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JAMESTOWN IN 1607.
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1607
AMESTOW
APOSITION
1908 JAMESTOWN
OFFICIAL SEAL
1907
1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
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No. 7. JAMESTOWN IN 1607. The English on
landing (card No. 3) pitched tents, but in the pleasant
May weather soon found it more agreeable to lodge
"under bows of trees" until the log cabins they at once
proceeded to build were ready for occupancy. An "old
rotten tent" was the first church in the American
wilderness. The next step was to stretch an awning
between the trunks of trees, to nail a bar between two of
these to serve as a reading desk, and here "the religious
and courageous divine, Mr. Hunt" read the service
morning and evening, preached twice on Sunday, and
celebrated the Holy Communion at intervals of three
months. When Lord Delaware came in 1610 (card No.
8) he found at Jamestown a church 24 by 60 feet, the first
permanent religious edifice erected by Englishmen in
America, and the one in which Pocahontas was baptized
and later married to John Rolfe. (Cards Nos. 9 and 10.)
Subsequent suffering from malaria and the "burning
fevers that destroyed them" would indicate that the
location was most unsuitable and unwisely selected.
(See cards Nos. I to 19.
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