6 ENGL1SH ATTEMPTS T0

or were exterminated by the savages. N otwithstand- ing this deplorable circumstance, he determined on planting a third colony, and left 115 people at the ,7 settlement. On the 13th of August this year, Manteo, the first Indian Who became a Christian in Virginia, “i? Was baptized; and on the 18th of the same month, ngrs Dare was deliveied of a daughter, whom she écalled Vilginia. This was the fist child born of 3 English pa1ents in America. What this colony suf— fered must have been truly distressing , for, when Governor White returned in 1590 with necessary supplies for them, not an individual was to be found. They must either have perished for want of food, or they were more probably put to death, under the most horrible tortures, by the Indians. Hitherto, every attempt made by any European nation to settle America, proved unsuccessful, except fine the part'of Spain; and in 1602, there was not an 2:3 European in all North America. Two years after- wards, De Monts succeeded in forming a settlement in Nova Scotia, which was the first that became permanent. Companies were formed in London and Plymouth, under patent from King James I., to plant colonies in America; and Mr Percy, brother of the then Duke of Northumberland, went out to Virginia, in 1606, and discovered J ames’s River. In the following year, the London Company sent to Virginia three vessels under the command of Captain Christopher Newport, who gave the name of Cape Henry to the most southerly point, and began a set- tlement at James’s River.