Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Like the other seventeenth-century British colonies, Virginia aspired to convert the native populations. The Virginia Company’s instructions to its governors required them to make conversion one of their objectives. The most famous early convert was Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan, head of the Powhatan Confederacy. Pocahontas was baptized by…

Credit: Worcester Art Museum Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby Year: 1671

Credit: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1616

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1840

Credit: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Cole, Last of the Mohicans Year: 1827

Credit: New York State Historical Association Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Cole, Last of the Mohicans Year: 1827

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: DeSoto’s discovery of the Mississippi Year: 1855

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus Year: 1847

Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Elijah Sadd gravestone Year: 1756

Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Lt. John Hescy gravestone Year: 1689