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David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) Helen C. Rountree, The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013) Ed Southern (Editor), Jamestown Adventure, The: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 (Blair, 2011)
The James Fort c. 1608 as depicted on the map by Pedro de Zúñiga. Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved to Williamsburg.
Poles in Jamestown by Arthur Szyk, 1939. Depiction of the Jamestown Polish craftsmen. Arguably the best-known rendition of the Jamestown Polish craftsmen is the painting of Poles in Jamestown by Arthur Szyk. The painting was part of a collection in the Polish Pavilion of the New York World Exposition in 1939. It displays 11 Poles, when ...
Mistress Margaret Forrest was the first English woman settler who came to Jamestown in 1608. Margaret came alongside her husband Thomas Forrest and their maid, Anne Burras. She was also the first woman in Jamestown to give birth to a child. Mistress and her maid were said to be the only two women of the colony until 1609, when another ship came ...
John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author.Following his return to England from a life as a soldier of fortune and as a slave, [1] he played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century.
The Jamestown Polish craftsmen's strike of 1619 took place in the settlement of Jamestown in the Virginia colony. [1] It was the first documented strike in North America. [2] Skilled craftsmen were sent by the Virginia Company to Jamestown to produce pitch, tar, and turpentine used for shipbuilding. [3]
Thomas Wotton was a surgeon who traveled to Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 with the original group of colonists. [1] Another surgeon, Will Wilkinson, also was among the first colonists. [ 2 ] Wotton was described as a "gentleman" while Wilkinson was identified with the laborers and craftsmen. [ 3 ]
The founder of the Jamestown colony was the Virginia Company, [4] chartered by King James I, with its first two settlements being in Jamestown on the north bank of the James River and Popham Colony on the Kennebec River in modern-day Maine, both in 1607. The Popham colony quickly failed because of famine, disease, and conflicts with local ...