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The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of Virginia on March 22, 1621/22 ().English explorer John Smith, though he was not an eyewitness, wrote in his History of Virginia that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us"; [2] they then grabbed any tools or weapons available and killed all English ...
Twelve years of peace followed the Indian Wars of 1622–1632 before another Anglo–Powhatan War began on April 18, 1644, [17] as the remnants of the Powhatan Confederacy under Opechancanough tried once again to drive out the settlers from the Virginia Colony. [15] Several hundred colonists were killed. [18]
c. March 1622: Ship Seaflower containing relief supplies for Virginia, is accidentally sunk in Bermuda [43] March 22, 1622 (): Indian massacre of 1622 occurs, killing over 350 people in surrounding plantations and Henricus; Dec 20: Ship Abigail arrives with hungry, diseased passengers. [11] The colony is reduced to 500 settlers over the winter.
22 March – in the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (33% of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus settlement. 22 April – Capture of Ormuz from the Portuguese by an Anglo-Persian force.
The Jamestown [a] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. ... On the morning of March 22, 1622, ...
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, ... 1622 John Smith's page Roger Cooke: Gentleman Thomas Couper: Barber
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.
On March 22, 1622, the Powhatan killed about 400 colonists in the Indian massacre of 1622. With coordinated attacks, they struck almost all the English settlements along the James River, on both shores, from Newport News Point on the east at Hampton Roads all the way west upriver to Falling Creek, a few miles above Henricus and John Rolfe's ...