Here the colonists went ashore.

Here the members of the Council were sworn, and for the first President was chosen Edward-Maria Wingfield.

Here, the first roaming and excitement abated, they began to unlade the ships, and to build the fort and also booths for their present sleeping.

A church, too, they must have at once, and forthwith made it with a stretched sail for roof and a board between two trees whereon to rest Bible and Book of Prayer.

Here, for the first time in all this wilderness, rang English axe in American forest, here was English law and an English town, here sounded English speech.