"Sir," he stated to President Blair, who would have given him advice from the Bishop of London, "Sir, I know how to govern Virginia and Maryland better than all the bishops in England! If I had not hampered them in Maryland and kept them under, I should never have been able to govern them!" To which Blair had to say, "Sir, if I know anything of Virginia, they are a good-natured, tractable people as any in the world, and you may do anything with them by way of civility, but you will never be able to manage them in that way you speak of, by hampering and keeping them under!"* * William and Mary College Quarterly, vol.I, p.

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About this time arrived Claude de Richebourg with a number of Huguenots who settled above the Falls.

First and last, Virginia received many of this good French strain.

The Old Dominion had now a population of over eighty thousand persons--whites, Indians in no great number, and negroes.

The red men are mere scattered dwellers in the land east of the mountains.