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Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

The Devil and Thomas Dale

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

Exactly 400 years ago today on June 22, 1611, a leader in the colony of Jamestown promulgated the very first code of law ever to be produced for Englishmen in the Americas. Named for its principle creator, Sir Thomas Dale, posterity has remembered it as Dale’s Code. Yes, it happened 400 years ago today. Dale’s …