honored as they have long been, they saved this Continent for
Protestantism and the English Civilization.
    We have not time here to do honor even to that "valiant
gentleman," Edward Maria Wingfield, first successor to Sir
Walter Raleigh as Governor of Virginia; or to those brave
members of the "First Counsell, who were in front in mayn-
tayning the Forte," on that fierce attack by the Indians, while
Newport was exploring the King's River, and planting a
"crosse' on Whit Sunday, 1607, at the Falls where now stands
the Capital of Virginia.
    I can only take time to mention an episode which must
have brought happiness into at least two hearts, and more
cheer possibly into the little fever-stricken settlement which
rose where we stand today.
    Soon after Newport's departure for England in December,
1608, there was a marriage betwixt John Ladron, carpenter,
and Anne Burrus, the maid of Mrs. Forrest; he aged 26, she
but fourteen. Mrs. Forrest was the first gentlewoman, and
her maid the first woman servant "that arrived in our Colony,"
"which was the first marriage we had in Virginia," and was
the first marriage according to the Protestant rite of matri-
mony which occurred on this Continent.
    Time fails me to go into the story of the sufferings and
struggles, the heroic deeds, and yet more heroic sacrifices that
these settlers endured. Of all that brave and gallant company
not one found that for which he set forth, save haply, "Worthy
Master Hunt," who counted nought so that he might wvin souls
to Christ, and Captain John Smith, who owes his abiding fame
even more to his pen than to his sword.
    Christopher Newport, who was the Guardian Angel of the
Colony, and preserved it from extirpation on more than one
occasion, has no monument in all this State of Virginia. It is
questionable if even the name with which he is supposed to be
associated, actually was derived from him. He explored the
Seas of both the East and West; and having had sole command
of the first five voyages which brought the first Colonists here



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