In an old but reliable book by someone who knew the sources as well as anyone for his day, Richard L. Morton said "Not much is known of George Kendall, whose uneventful career ended with his execution as a spy before the end of his first year in the Colony." Morton, Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill, 1960), 10. He was of course writing before the VCRP (check the survey report index via the LVA web site).
 As Timothy McVeigh's date nears, one hears a lot of comment about the last public execution on NPR etc.  Let's hope Kendall fares better at the hands of scholars than did John Harvey in a WMQ article a while back whose author attempted to turn the Thrusting Out of John Harvey into the first American impeachment and in doing so _utterly_ failed to comprehend the institutions, events, or politics of Virginia in the 1630s.


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