Old Mortality- like,…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Image 39 of Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at … fl EPITAPH On Jonathan Lid, who was killed October 15.1776 near the Whzte Plains, on the Bronx River, N. Y. Amidst the clash of arms I came Here, from Holmes Hole On…
- Contributor: Jamestown Society of Washington City - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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About this Item
Title
- Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the English settlement at Jamestown : May 13, 1857.
Names
- Jamestown Society of Washington City.
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington : Printed by J. T. & L. Towers, 1857.
Headings
- - Jamestown (Va.)--History
- - Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes
- - Cover title.
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC nsk 2020-12-02 update (1 card)
Medium
- 32 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F229 .J34
Library of Congress Control Number
- rc01002784
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