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Three little vessels--the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery--left England in December, 1606, under the command of Captain Christopher Newport, to found a colony on the distant shores of Virginia. Two decades earlier Sir Walter Raleigh had sent out a group of settlers to what is now North Carolina, and they had disappeared mysteriously. What had happened to them? men asked. Had they been killed by the Indians? Had they fallen victims to disease? Had they starved? Those who shared in this new venture must have wondered if a like fate awaited them in this strange new land. But their spirits rose when they entered. | Give Me Liberty by Thomas J. Wertenbaker 1 Give Me Liberty by Thomas J. Wertenbaker The Project Gutenberg EBook of Give Me Liberty by Thomas J. Wertenbaker This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Give Me Liberty The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia Author Thomas J. Wertenbaker Release Date November 27 2010 EBook 34455 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIVE ME LIBERTY Produced by Mark C. Orton Patrick Hopkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Note 1. This text has a Rule 6 copyright clearance. Research has indicated the copyright on this book was not renewed. 2 Give Me Liberty by Thomas J. Wertenbaker 2. The position of some illustrations has been changed to facilitate reading flow. 3. Footnotes are located at the end of each chapter. 4. In general geographical references spelling hyphenation and capitalization have been retained as in the original publication. 5. Minor typographical errors--usually periods commas and hyphens--have been corrected without note. 6. Significant typographical errors have been corrected. A full list of these corrections is available in the Transcriber s Corrections section at the end of the book. GIVE ME LIBERTY MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge VOLUME 46 Illustration Thomas Jefferson. Portrait by Thomas Sully in the Hall of the American Philosophical Society. GIVE ME LIBERTY The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia THOMAS J. WERTENBAKER Edwards Professor Emeritus of American History Princeton University THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA 1958 COPYRIGHT 1958 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Library of Congress Catalog