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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jamestown. (search)
In July, 1620, the colony was 4,000 strong and shipped to England 40,000 pounds of tobacco. This was raised with the aid of many bound apprentices—boys and girls picked up in the streets of London and sent out—and of many disorderly persons sent by order of the King. Suddenly a great calamity overtook the colony. Powhatan was dead, and his successor, Opechancanough (q. v.), always hostile, planned a blow for the extermination of the white people. It fell with terrible force late in March, 1622, and eighty plantations were reduced to eight. The settlers at Jamestown escaped the calamity through the good offices of Chanco, a friendly Indian, who gave them timely warning of the plot, and they were prepared for defence. Jamestown became a refuge from the storm for the western settlements. Sickness and famine ensued, and the colony was greatly reduced Jamestown in 1622. in number, for many left through fear. It soon recovered, and increased in strength. A new and substantia