privy councilor of Elizabeth and of James, soldier in the Low Countries,
strong Protestant and believer in England-in-America. Today his name is
borne by a great river, a great bay, and by one of the United States.

In London, the Virginia Company, having listened to Gates, projected a
fourth supply for the colony. Of those hundreds who had perished in
Virginia, many had been true and intelligent men, and again many perhaps
had been hardly that. But the Virginia Company was now determined to
exercise for the future a discrimination. It issued a broadside, making
known that it was sending a new supply of men and all necessary provision
in a fleet of good ships, under the conduct of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir
Thomas Dale, and that it was not intended any more to burden the action
with "vagrant and unnecessary persons . . . but honest and industrious men,
as Carpenters, Smiths, Coopers, Fishermen, Tanners, Shoemakers,
Shipwrights, Brickmen, Gardeners, Husbandmen, and laboring men of all sorts
that . . . shall be entertained for the Voyage upon such termes as their
qualitie and fitnesse shall deserve." Yet, in spite of precautions, some of
the other sort continued to creep in with the sober and industrious. Master
William Crashaw, in a sermon upon the Virginia venture, remarks that "they
who goe . . . be like for aught I see to those who are left behind, even
of all sorts better and worse!" This probably hits the mark.

The Virginia Company meant at last to have order in Virginia. To this
effect, a new office was created and a strong man was found to fill it.
Gates remained De La Warr's deputy governor, but Sir Thomas Dale went as
Marshal of Virginia. The latter sailed in March, 1611, with "three ships,
three hundred people, twelve kine, twenty goats, and all things needful for
the colony." Gates followed in May with other ships, three hundred
colonists, and much cattle.