p'tie

Updated: May 12, 2025

For wch so worthy a guifte my Lord of Southampton desyred the p'tie that presented them to returne deserued thanks from himselfe and the rest of the Company to him that had so kindly bestowed them." The college here referred to was the first ever founded in America, and was seated at Henrico, at the confluence of the James River with the Chickahominy.

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