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Captain George Kendall (b. c. 1570 – d. 1608) was a member of the first council appointed at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. Kendall arrived with the founding fleet, and was sworn to the council on 23 May [O.S. 13 May] 1607.
Captain George Kendall is believed to be the first among the colonists to be executed, but which crime was he killed for?
CAPTAIN GEORGE KENDALL Mutineer or Intelligencer? by PHILIP L. BARBOUR* "INTELLGENCER: One employed to obtain secret information, an informer, a spy, a secret agent." - Oxford English Dictionary. CAPTAIN GEORGE KENDALL, one of the seven original councillors of the Jamestown colony, was put to death for mutiny long ago. For three and a half
Surprisingly little is known about George Kendall- the first Englishman to be convicted by a jury and sentenced to death in Anglo-Saxon America. But the circumstances of his execution serve...
When European settlers came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain.
The Execution of Captain George Kendall. Surprisingly little is known about George Kendall- the first Englishman to be convicted by a jury and sentenced to death in Anglo-Saxon America.
Captain George Kendall was a member of the first council appointed at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. Kendall arrived with the founding fleet, and was sworn to the council on May 13, 1607. After landfall was made at Jamestown Island, Kendall was apparently instrumental in the construction of the first fortification.
Captain George Kendall, a member of the first Council of Jamestown, was executed by firing squad for the crime of espionage. 1. The institution of capital punishment in North Carolina dates to the crafting of the 1663 Charter of the Carolinas.
George Kendall made history with his death. He was the first colonist to be sentenced to capital punishment. Captain Kendall was first arrested for sowing discord between the council president Wingfield and the rest of the council.
Wingfield accused Smith of planning to steal a ship and strike out for Newfoundland. And a blacksmith sentenced to hang for striking Ratcliffe confessed his knowledge of a plot to rebel by Captain Kendall. The blacksmith lived, while Kendall, who many historians suspect was a Spanish spy, was executed.