Jamestown Settlement

A detailed Summary of Jamestown Settlement

I am writing to you to tell you that I have returned from my assignment in the New World. My adventures in the Virginia colony were interesting but I am glad to be back home in London. While in Virginia, I led the typical colonist lifestyle. At first I had a rough time adjusting to my new life in the colony but in the end, I enjoyed my visit to the New World.

As you can imagine, I was quite surprised when I got my assignment from Boats "R" Us to travel to the New World. When I was notified that I would be traveling to the new English settlement, I was pretty scared but I eventually got over it. It didn't really set in that I was actually traveling to the New World until I was boarding the boat. The date was December 20, 1606 and the rest of the passengers and myself were waiting for the 3 ships to tell us when to start loading. We were all asking about how long the trip would last but nobody seemed to know the answer. Finally the boats told us they were ready so I boarded my boat, the Susan Constant. Many of the people I was talking to boarded the other two boats, Godspeed and Discovery. As I unpacked my things and got settled in I wondered if I would ever see London again.

We arrived at our destination on May 24,

1607. At our first stop we were attacked by Indians, so we kept going up the bay. We decided to settle on the banks of the James River, which we named after our king at the time, King James 1. We obviously aren't the smartest people in the world because we picked a place that was infested with mosquitoes and disease. Nevertheless we stayed at our chosen location and appropriately named it Jamestown. Many of the friends (and enemies) I had met on the ships died from disease and lack of proper food. Some even died before we reached Jamestown. One cause of the excessive deaths was that many of the colonists spent almost all of their time searching for gold instead of harvesting food. Interestingly, the gold that they spent so much time looking for never even existed. We went on like this for several months and people continued to die like there was no tomorrow until 1608, when an adventurer named John Smith took control. Now Smith was not your ordinary adventurer, Smith had extraordinary leadership qualities and used whatever he had to make things work. He had this motto that everyone believed in and followed, he was always saying, "He who shall not work shall not eat." John Smith was the person to know. If you were Smith's friend, you had a direct link to anything and everything in Jamestown. Smith told us that Indians had kidnaped him in 1607 and they were about to execute him when Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him. From then after, the Indians were somewhat of an ally to us and helped us by giving us some food.

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Approximate Word count = 1057
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: History