Excerpt from John O' Jamestown What is the distance to the nearest house? Asked Captain Maxwell, ignoring my father's question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from John Price the Emigrant, Jamestown Colony 1620: With Some of His Descendants In former years the writer took very little interest in family history: but when he began to gather data for his wif'es admission to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, his family pride was aroused; and he has since persisted in an endeavor to trace the history of his people. It is a further gratification to feel that some success has attended these efforts. This fragmentary sketch has cost some time and expense; yet it has been a diversion from the duties of the pastorate, which every minister needs, at the same time it has been a labor of loyalty and love. It might appear from the pages of this booklet that our people were mainly of the Episcopal Church, but the record does not justify such a conclusion. In the days of the Colonies, when the Episcopal Church was the first on the ground, our people with many others, at once recognized the value and importance of the Sanctuary, and so naturally threw their influence, and gave their support in maintaining the Altar of Jehovah regardless of creed. The family is represented in many of the Protestant churches of the present time, though a goodly number have been and are now Presbyterians. In the year 1905 there were eight ministers bearing the name of Price, in the Southern Presbyterian Church. So far as one is able to judge the family has been by temperament and thought most naturally inclined to the doctrines of the Presbyterian faith and polity. To the family this booklet will no doubt occupy a unique position from the fact that several of the most prominent characters mentioned were Generals in contending armies, during the war between the States: Generals Samuel Woodson Price of Kentucky with William Bedford Royall of Missouri for the Union Cause; and General Sterling Price with his sons, General Edwin W.Price and Colonel Celsus Price, all of Missouri, in the Confederate Army. Certain members of the family who have devoted much care ful study to the subject have generously lent their aid and support to the project. The compiler and author wishes especially to acknowledge his obligations, for family records, to Miss Katherine Price, Rice, Virginia; Miss Mary Womack, Lunsford, Virginia; Miss Marie Louise Rhodes, Cartersville, Virginia; Judge Asa D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Captain John Smith The beginning of the United States, the very foundation of our great English-speaking nation, was laid in Virginia at Jamestown. Here was the first community that actually made its home within our land, and proved to the world that America might grow into a nation. The Virginian settlement was made only after many efforts - after more than one disastrous failure, and at the cost of many lives. It had to fight against famine, pestilence, and enemies, and in its fight it had many leaders. One by one these were tried and found wanting, until the rise to power of Captain John Smith, who proved victorious against every foe. What he was and how he had succeeded we shall see in reading his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Address at the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Jamestown It seems to me that what is said on this spot on this occasion should relate to the spiritual side of the work and the fruits of the Jamestown settlement, whose Three Hundredth Anniversary we are here today to celebrate, rather than to the material or physical side. And it is in this spirit that I wish to deal with it in this presence. And first on this spot on this occasion I wish to mention with reverence the name of Sir Walter Raleigh: "Lord, and Chief Governor of Virginia," to whom, under God's Providence, more than any other human being is due the fact that this Country belongs to the English Speaking Race, and the Civilization which it represents. Three hundred years ago, on this Island - which until then, through all the ages, since the birth of things, had lain desert and untrodden by any feet save those of the wild beast and the yet wilder savage, - to which Spain had simply asserted a traditionary right as a part of the vast unknown region of the American Continent - landed a little band of sea-worn Englishmen and took posession in the name of God and of the Crown of England. Since the 20th day of December preceding, when they weighed anchor in the River Thames and dropped down the stream with the receding tide, they had in their three little ships been making their way slowly and painfully across the wintry Atlantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.