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Lady Maria's letter ran as follows: "MY DEAR COUSIN I am fell into a trapp, which I perceive the machinations of villians. I am a prisner. Betty will tell you all. Ah, my Henrico! come to the resque of your MOLLY." In half an hour after the receipt of this missive, Mr. Warrington was in his postchaise and galloping over Westminster Bridge on the road to succour his kinswoman.
Pleasants proposed to establish a school on a three-hundred-and-fifty-acre tract of his own land at Gravelly Hills near Four-Mile Creek, Henrico County. The whole revenue of the land was to go toward the support of the institution, or, in the event the school should be established elsewhere, he would give it one hundred pounds.
With him went his wife, who died on the passage, and his daughters. His expedition reached the James in August. The colony now numbered seven hundred persons. Gates seated himself at Hampton, a "delicate and necessary site for a city." Percy commanded at Jamestown, and Sir Thomas Dale went up the river to lay the foundations of Henrico.
Behind these he drew up his cavalry, supported at each side by the Gascons, and placed his French and German infantry in the rear. Egmont, on the other hand, divided his cavalry into five squadrons. Three of light horse were placed in advance for the first assault the centre commanded by himself, the two wings by Count Pontenals and Henrico Henriquez.
Every aspect of Virginia life political, physical, economic, social, and moral was to be affected by this explosive and uncontrolled growth. Virginia did not develop any cities or even towns during the period 1625-1660. Indeed, the towns, such as Jamestown and Henrico, that had earlier been established, declined in population or were totally abandoned.
My Lords, here's Don Fernando relates to me Two stories full of wonder; one of his daughter, Fam'd for her vertues, faire Eleonora, Accusing Don Henrico, youngest sonne To noble Pedro Guzman, of a rape; Another of the same Henrico's, charging His elder brother Manuell with the murther Of Pedro Guzman, who went late to France. Gyr. Are all the parties here? Fer. Enter Jaylour, Bustamente, Guard.
This had been the only community, too, to send representatives to the Assembly in 1624. The effects of the massacre in this area had been great. When the settlers first reached Virginia the Arrahatock Indian village appears to have been located several miles above the point where Henrico City was established in 1611.
Colonel Joseph Bridger, of Isle of Wight County, owned fourteen horses at the time of his death. These are shown in the inventory of his estate entered, 1686. Thomas Cocke of Henrico County, who died in 1696, disposed of a large estate in his will, including his horses.
It was in this area that the Rev. Alexander Whitaker chose his "Parsonage, or church land." Capt. James Davis was made commander of the forts. Coxendale continued to exist and grow, perhaps, despite the inadequacy of the records that relate the story. Rolfe, in 1616, did not list it, yet possibly he considered it to be a part of Henrico.
"He did not come here from the mountains; only my mother did." "Do I hear aright, Rico? Was your father born here?" "Certainly. He was a native of this place." "You never told me this before. This is wonderful. You have not a name like the people here. What was your father's name?" "What was his name? It was Henrico Trevillo." Mrs. Menotti sprang up from the seat as if she had had a shock.
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