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2. William Strachey - Wikipedia

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   William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture , which ...

3. The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia - Wikipedia

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   The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia [note 1] is a 1619 historical book by William Strachey, one of the most prominent primary sources on the earliest English colonization efforts in North America. He was a settler at Jamestown, and wrote extensively of the Powhatan civilization.

4. True Reportory - Wikipedia

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   True Reportory is the short-title of a 24,000 word early American colonial narrative, A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warre, Iuly 15. 1610. [1]

5. Weroance - Wikipedia

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   Several of the weroances' personal names were known and some recorded by William Strachey and other sources. [3] The names of their respective chieftaincies were also commonly used as titles, exactly analogous to European peerages, so that the Weroance of Arrohattec (whose given name was Ashaquid) was often referred to simply as "Arrohattec", much as the Earl of Essex would be referred to just ...

6. Robert Rich (Bermuda settler) - Wikipedia

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   [note 2] [3] Along with the writings of William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain, became well known in England by 1610, when Thomas Gates and Christopher Newport retold the saga in London. [4] [5] In 1865 this work was rediscovered in a Viscount Charlemont library in Ireland by Shakespeare researcher John O. Halliwell. Halliwell printed a small ...

7. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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   James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005) Margaret Huber, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) William M. Kelso, Jamestown, The Buried Truth (University of Virginia Press, 2006)

8. Powhatan - Wikipedia

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   According to William Strachey, they were destroyed as a nation before 1607 based on a vision by the Powhatan, their villages were resettled, by members of other Powhatan tribes; their then-installed chief was Keyghanghton, about 100 warriors (335 tribal members). (1585 / 1627) - now extinct as a tribe.

9. Powhatan (Native American leader) - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Leader of the Powhatan Confederacy (c. 1547–c. 1618) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Powhatan" Native American leader ...