(1609, May 23-Sir Thomas West, Earl De La Warr, or Delaware, appointed "Governor and Captain General;" did not reach the Colony until June 10th, 1610, the resident executives in the interim being as follows :) 1609, August -Captain George Percy, President of the Council in Virginia.

1610, May 23-Sir Thomas Gates, Lieutenant-General and Deputy Governor.

1610, June 10-Earl De La Warr, Governor and Captain General. 1611, Mar. 28-Captain George Percy, President of the Council. 1611, May 19-Sir Thomas Dale, "High Marshall" and Acting Gov

ernor.

1611, August-Sir Thomas Gates, Acting Governor.

1613, March Sir Thomas Dale, Acting Governor.

1616, April

-Captain George Yeardley, Deputy or Lieutenant-Gov

ernor.

1617, May 15-Captain Samuel Argall, Deputy or Lieutenant-Gov

1619, April

ernor.

9-Captain Nathaniel Powell, President of the Council in Virginia.

1619, April 19-Sir George Yeardley, who had been knighted and appointed Governor and Captain General, Nov. 18, 1618, arrived in the Colony.

1621, Nov.

8-Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor and Captain General. 1626, May 17-Sir George Yeardley (commissioned March 4th), Governor and Captain General. Died November, 1627.

1627, Nov. 14-Captain Francis West, President of the Council. (1628, Mar. 26-Sir John Harvey, appointed Governor and Captain General, but did not arrive until later. In the interim, as follows :)

1629, Mar.

1630, March

1635, April 1636, April 1639, Nov. 1642, Feb.

5-Doctor John Pott, President of the Council.
-Sir John Harvey, Governor and Captain General,
"thrust out of his government" by the people, but
re-commissioned by King Charles I., January 11,
1635. Until his arrival April 2, 1636, the execu-
tive was:

28-Captain John West, President of the Council.
2-Sir John Harvey, Governor and Captain General.
--Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor and Captain General.
-Sir William Berkeley, who had been commissioned

Aug. 9, 1641, arrived as Governor and Captain
General.

1644, June

1645, June

-Richard Kempe, President of the Council, Acting Governor during the absence of Sir Wm. Berkeley in England.

-Sir William Berkeley, Governor.

1652, April 30-Richard Bennet, Acting Governor under the Commonwealth of Cromwell.

1655, March -Edward Digges, President of the Council under the Commonwealth of Cromwell.

1658, Mar. 13-Captain Samuel Matthews, President of the Council under the Commonwealth of Cromwell until Jan

uary, 1660, from which time the Colony was without a Governor until the election, by the Assembly,

1660, Mar. 23-Of Sir William Berkeley, as Governor. He was commissioned as such by Charles II., July 31, 1660. 1661, April 30-Col. Francis Morryson, Deputy or Lieutenant-Gov

ernor.

1662, fall of, -Sir William Berkeley, Governor.

(1675, July

8-Thomas Lord Culpeper appointed Governor and Captain General for life-died in 1719. Until his arrival :)

1677, April 27-Herbert Jeffreys, appointed Governor Oct. 9, 1676, (with Captain Robert Walter as his Deputy, who died Oct. 10, 1676); commissioned Lieutenant-Governor Nov. 11, 1676. Died Dec., 1678.

1678, Dec.

1680, May 1683, Sept.

30-Sir Henry Chicheley, Deputy Governor.
10-Thomas Lord Culpeper, Governor and Captain General.
17-Nicholas Spencer, President of the Council.

1684, April 16-Francis Lord Howard, Baron Effingham, LieutenantGovernor; commissioned Sept 28, 1683.

1688, Oct.

1690,

1690, Oct.

1693, Oct.

1698, Dec.

(1704,

........

20-Nathaniel Bacon, President of the Council.

Sir Lionel Copley, Governor.

16-Col. Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor.
16-Sir Edmund Andros, who had been commissioned Gov-
ernor March 1, 1693.

9-Col. Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor; com-
missioned July 20th, 1698.

-George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney, commissioned Governor-in-Chief; never came to Virginia; died July 29th, 1737.)

1705, Aug. 15-Edward Nott, Lieutenant-Governor; died Aug., 1706. 1706, August -Edmund Jenings, President of the Council.

(1707, April 4-Col. Robert Hunter, commissioned as Lieutenant-Governor, but being captured by the French on his voyage for Virginia, and conveyed to France, never

acted.)

1710, June 23-Col. Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor.

1722, Sept. 27-Hugh Drysdale; died July 22, 1726. 1726, July 22-Robert Carter, President of the Council.

1727, Oct. 23-William Gooch (subsequently knighted), LieutenantGovernor.

(1737, ....

1740,

.........

........

-William Anne Keppel, Second Earl of Albemarle ; appointed Governor-in-Chief Sept. 6, 1737; died Dec. 23, 1754.)

-Between Sept. 16th and Dec. 5th, as indicated by land
patents, signed respectively by Sir Wm. Gooch and
James Blair, D. D., the latter, as President of the
Council, was Acting Governor during the absence
of Sir Wm. Gooch in command of the expedition
against Carthagena. The last patent signed by
James Blair was on July 25, 1741.

1741, July
1749, June
1749, Sept. 5-Thomas Lee, President of the Council; died 1751.
1751, Feb. 12-Lewis Burwell, President of the Council.
1751, Nov. 20-Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor.
(1756, July

-Sir William Gooch, Lieutenant-Governor.
20-John Robinson, President of the Council.

-John Campbell, Earl of Loudon, appointed Governorin-Chief, and though he came to New York, was never in Virginia.)

1758, January-John Blair, President of the Council.

1758, June

7-Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant-Governor; appointed Feb. 10, 1758.

(1763, ....... Sir Jeffrey Amherst appointed Governor-in-Chief.) 1767, Sept. 11-John Blair, President of the Council. 28-Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor-inChief; died Oct. 15, 1770.

1768, Oct. 1770, Oct. 1771, August

15-William Nelson, President of the Council.

John Murray, Earl Dunmore, Governor-in-Chief; appointed July, 1771; fled, June, 1775, from the seat of Government.

GOVERNORS UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION, ETC.

1776, June 29-Patrick Henry.

1779, June 1-Thomas Jefferson.

1781, June 12-Thomas Nelson, Jr.; resigned.

1781, Nov. 20-Benjamin Harrison.

1784, Nov. 29-Patrick Henry.

1-Edmund Randolph.

1786, Dec.

1788, Dec.

1-Beverley Randolph.

1791, Dec.

1-Henry Lee.

1811, Jan.

1811, Nov.

1-John Tyler.

11-James Monroe; appointed Secretary of State of the United States, Nov. 25, 1811.

25-George William Smith, Lieutenant-Governor, and Acting Governor; died Dec. 26, 1811.

1811, Dec. 26-Peyton Randolph, Senior Member of Council of State. 3-James Barbour, Governor.

1812, Jan.

1834, March -Littleton Waller Tazewell; resigned April 30, 1836. 1836, April 30-Wyndham Robertson, Lieutenant-Governor.

1837, March -David Campbell.

1840, March -Thomas Walker Gilmer; resigned to take his seat as a Member of Congress.

1841, March -John Rutherfoord, Lieutenant-Governor.

1842, March John M. Gregory, Lieutenant-Governor. 1843, January-James McDowell, Governor.

1846, January-William Smith.

1849, January-John B. Floyd.

1851, Jan.

1-Joseph Johnson.

1856, January-Henry Alexander Wise.

1860, January-John Letcher.

1864, January-William Smith.

1865, May 9-Francis H. Pierpoint.

1868, April 16-Henry H. Wells.

1870, Jan.

1874, Jan.

1878, Jan.

1882, Jan.

1886, Jan.

1-Gilbert C. Walker.
1-James L. Kemper.
1-Frederick W. M. Holliday.
1-William E. Cameron.
1-Fitzhugh Lee.

SIR THOMAS SMITH.

Sir Thomas Smith, an eminent merchant of London, and the chief of the assignees of the patents of Sir Walter Raleigh, was the first President of the Council of the London Company of Virginia, and its treas