GLOOM IN VIRGINIA (1608-1617) When Newport arrived with the "Second Supply," September 29, 1608, he brought little relief.

His seventy passengers, added to the number that survived the summer, raised the population at Jamestown to about one hundred and twenty.

Among the new-comers were Richard Waldo, Peter Wynne (both added to the council), Francis West, a brother of Lord Delaware; eight Poles and Germans, sent over to begin the making of pitch and soap ashes; a gentlewoman, Mrs.Forrest, and her maid, Anne Burras, who were the first of their sex to settle at Jamestown.

About two months later there was a marriage in the church at Jamestown between John Laydon and Anne Burras,[1] and a year later was born Virginia Laydon, the first white child in the colony.[2] The instructions brought by Newport expressed the dissatisfaction of the council with the paltry returns made to the company for their outlay, and required President Smith to aid Newport to do three things[3]--viz., crown Powhatan; discover a gold-mine and a passage to the South Sea; and find Raleigh's lost colony.

Smith tells us that he was wholly opposed to all these projects, but submitted as best he might.
The coronation of Powhatan was a formality borrowed from Sir Walter Raleigh's peerage for Manteo, and duly took place at Werowocomoco.
Powhatan was presented with a basin, ewer, bed, bed-cover, and a scarlet cloak, but showed great unwillingness to kneel to receive the crown.