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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 ...
The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, published by Hakluyt Society. 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.
The author William Strachey was a passenger on the Sea Venture, the flagship of the supply fleet that sailed to the English colony of Virginia from Plymouth in June 1609. During a hurricane it wrecked off the coast of Bermuda, where the survivors built two pinnaces, Patience and Deliverance, to continue the journey.
William Strachey: Secretary-elect, writer Sea Venture: Author of True Reportory and other works James Swift: Sea Venture: Robert Walsingham: Cockswain Sea Venture → Patience: Bermuda's Walsingham Bay and region namesakes are due to Robert. Walsingham piloted (and saved) the Patience during launch from Castle Harbour reefs. [76] James Want ...
Grave marker of relocated remains of Chesapeake natives. According to William Strachey's The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia (1618), the Chesepian were wiped out by the Powhatan, the paramount head of the Virginia Peninsula–based Powhatan Confederacy, sometime before the arrival of the English at Jamestown in 1607.
Englishman William Strachey, who was the Secretary and Recorder for the Colony of Virginia in 1610 and 1611, recorded that Pocahontas had been living married to a "private captaine called Kocoum" for two years, as of 1610-11. [9] Strachey returned to England in 1611 and later published a book on his travels.
The Strachey baronetcy, of Sutton Court in the County of Somerset, England, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [1] This family was originally seated at Walden, Essex, where William Strachey was living under the rule of Edward VI. Later they moved to Surrey and at last settled at Sutton Court, Somerset.
William Strachey the English writer William Strachey (c. 1596/97–1635) John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke. John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist Thomas Strachey (1699–1740) served in the British Royal Navy. Susannah Strachey married Edmund Harper. Tristram Harper (1760–1842) Harriette Strachey Harper (1802 ...