A Concise History of the Commencement Progress And Present Condition of the Ame
A Concise History of the Commencement Progress And Present Condition of the Ame
Samuel Wilkeson
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The history of Colonization in America, proves how impotent were events, in themselves most afflictive and disheartening, to arrest the progress of settlements founded by men who grew wise in adversity, and gathered resolution and strength from defeat. The genius of our nation sprung from the colonies of Plymouth and Jamestown, rebukes the despondency which would augur destruction to Liberia, because dark clouds have hung over it, and many valuable lives perished in laying its foundation. Nearl...y one half the first Plymouth emigrants died in the course of four months. The first three attempts to plant a colony in Virginia, totally failed. In six months, ninety of the one hundred settlers who landed at Jamestown died. Subsequently, in the same brief period, the inhabitants of this colony were reduced from five hundred to sixty; and long after, when 150, 000 had been expended on that colony, and nine thousand people had been sent thither, its population amounted to but 1800 souls. " The report of Capt.
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