James Towne

Author : Marcia Sewall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481419692
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Towne written by Marcia Sewall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving account of James Towne's difficult early years is told from the viewpoint of one of its settlers and enhanced by original quotations. During the first summer of 1607, half the James Towne colony died; food was scarce, and the settlers battled oppressive heat and sickness. Over the next few years, supply ships from England became the colony's lifeline, as they brought much-needed stores of food and carried back offerings from the new land, as well as the settlers' homesick letters. Conditions began to improve when Captain John Smith was elected president of the colony, and James Towne soon doubled in size. While some of the settlers had been reluctant to work, Smith required participation from all, and the colonists began to take pride in improving their conditions. Furthermore, by learning the native language and befriending a Native American girl named Pocahontas, Smith was able to establish, temporarily, an uneasy peace between the settlers and the natives whose land they had taken. As new settlers began to arrive from England though, the resources of the budding colony were strained, and in the autumn of 1609 the colony suffered a Starving Time. Deciding to abandon James Towne at last, the colonists headed back toward England, only to have their journey intercepted by a messenger, who informed the settlers that new leaders sent by the King were due to arrive in the flailing colony any day, and urged them to return. Not for long after their arrival, the discouraged James Towne colonists were met by a new governor and a ship full of healthy passengers with enough supplies and hope to work together to ensure James Towne's survival.

Author : Marcia Sewall
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689818141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Towne written by Marcia Sewall and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving account of James Towne's difficult early years is told from the viewpoint of one of its settlers and enhanced by original quotations. During the first summer of 1607, half the James Towne colony died; food was scarce, and the settlers battled oppressive heat and sickness. Over the next few years, supply ships from England became the colony's lifeline, as they brought much-needed stores of food and carried back offerings from the new land, as well as the settlers' homesick letters. Conditions began to improve when Captain John Smith was elected president of the colony, and James Towne soon doubled in size. While some of the settlers had been reluctant to work, Smith required participation from all, and the colonists began to take pride in improving their conditions. Furthermore, by learning the native language and befriending a Native American girl named Pocahontas, Smith was able to establish, temporarily, an uneasy peace between the settlers and the natives whose land they had taken. As new settlers began to arrive from England though, the resources of the budding colony were strained, and in the autumn of 1609 the colony suffered a Starving Time. Deciding to abandon James Towne at last, the colonists headed back toward England, only to have their journey intercepted by a messenger, who informed the settlers that new leaders sent by the King were due to arrive in the flailing colony any day, and urged them to return. Not for long after their arrival, the discouraged James Towne colonists were met by a new governor and a ship full of healthy passengers with enough supplies and hope to work together to ensure James Towne's survival.

Author : Martha McCartney
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780806320557
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Public Officials, Minorities, and Native Leaders written by Martha McCartney and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317670
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamestowne Ancestors, 1607-1699 written by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A list of all the individuals who can be documented as having lived on [Jamestown] Island between 1607 and 1699, either as land owners or as members of the House of Burgesses or as other officials is presented here"--Pref.

Author : William M. Kelso
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939941
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamestown, the Truth Revealed written by William M. Kelso and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting. In Jamestown, the Truth Revealed, William Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown colony began, unearthing footprints of a series of structures, beginning with the James Fort, to reveal fascinating evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, of their endeavors and struggles, and new insight into their relationships with the Virginia Indians. He offers up a lively but fact-based account, framed around a narrative of the archaeological team's exciting discoveries. Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators estimated the likely site for the fort and began to unearth its extensive remains, including palisade walls, bulwarks, interior buildings, a well, a warehouse, and several pits. By Jamestown’s quadricentennial over 2 million objects were cataloged, more than half dating to the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Kelso’s work has continued with recent excavations of numerous additional buildings, including the settlement’s first church, which served as the burial place of four Jamestown leaders, the governor’s rowhouse during the term of Samuel Argall, and substantial dump sites, which are troves for archaeologists. He also recounts how researchers confirmed the practice of survival cannibalism in the colony following the recovery from an abandoned cellar bakery of the cleaver-scarred remains of a young English girl. CT scanning and computer graphics have even allowed researchers to put a face on this victim of the brutal winter of 1609–10, a period that has come to be known as the "starving time." Refuting the now decades-old stereotype that attributed the high mortality rate of the Jamestown settlers to their laziness and ineptitude, Jamestown, the Truth Revealed produces a vivid picture of the settlement that is far more complex, incorporating the most recent archaeology and using twenty-first-century technology to give Jamestown its rightful place in history, thereby contributing to a broader understanding of the transatlantic world.

Author : Edward M. Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamestowne in the Words of Contemporaries written by Edward M. Riley and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Horn
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786721987
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Land As God Made It written by James Horn and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history Although it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous settlers have been overshadowed ever since by the pilgrims of Plymouth. But as historian James Horn demonstrates in this vivid and meticulously researched account, Jamestown-not Plymouth-was the true crucible of American history. Jamestown introduced slavery into English-speaking North America; it became the first of England's colonies to adopt a representative government; and it was the site of the first white-Indian clashes over territorial expansion. A Land As God Made It offers the definitive account of the colony that give rise to America.

Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0822565188
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown written by Candice Ransom and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1607, twelve-year-old Sam Collier and a group of Englishmen landed in North America. Arriving as an assistant to the solider John Smith, Sam was excited to discover what adventures lay before him in the new land soon to be known as Virginia. But the months ahead would soon prove to be a harsh test. Facing sickness and starvation and sudden attack, Sam had to use all his wits if he were to survive. Could Sam and his fellow settlers trust Virginia’s Indians to help them? Could they learn to survive in this strange new land?

Author : Keith Egloff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925486
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First People written by Keith Egloff and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating recent events in the Native American community as well as additional information gleaned from publications and public resources, this newly redesigned and updated second edition of First People brings back to the fore this concise and highly readable narrative. Full of stories that represent the full diversity of Virginia's Indians, past and present, this popular book remains the essential introduction to the history of Virginia Indians from the earlier times to the present day.

Author : John Frederick Dorman
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317632
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P written by John Frederick Dorman and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.