tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28278062460030714982024-03-19T08:02:24.761-07:00Jamestown MysteriesVirginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-62322838641962305112024-03-19T08:01:00.000-07:002024-03-19T08:01:29.148-07:00How Long Does It Take to Starve to Death?<p><br /></p><div class="fauxcolumn-outer fauxcolumn-left-outer" style="bottom: 0px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 0px;"><div class="fauxborder-left" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: repeat-y; height: 763.875px; position: relative;"><div class="fauxborder-right" style="background-position: right top; background-repeat: repeat-y; height: 763.875px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"></div><div class="fauxcolumn-inner" style="border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; height: 763.875px;"></div></div><div class="cap-bottom" style="background-position: left bottom; 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A modern medical study estimates that “Complete starvation in adults leads to death within eight to 12 weeks.” Death can come in a variety of guises: Hypothermia. Pneumonia. Anemia. Chronic diarrhea. Madness.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: -12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: -12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Of more than two hundred people alive at Jamestown, Virginia, in October 1609, only sixty survived until May.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in;">How many will survive in Gaza in 2024??<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0in;">A recent news clip breaks my heart. Food being given out: 2 little boys, each with a large pot, get to the supply late, when only crumbs—grain, peas—? remain. The first boy is so hungry he scoops up a handful and crams it into his mouth. 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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"> <b> Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a Dutch ship brought Africans to Jamestown, Virginia--and sold them. The rest is history. Slavery was </b></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">about</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">to begin.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"> To set the record straight, not one, but two ships arrived in August 1619. Besides “Dutch ship” with “20. and odd Negroes”, as John Rolfe’s famous letter noted, “Three or four days after [afterward] the <i>Treasurer </i>arrived.” The <i>Treasurer</i> was an unlicensed privateer in the service of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. It did not sail upriver to Jamestown, but remained at Point Comfort. Rolfe did not mention them, but the <i>Treasurer </i>also brought more Africans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"> A census of the Virginia colony in March 1620 lists 32 Africans, including the now-famous 20 who came on the Dutch ship in August 1619. Where did the other dozen come from? One of the dozen was a woman named Angelo, who was listed in a 1625 census as having arrived on the <i>Treasurer. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Last week, a new archaeological find at Jamestown: a skeleton that may well have been George Yeardley. </div>
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<b>JAMESTOWN: THE NOVEL: The Story of America’s Beginning<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"> “A complex tale of courage, treachery, cultural conflict, administrative bungling and desperate choices.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"> “A captivating first novel that combines Bernhard’s expertise as an American history professor with a vivid, sure prose style to produce a rich tale of suffering and triumph in 1600s America.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">England’s greatest rival was Spain. England’s colonizing ventures in the New World were not for Spanish eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">One of the bearers of secrets for the English was Captain Christopher Newport, who landed the first colonists at Jamestown in April 1607. He had made the crossing from England to Virginia twice more in 1608, each time bringing letters and reports—all of which the Virginia Company classified as top secret. Places of settlement, numbers of colonists and natives, descriptions of the land, and locations of harbors and rivers were closely guarded. No wonder the Spanish were suspicious. Had the English found gold? Silver? Maps were kept under lock and key and none were to be made public without approval of the royal Privy Council or the Virginia Company Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Meanwhile, my World War I book is coming in December. After that, more on Jamestown, etc.<br />
<br />Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-26858627735631089112017-07-01T07:11:00.002-07:002017-07-01T07:11:35.122-07:00Another Jamestown Mystery?When in London last week, I read a notice that the last of the 8 episodes of "Jamestown" on Sky TV was to air Thursday. Not much buzz for the whole series. Will it become available in the US??<br />
Who knows?Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-13254383893503852862017-05-06T07:54:00.002-07:002017-05-06T07:54:31.533-07:00"Jamestown." When can we see it?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #424242; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"The first women"? Not quite! This series begins in 1619, but the very first Englishwomen--just two of them--arrived in 1608. </span></span></div>
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No more blogs till after January 1, 2017!Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-44750639263729407372016-11-19T07:45:00.001-08:002016-11-19T07:45:51.267-08:00Thanksgiving MemoriesAs you eat your Thanksgiving turkey, remember that the <i>Susan Constant </i>got here long before the <i>Mayflower. Happy Thanksgiving!</i><br />
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founder. </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> John Smith died on June 21, 1631. His burial place
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Church, Holborn Viaduct, London. The church is the largest parish church in the
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Abbey </span><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">next to her third husband, in the
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<span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px;">Portrait of Lady Frances, Countess of Hertford, in 1611.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her
husband, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, was Smith’s “best friend.” The Earl died
at age 81 on April 6, 1621. Lady Frances was then 43 years old. John Smith was 41.
A wealthy widow, Frances nonetheless wasted no time in attaching herself to a
new husband:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just two months after
Edward died, Frances married a 47-year-old Scottish nobleman, Ludovic Stewart, 2<sup>nd</sup>
Duke of Lennox. He was a cousin of King James I. A member of the Privy Council,
he was also Steward of the Royal Household. Steward became Earl of Newcastle
upon Tyne and Duke of Richmond on August 17, 1623, but did not enjoy those
titles very long. He died at age 50 in his bed (of a heart attack?) at
Whitehall on the morning of February 16, 1624. As his widow, Lady Frances, now
wealthier than ever, became known as the “Double Duchess.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
July 12, 1624 John Smith’s monumental <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Generall
Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles </i>was published. It
was dedicated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To the Illustrious and Most
Noble Princesse, the Lady Francis, Duchesse of Richmond and Lenox. </i>A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1623 engraving of her image was bound
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">John Smith, like many other Englishmen who came
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gunpowder accident in 1609, he had little choice but to return to England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Where he stayed, and what he did then, remain
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was published in 1612 and dedicated “To the right honorable Sir Edward Semer
Knight, Baron Beauchamp, and Earle of Hartford.”</span></div>
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dedication is in two surviving copies of Smith’s historic book. One of the
copies, now in the New York Public Library, belonged to Edward Seymour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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friend I have. l . . In the
harbour of your Lordships favour, I hope I ever shall rest secure . . . . <br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The earl’s wife was Frances Howard, a great
beauty. She was 34 years old in 1612. John Smith was 32. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Pity that Frances did not keep a diary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
first summer at Jamestown, July 1607<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There was
back-breaking, hand-blistering labor to do as soon as they had picked a
place—marshy and unhealthy, as it turned out--to settle. Sailing more than
thirty miles up the wide river that they named the James after King James I,
they chose a small, wooded peninsula about two miles long and a mile to a mile
and a half wide. It was actually an island, separated from the mainland by a
shallow creek, but the James River was six fathoms [36 feet], deep enough to moor
their ships a stone’s throw from the shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrived, 104 men and boys (one man had died on the voyage) had finished an
enormous task: They had built a fort at the site they called Jamestown. Working
and sweating in the hot Virginia sun, they dug over 1,600 feet of trenches
nearly three feet deep to form a huge triangle by the river’s edge. They
chopped down hundreds of pine and oak and elm trees. They dragged heavy logs of
up to one foot in diameter, one by one, to set vertically in the trenches to
make a palisade with walls eleven to fifteen feet high. When it was finished,
the fort by the river covered about an acre and a half, or roughly the area of
two football fields. It was 140 yards long on the side facing the river, and
100 yards on each of the other two sides. With guns mounted at each angle and
only one entrance, a massive log gate on the side facing the river, this
palisaded fort would be a comforting defense against invaders—either Indian or
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time to take a blog break! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">More later. </span>Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-30523356326453548792016-05-28T08:30:00.000-07:002016-05-28T08:30:42.555-07:00Pocahontas: What’s in a Name?<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> Donald
Trump recently called Elizabeth Warren </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Pocahontas,</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> a name that is offensive in some usages
to Native Americans, especially women. Every school child in America knows who
Pocahontas was, bur not many know her other names. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
John Smith met her in 1608, she was a little girl of ten or so. </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Pocahontas</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> was her nickname. It meant </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Little Mischief.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> Her real name was </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Matoaka,</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> an Algonquin Indian name of unknown
meaning. It has been said to mean </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Bright Stream between the Hills,</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> or </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">One Who Kindles,</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> but who knows? The first record of
it is in a letter by a Virginia colonist in 1614, when she married another
colonist, John Rolfe. If, as some have suggested, </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Matoaka</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> was Pocahontas</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">s secret name, kept secret by a </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">superstitious fear of hurt by the
English,</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> (Samuel Purchas, 1625), we have no proof that this was
so. If Pocahontas</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">s secret name might cause the English to harm her, why did
she let it appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A True Discourse of
the Present State of Virginia</i>, a public relations tract put out by the
Virginia Company in 1615? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other name was Rebecca, given her when she was baptized as a Christian in 1614.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Four
hundred and nine years ago this month, in May 1607, a small group of Englishmen
exploring Virginia met an Indian werowance (or chief). This werowance had
invited them to visit him, and he came out to meet them. One of the Englishmen,
George Percy, wrote that this chief wore <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“a crown of deer’s
hair colored red in fashion of a rose fastened about his knot of hair, and a
great plate of copper on the other side of his head, with two long feathers in
fashion of a pair of horns placed in the middle of his crown, his body was painted
all with crimson, with a chain of beads about his neck, his face painted blue,
besprinkled with silver ore as we thought, his ears all behung with bracelets
of pearl, and in either ear a bird’s claw through it beset with fine copper or
gold. . . .”</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>--George
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Besides
that, this werowance was walking to meet them and playing a flute made of a
reed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Seventeenth-century
Englishmen weren’t the only ones who liked ceremonies and dressed elaborately. Yet
the English colonists called the Indians “savages.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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</span><!--EndFragment-->Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-54469234610844715772016-05-07T07:18:00.001-07:002016-05-07T07:18:09.727-07:00Jamestowne TalkGiving a talk for the Jamestowne Society today about JAMESTOWN: THE NOVEL.<br />
"From History to Fiction--and Back."<br />
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More about John Smith to come.Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-89373630781364384652016-04-30T08:02:00.000-07:002016-04-30T08:02:14.850-07:00John Smith writes a "tell all" book about Jamestown. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">To begin, John Smith put
together a small book called </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">A Map of
Virginia</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">. Friends and comrades who had been in Virginia with him and who
had seen what happened there after he left wrote part of it, and, as Smith’s
biographer and editor, Philip Barbour, said, “Together they wrote the book
telling their side of the story, and apparently against the wishes of the
Virginia Company together they got it printed in Oxford. . . .” There was
nothing the Virginia Company could do about it.</span><br />
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books about Virginia ever printed, it contains, as the title promises, a
historic map, with Smith’s incomparable description of “the Country, the
Commodities, People, Government, and Religion.” But it also contains a
narrative of the “Proceedings” of the colony from the voyage of the </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">Susan Constant, </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">the </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">Godspeed,</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;"> and the </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">Discovery
in </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">1606 to the death of Sir George Somers in Bermuda in 1609. Here, for all
of England to read, were firsthand accounts of the explorations, the
confrontations with the Indians, the diseases and disasters, and the Starving
Time with all its horrors. George Percy, newly returned from Virginia in the
fall of 1612, must have been furious. He did not produce his narrative until
1625, and it was not published in his lifetime. </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">A Map of Virginia </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">made another account superfluous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;"> In 1624, John Smith would publish his masterpiece, <i>The General History of Virginia. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;"><i><br /></i></span>
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<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 21px;"> How truthful was John Smith?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 21px;"><br /></span></span>Virginia Bernhardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06933307751217782235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827806246003071498.post-78669235001948343452016-04-23T07:28:00.001-07:002016-04-23T07:28:18.018-07:00“A book with the truth set down....”<div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .05in; margin-right: 98.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%;"> Francis’s brother Thomas<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">West,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>Lord<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>de<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>La<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">Warr,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>scheduled<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>sail<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>soon<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>mas<span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">sive relief expedition for the beleaguered Virginia
colony: over a thousand colonists<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>ample<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">
</span>supplies<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>them<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>survivors<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>Jamestown.<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>But he<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;">
</span>would<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>sailing<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;">
</span>without<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>Captain<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>John<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>Smith,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.1pt;"> </span>whose<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>gunpowder<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>wound </span>would<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>keep<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>him<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;"> </span>commission<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>much<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">year.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;">
</span>Even<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">now,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>after <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">four months, theslightest exertion exhausted him;
the smallest movement </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>right<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;">
</span>leg<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>pained<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>him.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">For</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>time<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>being,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;">
</span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>least,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;"> </span>Smith<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;">
</span>knew<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>he <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">would<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>relegated<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>another,<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>lesser<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;">
</span>role<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>affairs<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>colony </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>dear<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>will<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>you<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>now?”<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;">
</span>Sir<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Thomas<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>asked<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;">
</span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>two<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>sipped<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>their<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">liquor. </span>Smith<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>studied<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>liquid<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>cup. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">don’t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">know,”</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>said.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.7pt; line-height: 110%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%;">man<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>England<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;">
</span>knows<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>about<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;">
</span>Virginia<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>than<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>you<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">do,”</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>Sir<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>Thomas said.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>“Why<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">don’t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>you<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>write<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">
</span>something?<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>God<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>knows,<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>Company<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>needs </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%;">all<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>help<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>can<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>get.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.75pt;">
</span>A<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>book<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>truth<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;">
</span>set<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>down<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>would<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;">
</span>be<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>very<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>useful <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">indeed.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>so,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>next<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">hour,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>John<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>Smith<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;">
</span>told<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>Thomas Smythe<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>what<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>had<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>transpired<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>in Virginia,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.8pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>discord<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>factions,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.8pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>troubles<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;">
</span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>Indians,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.8pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>the <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">plots<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>against<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;">
</span>life.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>“I<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>read<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">Archer’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">Ratcli</span></span><span style="font-family: "Savoye LET"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Savoye LET"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">ff</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">e’s</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">letters,”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: -.85pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sir<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>Thomas<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>said,<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>tapping
his fingers thoughtfully on the polished surface of the table in front of <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">him.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">“Archer </span>says<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>you<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>sided<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>sailors<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>refused to surrender your
commission as president; Ratcliffe says you were high-handed, and—how </span>did<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>put<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>it?<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">You</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.65pt;"> </span>‘were<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>sent<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>home<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>answer<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>some<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">misdemeanors.’</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.75pt;"> </span>”<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>From <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">the<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>tone<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;"> </span>voice,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Smith<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;">
</span>could<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>tell<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>what<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>host<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>thinking.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sir<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>Thomas<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;">
</span>looked<span style="letter-spacing: -1.55pt;"> </span>up<span style="letter-spacing: -1.55pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>smiled.<span style="letter-spacing: -2.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">“And</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>say<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">Archer’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.55pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>rumormonger<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Ratcliffe’s </span><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>bastard.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;">
</span>Have<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>some<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>aqua<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">vitae.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Relief,<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>like<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>warm,<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>welcome<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>bath,<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>washed<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>over<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>John<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>Smith.<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;">
</span>His<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>frail, <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">ravaged<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>body<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>straightened<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>slightly;<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>awful<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>wound<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>felt<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>if<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>someone<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>had spread<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>healing<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>balm<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>over<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>it.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">He</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>not,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;">
</span>then,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>favor<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>Virginia </span>Company<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>Council.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">He</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>knew<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>fault;<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>had<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>followed<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;">
</span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>own <span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">best<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>judgment<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>had<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>written<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>own<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>defense,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>but<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>was,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;">
</span>after<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>all,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>only </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>son<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>yeoman<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>farmer<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">Willoughby,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>Lincolnshire,<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>men<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>he
<span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">dealt<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>sons<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>old,<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>distinguished<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>families.<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>Francis<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">West</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>his brother<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>Thomas,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">Virginia’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>future<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">governor,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;">
</span>were<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>first<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>cousins<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;">
</span>twice<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>removed </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>late<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>Queen<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.1pt;"> </span>England,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>John<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>Smith<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;">
</span>had<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>made<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>implacable<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>en<span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">emy of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>Francis West.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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