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Captain John Smith sailed past it in his voyage up the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. Land grants began issue around the 1680s. Land grants began issue around the 1680s. In the early 1900s, W. Stuart Symington Jr. (1871–1926) [ 2 ] bought the island's land (including three existing island farms) with his brother Thomas, to develop the island into a ...
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.
In 2011 an unsuccessful campaign was started to get the statue moved to Captain Smith's home town of Hanley. [49] Smith had already been commemorated in Hanley Town Hall with a plaque reading: "This tablet is dedicated to the memory of Commander Edward John Smith RD, RNR. Born in Hanley, 27th Jany 1850, died at sea, 15th April 1912.
John Smith married Animus (Anna) Bull, daughter of Gen. John Bull of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and they had at least three daughters and two sons who reached adulthood. His son Augustine Charles Smith (1789-1843) would also serve with distinction as a U.S. Army officer (in the War of 1812, promoted from the rank of major to colonel ...
Capt. Beheathland is listed among the 104 colonists on the Virginia Company of London's manifest. [4] He is included in Captain John Smith's list of 100 "Planters" (gentlemen) in his book The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, [citation needed] and mentioned as accompanying John Smith on a visit to Powhatan, the local indigenous leader.
1624 edition of John Smith's History of Bermuda, in concert with Virginia and New England. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (often abbreviated to The Generall Historie) is a book written by Captain John Smith, first published in 1624.
Cohasset was inhabited by the Pokanoket until 1649, when it was conquered by the Wampanoag, [3] and then the Massachusett in 1668. [4] [5]The area entered the written record in 1614, when Captain John Smith explored the coast of New England and described an encounter of his ship with four Native Americans in a canoe at Quonahasit, two of whom were shot by the Europeans. [6]
The ferryboat Captain John Smith made the first automobile-ferry crossing of the James River on February 26, 1925. The privately owned business was founded by Captain Albert F. Jester. After the Captain John Smith was retired in the early 1950s, the deckhouse was put into adaptive