Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. Jamestown was established on May 14, 1607. Smith trained the first settlers to work at farming and fishing...
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partnership with Jamestown 2007/Jamestown Yorktown Foundation. 2004) Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of...
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1608-01-05: John Smith uses a compass to confound Opecanchanough and his hunting party, avoiding death c. January 1608: John Smith returns to Jamestown from...
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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...
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208528°N 76.778389°W / 37.208528; -76.778389 Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is...
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John Smith tells the story of Jamestown colony to the court of King James I. In 1607, the colonists have found more hardships than gold in Jamestown and...
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least a portion of it to Thomas Warren. Smith's Fort was a secondary Fort to Jamestown, begun in 1609 by John Smith. Thomas Rolfe, who had grown up in England...
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John Ratcliffe (born John Sicklemore; 1549 – December 1609) was an early Jamestown colonist, governor, and sea captain. Ratcliffe became the second president...
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The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the...
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English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula...
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Pocahontas (redirect from Mrs John Rolfe)
account and stopped visiting Jamestown but learned that Smith was living in England when she traveled there with her husband John Rolfe. Pocahontas' capture...
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Indian massacre of 1622 (redirect from Jamestown Massacre)
provided enormous profits for corn profiteers in Jamestown. In England when the massacre occurred, John Smith believed that the settlers would not leave their...
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Starving Time (redirect from Starving Time (Jamestown))
Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was a period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610. There were about 500 Jamestown residents at...
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English Jamestown, Virginia, settlement) he held court with King James I of England. Pedro was a member of the House of Zúñiga, and the son of Diego de Zúñiga...
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under the presidency of Captain John Smith. Subsequently, in November 1609, the Powhatans killed John Ratcliffe, the Jamestown Colony's Council President,...
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of life. Smith then renamed the village "Nonsuch", and tried to get West's men to live in it. Both these attempts at settling beyond Jamestown soon failed...
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the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas of the Powhatan tribe, and Englishman John Rolfe...
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Christopher Newport (section Jamestown)
of Virginia, Sea Venture, 2007 David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of A New Nation, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003...
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The Jamestown Exposition, also known as the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907, was one of the many world's fairs and expositions that were popular...
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Strachey, Captain Ralph Hamor, and John Smith. Upon analysis of these sources and other buildings, the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists discovered...
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Matthew Scrivener (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
Virginia. He served briefly as acting governor of Jamestown, and was succeeded by Captain John Smith. He died by drowning in the James River. Scrivener...
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Pocahontas (1995 film) (redirect from John Smith (Disney))
war on the English, beginning with John's execution at dawn. Reaching Jamestown, Thomas warns the settlers of John's capture. Ratcliffe then rallies his...
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Edward Maria Wingfield (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
needed] He died in England in 1631, ten weeks before fellow Jamestown settler John Smith, and was buried on 13 April at St Andrew's Parish Church, Kimbolton...
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member of the Pathfinder crew. Paul DeWeese, portrayed by Alex Akpobome (season 2), an astronaut stationed on Jamestown Moon Base. Nick Corrado, portrayed...
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Werowocomoco (section Contact with Jamestown)
Virginia Algonquian political and spiritual leader when the English founded Jamestown in 1607. The name Werowocomoco comes from the Powhatan werowans (weroance)...
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June 10 – In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council. June 15 – At Jamestown, the triangular...
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George Yeardley (category Burials at Jamestown Church)
ton pinnace Patience, arrived at Jamestown on May 23, 1610. The shipwreck survivors found the colonists of Jamestown in desperate condition. Most of the...
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intermarried with the natives or were killed. In 1607, John Smith and other members of the successful Jamestown Colony sought information about the fate of the...
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colonists at Jamestown were saved only by the timely arrival three weeks later of a supply mission headed by Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, better...
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building the fort on Jamestown Island, when a communal hunting party led by Chief Powhatan's son Opechancanough captured him. Smith was released in time...
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