The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 25, number 1, September 1941

              pocahontas and jamestown louise phelps kellogg i he restoration of the colonial capital of virginia at -*¦ williamsburg has led to interest in the first settlement at jamestown which it is now proposed to restore the ruins of the church have presented the most picturesque feature of that earliest permanent english venture that led the way to the ultimate capture of the atlantic coast line for english-speaking peoples but the church was a half mile from the jamestown fort which occupied the point of the marshy island in the james and there are many ruins of other buildings homes warehouses a powder magazine scat tered along what was the first street from the church to the fort over a century ago an artist from richmond visited this site and made some tiny water-color sketches of the ruins and the views at that early time these small accurate and charming sketches are the property of the wisconsin his torical society presented by the artist himself this artist was robert sully 1803-55 whose death occasioned one of the rare outbursts of feeling on the part of our first secre tary dr lyman c draper whose eulogy of the artist ap pears in the records of this society.1 in order to understand robert sully s connection with dr draper and his interest in the infant historical society one must go back to the first days of draper's connection with the society and its reorganization under his fostering care first begun in 1849 six months after wisconsin had attained statehood by 1854 very little had been accumulated as his toric possessions and almost no progress had been made in 1 wisconsin historical collections ii 63-71