University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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Io CORKS AND CURLS VOLJXX J A mix. I ,.A . Indian massacre 0211 April 1st, 1622, when without warning the Indians fell upon the unsuspecting Colloinists and destroyed some four hundred of them, including the devoted head of the college. A friendly Indian named Chanco gave warning at Jamestown the evening before the massacre OICCUITECI, and thus, the capital of p? the Colony escaped; but the new and flourishing town of Henrico on which so :3 many hopes had been built, was completely destroyed, and with it perished in that holocaust of fire and blood the first university and the first college and , school, not only in Virginia, but in America. On the 3d, of July,1622, the Rev. Patrick Copland, who had shown his zeal for the work by taking up once a collection on board ship off the Cape of Good ' ; Hope for the conversion and the education of the illfldCIS, children Of Virginia, 1 was elected pastor Of the College; but three months before this the projected University had been destroyed, in the sack of Henrico; its tenants put to the sword, and the hopes of the iirst institution of learning extinguished in blood. For many years thereafter the Virginians were too much engaged in hghting the Indians at home and the Court Party in England to be able to resurrect their University, but the idea survived. ' Seventy Odd years afterwards the College of William and Mary was 3 founded on the ridge of the Hmiddle p1antati011 ' back of Jamestown and the hopes which had lain dormant so long once more re-awakened, and from this seed sprinkled with the blood of patriots sprang not only William and Mary College, the Alma Mater of Thomas Jefferson, but the University of Virginia, the cherished Child of his old age. THOMAS NELSON PAGE.