See also:JOHN See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- JOHN SMITH (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH (1579-1631)
, usually distinguished as See also:Captain See also:John See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, sometime See also:president of the See also:English See also:colony in See also:Virginia, was the See also:elder son of See also:George Smith, a well-to-do See also:tenant-See also:farmer on the See also:estate of See also:Lord See also:Willoughby d'Eresby at Willoughby; near See also:Alford in See also:Lincolnshire
.
The See also:life of this Virginian See also:hero falls conveniently into five periods
.
' The first of these, up to 1596, that of his See also:early youth, is thus described by himself in his Travels: " He was See also:born (1579) in Willoughby in Lincolnshire, and was a See also:scholar in the two See also:free See also:schools of Alford and See also:Louth
.
' The particulars of the authorship are given in the 18th edition (182o), and in the memoir of his See also:brother by See also:Horace prefixed to a collection of fugitive pieces (184o)
.
See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James contributed the first See also:stanza to the See also:imitation of See also:Byron, but otherwise they worked independently
.
His parents, dying (See also:April 1596) when he was thirteen (or rather sixteen) years of See also:age, See also:left him a competent means, which he, not being capable to See also:manage, little regarded
.
His mind being even then set upon brave adventures, he sold his satchel, books and all he had, intending secretly to get to See also:sea, but that his See also:father's See also:death stayed him
.
But now the guardians of his estate more regarding it than him, he had See also:liberty enough, though no means, to get beyond the sea
.
About the age of fifteen years, he was See also:bound an apprentice to See also:Master See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Sendall of [See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's] See also:Lynn, the greatest See also:merchant of all those parts; but, because he would not presently send him to sea, he never saw his master in eight years after."
The second See also:period, 1596-16o4, is that of his adventures in See also:Europe, See also:Asia and See also:Africa
.
He first went to See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans in attendance on the second son of Lord Willoughby
.
Thence he returned to See also:Paris, and so by See also:Rouen to See also:Havre, where, his See also:money being spent, he began to learn the life of a soldier under See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. of See also:France: On the conclusion,(1599) of See also:peace with the See also:League, he went with Captain See also:Joseph See also:Duxbury to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and served there some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, probably with the English troops in Dutch pay
.
By this time he had gained a wide experience in the See also:art of See also:war, not merely as an See also:infantry officer, but also in those more technical studies which are now followed by the Royal See also:Engineers
.
At length he sailed from Enkhuisen to See also:Scotland, and on the voyage had a narrow See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from shipwreck upon See also:Holy See also:Island near See also:Berwick
.
After some stay in Scotland he returned See also:home to Willoughby, " where, within a See also:short time being glutted with too much See also:company, wherein he took small delight, he retired himself into a little woody pasture, a See also:good way from any See also:town, environed with many See also:hundred acres of other See also:woods
.
Here by a See also:fair See also:brook he built a See also:pavilion of boughs, where only in his clothes he See also:lay
.
His study was See also:Machiavelli's Art of War and See also:Marcus Aurelius; his exercise a good See also:horse with his See also:lance and See also:ring; his See also:food was thought to be more of See also:venison than anything else; what [else] he-wanted his See also:man brought him
.
The See also:country wondering at such a See also:hermit, his See also:friends persuaded one Signior Theadora Polaloga, rider to Henry, See also:earl of See also:Lincoln, an excellent horseman and a See also:noble See also:Italian See also:gentleman, to insinuate [himself] into his woodish acquaintances, whose See also:languages and good discourse and exercise of See also:riding See also:drew Smith to stay with him at Tattersall
....
Thus—when France and the See also:Netherlands had taught him to. ride a horse and use his arms, with such rudiments of war as his See also:tender years, in those See also:martial schools, could attain unto, he was desirous to see more of the See also:world, and try his See also:fortune against the See also:Turks, both lamenting and repenting to have seen so many Christians slaughter one another."
Next came his wanderings through France from See also:Picardy to See also:Marseilles
.
There he took See also:ship for See also:Italy in a See also:vessel full of pilgrims going to See also:Rome
.
These, cursing him for a heretic, and See also:- SWEARING (O. Eng. swerian, to swear, originally to speak aloud, cf. andswerian, to answer, Ger. schworen, Dan. svaerge, &c., all from root sorer-, to make a sound, cf. " swarm," properly the buzzing of bees, Lat. susurrus)
swearing they would have no fair See also:weather so See also:long as he was on See also:board, threw him, like another See also:Jonah, into the sea
.
He was able to get to a little uninhabited island, from which he was taken off the next See also:morning by a See also:Breton ship of 200 tons going to See also:Alexandria, the captain of which, named La See also:Roche, treated him as a friend
.
In this ship he visited See also:Egypt and the See also:Levant
.
On its way back the Breton ship fought a Venetian See also:argosy of 400 tons and captured it
.
Reaching See also:Antibes (See also:Var) later on Captain La Roche put Smith ashore with 500 sequins, who then proceeded to see Italy as he had already seen France
.
Passing through See also:Tuscany he came to Rome, where he saw See also:Pope See also:Clement VIII. at See also:mass, and called on Father R
.
See also:Parsons
.
Wandering on to See also:Naples and hack to Rome, thence through Tuscany and See also:Venice, he came to Gratz in See also:Styria
.
There he received See also:information about the Turks who were then swarming through See also:Hungary, and, passing on to See also:Vienna, entered the See also:emperor's service
.
In this See also:Turkish war the years 16ot and 16o2 soon passed away; many desperate adventures does he narrate (unconfirmed by contemporary records, and doubted by some See also:modern critics), and one in particular covered him with See also:honour
.
At See also:Regal, in the presence of two armies, as the See also:champion of the Christians, he killed three Turkish champions in See also:succession
.
On' 8th See also:November 1602, at the See also:battle of Rothenthurm, a pass in Transylvania,
JOHN 265
where the Christians fought desperately against an overpowering force of Crim See also:Tatars, Smith was left wounded on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of battle
.
His See also:rich See also:dress saved him, for it showed that he would be See also:worth a See also:ransom
.
As soon as his wounds were cured he was sold for a slave and then marched to See also:Constantinople, where he was presented to Charatza Tragabigzanda, who See also:fell in love with him
.
Fearing lest her See also:mother should sell him, she sent him to her brother See also:Timor, See also:pasha of Nalbrits, on the See also:Don, in Tatary
.
'' To her unkind brother this See also:kind See also:lady wrote so much for his good usage that he See also:half suspected as much as she intended; for she told him, he should there but sojourn to learn the See also:language, and what it was to be a Turk, till time made her master of herself
.
But the Timor, her brother, diverted all this to the worst of See also:cruelty
.
For, within an See also:hour after his arrival, he caused his drubman ' to See also:strip him naked, and shave his See also:head and See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
beard so See also:bare as his See also:hand
.
A See also:great ring of See also:iron, with a long stalk bowed like a sickle, was riveted about his See also:neck, and a coat [put on him] made of ulgry's See also:hair, guarded about with a piece of an undressed skin
.
There were many more See also:Christian slaves, and nearly a hundred forsados of Turks and See also:Moors, and he being the last was the slave of slaves to them all." While at Nalbrits the English captain kept his eyes open, and his See also:account of the Crim Tatars is careful and accurate
.
" So long he lived in this miserable estate, as he became a thresher at a See also:grange in a great field, more than a league from the Timor's See also:house
.
The pasha, as he oft used to visit his granges, visited him, and took occasion so to See also:beat, spurn and revile him, that forgetting all See also:reason Smith beat out the Timor's brains with his threshing See also:bat, for they have no flails, and, seeing his estate could be no worse than it was, clothed himself in the Timor's clothes, hid his See also:body under the See also:straw, filled his knapsack with See also:corn, shut the doors, mounted his horse and ran into the See also:desert at all See also:adventure." For eighteen or nineteen days he rode for very life until he reached a See also:Muscovite outpost on the See also:river Don; here his irons were taken off him, and the Lady Callamata largely supplied all his wants
.
Thence he passed, attracting all the sympathy of an escaped Christian slave, through Muscovy, Hungary and See also:Austria until he reached See also:Leipzig in See also:December 1603
.
There he met his old master, See also:Prince See also:Sigismund, who, in memory of his gallant fight at Regal, gave him a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of arms and 500 ducats of See also:gold
.
Thence he wandered on, sightseeing, through See also:Germany, France and See also:Spain, until he came to See also:Saffi, from which seaport he made an excursion to the See also:city of See also:Morocco and back
.
While at Saffi he was blown out to sea on board Captain Merham's ship, and had to go as far as the Canaries
.
There Merham fought two See also:Spanish See also:ships at once and beat them off
.
Smith came home to See also:England with him, having a thousand ducats in his See also:purse
.
The third period, 160 1609, is that of Captain Smith's experiences in Virginia
.
Throwing himself into the colonizing projects which were then coming to the front, he first intended to have gone out to the colony on the Oyapok in See also:South See also:America; but, Captain See also:Leigh dying, and the reinforcement miscarrying, " the See also:rest escaped as they could." Hence Smith did not leave England on this account
.
But he went heartily into the Virginian project with Captain See also:Bartholomew See also:Gosnold and others
.
He states that what he got in his travels he spent in colonizing
.
" When I went first to these desperate designs, it cost me many a forgotten See also:pound to hire men to go, and procrastination caused more to run away than went
.
I have spared neither pains nor money according to my ability, first to procure His See also:Majesty's letters See also:patents, and a company here, to be the means to raise a company to go with me to Virginia, which beginning here and there cost me nearly five years' [1604-1600] See also:work, and more than five hundred pounds of my own estate, besides all the dangers, miseries and incumbrances I endured gratis." Two colonizing associations were formed—the See also:London Company for South Virginia and the Western Company for See also:North Virginia
.
Smith was one of the patentees of the Virginia See also:charter of 1609
.
The colony which See also:Sir W
.
See also:Raleigh had established at See also:Roanoke island off the See also:American See also:coast had perished, mainly for want of supplies from England, so that really nothing at all was known of
the Virginian coast-See also:line when the first expedition left London on igth December 16o6; and therefore the See also:attempt was bound to fail unless a convenient See also:harbour should be found
.
The expedition consisted of three ships (the " Susan See also:Constant," too tons, Captain C
.
See also:Newport; the " See also:God See also:Speed," 40 tons, Captain B
.
Gosnold; and a See also:pinnace of 20 tons, Captain J
.
Ratcliffe), with about 140 colonists and 40 sailors
.
They made first for the See also:West Indies, reaching See also:Dominica on 24th See also:March 1607
.
At See also:Nevis, their next stopping-See also:place, a gallows was erected to hang Captain Smith on the false See also:charge of See also:conspiracy; but he escaped, and, though afterwards the lives of all the men who plotted against him were at his See also:mercy, he spared them
.
Sailing northwards from the West Indies, not knowing where they were, the expedition was most fortunately, in a See also:gale, blown into the mouth of Chesapeake See also:Bay, discovering Iand on 26th April 16o7
.
Anchoring, they found the James river, and, having explored it, fixed upon a site for their See also:capital in the See also:district of the See also:chief or weroance of Paspaheh, its chief recommendation being that there were 6 fathoms of See also:water so near to the See also:shore that the ships could be tied to the trees
.
Orders had been sent out for the See also:government of the colony in a See also:box, which was opened on 26th April 1607
.
Captains B
.
Gosnold, E
.
M
.
See also:Wingfield, C
.
Newport, J
.
Smith, J
.
Ratcliffe, J
.
See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin and G
.
See also:Kendall were named to be the See also:council to elect an See also:annual president, who, with the council, should govern
.
Wingfield was, on 13th May, elected the first president; and the next See also:day they landed at James Town and commenced the See also:settlement
.
All this while Smith was under See also:restraint, for thirteen See also:weeks in all
.
His enemies would have sent him home, out of a sham commiseration for him; but he challenged their charges, and so established his innocency that Wingfield was adjudged to give him £200 as See also:damages
.
After this, on loth See also:June 1607, Smith was admitted to the council
.
As in going to America in those days the great difficulty was want of water, so in those colonizing efforts the See also:paramount danger was from want of food
.
" There were never Englishmen left in a See also:foreign country in such misery as we were in this new discovered Virginia
.
We watched every three nights [every third See also:night], lying on the bare See also:cold ground, what weather soever came, and warded all the next day, which brought our men to be most feeble wretches
.
Our food was but a small can of See also:barley sodden in water to five men a day
.
Our drink, cold water taken out of the river, which was, at a See also:flood, very See also:salt, at a See also:low See also:tide, full of slime and filth, which was the destruction of many' of our men." So great was the mortality that out of 105 colonists living on the 22nd June 1607 67 died by the following 8th See also:January
.
The country they had settled in was sparsely populated by many small tribes of See also:Indians, who owned as their paramount chief, Powhatan, who then lived at Werowocomoco, a See also:village on the Pamunkey river, about 12 M. by See also:land from James Town
.
Various See also:boat expeditions left James Town, to buy food in See also:exchange for See also:copper
.
They generally had to fight the Indians first, to coerce them to See also:trade, but afterwards paid a fair See also:price for what they bought
.
On loth December 1607 Captain Smith, of whom it is said " the Spaniard never more greedily desired gold than he victail," with nine men in the See also:barge, left James Town to get more corn, and also to explore the upper See also:waters of the See also:Chickahominy
.
They got the barge up as far as Apocant
.
Seven men were left in it, with orders to keep in midstream
.
They disobeyed, went into the village, and one of them, George Cassen, was caught; the other six, barely escaping to the barge, brought it back to James Town
.
It so happened that Opecanchanough (the brother of Powhatan, whom he succeeded in 1618, and who carried out the great mass-See also:acre of the English on Good See also:Friday 1621) was in that See also:neighbour-See also:hood with two or three hundred Indians on a See also:hunting expedition
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He ascertained from Cassen where Smith was, who, ignorant of all this, had, with John See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson and Thomas Emry, gone in a See also:canoe 20 M. farther up the river
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The Indians killed Robinson and Emry while they were sleeping by the See also:camp See also:fire, and went after Smith, who was away getting food
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They surprised him, and. though he bravely defended himself, he had at last to
JOHN
surrender
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He then set his wits to confound them with his See also:superior knowledge, and succeeded
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Opecanchanough led him about the country for a wonder, and finally, about 5th January i6o8, brought him to Powhatan at Werowocomoco
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"Having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held; but the conclusion was two great stones were brought before Powhatan; then as many as could laid hands on Smith, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head
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And, being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to See also:save him from death
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Whereat the emperor was contented Smith should live, to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations [handicrafts] as themselves."
The truth of this See also:story was never doubted till 1859, when Dr See also:Charles S