CHARLOTTESVILLE — Virginia was perfect in the Charlottesville Regional, and with an 8-3 win over East Carolina on Sunday, the Cavaliers are now headed to the Super Regionals.

The victory was UVA’s second in as many days over the Pirates. Virginia’s opponent in the Supers hasn’t been decided yet, with Duke and Coastal Carolina set to battle one more time Monday to decide the winner of the Conway Regional.

Virginia has been carried by its starting pitchers all tournament long — Sunday was no different. The continued dominance on the mound and a sudden surge of power in the final three innings cemented the victory.

“Really, really proud of our group,” coach Brian O’Connor said. “This is hard to do. You see across the country, teams that are highly successful here in the regular seasons, and sometimes they have a tough time winning a regional. I’m just proud of our guys that we, in every face of the game, we played at a very, very high level.”

Junior Connelly Early was on fire in his 6 1/3 innings pitched. The Army transfer tied his career-high by striking out 10 batters on a season-high 102 pitches. The performance was good enough for him to earn the regional’s Most Outstanding Player honor.

“The way Connelly Early attacked the mound tonight and ate up that game was really, really special,” O’Connor said.

Early only gave up one walk, seven hits and two earned runs. He said paying close attention to the Pirates’ offense in Saturday’s game prepared him.

“ECU is a great offensive team, there’s a reason why they were in the regional with us,” Early said. “… We knew they were going to have a really solid approach at the plate. I watched Nick (Parker) really closely as he went through his outing and watched video with Nick and (pitching coach Drew Dickinson) for Nick’s outing, so we had a plan going in with Coach Drew on how we wanted to attack these guys.”

For a while, it looked like the Virginia offense wasn’t going to be able to help Early.

The Wahoos got on the board in the first inning, thanks to an RBI ground-rule double from junior Kyle Teel, but that run was immediately answered in the bottom of the first by ECU.

Virginia only strung together three hits from the second to the sixth inning and left four runners stranded in that stretch.

The Cavaliers finally broke through in the top of the seventh, courtesy of a three-run home run from junior center fielder Ethan O’Donnell.

It was O’Donnell’s 13th home run of the year, but just his first hit of the regional.

Early was taken out in the seventh in favor of sophomore Jay Woolfolk, who threw one pitch, gave up a single and was taken out by O’Connor.

Freshman Evan Blanco relieved Woolfolk and got the Cavaliers out of a jam in the seventh.

Virginia’s offense kept the momentum rolling in the eighth inning thanks to another home run, this time from sophomore Anthony Stephan.

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Initially, it looked like Stephan’s three-run shot for a 7-2 lead was an inside-the-park home run — and the base runners certainly acted that way. Stephan nearly caught up to Casey Saucke on the base paths, and none of the East Carolina outfielders went after a ball that had appeared to bounce off the outfield wall.

Because the ball hit over the yellow line on the wall, the play was scored as a regular three-run home run.

After East Carolina cut the lead to 7-3 with an RBI single from junior Justin Wilcoxen, Teel virtually iced the game in the ninth with a solo shot that bounced high off the batter’s eye in center and extended Virginia’s lead to 8-3.

The announcement won’t be official until Tuesday, but Virginia will host the Super Regionals at “The Dish” (Disharoon Park).

“I’m ecstatic about (hosting),” O’Connor said. “… We earned the right to be right here in this stadium. We happen to feel like we play pretty darn well, whether we’re the home or visitors in our own stadium, we’ve got a pretty gosh-darn good record (here) this year. I’m excited there’s postseason baseball again here in Charlottesville next weekend.”

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The Norfolk Tides closed a homestand Sunday afternoon with an emphatic 13-4 dusting of Gwinnett at Harbor Park before 6,160.

The Tides (40-17), who have by far the International League’s best record, were playing as the “Pajaritos” in a celebration of Latino culture. They took five of seven games in the series against the Stripers (24-33) and will be off Monday before a six-game series in Pennsylvania against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the New York Yankees’ top affiliate.

Norfolk’s offense continued to produce, amassing 14 hits. Leadoff man Colton Cowser, in just his second game since returning from a quadriceps injury, homered, doubled, walked twice and scored twice.

Lewin Diaz was 3 for 4, including a homer, and drove in four runs. Robbie Glendinning started the onslaught with a two-run homer in the second and finished with four RBIs and two runs.

Jordan Westburg scored three runs, and Daz Cameron and Connor Norby each had two runs and two RBIs.Tides starter Spenser Watkins gave up four hits and a run in three innings, and six Norfolk pitchers threw one inning each. The first of those relievers, Kyle Dowdy, worked around two scoreless hits for the victory. He is 6-1 despite a 6.67 earned-run average.

Dereck Rodriguez (2-1) yielded two runs and three hits in two innings for the loss. Joe Dunand and Eli White hit home runs for the Stripers, who saw reliever Joe Harvey ejected during the Tides’ four-run seventh.

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS

(through Saturday’s and some of Sunday’s games)

Team, W-L, Pct., GB

East Division

Norfolk (Orioles), 40-17, .702, –

*Durham (Rays), 33-23, .589, 6.5

Lehigh Valley (Phillies), 29-27, .518, 10.5

Charlotte (White Sox), 28-29, .491, 12.0

Scranton/W-B (Yankees), 27-30, .474, 13.0

Worcester (Red Sox), 27-30, .474, 13.0

Rochester (Nationals), 26-29, .473, 13.0

Buffalo (Blue Jays), 25-32, .439, 15.0

*Jacksonville (Marlins), 23-32, .418, 16.0

Syracuse (Mets), 22-35, .386, 18.0

West Division

*Iowa (Cubs), 31-22, .585, –

St. Paul (Twins), 32-23, .582, –

Louisville (Reds), 30-26, .536, 2.5

*Memphis (Cardinals), 30-26, .536, 2.5

*Columbus (Guardians), 29-26, .527, 3.0

Indianapolis (Pirates), 28-28, .500, 4.5

Nashville (Brewers), 28-28, .500, 4.5

Toledo (Tigers), 24-32, .429, 8.5

*Omaha (Royals), 23-31, .426, 8.5

Gwinnett (Stripers), 24-33, .421, 9.0

*Does not include Sunday’s result.

A pair of all-Hampton Roads semifinals in Class 5 will highlight Monday’s competition across the state in VHSL tennis semifinals.

The teams are trying to book tickets to the championship matches Thursday. In Classes 6, 5 and 4, they will be at Huntington Park in Newport News; in Classes 3, 2 and 1, they will be at Virginia Tech’s Burrows/Burleson Tennis Center.

Cox’s boys will come to Old Dominion’s Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center for an intriguing match against Maury. The Falcons are led by Neil Vanga and James Lonergan at the top two spots. They defeated Beach rivals Tallwood and First Colonial by 5-0 scores before beating Hickory 5-2 in a competitive Region A final. Then they zoomed past Granby 5-0 in a state quarterfinal.

Maury took the Region B title with relative ease, then won a 5-4 state quarterfinal against Hickory that came down to a match tiebreak victory at No. 2 doubles by Manolo Angeles and Johnny March.

Patrick Stiles and John Felts combined to go 3-0 at the top of the lineup for the Commodores against Hickory.The winner on ODU’s courts will be an underdog in the championship match against the victor in the Richmond-area clash pitting Mills Godwin at Deep Run.

Cox was the Class 6 runner-up in 2018 and ’19, albeit with more seasoned players. The Commodores would scale new heights by reaching the final.

On the girls side, the Beach District is guaranteed a team in the state final.

Princess Anne has shown plenty of consistency and depth all year to earn a chance to reach its first state title match. The Cavaliers will be at home against Cox at 1 p.m. and have handled the Falcons twice this season, including a 5-1 victory last week for the Region A championship.

Despite lacking a superstar prospect, PA boasted all of its region’s individual finalists. The Cavaliers’ No. 1 player, Ashton Dillman, beat No. 2 player Nielsen Baxley for the singles title. Those two won the doubles title over Sophia Koch and Rino Sato, who usually play on singles lines 5 and 6, respectively. Ysabel Wells and Laine Kwong have been formidable on lines 3 and 4 and at No. 2 doubles.

Cox has superior history, having won four state team titles this century — the last in 2016.

Class 4

Grafton’s boys and Jamestown’s girls will hit the road.

The Clippers, seeking their first final appearance, will rely on three-time Region A singles champion Rainer Christiansen and John Cloud, who has joined him for the last two region doubles titles. Grafton edged state quarterfinal opponent Eastern View in a 5-4 thriller to extend its season.

At 1 p.m., the Clippers will face a strong Hanover team that shut out Jamestown 5-0 last week. The Hawks have placed second in three of the last four state tournaments, including last season’s.

The Jamestown girls won their eighth state team championship in 2021 before being outclassed in last year’s final by a loaded Western Albemarle team that had just dropped from Class 3.

Still sparked by Julia Clark and Lauren Elliott, the focal points of that championship run two years ago, the Eagles are headed to Fredericksburg to face Courtland at 3 p.m., and it’s a good sign for them that they defeated Great Bridge more easily than Courtland did the very next day.

Class 3: Headed by Region A singles champ Nicolas Crespo, Tabb’s boys will go to Battery Park in Richmond for a 1 p.m. match as they hope to end Maggie Walker’s recent dominance.

In the previous nine state tournaments, the Dragons made seven finals and won six, including last year’s. Tabb last made a state team final in 1991.

Class 2

Bruton’s boys, last year’s state runners-up, have high hopes as they bus to Staunton to face Riverheads. Region singles champ Simpiwhe Matabini heads a Panthers team with balance and consistency.

Poquoson’s girls are making their third consecutive semifinal appearance and are pursuing their second victory in that span. They’ll be in Woodstock to face the Central Falcons.

Monday’s VHSL tennis semifinal schedule

Boys

Class 5

Cox vs. Maury (at Old Dominion), 10 a.m.

Mills Godwin at Deep Run, 3 p.m.

Class 4

Grafton at Hanover, 1 p.m.

Broad Run at Western Albemarle, 3 p.m.

Class 3

Tabb vs. Maggie Walker (at Battery Park in Richmond), 1 p.m.

Liberty Christian at Monticello, 1 p.m.

Class 2

Bruton vs. Riverheads (at Mary Baldwin), 1 p.m.

Floyd County at Glenvar, 11 a.m.

Girls

Class 6

Freedom of South Riding at Battlefield, 3:30 p.m.

James Madison at Langley, 3 p.m.

Class 5

Cox at Princess Anne, 1 p.m.

Douglas Freeman at Riverside, 1:30 p.m.

Class 4

Jamestown at Courtland, 3 p.m.

Sherando at Handley, 1 p.m.

Class 3

James Monroe vs. Maggie Walker (at Battery Park in Richmond), 10 a.m.

Spotswood vs. Abingdon (at Emory & Henry), 11 a.m.

Class 2

Poquoson vs. Central (at W.O. Riley Park in Woodstock), 2 p.m.

Radford at Marion, 11 a.m.

Class 1

Rappahannock at Buffalo Gap

George Wythe of Wytheville at Lebanon, 10 a.m.

The popularity of TikTok, a Chinese-owned short-form video-sharing app, has provoked concerns among American policymakers and proposals to ban the platform. Although data exfiltration concerns are hard to dispel, the costs of banning TikTok far outweigh any benefits to national security.

TikTok isn’t a particularly unique or valuable source of American data, but it is a potent distributor of American culture. Banning TikTok would quash the voices of Americans who favor the platform and undermine the open internet that has served America so well.

Concerns about TikTok fall into two categories. Critics fear that TikTok’s algorithm could be manipulated to serve Chinese interests and that user data could be collected and misused by the Chinese Communist Party. The first concern is ably addressed by TikTok’s Project Texas, a deal with Oracle to host TikTok in America on Oracle servers, where its algorithm can be audited. The second is harder to dispel.

Like other apps, TikTok collects user information such as location and stored media. TikTok needs this data to host and serve user speech, but it can be misused. Unlike other apps, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has its headquarters in China, where it is subject to China’s National Intelligence Law. Under the law, China can require its citizens and corporations to provide data relevant to state intelligence work.

There isn’t any evidence that TikTok is spying for the CCP. ByteDance’s only demonstrable misuse of user data was to track employees leaking information to journalists. But data is leaky, and employee access is hard to police. Under the National Intelligence Law, there is always a risk that ByteDance will be compelled to share TikTok user data with the CCP.

Further, there is little reason to believe TikTok is a unique intelligence goldmine. Other apps collect similar information and much of the more sensitive information TikTok collects, such as user location, can be purchased from unscrupulous data brokers. Absent broader data protections, banning TikTok at best forces China to buy Americans’ data instead of getting it for free.

To get vital data, China has repeatedly hacked American firms and the American government itself. In 2015, Chinese hackers stole 22 million background check records from the Office of Personnel Management. It has even flown antennae-laden balloons over the United States.

In light of China’s security law, banning TikTok on government devices and the devices of government employees makes sense. But a general ban would do little good and a lot of harm. Concerns about the misuse of American data are better addressed by new data security laws.

America has benefited tremendously from the open, international internet, which brought TikTok to our shores. Most globally successful internet platforms are American. TikTok’s unique success is no reason to upend a system that continues to serve us well.

Indeed, the rest of the world has long tolerated the risk that American tech firms might be compelled to share data with our government via National Security Letters. This Patriot Act authority allows the FBI to demand data from private firms and prevents recipients from disclosing that they have received such demands.

Globally successful American platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, and, now, TikTok, are powerful conduits of American culture and ideas. This is why China bans TikTok at home, limiting Chinese users to a heavily censored alternative called Douyin. Indeed, TikTok is difficult to ban via executive order because of the Berman Amendment, a late Cold War-era law exempting the flow of information from certain sanctions.

Proposed federal legislation targeting TikTok, such as the RESTRICT Act, would give the government new powers to control Americans’ use of foreign web services. And on the state level, Montana’s recently signed impermissibly dragoons app stores into enforcing its TikTok prohibition. This is a dangerous precedent to set, either domestically or for foreign legislators.

Ultimately, a TikTok ban would hurt American users at home and American firms abroad while doing next to nothing to curb Chinese data gathering. Instead of limiting Americans’ access to particular platforms, policymakers should work toward broad rules for specific kinds of sensitive information.

Will Duffield is a policy analyst in the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, where he studies speech and internet governance. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

TikTok is a weapon of social destruction. Created by ByteDance, a Bejing-based company, TikTok is a platform of the Chinese Communist Party and a national security threat to America. Unlike what TikTok developers and the Chinese Communist Party would like users to believe, the social media application is not designed merely for virtual connection and entertainment.

TikTok stores user data, including speech and movements, and creates a digital footprint for each user. TikTok archives this information, which can then be used to develop harmful national and personal security risks such as, but not limited to, the creation of deep fakes. Deep fakes manipulate words and movements, mirroring an individual’s speech patterns and gestures. TikTok developers can craft propaganda and other misrepresentations of an individual through the application’s stored archives of each user.

Montana recently set America’s national precedence with the statewide ban on TikTok. More states should follow Montana’s direction and ban using TikTok to protect citizens’, especially minors’, personal information and data being collected by the Chinese Communist Party.

One of the roles of a democratic government is to protect its citizens from national security threats and vulnerabilities. Elected officials are responsible for legislating policy decisions to ensure citizens’ safety. In addition to creating a national security risk, TikTok is a gross overreach of the Chinese Communist Party and a daily violation of millions of Americans’ personal data. Citizens should be protected from their personal likeness and digital footprint being available as a resource of the Chinese Communist Party. On the state and/or federal level, government bans on TikTok are saying “no” to a weapon of social destruction.

America is a nation that fosters innovation and creativity that exists in the marketplace. Policymakers should ensure the United States remains a nation that says “yes” to safe social media applications that do not weaponize a user’s information.

While innocent users of the TikTok application may be disappointed in adjusting platforms to virtually and socially connect, a unified national ban of TikTok would create a pathway for American innovation in creating safe social media applications that protect the user and the United States. New, American-based companies and social media developers should rise to this occasion to draw users to their platforms in response to an increased ban on TikTok.

Leaders and champions of a strong national defense must be prepared for the backlash of banning TikTok. The application is just one piece of the Chinese Communist Party’s long-term strategy, and a rising China will not simply give up data collection of Americans. If national or state leadership does not enforce bans on TikTok, adults should foster conversations with minors to educate them about the importance of disregarding the use of and deleting TikTok from devices.

The NextGeneration movement is a critical voice in garnering the attention of state and federal leadership in supporting the ban of TikTok. For example, the Athenai Institute is a bipartisan organization present on campuses across the nation and is providing students a platform for standing up against the Chinese Communist Party’s influence.

Banning the use of TikTok is one way for Americans to empower and protect themselves and their families from an adversarial China that is intent and determined to surpass our national interests. Strong leadership, as demonstrated with Montana’s ban, requires a steadfastness of decision-making that will protect the nation, absent of individuals’ determination to protect themselves.

TikTok is a weapon of social destruction designed to create much harm and is a highly advantageous platform for the Chinese Communist Party. The question is, whose likeness will TikTok mirror to cause destruction and whose child will become a propaganda piece of the Chinese Communist Party? Too much is at stake, and the future of America’s national security and our children are being placed in the archives of our enemy. Banning the use of TikTok cuts off access for the Chinese Communist Party to harm our citizens and the country with its weapon of social destruction.

Brooke Taylor serves on the board of directors for the Athenai Institute. She is founder and CEO of Defending Our Country, and a distinguished faculty for Missouri State University’s Defense and Strategic Studies Program. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.

A large boom that shook houses in the Annapolis and D.C. areas Sunday was caused by a U.S. Department of Defense plane, the city’s office of emergency management said.

“The loud boom that was heard across the [District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia] area was caused by an authorized DOD flight. This flight caused a sonic boom,” the department said in a tweet. “That is all the information available at this time.”

Kevin Simmons, director of Annapolis’ emergency management office, said calls started streaming into the city’s 911 center after the boom. Firefighters responded and found no damage to buildings. “There is no evidence of explosions,” Simmons said.

Some felt the shock wave of the boom as far as Brooklyn and Davidsonville and across the bay in Grasonville, residents wrote on Facebook on Sunday.

The D.C. Homeland Security & Emergency Management Department said around 3:30 p.m. that it received reports of a loud boom from communities throughout the National Capital Region. “There is no threat at this time,” the agency wrote on Twitter.

A man was taken to a hospital after he was shot multiple times Sunday afternoon in Hampton.

Police responded to several calls around 12:38 p.m. about a shooting on the 700 block of Childs Avenue, in the Wythe neighborhood. Upon arrival, police found a man in the roadway with life-threatening injuries. He was taken to a hospital by the Hampton Division of Fire and Rescue.

The man was outside when he was shot, but police do not have information about potential suspects. An unoccupied house and an occupied vehicle were shot, but no additional injuries were reported. Police have not released the identity of the man who was shot.

Police encouraged anyone with information to call 757-727-6111, 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or submit a tip online at p3tips.com.

Cianna Morales, 757-957-1304, [email protected]

A 17-year-old never resurfaced after he swam toward a waterfall in Oregon and got caught in the undertow, authorities said.

The teen vanished in the water just after 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, at Steelhead Falls in Terrebonne, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The Redmond High School student was pulled in a “swift undertow” when he swam toward the falls, deputies said.

Bystanders tried to save the teen who was under the waterfall but couldn’t because of the fast-moving water, deputies said.

Rescuers found the teen’s body about 40 yards down the river at about 6:45 p.m. The sheriff’s office did not release his name.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family,” deputies said.

After contracting polio and entering politics, Franklin Roosevelt needed his wife, Eleanor, to serve as his “listening post,” traveling the country and keeping him abreast with public opinion.

After he became president and World War II began, that link with the people became more essential. Eleanor Roosevelt also was more than willing to be involved in activities surrounding the military conflict.

She traveled to London in 1942 to be the president’s eyes and ears among his British allies and European governments in exile. But she wanted to do more.

Shannon McKenna Schmidt’s newest book, “The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back” (Sourcebooks, 336 pgs., $26.99) tells an amazing story of her own battle to visit the war’s Pacific Theater of operations.

After setting the scene, Schmidt meticulously tells the story of Eleanor’s efforts to convince the president that she needed to get near the battlefields, where her four sons were already serving.

She needed to be there to provide first-hand accounts of the war. She wanted to go to Guadalcanal, first and foremost.

When Eleanor finally succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to approve of the trip, she faced “near objections” from most military commanders with whom she interacted. They simply didn’t want her around.

Top of that rank was William F. “Bull” Halsey, champion of Guadalcanal who later became a five-star fleet admiral. He believed “do-gooder” Eleanor had no business in the combat theater. However, it only took a little of Eleanor’s personal courage to convince him that her presence was, in fact, doing good, as Schmidt outlines.

Eleanor’s trip takes her to from San Francisco to Hawaii, Christmas Island, New Zealand and Australia and then on into the Pacific military zone of New Caledonia, Efate, Espiritu Santo and finally Guadalcanal, her ultimate goal.

Using many new sources, Schmidt tells a travel story, taking a new approach and making it a lively saga. Always dressed in a bluish-gray hue of a Red Cross uniform with a large billed hat, Eleanor made it a requisite to visit enlisted men as well as officers at every stop, including hospital buildings and tents.

Many injured young soldiers, sailors and marines asked her to take messages back home, which she dutifully did.

The trip was from Aug. 17 until Sept. 22, 1943 — five weeks of secrecy. Her “My Day” newspaper column for the first 10 days carried a date line of Hyde Park, New York. It was not until she appeared in New Zealand, Schmidt outlines, that the press became aware she was out of the country. And no one speculated about Guadalcanal.

The fight to take the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese was between August 1942 and February 1943 and was multi-faceted. The casualty list was startling: U.S. forces, 7,100 dead and 8,000 wounded; Japanese forces, more than 19,00 killed and an unknown number wounded.

Even though the battle had concluded months earlier, there was still a war atmosphere on the island when Eleanor visited. Schmidt notes that several times there were sounds for an “air raid” that never happened.

Schmidt notes that in her diary Eleanor wrote before she left, “Hospitals and cemeteries are closely tied together in my head on this trip.”

Jamestown Brides of 1621

When the Jamestown Colony was established in 1607, the settlers were mostly single men looking for escape and/or to get rich. The Virginia Company of London, the sponsor of the colony, soon felt it was necessary to advertise for brides to join the colonists in the new land.

Therefore, in 1621 several ships — carrying 56 women arrived at Jamestown and those females — some ultimately brides, are the focus of Jennifer Potter’s “The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World,” (Atlantic Books, 384 pgs., $15.30).

Speaking via telephone from her London home about her book, Potter said, “I was intrigued by this story that women from good families (daughters of artisans and gentry) were willing to cross the Atlantic on a very dangerous journey” to become wives.

She first learned of the brides when visiting the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library in Williamsburg and read an article by historian David R. Ransome. “It’s the kind of story that really stays with you and it stayed with me. It eventually grows in your head and you reach a point where you have to investigate,” Potter said.

The result was a trip to Virginia and Jamestown to learn as much as she could about these women. In addition to researching archives and libraries, Potter said she also “likes to see places on the ground. I visited as many places as we could find connected with these women.”

Helping her locally were historian Martha McCartney, now of Mathews County, Bly Straube, now senior curator of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, and cultural historian Helen Rountree.

“I almost wrote the book for them,” Potter said. “But ultimately it was to be a book written by a woman, about brave young women with the help of three historians of today.”

Two of the 56 “Jamestown Brides” stand out for Potter — Ann Jackson and Catherine (Fisher) Finch. After arriving, Jackson went to Martin’s Hundred, a settlement east of Jamestown to join her bricklayer brother. Several months later, the Powhatans attacked settlements along the James River, including Martin’s Hundred.

She was captured and held captive for between four and six years, Potter wrote.

“Ann Jackson suffered three shocks: arriving in this strange and alien place, then in captivity by Indians and living within their culture and then coming back to the English society,” Potter explained.

Finch was 23 when she came to Jamestown, having been encouraged to go to Virginia by her brother, a crossbow maker to King James and later King Charles I.

“I visited the little church where she was baptized and found the grave of her brother. It’s amazing at the link between her home and Bermuda Hundred” where she lived.

“We know she married and had a daughter,” Potter explained, “and then went to Jordan’s Point. She then vanishes from history.”

Potter’s account of the brides also includes an amazing amount of early Jamestown and 16th century Virginia history. It should become an important new early colonial resource.

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