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Secretary Pory soon expressed his disagreement with the project in more than words and succeeded in effecting the removal of the salt works to
The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton
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Pory or George Thorpe, secretaries in the colony at different times, and two from the cape merchant; of the remainder, at least ten are from colonists whose opinions and reports have not reached us in any other way.
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An order for the allowance of £150 to [John] Pory, employed in Virginia about His Majesty's especial business.
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Pory assured Carleton, writing on October 31, that
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Pory was a graduate of Cambridge, a great traveller and good writer, but gained the reputation of being a chronic tipler and literary vagabond and sponger. "
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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Pory -- sit there staring at them and drumming with their fingers on the table. "
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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