MakingHistory

Reminiscences of Joseph Story on the repeal of the Embargo Act.

A Massachusetts argument about continuing the Embargo Jefferson began in 1806.

Richard Frethorne was an indentured servant working at Martin’s Hundred, a plantation a few miles from Jamestown, a year after an Indian attack in 1622 left hundreds dead in the area. A year later the royal government took over the struggling colony.

The Virginia Company's defense of their colony and its charter, presented to the King after several critics had attacked the mismanagement of the colony and lodged grievances against its leaders with the English government. 

Captain Nathaniel Butler was an English privateer and governor of Bermuda. In 1621 he visited Jamestown for about a year and wrote a scathing report he presented to the King's Privy Council. 

In March 1621 a representative of the sachem Massasoit named Samoset visited Plymouth, which the Pilgrims had established on the ruins of a Wampanoag village called Patuxet. The excerpts included here are Bradford’s story of Tisquantum or Squanto, a native who had been captured and sold into slavery as a boy, but after many years had made his way back to his home, only to discover that his people had all died of disease. Squanto had learned English while in Europe and England, so he was valuable to the Pilgrims as an interpreter and guide.

William Bradford (1590-1657) was an English Puritan Separatist who moved to Holland in 1608 to avoid religious persecution. In 1620 he and 101 other "Pilgrims" set sail on the Mayflower. Although originally bound for Virginia, they arrived at Cape Cod and established Plymouth. Bradford became governor of the colony in 1621. He kept a journal from 1621 to 1646 that became the book, Of Plymouth Plantation.

William Strachey (1572-1621) was a passenger aboard the Sea Venture which ran aground off the coast of Bermuda. He visited Jamestown for abut a year and wrote a glossary of the Powhatan language and an account of his experiences.

Source: William Strachey, The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, in Hakluyt Society, Works (London, 1849), 70-82. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n223/mode/2up

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