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ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD.
In the spring of 1689, Virginians flocked to Jamestown to hear William and Mary proclaimed Lord and Lady of Virginia.

The next year there entered, as Lieutenant-Governor, Francis Nicholson, an odd character in whom an immediate violence of temper went with a statesmanlike conception of things to be.

Two years he governed here, then was transferred to Maryland, and then in seven years came back to the James.
He had not been liked there, but while he was gone Virginia had endured in his stead Sir Edmund Andros.

That had been swapping the witch for the devil.