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Christopher Newport (b. 1561 – d. 1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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1627) in St Endellion, Cornwall, England, was an English gentleman who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard one of the three founding ships, likely the Susan Constant. [1] He is noteworthy as the only original 1607 Jamestown colonist having documented descendants living today.
not listed [as alive] after June 1607 [13] Nicholas Houlgrave: Gentleman Robert Hunt: Preacher before 1609 Thomas Jacob: Sergeant (soldier) [10] Jacon, T. 1607–09–04 [10] William Johnson: Labourer George Kendall: Councillor and Captain: 1607–12–01 Execution by firing squad for "mutiny" [15] Ellis Kingston: Gentleman E. Kiniston or ...
Unmarked burials in colonial Jamestown. Researchers found four unmarked graves at Jamestown in 2014, in an Anglican church that the colonists used from about 1608 to 1616.
In May 1607, Profit left England for the Colony of Virginia as a colonist with the first supply. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] From June through September 1608, Profit was a crew member and the designated "fisherman/sailor" on captain John Smith 's boat Discovery Barge on its two expeditions throughout the Chesapeake Bay .
Robert Hunt Memorial Shrine at Jamestown. Today, a shrine sits on the site at the National Park Service's Historic Jamestowne attraction of the Colonial National Historical Park on Jamestown Island. The shrine replicates the outdoor chapel conditions under which he spiritually led the men and boys, most of whom were to die, as did Chaplain Hunt ...
1622) was an English boy who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard the Susan Constant, one of the three founding ships. He served as the page to captain John Smith , and later as an Algonquian interpreter for the colony.