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Samuel Collier (b. c. 1595 - d. 1622) was an English boy who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard the Susan Constant, one of the three founding ships. He served as the page to captain John Smith, and later as an Algonquian interpreter for the colony.
Samuel Collier: Boy Dutch Samuel 1622 John Smith's page Roger Cooke: Gentleman Thomas Couper: Barber Cowper, T. Richard Crofts: Gentleman Richard Dixon: Gentleman John Dods: Labourer and Soldier "1624 VA muster with wife Jane, 40 at muster, he was 36" [13] Ould Edward: Labourer Thomas Emry: Carpenter 1607–12–26 Killed by natives [13] Robert ...
In August 1609, Henry Spelman of Jamestown (aged fourteen) accompanied Thomas Savage to also be an emissary. [3] Eventually, Samuel Collier (John Smith's page) also served as an emissary. [3] As 1609 ended, native relations with the English had turned hostile. Councillor John Ratcliffe was tortured and killed by native women.
Wolstenholme Towne was an English settlement in the Colony of Virginia, 7 miles (11 km) east of the colonial capital, Jamestown.One of the earliest English settlements in the New World, the town existed for roughly four years until its destruction in the Indian massacre of 1622.
June 19 1610: George Somers and Samuel Argall sail for Bermuda to gather wild hogs for Jamestown. [ 10 ] July 20, 1610: Christopher Newport and Thomas Gates leave Virginia (on the Blessinge and Hercules [ 28 ] ) for England, where he will use his story of the Sea Venture wreck to advocate for the colony and to spur further investment.
Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) and the U.S. National Park ...
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 London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
Douglas Owsley (left) and Danny Schmidt examining the possible remains of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold (left). Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original English settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony in North America beginning on ...