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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)
John Ratcliffe (born John Sicklemore; 1549 – December 1609) was an early Jamestown colonist, governor, and sea captain. Ratcliffe became the second president of the colony of Jamestown. He was slain by the Pamunkey Native Americans in the winter 1609–1610.
The Jamestown Parkway is a limited-access highway that effectively bypasses Greensboro Road and Main Street, also serving as one of the main routes connecting Greensboro to High Point. The route is mainly four-lanes while having at-grade intersections and grade-separations, though with only one street crossing over the parkway.
Captain Robert Beheathland (or Behethland, born before 1587 - d. 1627) in St Endellion, Cornwall, England, was an English gentleman who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard one of the three founding ships, likely the Susan Constant. [1] He is noteworthy as the only original 1607 Jamestown colonist having documented descendants living ...
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 ]
Sloop Point was once owned by John Baptista Ashe, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina and Continental Army officer. [11] [12] The known plantations during the period of the Province of North Carolina (1712–1776) are listed in the table below.
Christopher Newport (b. 1561 – d. 1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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.