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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  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. Powhatan language - Wikipedia

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    Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian is an Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages.It was formerly spoken by the Powhatan people of tidewater Virginia.Following 1970s linguistic research by Frank Thomas Siebert, Jr., some of the language has been reconstructed with assistance from better-documented Algonquian languages, and attempts are being made to revive it.

  6. 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.

  7. Thomas Gates (governor) - Wikipedia

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    Gates' actions as governor were recorded by his secretary William Strachey, and were later published as the book A True Reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir THOMAS GATES, Knight. After Samuel Argall kidnapped Pocahontas in April 1613, Gates was fearful of reprisal from Chief Powhatan , and turned the Algonquian princess over to Dale ...

  8. 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 4 November 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 ...

  9. 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)

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